E-Books → Elusive Lives Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia

Published by: voska89 on 26-07-2021, 14:30 | 0

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, "Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia "
English | ISBN: 1503604802 | 2018 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In Elusive Lives, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out, by telling their life stories in written autobiography. To chart patterns across time and space, materials dated from the sixteenth century to the present are drawn from across South Asia - including present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Lambert-Hurley uses many rare autobiographical texts in a wide array of languages, including Urdu, English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Malayalam to elaborate a theoretical model for gender, autobiography, and the self beyond the usual Euro-American frame. In doing so, she works toward a new, globalized history of the field. Ultimately, Elusive Lives points to the sheer diversity of Muslim women's lives and life stories, offering a unique window into a history of the everyday against a backdrop of imperialism, reformism, nationalism and feminism.

E-Books → An Angel At My Table (Autobiography, Volumes 1,2,3)

Published by: voska89 on 25-07-2021, 18:43 | 0

An Angel At My Table (Autobiography, Volumes 1,2,3) By Janet Frame
2010 | 523 Pages | ISBN: 1844086232 | EPUB | 1 MB
After being misdiagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman. Janet Frame spent several years in psychiatric institutions. She escaped undergoing a lobotomy when it was discovered that she had just won a national literary prize. She then went on to become New Zealand's most acclaimed writer. As she says more than once in this autobiography: 'My writing saved me.'Originally published in three separate volumes:To the Is-Land first published in 1982An Angel at My Table first published in 1984The Envoy from Mirror City first published in 1985

E-Books → England The Autobiography 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw It Happen

Published by: voska89 on 22-07-2021, 11:46 | 0

John Lewis-Stempel, "England: The Autobiography: 2,000 Years of English History by Those Who Saw It Happen"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 067091553X | 446 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB
Fountainhead of democracy, engine of the industrial Revolution, epicentre of the globe's greatest empire and the first-ditch stand against an expansionist Germany in two world wars: England's history is among the most fascinating and influential the world has ever known. This unique volume presents that history in unique form: first-hand, through the words of those who saw it and those who made it. All the great events of the last 2,000 years are here: the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, the Peasants' Revolt, Henry Viii's break with Rome, the Great Fire of London, Nelson at Trafalgar, two world wars. Alongside these are the less obvious happenings which together capture the nation's social history, such as the Black Death of 1349 or life as a chimney sweep in 1817. And of course there are the things that have shaped the nature of 'Englishness', like theatregoing in Elizabethan London, fox hunting in 1898, Oates's self-sacrifice at the South Pole, the Beatles and the 1966 World Cup.

E-Books → My Life A Spoken Autobiography (Audiobook)

Published by: voska89 on 20-07-2021, 09:53 | 0

English | 2008 |MP3|M4B | ASIN: B0015DF1VO | Duration: 26:12 h | 722 MB
Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet / Narrated by Todd McLaren, Patrick Lawlor
For decades, people have tried to persuade the leader of the Cuban Revolution to tell his own life story. Ignacio Ramonet, the celebrated editor in chief of Le Monde diplomatique, has finally succeeded. For the first time, in a series of extensive and probing interviews, Fidel Castro describes his life from the 1950s to the present day. In frank and compelling detail, he discusses his parents and his childhood, his earliest influences, the beginnings of the revolution, his relationship with Che Guevara, the drama of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Jimmy Carter years, Cuban migration to the United States, his dealings with successive American presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush, and his relationship with such controversial leaders as Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chavez.