Narrative And Freedom
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Narrative And Freedom
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Author : Gary Saul Morson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Narrative And Freedom written by Gary Saul Morson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, television, and much more, Gary Saul Morson examines the relation of time to narrative form and to an ethical dimension of the literary experience. Morson asserts that the way we think about the world and narrate events is often in contradiction to the truly eventful and open nature of daily life. Literature, history, and the sciences frequently present experience as if contingency, chance, and the possibility of diverse futures were all illusory. As a result, people draw conclusions or accept ideologies without sufficiently examining their consequences or alternatives. However, says Morson, there is another way to read and construct texts. He explains that most narratives are developed through foreshadowing and "backshadowing" (foreshadowing ascribed after the fact), which tend to reduce the multiplicity of possibilities in each moment. But other literary works try to convey temporal openness through a device he calls "sideshadowing." Sideshadowing suggests that to understand an event is to grasp what else might have happened. Time is not a line but a shifting set of fields of possibility. Morson argues that this view of time and narrative encourages intellectual pluralism, helps to liberate us from the false certainties of dogmatism, creates a healthy skepticism of present orthodoxies, and makes us aware that there are moral choices available to us.
The Freedom To Remember
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Author : Angelyn Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002
The Freedom To Remember written by Angelyn Mitchell and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison's Beloved, J. California Cooper's Family, and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child. Recent studies have investigated these works only from the standpoint of victimization. Angelyn Mitchell changes the conceptualization of these narratives, focusing on the theme of freedom, not slavery, defining these works as "liberatory narratives." These works create a space to problematize the slavery/freedom dichotomy from which contemporary black women writers have the "safe" vantage point to reveal aspects of enslavement that their ancestors could not examine. The nineteenth-century female emancipatory narrative, by contrast, was written to aid the cause of abolition by revealing the unspeakable realitiesof slavery. Mitchell shows how the liberatory narrative functions to emancipate its readers from the legacies of slavery in American society: by facilitating a deeper discussion of the issues and by making them new through illumination and interrogation.
Slave Narratives
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Author : Elaine Landau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Slave Narratives written by Elaine Landau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Provides first-hand accounts by former slaves on life before and after the Civil War.
Writing For Freedom
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Author : Alberica Bazzoni
language : en
Publisher: Studies in Contemporary Women¿s Writing
Release Date : 2018
Writing For Freedom written by Alberica Bazzoni and has been published by Studies in Contemporary Women¿s Writing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Identity (Psychology) in literature categories.
Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) is increasingly regarded as a central figure in modern Italian literature. This study follows her autofictional journey, identifying themes in her work such as freedom, the body, gender and sexuality, political commitment and social transformation.
Explorations In Freedom
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Author : Leopold Tyrmand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Explorations In Freedom written by Leopold Tyrmand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with English literature categories.
Opioids Addiction Narrative Freedom
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Author : Maia Dolphin-Krute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Opioids Addiction Narrative Freedom written by Maia Dolphin-Krute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
An epidemic is a feeling set within time as much as it is a matter of statistics and epidemiology: it is the feeling of many of us in the same desperate place at the same desperate time. Opioid epidemic thus names a present moment -- at once historic and historical -- centered on the substance of opioids as much as it names the urgency of all of us who are currently in proximity to these substances. What is the relationship between these historic and historical moments, the present moment, the history of pharmacological capitalism, and a set of repeated neurological activities, as well as human loss and desire, that has fueled the exponential rise in the rates of opioid use and abuse between 2000-2018? Opioids: Addiction, Narrative, Freedom is an auto-ethnography written from deep within--biologically within--this opioid epidemic. Tracing opioids around and through the bodies, governmental, and medical structures they are moving and being moved through, Opioids is an examination of what it means to live within an environment saturated with a substance of deep economic, political, neuroscientific, and pharmacological implications. From exploring media coverage of the epidemic and emerging medical narratives of addiction to detailing the legal inscription of differences between "pain patients" and people addicted to drugs, Opioids consistently asks: what is it like to live within an epidemic? What forms of freedom become possible when continually modulated by our physical experiences of the material proximities of an epidemic? How do you live with something for a long time.
Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom
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Author : William and Ellen Craft
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom written by William and Ellen Craft and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with categories.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft. My poor sister was sold first: she was knocked down to a planter who resided at some distance in the country. Then I was called upon the stand. While the auctioneer was crying the bids, I saw the man that had purchased my sister getting her into a cart, to take her to his home. I at once asked a slave friend who was standing near the platform, to run and ask the gentleman if he would please to wait till I was sold, in order that I might have an opportunity of bidding her good-bye. He sent me word back that he had some distance to go, and could not wait. I then turned to the auctioneer, fell upon my knees, and humbly prayed him to let me just step down and bid my last sister farewell. But, instead of granting me this request, he grasped me by the neck, and in a commanding tone of voice, and with a violent oath, exclaimed, "Get up! You can do the wench no good; therefore there is no use in your seeing her." Having heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;" we could not understand by what right we were held as "chattels." Therefore, we felt perfectly justified in undertaking the dangerous and exciting task of "running a thousand miles" in order to obtain those rights which are so vividly set forth in the Declaration.
Stride Toward Freedom
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Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Stride Toward Freedom written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age. Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world. This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped one of them at random.
Yazoo
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Author : Albert Talmon Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Yazoo written by Albert Talmon Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with African Americans categories.
Narrative Of The Life Of Moses Grandy
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Author : Moses Grandy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1844
Narrative Of The Life Of Moses Grandy written by Moses Grandy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1844 with Electronic books categories.
This book is a slave narrative, written by former slave, Moses Grandy.