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Radical, witty and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the
twentieth century’s most accomplished short-story writers and this
selection of stories showcases her dazzling skill.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,
clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon
markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any
book lover. Prelude & Other Stories is edited and introduced by
Professor Meg Jensen.
This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield showcases her
remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as
‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and
corruption, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’
and ‘Love à la Mode’, and in the title story, ‘Prelude’, inspired by
her own childhood, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.
Collected together for the first time, this selection of short stories
by Katherine Mansfield showcase her remarkable ability to delve deep
into human psychology.
This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects,
elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of
trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific
disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation,
dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the
representation of traumatic experience. From autobiographical
fictions to prison poems, from witness testimony to autography, and
from testimonio to war memorials, otherwise dissimilar projects
speak of past suffering through a limited and even predictable
discourse in search of healing. Drawing on approaches from
literary, human rights and cultural studies that highlight
relations between trauma, language, meaning and self-hood, and the
latest research on the science of trauma from the fields of
clinical, behavioral and evolutionary psychology and neuroscience,
I read such autobiographical projects not as 'symptoms' but as
complex interrogative negotiations of trauma and its aftermath:
commemorative and performative narratives navigating aesthetic,
biological, cultural, linguistic and emotional pressure and
inspiration.
Personal testimonies are the life force of human rights work, and
rights claims have brought profound power to the practice of life
writing. This volume explores the connections and conversations
between human rights and life writing through a dazzling,
international collection of essays by survivor-writers, scholars,
and human rights advocates. In We Shall Bear Witness, editors Meg
Jensen and Margaretta Jolly assemble moving personal accounts from
those who have endured persecution, imprisonment, and torture;
meditations on experiences of injustice and protest by creative
writers and filmmakers; and innovative research on ways that
digital media, commodification, and geopolitics are shaping what is
possible to hear and say. The book's primary sections-testimony,
recognition, representation, and justice-evoke the key stages in
turning experience into a human rights life story and attend to
such diverse and varied arts as autobiography, documentary film,
report, oral history, blog, and verbatim theater. The result is a
groundbreaking book that sensitively examines how life and rights
narratives have become so powerfully entwined. Also included is an
innovative guide to teaching human rights and life narrative in the
classroom.
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