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Merlin (Paperback)
Robin Stone
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This is a story of a middle child's journey in search of her own
identity and happiness. Even at such a young age, Ivvi loved
adventures and she knew that if she could keep up with her older
brother she would be heading into one. The streetlights were on,
but there was a much brighter light shining down on them as they
made their way to their hills. It was their world, their time.
Beginning in the late 1950s, several authors began writing plays
with absurdist themes in a realistic guise that depict power
struggles in which characters use seemingly everyday language to
combat ambiguously menacing forces, to negotiate hierarchical
relationships, to create and maintain character masks, and to
coerce others into accepting subjective versions of reality. This
book analyzes the conversational implications of selected works by
Harold Pinter, Simon Gray, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard toward a
better understanding of how characters pursue goals with masked
language and indirect speech acts disguised as mundane
conversation. Four plays are treated with a discourse analysis to
explore how everyday-sounding, dramatic conversation defamiliarizes
the spectator with language as an effective means of communication
by reacquainting him/her with commonly occurring discursive
phenomena, so habitualized as to have become hidden. This book is
intended for professional and student actors and directors studying
both stage and camera work. The analytical methodology put forth
will also assist scholars of dramatic literature.
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Merlin (Paperback)
Robin Stone
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R549
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Discovery Miles 4 880
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With a foreword by Joycelyn Elders, M.D., " No Secrets, No Lies" is
a powerful and daringly honest resource guide for families seeking
to understand, prevent, and overcome childhood sexual abuse and its
devastating impact on adult survivors.
An estimated one in four women and one in six men is abused by age
eighteen, most often by someone they know. Most of these sexual
assaults are never disclosed, much less reported to the police.
"No Secrets, No Lies" demystifies the cultural taboos and social
dynamics that keep Black families silent and enable abuse to
continue for generations. Among them:
- Fear of betraying family by turning offenders in to "the
system"
- Distrust of institutions and authority figures, such as police
officers
- Reluctance to seek counseling or therapy
- A legacy of enslavement and stereotypes about black sexuality
Through compelling personal accounts from everyday people, Robin D.
Stone, a sexual abuse survivor herself, illuminates the emotional,
psychological and hidden consequences of remaining silent, and
provides holistic, practical steps to move toward healing.
"No Secrets, No Lies" candidly speaks to: survivors, telling them
they are not at fault, not alone and how they can seek help;
parents, guardians and caretakers, explaining how they can keep
children safe and help survivors recover; and family, friends and
other loved ones, showing ways to lend support.
"From the Hardcover edition."
This text looks at the anti-capitalist movement and examines the
history of opposition to capitalism throughout the world since the
early 19th century. It explains attempts by early socialists and
communists to think of alternative ways of running an economy and
society. It then goes on to look at how the anti-colonial movements
and youth revolts of the 1960s evolved into today's new wave of
protests.
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