Fresh Wounds

Author : Phil Allen Jr.
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506469345
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wounds written by Phil Allen Jr. and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River by his white employer, who lured him into the meeting under the false promise of reconciliation. Allen's death was recorded as an accidental drowning, a deliberate cover-up of the bullet hole seen by more than one witness. Three generations later, Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story and recounts the "baton of bitterness" that this murder passed down in his family. Through interviews, difficult conversations, and deep theological reflection, Allen takes up the challenge of racism today, naming it for what it is and working to chart a path toward reconciliation. Open Wounds, and the documentary that accompanies it, is a transformative experience of listening and learning as a grandson looks, laments, an ultimately leads his family and his society forward toward a just and reconciled future. It's an essential part of our national reckoning with racism and injustice.

Author : Virginia L. Blum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244737
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Virginia L. Blum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressive book. An important book."—Jamie Lee Curtis "I blame mirrors. If it weren't for them we wouldn't need plastic surgeons. In the meantime, anyone tempted to re-shape face, body and mind by means of knife should first read Blum's intelligent, persuasive and absorbing book. Both enticed and alarmed, the reader will at least know what she's doing and more importantly why. This is a book that takes you and shakes you by the throat, and leaves you the better for it."—Fay Weldon, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil "An eye-opening look at the dangers, both physical and emotional, of plastic surgery and of the power of beauty in all of our lives. Blum's book is an impressive interweaving of observation, oral interviews, cultural studies, and historical sources. An absorbing read, this is a scholarly book that general readers can enjoy."—Lois Banner, author of American Beauty "A provocative and thoroughly persuasive argument that we live in a culture of cosmetic surgery where identity is sited on the shifting surfaces of the body. Flesh Wounds brilliantly explores the link between the seductions of surgical self-fashioning and the star system, drawing on a stunning array of materials ranging from interviews with plastic surgeons, psychoanalytic theory, and the novel to the visual media of digital photography, film, and television."—Kathleen Woodward, author of Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions

Author : Donald L. Niewyk
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863629
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fresh Wounds written by Donald L. Niewyk and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every student of the Holocaust knows the crucial importance of survivors' testimonies in reconstructing the crime. Most such accounts, however, were recorded years or even decades after the end of World War II. The survivor narratives that make up this volume, in contrast, were gathered immediately after the war. In 1946, Russian-born American psychologist David P. Boder interviewed 109 victims of Nazi persecution--the majority of them Jews--in "Displaced Persons" camps across Europe. The thirty-six accounts collected here possess an immediacy and authenticity that might otherwise be questioned in memoirs penned long after the events they detail. These interviews encompass survivors from Poland, Lithuania, Germany, France, Slovakia, and Hungary, ranging in age from their early teens to their seventies. Their remarkable stories shed light on such controversial subjects as relations between Jews and neighbors or strangers who extended or withheld aid, opportunities for and obstacles to Jewish resistance, the victims' knowledge--or lack of knowledge--about the fate that awaited them in Nazi hands, survival strategies, women's experience of the Holocaust, the Nazi practice of placing prisoners in charge of their fellow inmates, and the liberators' postwar treatment of freed concentration camp inmates. In an introduction, Donald Niewyk describes this extraordinary interviewing project and traces the overwhelming obstacles Boder faced in finding an audience for the survivor narratives he collected.

Author : Joe Lunievicz
Publisher : West Side Books
ISBN 13 : 9781934813515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wounds written by Joe Lunievicz and published by West Side Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an abusive childhood in 1930s New York, Cedric Wymann, now orphaned, is taken in by a cousin suffering from mustard gas poisoning who becomes a father, helps him reconnect with friends, and finds him a fencing teacher, giving Cedric a means to avenge past wrongs and forge a better future.

Author : Thomas L. Vaultonburg
Publisher : Zombie Logic Press
ISBN 13 : 0967019117
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds written by Thomas L. Vaultonburg and published by Zombie Logic Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flesh Wounds is the third book by American poet Thomas L. Vaultonburg. It comprises his collected work from the years 1997-2005. This ISBN is for the Limited Edition first print of 100 signed and numbered copies.

Author : Martin Kagel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047212966X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wounds written by Martin Kagel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914–2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Tabori, a Jewish refugee and a truly transnational author, was best known for his work in New York theater that irreverently explored the Jewish experience, particularly the Holocaust. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori’s work has received scant attention in American letters, in spite of its significance for U.S. theater and Holocaust studies. Until Tabori, most dramas about the Holocaust were either rooted in American domestic realism, striving to create a strong empathetic connection between the audience and Holocaust victims, or featured an unembellished documentary style. Tabori staked out a third position, beyond realism and documentation. The volume brings together the voices of international scholars to provide a comprehensive introduction to Tabori’s theater as well as in-depth analyses of his work, discussing all of his major plays. Individual essays address Tabori’s postdramatic theater in relation to sacrificial ritual, performance studies, and post-humanist approaches to the contemporary stage, as well as performance aspects of his productions, questions of ethics and aesthetics raised by his theater, and his plays’ relation to Holocaust representation in popular culture.

Author : Jose Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551520988
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers written by Jose Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, this extravagant and tragicomic novel is told in the musical lilt of Spanglish. Camilo, a strong-willed queen from Chile, tells his story as he lays dying in his hospital bed, recalling a life of sequins and disco. "Realistic, stream-of-consciousness style."--Time Out (London)

Author : Alexis Carrel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treatment of infected wounds written by Alexis Carrel and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gunshot Wounds written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-shot Wounds written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: