Stepping Across The Line

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Step Across This Line

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Author : Salman Rushdie
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-12-26

Step Across This Line written by Salman Rushdie and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-26 with Literary Collections categories.

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M. Coetzee and Arundhati Roy. In a central section, 'Messages from the Plague Years', Rushdie focuses on the fight against the Iranian fatwa, presenting texts both personal and political, which show for the first time how it was to live through those days. Rushdie's columns for the New York Times confront current issues - Kashmir, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Islam and the West - as well as lighter topics such as reality TV, sport and sleaze. The book ends with the lectures that give it its title - Rushdie's exploration of the theme of frontiers: crossing them, breaking taboos, and - in the light of September 11 - the world of permeable frontiers in which we all live.

Stepping Across The Line

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Author : Deon Joseph
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-14

Stepping Across The Line written by Deon Joseph and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with categories.

A two volume book detailing an Officer's 21 years working in the homeless capital of America called Skid Row. A young Black man who through his personal experience and the experience of family and friends, was taught to hate the police and later ended up becoming one.

Salman Rushdie In The Cultural Marketplace

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Author : Ana Cristina Mendes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23

Salman Rushdie In The Cultural Marketplace written by Ana Cristina Mendes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.

Taking up the roles that Salman Rushdie himself has assumed as a cultural broker, gatekeeper, and mediator in various spheres of public production, Ana Cristina Mendes situates his work in terms of the contemporary production, circulation, and consumption of postcolonial texts within the workings of the cultural industries. Mendes pays particular attention to Rushdie as a public performer across various creative platforms, not only as a novelist and short story writer, but also as a public intellectual, reviewer, and film critic. Mendes argues that how a postcolonial author becomes personally and professionally enmeshed in the dealings of the cultural industries is of particular relevance at a time when the market is strictly regulated by a few multinational corporations. She contends that marginality should not be construed exclusively as a basis for understanding Rushdie’s work, since a critical grounding in marginality will predictably involve a reproduction of the traditional postcolonial binaries of oppressor/oppressed and colonizer/colonized that the writer subverts. Rather, she seeks to expand existing interpretations of Rushdie’s work, itineraries, and frameworks in order to take into account the actual conditions of postcolonial cultural production and circulation within a marketplace that is global in both orientation and effects.

Stepping Over The Color Line

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Author : Amy Stuart Wells
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-05-29

Stepping Over The Color Line written by Amy Stuart Wells 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 1997-05-29 with Education categories.

This important book takes the discussion of racial inequality in America beyond simplistic arguments of white racism and black victimization to a more complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today. Amy Stuart Wells and Robert Crain investigate the St. Louis, Missouri, school desegregation plan, a unique agreement that since 1983 has given black inner-city students the right to choose to attend predominantly white suburban schools. After five years of research and hundreds of interviews with policymakers, administrators, teachers, students, and parents, Wells and Crain conclude that when school desegregation is examined from these many perspectives, more strengths than weaknesses emerge. They call for a reexamination of now-popular school choice policies across the country so that these policies may help to bring about more racial and social-class integration. Stepping over the Color Line intertwines data on student achievement and racial isolation with stories of the people who participated in the St. Louis program. The authors set these individuals within a broad historical and social context and demonstrate how important linkages between the past and present help explain why efforts to overcome racial inequality—in St. Louis and in the larger society—are so difficult. "The authors do a superb job of explaining how this innovative program came about, placing it in a broad context that takes it beyond its immediate and local implications. The book is at times heartbreaking and at times uplifting."—Richard Zweigenhaft, co-author of Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America

Stepping Over

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Author : Malcolm McConnell
language : en
Publisher: Graymalkin Media
Release Date : 2024-04-29

Stepping Over written by Malcolm McConnell and has been published by Graymalkin Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Two decades of unprecedented change and social disruption have wracked the lives of young people around the world. This book illuminates these troubled decades by weaving a tapestry of compelling stories that embody, first-hand, the confusing cultural upheavals of the past twenty years. McConnell probes his subjects, interacts with them, and reveals why they-young terrorists, fanatics, murderers, teen-age hookers, religious zealots, extremists of the left and the right­ stepped over the line of normal behavior. These accounts, all true and previously untold, bring a confused era back to vivid life and give it new meaning. From its open­ ing pages to its inspiring conclusion this remarkably moving book stirs the reader to a new understanding of the turbulence in the minds and hearts of a profoundly troubled generation.

Eternity Is Just A Step Across The Threshold

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Author : MAXWELL KOBINA ACQUAH
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-09-30

Eternity Is Just A Step Across The Threshold written by MAXWELL KOBINA ACQUAH and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-30 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.

"The 'line' between the 'moment' a person dies - the soul leaves the fleshly body and immediately steps over into 'Heaven or HELL' for all eternity, very few people are sent back to earth to tell others of their experiences, BUT most people are not sent back to tell it all. You might say that you do not believe in such places, well, then that means you DO NOT believe in the true YHWH (Jehovah) GOD who tells us about heaven and warns us about hell, which IS mentioned in the Bible. Visit - www.sbpra.com/Yefulkay for another book entitle - THE CHURCH IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK by Yefulkay. Connect www.facebook.com/Yefulkay

Pilgrimage Through A Burning World

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Author : Ken Butigan
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01

Pilgrimage Through A Burning World written by Ken Butigan and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.

For two decades the Nevada Desert Experience has organized nonviolent action at the Nevada Test Site as part of the global movement to end nuclear testing. Pilgrimage through a Burning World illuminates how the Franciscan-based group has crafted a contemporary desert spirituality that integrates religious ritual and political action to grapple with the challenges of an institutionalized and internalized nuclear world. Ken Butigan shows how the annual pilgrimage to the test site has contributed to the personal transformation of people "on both sides of the fence" at the test site and to the worldwide emergence of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Atlantic Republic

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Author : Paul Giles
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-11-23

Atlantic Republic written by Paul Giles and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.

Atlantic Republic traces the legacy of the United States both as a place and as an idea in the work of English writers from 1776 to the present day. Seeing the disputes of the Reformation as a precursor to this transatlantic divide, it argues that America has operated since the Revolution as a focal point for various traditions of dissent within English culture. By ranging over writers from Richard Price and Susanna Rowson in the 1790s to Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie at the turn of the twenty-first century, the book argues that America haunts the English literary tradition as a parallel space where ideology and aesthetics are configured differently. Consequently, it suggests, many of the key episodes in British history-parliamentary reform in the 1830s, the imperial designs of the Victorian era, the twentieth-century conflict with fascism, the advance of globalization since 1980-have been shaped by implicit dialogues with American cultural models. Rather than simply reinforcing the benign myth of a 'special relationship', Paul Giles considers how various English writers over the past 200 years have engaged with America for various complicated reasons: its promise of political republicanism (Byron, Mary Shelley); its emphasis on religious disestablishment (Clough, Gissing); its prospect of pastoral regeneration (Ruxton, Lawrence); its vision of scientific futurism (Huxley, Ballard). The book also analyses the complex cultural relations between Britain and the United States around the time of the Second World War, suggesting that writers such as Wodehouse, Isherwood, and Auden understood the United States and Germany to offer alternative versions of the kind of technological modernity that appeared equally hostile to traditional forms of English culture. The book ends with a consideration of ways in which the canon of English literature might appear in a different light if seen from a transnational rather than a familiar national perspective.

From Solidarity To Schisms

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01

From Solidarity To Schisms written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

From Solidarity to Schisms is the first collection to expand discussions of the effects the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath have had on fiction and film beyond an exclusively US-based focus. The essays brought together here go beyond critiquing the US to examine the cultural shifts taking place in fiction and cinema from places such as Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Pakistan, Canada, Israel, and Iran. From these many sites of production, the works discussed in this collection illustrate more precisely how 9/11 was “global” without succumbing to neat categorizations, such as “us vs. them,” “East vs. West,” “Christianity vs. Islam,” and so on. From Solidarity to Schisms is an important supplement to the US-centered cultural and critical production addressing 9/11, providing researchers and teachers alike with resources and contexts that will allow them to broaden their own examinations of novels and films by Americans and about the US. It also provides a valuable resource for students and scholars of contemporary global history and international politics who are interested in approaching 9/11, terrorism and counter-terrorism, and related topics from a cultural standpoint.