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Silence Would Be Treason
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Fahamu Books
Release Date : 2012-10-25
Silence Would Be Treason written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Fahamu Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Political Science categories.
Ken Saro-Wiwa's final letters from detention before his shocking execution by Nigeria's military dictatorship in 1995 form a passionate document about his activism against oil and gas extraction in Ogoniland, the struggle for democracy and his own trial.
Silence Would Be Treason
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Author : Ide Corley
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-10-25
Silence Would Be Treason written by Ide Corley and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-25 with Political Science categories.
A unique collection of the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa that reveals the indomitable mind and spirit of the legendary campaigner for justice in the last months before his execution. The letters and poems collected here are the last writings of a man on trial for his life. They were smuggled out of military detention in food baskets.. Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, facing execution by the military regime on trumped-up charges, corresponded extensively with Irish nun and solidarity worker Majella McCarron during the last 18 months of his life. Clear and direct, these letters and poems are the last expression of a voice the regime was determined to silence: a voice for indigenous rights, environmental survival and democracy, many of whose battles were won despite his death and whose voice comes alive today again in these extraordinary letters. Saro-Wiwa was a leading figure in the world of Nigerian and African letters, as novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer, author of children's books and television writer. He was also a major figure in Nigerian politics, when his support for the autonomy of his own, indigenous Ogoni people led to his removal from office. Following this Saro-Wiwa threw himself into business to provide the financial basis for the movement which from 1990 took the shape of MOSOP, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. MOSOP raised not only the issue of indigenous autonomy but also that of environmental survival in the face of massive oil and gas extraction in the Niger Delta and the associated oil leaks, gas flaring and other environmental crises threatening traditional livelihoods in the area. This was a direct challenge to those who benefitted from the situation: the oil and gas multinationals and the Nigerian military government.
Silence Would Be Treason
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Codesria Conseil Pour Le Developpement de La Reche
Release Date : 2013-10
Silence Would Be Treason written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Codesria Conseil Pour Le Developpement de La Reche this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Nigerian poetry (English) categories.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize, was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of land and waters by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially Royal Dutch Shell. He was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian military government. His execution on 10 November 1995 by the Abacha regime provoked international outrage and resulted in Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth for over three years.
Treason By The Book
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Author : Jonathan Spence
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-04-05
Treason By The Book written by Jonathan Spence and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with History categories.
In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.
Treason
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Author : Hedi Kaddour
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-06
Treason written by Hedi Kaddour 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 2010-04-06 with Poetry categories.
Hédi Kaddour’s poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic—of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, or human cruelty. With Treason, the award-winning poet and translator Marilyn Hacker presents an English-speaking audience with the first selected volume of his work. The poetries of several languages and literary traditions are lively and constant presences in the work of Hédi Kaddour, a Parisian as well as a Germanist and an Arabist. A walker’s, a watcher’s, and a listener’s poems, his sonnet-shaped vignettes often include a line or two of dialogue that turns his observations and each poem itself into a kind of miniature theater piece. Favoring compact, classical models over long verse forms, Kaddour questions the structures of syntax and the limits of poetic form, combining elements of both international modernism and postmodernism with great sophistication. Capturing Kaddour’s full range of diction, as well as his speed, momentum, and tone, Marilyn Hacker’s translations brilliantly bring these poems alive.
Looking For Transwonderland
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Author : Noo Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Looking For Transwonderland written by Noo Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Travel categories.
A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews
A Treason Of Thorns
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Author : Laura Weymouth
language : en
Publisher: Chicken House
Release Date : 2020-03-05
A Treason Of Thorns written by Laura Weymouth and has been published by Chicken House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
An enchanting, lyrical novel from the acclaimed author of The Light Between Worlds. When her father is convicted of treason, Violet is exiled from her beloved ancestral home, Burleigh House. One of the six great estates of England, its magic once kept her well - enchantment in its bricks and mortar providing secret hiding places, even lighting fires on the coldest nights. However, on her return Violet discovers that the place has gone wild with grief. Vines and briars are crumbling the walls. Magic that once fed the land has turned dark and deadly, twisting blooms into thorns, poisoning livestock and destroying crops. Now Violet must decide if her destiny is set in stone, and how far she will go to save Burleigh - before it destroys everything ... including the boy she loves.
Imaginary Betrayals
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Author : Karen Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-05-29
Imaginary Betrayals written by Karen Cunningham and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1352 King Edward III had expanded the legal definition of treason to include the act of imagining the death of the king, opening up the category of "constructive" treason, in which even a subject's thoughts might become the basis for prosecution. By the sixteenth century, treason was perceived as an increasingly serious threat and policed with a new urgency. Referring to the extensive early modern literature on the subject of treason, Imaginary Betrayals reveals how and to what extent ideas of proof and grounds for conviction were subject to prosecutorial construction during the Tudor period. Karen Cunningham looks at contemporary records of three prominent cases in order to demonstrate the degree to which the imagination was used to prove treason: the 1542 attainder of Katherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, charged with having had sexual relations with two men before her marriage; the 1586 case of Anthony Babington and twelve confederates, accused of plotting with the Spanish to invade England and assassinate Elizabeth; and the prosecution in the same year of Mary, Queen of Scots, indicted for conspiring with Babington to engineer her own accession to the throne. Linking the inventiveness of the accusations and decisions in these cases to the production of contemporary playtexts by Udall, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Kyd, Imaginary Betrayals demonstrates how the emerging, flexible discourses of treason participate in defining both individual subjectivity and the legitimate Tudor state. Concerned with competing representations of self and nationhood, Imaginary Betrayals explores the implications of legal and literary representations in which female sexuality, male friendship, or private letters are converted into the signs of treacherous imaginations.
The Silence And The Roar
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Author : Nihad Sirees
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2013-01-10
The Silence And The Roar written by Nihad Sirees and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-10 with Fiction categories.
With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal life under a Middle Eastern dictatorship, Syria. Fathi, a writer no longer permitted to write, makes his way through a city churned by parades for an unnamed dictator. It is a day stifled by heat and the noise of the chants, a day of people trampled, and of the brutality and bullying of the party faithful. But Fathi presses treacherously against the crowd, attempting just to visit his mother and his girlfriend. The Silence and the Roar (Al Samt wa Al Sakhab) is a personal, urgent, funny and aggrieved novel. It asks what it means to have a conscience, or to laugh, or to endure in a time of the violence, strangeness and roar of tyranny. It is both a true literary achievement and an act of real courage by a brilliant Syrian writer. Nihad Sirees' The Silence and the Roar (Al Samt wa Al Sakhab) is translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss and published by Pushkin Press
A Month And A Day Letters
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Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
language : en
Publisher: Ayebia Clarke Publishing
Release Date : 1995
A Month And A Day Letters written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and has been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Edited version of A Detention Diary - Ken Saro-Wiwa's own record of his arrest and imprisonment in July 1993, and the history of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. This new edition has a foreword by the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. The book highlights Saro- Wiwa's ideology, his cause, his ultimate sacrifice and the injustice of his death. It also focuses on the Ogoni struggle against the multinational Shell and the Nigerian dictatorship. His story illustrates the consequences of living in a world powered by fossil fuels.