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Lines of Resistance - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Lines of Resistance - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against a philosophical, historical and cultural background. In the light of the upheavals of the age, and the changing perception of the nature of language, resistance is seen to lie at the core of poetic preoccupations, moving poetic language forward. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

DKK 424.00
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Women of the Resistance - Marc E. Vargo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Women of the Resistance - Marc E. Vargo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents. This book presents the lives of eight women who, at profound risk to themselves, chose to challenge the Third Reich. Hailing from diverse regions of the world--the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America--the women shared privileged backgrounds of financial and social prominence as well as a profound sense of social justice. As to their deeds with the Resistance, they ranged from forging documents and hiding persecuted Jews to orchestrating sabotage operations and crafting a nonviolent protest movement within Nazi Germany itself. As could be expected, the costs were great, capture and execution among them, but the women''s achievements did succeed in helping to win the war.

DKK 332.00
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American Airman in the Belgian Resistance - Jerome W. Sheridan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

American Airman in the Belgian Resistance - Jerome W. Sheridan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E. Sorensen was shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The Belgian Resistance recovered Sorensen and sheltered him in the home of the Abeels family. Friendship between Sorensen and the Abeels blossomed and they came to consider each other as family. The Abeels were active in the Resistance and Sorensen ultimately volunteered to join his Belgian brother Roger Abeels in the Secret Army. Just moments before the British Army arrived to liberate the village of Marcq-lez-Enghien, Sorensen and Abeels were killed in combat with the Nazis, fighting side-by-side. This book tells Sorensen''s story: his upbringing, education, marriage and military service; his evasion of capture and kinship with the Abeels; his experience in the Resistance; his final combat and his impact on those he left behind. But this book is more than a biography. It recounts the courageous struggle of the Belgians who risked everything to save Allied airmen and explains why Sorensen and Abeels are extraordinary symbols of the enduring values at the heart of today''s transatlantic alliance.

DKK 332.00
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That the Nightingale Return - Leokadia Rowinski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

That the Nightingale Return - Leokadia Rowinski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

On August 1, 1944, Leokadia Rowinski and fellow members of the Polish Resistance movement 1saw the culmination of their five years of training--the Warsaw Uprising. Six weeks later, she celebrated her twenty-first birthday. As a member of the Resistance, Rowinski witnessed firsthand the devastation that World War II brought to Poland. While continuing her schooling in the clandestine education system established upon German occupation, she worked in the Resistance''s communication services, often dodging German snipers and soldiers to deliver military orders to Resistance leaders. She was captured by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising and spent six months in P.O.W. camps before being liberated by the Polish 1st Armored Division, an expatriate army under British command that included her future husband. This poignant story of a young woman''s coming of age in war is a vivid reminder of the horror inflicted upon Poland in World War II and beyond.

DKK 238.00
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Tattoos, Desire and Violence - Karin Beeler - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Tattoos, Desire and Violence - Karin Beeler - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Whether they graphically depict an individual''s or a community''s beliefs, express the defiance of authority, or brand marginalized groups, tattoos are a means of interpersonal communication that dates back thousands of years. Evidence of the tattoo''s place in today''s popular culture is all around--in advertisements, on the stereotypical outlaw character in films and television, in supermarket machines that dispense children''s wash-away tattoos, and even in the production of a tattooed Barbie doll. This book explores the tattoo''s role, primarily as an emblem of resistance and marginality, in recent literature, film, and television. The association of tattoos with victims of the Holocaust, slaves, and colonized peoples; with gangs, inmates, and other marginalized groups; and the connection of the tattoo narrative to desire and violence are discussed at length.

DKK 424.00
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The Warsaw Underground - Jan Rosinski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Warsaw Underground - Jan Rosinski - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski''s student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa . In short order he became a talented forger of Nazi documents, especially travel papers that allowed many refugees to escape the city. His university studies in chemistry and physics created a role for him as an effective saboteur. Narrowly escaping death on several occasions, he was fearless in his pursuits. His dislike of the Nazi leadership was exceeded by an even greater hatred of the Soviet Army as it invaded Poland from the East less than a month later. Poland would be sealed off from the West for fifty years. Rosinski''s travails as a POW in Germany eventually led him to the Allied forces in Germany; the U.S. became the beneficiary of his brilliant discoveries in atmospheric science. Jan was accompanied on his life''s journey by his wife Barbara (d. 1993), who served as a medical officer in the underground army; Jan died in 2012.

DKK 236.00
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The Set-Up Men - Sarah L. Trembanis - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

The Set-Up Men - Sarah L. Trembanis - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

This book is an examination of cultural resistance to segregation in the world of black baseball through an analysis of editorial art, folktales, nicknames, "manhood" and the art of clowning. African Americans worked to dismantle Jim Crow through the creation of a cultural counter-narrative that centered on baseball and the Negro Leagues that celebrated black achievement and that highlighted the contradictions and fallacies of white supremacy in the first half of the twentieth century.

DKK 332.00
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Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance - Rufus Burrow - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance - Rufus Burrow - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Booktok.dk

It has been nearly fifty years since Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Appraisals of King''s contributions began almost immediately and continue to this day. The author explores a great many of King''s chief ideas and socio-ethical practices: his concept of a moral universe, his doctrine of human dignity, his belief that not all suffering is redemptive, his brand of personalism, his contribution to the development of social ethics, the inclusion of young people in the movement, sexism as a contradiction to his personalism, the problem of black-on-black violence, and others. The book reveals both the strengths and the limitations in King''s theological socio-ethical project, and shows him to have relentlessly applied personalist ideas to organized nonviolent resistance campaigns in order to change the world. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 332.00
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