Farewell Babylon

Author : Naïm Kattan
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567923360
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Babylon written by Naïm Kattan and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Farewell, Babylon," Naim Kattan takes readers into the heart of exotic mid-19th-century Baghdad's then-teeming Jewish community. Jews had lived in Iraq for 25 centuries, long before the time of Christ or Muhammad, but anti-Semitism and nationalism were on the rise. In this beautifully written memoir, a young boy comes of age and describes his discoveries -- of work, literature, patriotism, the joys of lazy Sundays swimming in the Tigris. He also talks eloquently of his greatest discovery: women and love. This is a story of roots and exile, of thirst for life and life's experiences. However, more than that it is a tribute to a lost world, an ancient Eastern city in which Iraq's Kurds, Bedouins, Sunnis, Shiites, Chaldeans, Catholics, and Jews all lived together in a rough, rewarding sort of harmony.

Author : Cynthia Conchita Sugars
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199941866
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature written by Cynthia Conchita Sugars and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and theoretical positions that constitute the field of Canadian literary criticism across a range of genres and historical periods. The volume provides a dynamic introduction to current areas of critical interest, including (1) attention to the links between the literary and the public sphere, encompassing such topics as neoliberalism, trauma and memory, citizenship, material culture, literary prizes, disability studies, literature and history, digital cultures, globalization studies, and environmentalism or ecocriticism; (2) interest in Indigenous literatures and settler-Indigenous relations; (3) attention to multiple diasporic and postcolonial contexts within Canada; (4) interest in the institutionalization of Canadian literature as a discipline; (5) a turn towards book history and literary history, with a renewed interest in early Canadian literature; (6) a growing interest in articulating the affective character of the literary - including an interest in affect theory, mourning, melancholy, haunting, memory, and autobiography. The book represents a diverse array of interests -- from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism. It includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a section that reflects on the discipline of Canadian literature as a whole.

Author : Bode Sowande
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Babylon and Other Plays written by Bode Sowande and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lev Ḥaḳaḳ
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557535140
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Literature in Babylon from 1735-1950 written by Lev Ḥaḳaḳ and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with a brief history about the Jews in Babylon, now Iraq, their Hebrew creativity, and the fact that this creativity was excluded from the history of Modern Hebrew literature because it was unknown to the scholars. The book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time. It also includes the folktales, journalistic articles, epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story and a play. The last part presents the Hebrew periodicals that were published in Babylon.

Author : Elizabeth Dahab
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073911879X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature written by Elizabeth Dahab and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

Author : Anita Norich
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053019
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures written by Anita Norich and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings to Jewish Language Studies the conceptual frameworks that have become increasingly important to Jewish Studies more generally: transnationalism, multiculturalism, globalization, hybrid cultures, multilingualism, and interlingual contexts. Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures collects work from prominent scholars in the field, bringing world literary and linguistic perspectives to generate distinctively new historical, cultural, theoretical, and scientific approaches to this topic of ongoing interest. Chapters of this edited volume consider from multiple angles the cultural politics of myths, fantasies, and anxieties of linguistic multiplicity in the history, cultures, folkways, and politics of global Jewry. Methodological range is as important to this project as linguistic range. Thus, in addition to approaches that highlight influence, borrowings, or acculturation, the volume represents those that highlight syncretism, the material conditions of Jewish life, and comparatist perspectives.

Author : Nancy E. Berg
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739108284
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More and More Equal written by Nancy E. Berg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and More Equal examines the works of Sami Michael, the most significant Israeli writer who has made the transition from Arabic to Hebrew. Born in Baghdad, Michael fled in 1948 to Iran, and later to Israel, to escape imprisonment or execution due to his involvement with the Iraqi Communist Party. Early in his career Michael was deemed merely an "ethnic" writer, but his incredible popular success and indelible influence on his Israeli audience have forced critics to consider his writings anew. Nancy E. Berg sheds light on Michael's belated canonization and traces his development as a storyteller. Berg offers fresh readings of each of Michael's major novels. She shows us that by questioning and exploring Israeli and Jewish identity via characters otherwise rare in Hebrew literature (non-European immigrants, Sephardis, and Arabs), Michael has recast the Zionist master narrative. Berg notes that Michael's rise to literary prominence owes not only to his growing sophistication as a writer but also to changing norms and attitudes in Israeli society.

Author : Ali Al-Wahabi
Publisher : Babylon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780955360602
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell Brave Babylon written by Ali Al-Wahabi and published by Babylon Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Evans McCloud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929207008
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Babylon written by Susan Evans McCloud and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan BRUMBY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brumby's Gems of Sacred Poetry, adapted to popular tunes, compiled by J. Brumby written by Jonathan BRUMBY and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: