The Memory Of The Eyes

Author : Edwidge Danticat
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616955023
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breath, Eyes, Memory written by Edwidge Danticat and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti—and the enduring strength of Haiti’s women—with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people’s suffering and courage.

Author : Georgia Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520222052
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory of the Eyes written by Georgia Frank and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers' and readers' spiritual expectations and uses insights to add to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage.".

Author : Georgia Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924352
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory of the Eyes written by Georgia Frank and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original analysis of pilgrim writings of this period, Georgia Frank discovers a literary imagination at work, one that both recorded and shaped the experience of pilgrimage to living saints. Taking an important new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers’ and readers’ spiritual expectations and uses these fresh insights to add substantially to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage. Frank focuses in particular on two important and well-known early texts—The History of the Monks in Egypt (ca. 400) and Palladius’s The Lausiac History (ca. 420), situating these narratives in their literary, historical, and spiritual contexts. She compares these narratives to exotic travel writing and to tales of otherworldly journeys. Bringing in contemporary theory, she demonstrates the importance of sight as a means of spiritual progress and explores the relation between the function of sight in these narratives and in other expressions of visual piety in late antiquity Christianity, such as the veneration of relics and, eventually, icons. With its unique focus on the sensory dimensions of pilgrimage—especially visuality—this absorbing book widens our understanding of early Christian pilgrims and those who read their accounts. At the same time, it also sheds new light on the relation between religious experience and the senses, on literary representations of visual experience, and on the literature of pious travel.

Author : J. Alan Groves
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596381223
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes to See, Ears to Hear written by J. Alan Groves and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groves was a pioneer of modern biblical studies, using computers to analyze the Hebrew Old Testament. These articles have been collected to honor his work and also his character as a loving Christian exemplar.

Author : Georgia Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520222059
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memory of the Eyes written by Georgia Frank and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new approach to these texts, Frank finds in them a record of the writers' and readers' spiritual expectations and uses insights to add to our understanding of the purposes and practices of pilgrimage.".

Author : Leni Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300106053
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes of Memory written by Leni Sonnenfeld and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two pioneering photojournalists present stunning photographs that document key moments in the experiences of the Jewish people from 1933 to the present Like most Jews living in Berlin, Herbert Sonnenfeld lost his job in 1933. He decided to visit Palestine, where he photographed the poor refugees in that undeveloped country. When he returned to Berlin, his pictures appeared in a Zionist newspaper, and his career in photojournalism was launched. His wife, Leni, soon became his assistant and then a photographer in her own right. After the couple came to America in 1939, they were able to travel farther afield, and they spent the rest of their lives taking pictures of Jewish communities around the world. This mesmerizing book is a selection of their best photographs. The images tell the story of Jewish life in prewar Berlin; of Youth Aliyah, a Palestine emigration program; and of Jewish communities from Iran to Morocco to Spain. Recording the arrival in Israel of Jews from all over the Diaspora, the Sonnenfelds document the creation and evolution of the Israeli nation. These haunting photographs, along with Leni Sonnenfeld's moving reminiscences, are a testament to the Jewish experience in the twentieth century.

Author : Edward Swift Dunster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics written by Edward Swift Dunster and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Aurelius Augustine written by Saint Augustine (of Hippo) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 846 pages
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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John. Homilies on the First epistle of John. Soliloquies. [1908 written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: