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Strange Eventful Histories Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon

Strange Eventful Histories Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon
Shiamin Kwa, "Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon"
English | 2013 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 0674066855 | PDF | 8,1 mb
When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated translation of the dramatic masterpiece Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty Chinese playwright Xu Wei, author Shiamin Kwa considers the ways that people encounter and understand each other in extraordinary circumstances. With its tales of crimes redressed in the next world and girls masquerading as men to achieve everlasting fame, Four Cries of a Gibbon complicated issues of self and identity when it appeared in the late Ming dynasty, paving the way for increasingly nuanced reflections on such questions in late Ming and early Qing fiction and drama. Beyond their historical context, Xu Wei's influential plays serve as testimony to what Kwa argues are universal strategies found within drama. The heroes and heroines in these plays glide back and forth across the borders of life and death, of male and female, as they seek to articulate who they truly are. As the actors sort out these truths onstage, the members of the audience are invited to consider the truths that they live with offstage.

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Stop at Nothing The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull

Stop at Nothing The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull
Annabel Crabb, "Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull"
English | 2016 | pages: 194 | ISBN: 1525229494 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
In Stop at Nothing Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a memorable look at the Prime Minister in action - his flaws and achievements - as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into his university exploits - which included co-authoring a musical with Bob Ellis - and his remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer, the man for whom he was first a prized attack dog and then a mortal enemy. She examines the extent to which Turnbull - colourful, aggressive, humorous and ruthless - has changed. Crabb tells how he first lost, and then won back, the Liberal leadership, and explores the challenges that now face him today as the forward-looking leader of a conservative Coalition.

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Stomping Out Fear Finding Courage in Christ

Stomping Out Fear Finding Courage in Christ
Stomping Out Fear: Finding Courage in Christ By Neil T. Anderson; Rich Miller; David Park
2003 | 235 Pages | ISBN: 0736909915 | EPUB | 2 MB
A great new youth version of the popular "Freedom from Fear" that tackles the challenges confronting teens in today's culture--with a powerful foreword by Josh McDowell.Many teens drag through their lives weighed down by fear, worried about being unlovable, and walled off by a sense of isolation."Stomping Out Fear" provides solid, biblical tools to help teens stand against the emotions and spiritual forces that try to pull them down. Readers will-- learn how fear-filled strongholds develop discover how to use the truth to combat anxious thoughts and win over fear find out how Jesus Christ is their sanctuary from all fearsIdeal for youth groups, Bible studies, teen mentoring relationships, club studies, and individual reading.

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Steve Biko Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness

Steve Biko Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness
Tendayi Sithole Author of Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness, "Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness "
English | ISBN: 1498518184 | 2016 | 224 pages | PDF | 1332 KB
Moving away from the domain of commemorative, iconicity, monumentalization, and memorialization, Sithole uses Steve Biko's meditations as a discursive intervention to understand black subjectivity. The epistemological shift of this book is not to be bogged down by the cataloging of events, something that is popular in the literature of Steve Biko and Black Consciousness. Rather, a theoretical imagination and conceptual invention is engaged upon in order to situate Biko within the existential repertoire of blackness as a site of subjectivity and not the object of study. The theoretical imagination and conceptual invention fosters an interpretive approach and an ongoing critique that cannot reach any epistemic closure. This is what decolonial meditations are all about, opening up new vistas of thought and new modes of critique informed by epistemic breaks from "empirical absolutism" that reduce Biko to an epistemic catalogue. It is in Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness that the black subject is engaged not only in the politics of criticism for its own sake, but philosophy of existence.

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