[PDF] A Captive Voice eBook

Author : B. J. Hoff
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786214112

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A honeymooning couple meet a famous Christian singer, in seclusion since the death of her fiance, and find that someone is tormenting her mercilessly, maybe even trying to kill her.

Author : David Buttrick
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664255404

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In A Captive Voice, David Buttrick encourages pastors to look afresh at the Bible, church, culture, and Christian identity in order to answer the question of how to preach. Buttrick examines the renewal of ecclesiology in the mid-twentieth century, a time when the high-hung pulpits were scaled down as preaching came to be seen as a conversation among friends in Christ. While this was a positive development, Buttrick argues that preaching must now become the articulation of our common faith, a speaking from the Spirit we all possess.

Author : Jasmin Darznik
Publisher :
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399182314

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A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight, and tradition seeks to clip her wings. Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh's poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules, at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution. Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad's verse, letters, films, and interviews, and including original translations of her poems, this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran, and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.--Amazon.

Author : Eleanor Ross Taylor
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807144312

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Over nearly fifty years, Eleanor Ross Taylor has established herself as one of the foremost southern poets of her generation. Captive Voices gathers selections from Taylor's five previous books along with a generous helping of new poems. Scintillating, unusual, passionate, and profound, the poems range from contemporary pieces about a bag lady on a bus, to historical pieces about settlers held hostage and a wartime nurse caring for British wounded, to intensely personal poems about her dislike for her grandmother and worries about her son. The title poem -- a real tour de force -- explores the notion of captivity on several levels as it speaks to the suffering we all endure, some of which is of our own making. Decidedly regional yet determinedly universal, the poems in this remarkable volume, along with a foreword by Ellen Bryant Voigt, attest to the singular talent of a woman justly described as "a poet of genius."

Author : Nahla Abdo
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745334943

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Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are hardly any academic books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and resistance. Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation and anti-colonial resistance. Based on the stories of the women themselves, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary research in order to analyse Palestinian women's anti-colonial struggle, their agency and their treatment as political detainees. Making crucial comparisons with the experiences of women political detainees in other conflicts, and emphasising the vital role Palestinian political culture and memorialisation of the 'Nakba' have had on their resilience and resistance, Captive Revolution is a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this little-studied phenomenon.

Author : Lucas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0525435557

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An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person.

Author : Diana Cosby
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420101089

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When a feisty lady is kidnapped by a seductive Scottish rebel, she finds herself trapped by her powerful attraction to a man whose touch shakes her to the core. Original.

Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1469618249

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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era