One Foreigner S Ordeal
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One Foreigner S Ordeal
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Author : Tavuya Jinga
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2012-05-22
One Foreigner S Ordeal written by Tavuya Jinga and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Fiction categories.
One Foreigners Ordeal is a story of how a Zimbabwean civil servant; a teacher, is caught up in Zimbabwes economic implosion. It chronicles his flight into South Africa and depicts the new challenges that beset him in the new environment. Among these is the search for documentation enabling him to stay in the country legally, xenophobia and the all elusive search for employment. The book is alive. The characters are so real one can feel them and almost touch them. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. - Tsitsi Dzinoreva Lecturer in African Languages and Literature Great Zimbabwe University. Written with an eye for detail and a sense of humour any reader will find impeccable and refreshinga must read for serious lovers of literature. - Mika Nyoni Lecturer English Great Zimbabwe University.
The Magnificent Ordeal
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Author : J. P. Sater
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-07
The Magnificent Ordeal written by J. P. Sater and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with categories.
The Magnificent Ordeal relates to the lifestyle, the personal memoirs, of one Michael Ordeal. He has spent most of his life in the Far East, before retiring to an island in the Pacific Ocean called Nevahachi. Ordeal's goal in retirement is to screw himself to death, having nothing better to do. When he retires, he vows to do two things: Run with the wind and screw everything in sight. It doesn't work out that way. He hurts his knee and doesn't run as much as he thought he would. A number of things happen to Ordeal along the way. He is in many ways a product of the 21st Century. * The discovery / production of Viagra clears the way for him. Any fears of erectile dysfunction (ED) or old age are dissipated. * He is a rich man, having led a rather quiet, undistinguished life (unitil now). He can afford the finer things in life, that he may have done without as a younger man. * He has no children that he can leave his money to. Instead he decides to give his money to charity, to needy women who have taken to the streets and the gay quarters in order to make a living. * He has developed a certain prowess (in conjugal matters), during the years he spent in the Far East -- a character, a trait, that never leaves him, even in his old age. * The island has an abundance of fauna, in the local Red-Light Districts, that cater to his needs. In order to maintain the pace that he has set out for himself, he needs variety. This is not a love affair with a person but a process. He is basically a Dirty Old Man seeking out Dirty Old Women. * He has learned to disassociate the orgasm from sex. They are not the same. Sex can be done for its own pleasure(s), with or without the flow of juices. * He is a loner -- adrift, apart, from organized society. He does not fear social dislike / distaste with his behavior because he has no society to contend with. He is not pressured by what friend or peer think; he has none. On Nevahachi he is a foreigner in the local community. Ordeal populates the Red-Light Districts on Nevahachi. He is popular there because, at his age, he has a lot of money and not much stamina. His motto also serves him well: Speak softy and carry a big stick. The Journals begin to take on a life of their own. Ordeal the fornicator becomes more important than Ordeal the person. It becomes almost an obsession. He maintains a daily log, action-packed, blow by blow. And yet, the exercise keeps him in shape, the hormones keep him young. His initial goal is to achieve one sex act per day. He fails his first year. But then, in his second year, he succeeds. After that the sky is the limit. It is now thirteen years later, and Ordeal is still alive and well, and writing.
Bloody Foreigner
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Author : Jacques K. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2024-05-02
Bloody Foreigner written by Jacques K. Lee and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-02 with Fiction categories.
Alain Lau, a Chinese man with French background, has escaped life in a small third world country for a more exciting one in England. As he struggles to make a success of his life in his new country, it soon becomes apparent that his skin colour is proving a bigger barrier to social integration – even his name is anglicised by people who can’t be bothered to learn how to say it properly. What remains a mystery to him is why his long-term landlady, who hates foreigners, has lured him to her house and even gives him free English lessons. Ever since Alain landed in England, his constant fear is being unmasked as a fraud by the English family who invited him here. Anita, his girlfriend, encourages him to confess all to her and promises to keep his secret safe. One night, in a rage of jealousy, she betrays him, with dire consequences for both.
Raiding The Land Of The Foreigners
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Author : Danilyn Rutherford
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-12
Raiding The Land Of The Foreigners written by Danilyn Rutherford and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with Social Science categories.
What are the limits of national belonging? Focusing on Biak--a set of islands off the coast of western New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya--Danilyn Rutherford's analysis calls for a rethinking of the nature of national identity. With the resurgence of separatism in the province, Irian Jaya has become the focus of fears that the Indonesian nation is falling apart. Yet in the early 1990s, the fieldwork for this book was made possible by the government's belief that Biaks were finally beginning to see themselves as Indonesians. Taking in the dynamics of Biak social life and the islands' long history of millennial unrest, Rutherford shows how practices that indicated Biaks' submission to national authority actually reproduced antinational understandings of space, time, and self. Approaching the foreign as a focus of longing in cultural arenas ranging from kinship to Christianity, Biaks participated in Indonesian national institutions without accepting the identities they promoted. Their remarkable response to the Indonesian government (and earlier polities laying claim to western New Guinea) suggests the limits of national identity and modernity, writ large. This is one of the few books reporting on the volatile province of Irian Jaya. It offers a new way of thinking about the nation and its limits--one that moves beyond the conventions of both scholarship and recent journalism. It shows how people can "belong" to a nation yet maintain commitments that fall both short of and beyond the nation state.
1 2 Peter And Jude
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Author : Pheme Perkins
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2022-07-02
1 2 Peter And Jude written by Pheme Perkins and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-02 with Religion categories.
2023 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Scripture – Academic Studies Reading 1 Peter through the lens of feminist and diaspora studies keeps front and center the bodily, psychological, and social suffering experienced by those without stable support of family or homeland, whether they were economic migrants or descendants of those enslaved by Roman armies. In the new “household” of God, believers are encouraged to exhibit a moral superiority to the society that engulfs them. But adoption of “elite” values cannot erase the undertones of randomized verbal abuse, general scorn, and physical violence that women, immigrants, slaves, and freedmen faced as the “facts of life.” First Peter offers the “honor” of identifying with the Crucified, “by his bruises you are healed” (2:24). A Christian liberation ethic would challenge 1 Peter’s approach. Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia-Pontus in north-western Asia Minor, is a contemporary of 2 Peter’s writer. The polemical, accusatory genre of 2 Peter, like Jude, originates in Roman judicial rhetoric. The pastor, in the persona of a prosecuting attorney, condemns immoral defendants, including influential women. Their “crimes” encode community tensions over women’s leadership, Gentile-members’ sexual ethics, their syncretistic deviations from Jewish doctrine on creation, and the certainty of divine judgment and punishment. Citations to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s A Woman’s Bible enliven the commentary. The doctrinal disorder prompts the male pastor to sustain loyalists in their commitment to “Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Second Peter dramatizes an ecclesial crisis whose “solution” was the eventual imposition of a magisterium to silence dissent. Brief, combative, and assuming a familiarity with a literary culture that most twenty-first-century readers do not have, the Letter of Jude would be an obvious candidate for being the most neglected book of the New Testament. As a model for a pastoral strategy, it can be recommended only with great reservations: almost everyone will find in it something problematic, if not offensive. Yet, in addition to giving a window on a Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian milieu, Jude’s energetic prose testifies to the author’s visceral concern for those attempting to live by the gospel in difficult circumstances. Furthermore, to the extent that over familiarity with parts of the New Testament can blunt their challenge, this letter provides a salutary reminder that the entire canon originated in a world that is radically unfamiliar to us.
Between Foreigners And Shi Is
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Author : Daniel Tsadik
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-09
Between Foreigners And Shi Is written by Daniel Tsadik and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-09 with History categories.
Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896), is the first comprehensive scholarly attempt to weave all these threads into a single tapestry. This case study of the Jewish minority illuminates broader processes pertaining to other religious minorities and Iranian society in general, and the interaction among intervening foreigners, the Shi'i majority, and local Jews helps us understand Iranian dilemmas that have persisted well beyond the second half of the nineteenth century.
On Soul And Earth
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Author : Elena Liotta
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
On Soul And Earth written by Elena Liotta and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Psychology categories.
On Soul and Earth offers an original perspective on the relationship between the environment and the human psyche. Physical spaces contribute to the building of identity through personal experience and memory. Places evoke emotions and carry their own special meanings. Elena Liotta and her contributors also explore the neglected topics of migration and travel. The author has extensive clinical experience of working with patients from a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds. Globalization is present in the clinical office as well as in the wider world and the transformations currently being wrought in the areas of cultural and national identity also impact on clinical work. This book will be of interest to Jungian analysts as well as psychotherapists and mental health professionals, especially those who are addressing transcultural and multicultural issues including voluntary or enforced migration. It will also appeal to urban planners, architects and those interested in environmental issues.
From Bedroom To Courtroom
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Author : Saundra Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Barkhuis
Release Date : 2017-01-23
From Bedroom To Courtroom written by Saundra Schwartz and has been published by Barkhuis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-23 with History categories.
From Bedroom to Courtroom argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality. Given the genre's emphasis on love and chastity, the specter of adultery looms over most of the scenarios that develop into elaborate trials. Such scenes shed light on the Greek reception of the criminalization of adultery promulgated by the moral legislation during the reign of Augustus. This book focuses on three major novels whose composition coincided with the extension of Roman citizenship when access to Roman courts was granted to increasing numbers of inhabitants of the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Chariton's Callirhoe is interpreted as an artifact of the generation after the implementation of the Augustan moral legislation, particularly its criminalization of adultery. Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon was created in a legally pluralistic milieu where shrewd sophists learned to navigate and exploit the interstices between the overlapping jurisdictions of imperial and local law. Finally, Heliodorus' Aethiopica, widely regarded as the masterpiece of the genre, adapts the type-scene of the trial to present a series of case studies of different types of government, culminating in the utopian kingdom of Meroe. Through the novels' melodramatic trial scenes, we can begin to see how the opening of Roman courtroom to Greek-speaking citizens of the Roman Empire stimulated dreams of a world in which universal justice under Rome was wed to Hellenism.
Making Strangers Outsiders Aliens And Foreigners
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Author : Abbes Maazaoui
language : en
Publisher: Vernon Press
Release Date : 2019-04-05
Making Strangers Outsiders Aliens And Foreigners written by Abbes Maazaoui and has been published by Vernon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-05 with Social Science categories.
Studies on foreignness have increased substantially over the last two decades in response to what has been dubbed the migration/refugee crisis. Yet, they have focused on specific areas such as regions, periods, ethnic groups, and authors. Predicated on the belief that this so-called “twenty-first century problem” is in fact as old as humanity itself, this book analyzes cases based on both long-term historical perspectives and current occurrences from around the world. Bringing together an international group of scholars from Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, it examines a variety of examples and strategies, mostly from world literatures, ranging from Spain’s failed experience with consolidation as a nation-state-type entity during the Golden Age of Castile, to Shakespeare’s rhetorical subversion of the language of fear and hate, to Mario Rigoni Stern’s random status at the unpredictable Italian-Austrian borders, to Lawrence Durrell’s ambivalent approach to noticing the physically visible other, to the French government’s ongoing criminalization of hospitality, to Sandra Cisneros’s attempt at straddling two countries and cultures while belonging to neither one, to the illusive legal limbo of the DREAMers in the United States. We are not born foreigners; we are made. The purpose of the book is to assert, as denoted by the title, this fundamental premise, that is, the making of strangers is the result of a deliberate and purposeful act that has social, political, and linguistic implications. The ultimate expression of this phenomenon is the compulsive labeling of people along artificial categories such as race, gender, religion, birthplace, or nationality. A corollary purpose of the book is to help shed light worldwide on one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: the place of “the other” amid fear-mongering and unabashedly contemptuous acts and rhetoric toward immigrants, refugees and all those excluded within because of race, gender, national origin, religion and ethnicity. As illustrated by the examples examined in this book, humans have certainly evolved in many areas; dealing with the “other” might not have been one of those. It is hoped that the book encourages reflection on how the arts, and especially world literatures, can help us navigate and think through the ever-present crisis: the place of the “stranger” among us.
Gauchos And Foreigners
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Author : Ariana Huberman
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-12-29
Gauchos And Foreigners written by Ariana Huberman and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Gauchos and Foreigners: Glossing Culture and Identity in the Argentine Countryside Ariana Huberman discusses the relationship between the gaucho figure and the 'foreigner' in Argentine rural literature. The narratives of William Henry Hudson, Benito Lynch and Alberto Gerchunoff present English scientists and travelers, as well as Jewish and Italian immigrants, in direct contact with the gaucho in the Argentine and Uruguayan countryside. The book shows how the intent to define and translate terms from the national glossary the gaucho, his lifestyle and habitat and from 'foreign' cultures, ultimately questions these terms' capacity to represent a specific culture. It traces a series of writing practices that challenge the concepts of 'native' and 'foreign' as stable categories of representation by conveying identity and culture across multiple linguistic, social and cultural registers. The reading of these unique practices of translation hopes to offer a fresh approach to the multicultural scope of Argentine literature.