My Mother Tongue Is Silence
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Silence Is My Mother Tongue
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Author : Sulaiman Addonia
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Silence Is My Mother Tongue written by Sulaiman Addonia and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Fiction categories.
A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.
My Mother Tongue Is Silence
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Author : Shalini Chakraborty
language : en
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-31
My Mother Tongue Is Silence written by Shalini Chakraborty and has been published by Ukiyoto Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with categories.
My Mother Tongue is Silence is a rainbow of emotions, a steep ride into the ocean of a woman's subjectivity. As a collection it contains poems that are deeply introspective in a language and style that is painstakingly mundane. The poet tries to fulfill her duty as an artist to mirror the evils of the society, while not shying away from dealing with the demons of her own mind that have held her captive. Each poem, a different shade of gray extracted from the ruthless life of a millennial imbued with the colour of honesty. From dealing with anxiety and anger to the generational trauma women are thrown into the world with, from romanticizing the twilight to submerging one's self in the darkness of black, the poet has put all her genuine feelings unabashedly on display. The poems experiment with language, lyricism and even structure and each is testament to the poet's battle with the society and herself, at large. An anthology that will inevitably make one contemplate, reflect but more than that, feel what lies beneath the skin hardened through experiences.
Consequences Of Love
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language : en
Publisher: Jeff Jenkins
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Consequences Of Love written by and has been published by Jeff Jenkins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Annie had it all. A beautiful home, adorable toddler, and just happened to snag the promising son of most prominent family in their quaint little town in east Texas. Her life was perfect. Or so it seemed. Atlas was a man with a haunted past whose mundane life consisted of hard work, predictability, and solitude. And he had to reason to hope for a change. A chance encounter sparks an unlikely friendship and as their two worlds begin to collide, everything they thought they knew, comes into question. The carefully-crafted walls they've built, begin to crumble as they're faced with a past they've been trying to forget and a future they're afraid to hope for.
She Tries Her Tongue Her Silence Softly Breaks
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Author : M. NourbeSe Philip
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-06
She Tries Her Tongue Her Silence Softly Breaks written by M. NourbeSe Philip and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Poetry categories.
Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley. An online reader's companion will be available at http://nourbesephilip.site.wesleyan.edu.
Mother Tongue
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Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
language : en
Publisher: North Point Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Mother Tongue written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and has been published by North Point Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Travel categories.
A probing and poetic examination of language, food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life through the eyes of an American who moved to Parma with her husband and family. In the 1980s, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved permanently with her Italian husband and her daughter to Parma, a sophisticated city in northern Italy, where he became a professor of biology. Her search for rootedness in the city that was to be her home introduced her to complexities in her identity as she migrated into another language and looked for links beyond the joys of Verdi, Correggio, and Parmesan cheese, which visitors have rightly extolled for centuries. The local resistance to change perceived as individualistic led Wilde-Menozzi to explore the pull and challenge of difference and discover the backbone she needed for artistic freedom. In Mother Tongue, Wilde-Menozzi offers stories of far-sighted lives, remarkable Parma men and remarkable women, including the Renaissance abbess Giovanna Piacenza, the fighting Donella Rossi Sanvitale, and her own indefatigable mother-in-law. Framed with a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Patricia Hampl, this classic on diversity and tolerance, family, faith, and food in Italy and the United States is at once timeless and timely, a “large, beautiful window into the intelligent, literate, reflective life of Italy” (Shirley Hazzard).
What My Mother And I Don T Talk About
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Author : Michele Filgate
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2020-08-11
What My Mother And I Don T Talk About written by Michele Filgate and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-11 with Literary Collections categories.
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
The Autobiography Of My Mother
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Author : Jamaica Kincaid
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2022-07-07
The Autobiography Of My Mother written by Jamaica Kincaid and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with Fiction categories.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books Xuela Claudette Richardson is recalling the last seventy years of her life, and so she must begin with her birth, and the accompanying death of her mother. Xuela’s vivid, visceral recollections of the lonely, unsettled life that follows the trauma of her arrival include that of her distant father, who sends her away to another household at the earliest opportunity; of her passion for the stevedore Roland, who fulfils her sexually but not intellectually; and of her husband, who provides her with status and a wealthy lifestyle but whom she is incapable of loving. Poetic and disturbing, The Autobiography of My Mother is one of Kincaid’s most powerful statements of Afro-Caribbean women’s struggle for identity and independence, against a hostile backdrop of sexism and colonialism. Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Felon Poems
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Author : Reginald Dwayne Betts
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Felon Poems written by Reginald Dwayne Betts and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with Poetry categories.
Winner of the 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys "the visceral effect that prison has on identity" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems—canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace—and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person’s life. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility—from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s radiant conclusion. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret; in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Challenging the complexities of language, Betts animates what it means to be a "felon."
Silence And Silences
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Author : Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-12-07
Silence And Silences written by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A meditation on the infinite search for meanings in silence, from Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, the author of The Other Side of the Tiber and Mother Tongue. We need quiet to feel nothing, to hear silence that brings back proportion and the beauty of not knowing except for the outlines of what we live every day. Something inner settles. The right to silence unmediated by social judgment. Sitting at a table in an empty kitchen, peeling an apple, I wait for its next transformation. For a few seconds, the red, mottled, dangling skin unwinds what happened to it on earth. Wallis Wilde-Menozzi set out to touch silence for brief experiences of what is real. In images, dreams, and actions, the challenge leads to her heart as a writer. The pages of Silence and Silences form a vast tapestry of meanings shaped by many forces outside personal circumstance. Moving closer, the reader notices intricacies that shift when touched. As the writer steps aside, there is cosmic joy, biological truth, historical injustice. The reader finds women’s voices and women’s silences, sees Agnes Martin’s thin, fine lines and D. H. Lawrence’s artful letters, and becomes a part of Wilde-Menozzi’s examination of the ever-changing self. COVID-19 thrusts itself into the unbounded narrative, and isolation brings with it a new kind of stillness. As Wilde-Menozzi writes, “Reading a book is a way of withdrawing into silence. It is a way of seeing and listening, of pulling back from what is happening at that very moment.” The author has created a record of how we tell ourselves stories, how we think and how we know. Above all, she has made silence a presence as rich as time on the page and given readers space to discover what that means to a life.
Silent Anatomies
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Author : Monica Ong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Silent Anatomies written by Monica Ong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Poetry categories.
Poetry. Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. 2014 Kore Press First Book Winner, selected by Joy Harjo. SILENT ANATOMIES is a poetic-visual hybrid that traverses the body's terrain, examining the phenomena of cultural silences. Whether it is shame obscuring the female body, the social stigma shrouding certain illnesses, or the cryptic stories of her ancestors, Monica Ong interrogates the agency of the daughter, who must decide whether or not to speak out. What happens to stories that go underreported, un-translated, or are completely erased?