Download or read book Palestinian Teenage Refugees and Immigrants Speak Out written by Nabil Marshood and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Palestinian teenagers living in the United States present their views on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Download or read book Teenage Refugees and Immigrants from India Speak Out written by R. Viswandath and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers from India discuss why their families left that country and how they have adjusted to life in the United States.
Download or read book Teenage Refugees from Mexico Speak Out written by Gerald Hadden and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six teenagers tell about their experiences in immigrating to the United States for the opportunities which elude them in Mexico because of its political and economic instability.
Download or read book Teenage Refugees from Ethiopia Speak Out written by Globe Fearon and published by Globe Fearon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenagers from Ethiopia describe the conditions in that country that caused them to leave and their new lives in the United States.
Download or read book Teenage Refugees from Eastern Europe Speak Out written by Carl E. Rollyson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teenage Refugees from Bosnia Herzegovina Speak Out written by Valerie Paradiž and published by Globe Fearon. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the lives of eight teenagers from Bosnia-Herzegovinia, why they left their homeland, and how they adapted to life in the United States.
Download or read book Rebecca West and the God That Failed written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, "Rebecca was such good company." He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebecca kept beckoning him. He felt there was more to say about her politics-a misunderstood part of her repertoire as reporter and novelist. And had he done justice to her enormous sense of fun and humor? He regretted excising the portrait of her he wanted to put at the beginning of his biography. His editor kept cutting away at what he called Rollyson's doorstop of a book. And then after years of waiting, Rollyson received her FBI file. He kept running into Rebecca, so to speak, when he was working on his biographies of Martha Gellhorn and Jill Craigie. Interviews in London often turned up people who had known West as well. Thus piece by piece, Rollyson accumulated what is now another book about Rebecca West. This new collection tells the story of how his biography got written, of what it means to think like a biographer, and why West's vision remains relevant. She is one of the great personalities and writers of the modern age, and one that we are just beginning to comprehend.
Download or read book The Ungrateful Refugee written by Dina Nayeri and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A vital book for our times' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Unflinching, complex, provocative' NIKESH SHUKLA 'A work of astonishing, insistent importance' Observer Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother, and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually she was granted asylum in America. Now, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with those of other asylum seekers in recent years. In these pages, women gather to prepare the noodles that remind them of home, a closeted queer man tries to make his case truthfully as he seeks asylum and a translator attempts to help new arrivals present their stories to officials. Surprising and provocative, The Ungrateful Refugee recalibrates the conversation around the refugee experience. Here are the real human stories of what it is like to be forced to flee your home, and to journey across borders in the hope of starting afresh.
Download or read book American Biography written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of reviews, selected from Rollyson's New York Sun column, is as much about the romance of biography as it is about the American lives. Certain concerns resonate throughout the book: the American left's failure to reckon with Communist subversion, McCarthyism, and Stalinism, the problematic nature of authorized biography, the history of American biography, definitive biographies, literary biography, the differences between autobiography and biography, the importance of interviews in biographies of contemporary figures, the differences between history and biography, comparative biographies, the virtues of short biographies and of biographies for children, the tendency of biographers to fictionalize and of novelists to biographize, psychology and biography, Rollyson's own experience as a biographer, and the way biographers treat one another's work. Too many biographers, he believes, evince no interest in the biographical tradition. Concerned only with possession of their subjects, their proprietorial attitude deforms not only their biographies but also the genre itself. If biography is reviewed badly (receiving hardly more than a summary of the subject's life with a perfunctory nod to the biographer), it is because the biographical tradition has been disregarded or discounted. This book, in other words, has been written on the behalf of biography, a genre that still awaits a full vindication.
Download or read book Documentary Film written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary Film: Contexts and Criticism is designed to complement Rollyson's Documentary Film: A Primer. The films discussed in this volume include Zelig, the Lumiere brothers documentaries, Nanook of the North, The Man With a Movie Camera, Triumph of the Will, Olympia, The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, Why We Fight, Fires Were Started, and several Jill Craigie films, including an extended discussion of Two Hours From London, her controversial examination of the Balkan wars and the siege of Dubrovnik. What sets this text apart from other studies of documentary is that it includes a wide array of student comments on the films and reviews very much centered in discussions of the documentary tradition. In this same vein, Rollyson has included his essay, "Jill Craigie and the Documentary Tradition" exploring her relationship with John Grierson and other prominent documentary filmmakers. This dialogic text captures some of the actual give-and-take of the classroom and the range of opinion that even the best critics cannot convey. What should emerge from the reading of these comments are the different voices (mindsets) through which the films are viewed.
Download or read book American Immigration English written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetical reference work examining the background, statistics, reception, and current status of those groups who have immigrated to America throughout history.
Download or read book Biography Before Boswell written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography Before Boswell includes a sampling of those pre-Boswellian biographers (Plutarch, St. Bede, Giorgio Vasari, and John Aubry) who highlight the tradition Boswell drew on and yet altered irrevocably. Boswell believed that Johnson, a literary man, could be the subject of moral instruction and therefore worthy of a Plutarchian biography. While Boswell certainly revealed Johnson's moral failings, Boswell nevertheless saw Johnson as an exemplary figure, which suggests that medieval hagiography had its part to play in the Life of Johnson. But like Vasari, Boswell was keenly focused on the details of professional life. How does a man become a Samuel Johnson, an artist and oracle? The sinner and the saint fuse in Boswellian biography. Like John Aubry, Boswell saw the vagaries of human experience and his subject's tics as intrinsically interesting. It was as important to learn about Johnson's habits of dress as about his habits of mind. Aubry's interest in the person of Thomas Hobbes is a clear forerunner of Boswell's own attachment to Johnson. In other words, the selections in this volume demonstrate that nearly all the elements necessary for a Boswellian biography were available when Boswell began his landmark work. Along with Rollyson's British Biography: A Reader, Biography Before Boswell represent a succinct yet comprehensive history of biography in the western world.
Download or read book Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the new poetry as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lowell emerges to contradict the malicious and inaccurate reports of her public and private life. Especially notable is Rollysons discussion of Lowells friendships with women who wrote memoirs about the poet that contradict the sort of prejudice leveled against her by Pound and his circle of writers and critics. Rollysons brief but revealing discussions of Lowells poetry, and his inclusion of the full texts of key poems, makes this volume an authoritative introduction for new readers of one of the 20th centurys important writers. And Rollysons meticulous analysis of several literary biographies also makes a contribution to the study of contemporary life writing.
Download or read book Lives of the Novelists written by Carl Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a right way to write a literary life? In this collection of columns from the New York Sun, Carl Rollyson explores the relationship between narrative and literary analysis. Should biographies be written in the style and form of novels? How to balance the life and the work? How much literary criticism can a biography absorb into its narrative? Rollyson proposes a number of apologias for biography-including the thought that in the right hands the literary biography is a continuation of the writer's work and life. In such instances there seems to be a symbiosis between biographer and subject. In other cases, biographies spearhead the rediscovery of important writers. He rejects the idea that literary figures are not good subjects for biography because they are not men and women of action. That literary biography is a kind of strip mining, a pathography laying bare the subject's life to no good purpose is another canard this book demolishes. The pieces here also expose the genre's weak points: a proclivity for overstatement and excessive length, the failure of biographers to build upon their predecessors' work (Rollyson invents a term-biographology-in order to discuss the biographical tradition).
Download or read book Teenage Refugees from Eastern Europe Speak Out written by Carl Rollyson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage refugees from several Eastern European countries tell their stories of immigration and adjustment to the United States.
Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Biography written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
