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Words are Weapons

2017-01-01 Political Science
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Release : 2017-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Words are Weapons by : Philippe-Joseph Salazar

Download or read book Words are Weapons written by Philippe-Joseph Salazar. This book was released on 2017-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to offer a rigorous, sophisticated analysis of ISIS's rhetoric and why it is so persuasive ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aesthetic of ISIS and its self-presentation. As a philosopher and historian of ideas, well versed in both the Western and the Islamic traditions, Salazar posits an interpretation of Islam that places speech--the profession of faith--at the center of devotion and argues that evocation of the simple yet profound utterance of faith is what gives power to the rhetoric that ISIS and others employ. At the same time, Salazar contends that Western discourse has undergone a "rhetorical disarmament." To win the fight against ISIS and Islamic extremism, Western democracies, their media, politicians, and counterterrorism agencies must consider radically changing their approach to Islamic extremism.

Follies of God

2016-08-09 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2016-08-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Follies of God by : James Grissom

Download or read book Follies of God written by James Grissom. This book was released on 2016-08-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry

2019-11-04 Poetry
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Release : 2019-11-04
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry by : Selena Wisnom

Download or read book Weapons of Words: Intertextual Competition in Babylonian Poetry written by Selena Wisnom. This book was released on 2019-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Weapons of Words Selena Wisnom offers a literary study of three poems central to Babylonian culture: Anzû, Enūma eliš, and Erra and Išum, demonstrating how each uses sophisticated intertextual allusions to compete with its predecessors.

Weapons of Words on Pages of Pain

2013 Indic poetry (English)
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Release : 2013
Genre : Indic poetry (English)
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Book Synopsis Weapons of Words on Pages of Pain by : Monalisa Changkija

Download or read book Weapons of Words on Pages of Pain written by Monalisa Changkija. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wielding Words like Weapons

2017-04-15 Social Science
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Release : 2017-04-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Wielding Words like Weapons by : Ward Churchill

Download or read book Wielding Words like Weapons written by Ward Churchill. This book was released on 2017-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wielding Words like Weapons is a collection of acclaimed American Indian Movement activist-intellectual Ward Churchill’s essays in indigenism, selected from material written during the decade 1995–2005. It includes a range of formats, from sharply framed book reviews and equally pointed polemics and op-eds to more formal essays designed to reach both scholarly and popular audiences. The selection also represents the broad range of topics addressed in Churchill’s scholarship, including the fallacies of archeological and anthropological orthodoxy such as the insistence of “cannibalogists” that American Indians were traditionally maneaters, Hollywood’s cinematic degradations of native people, questions of American Indian identity, the historical and ongoing genocide of North America’s native peoples, and the systematic distortion of the political and legal history of U.S.-Indian relations. Less typical of Churchill’s oeuvre are the essays commemorating Cherokee anthropologist Robert K. Thomas and Yankton Sioux legal scholar and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. More unusual still is his profoundly personal effort to come to grips with the life and death of his late wife, Leah Renae Kelly, thereby illuminating in very human terms the grim and lasting effects of Canada’s residential schools upon the country’s indigenous peoples. A foreword by Seneca historian Barbara Alice Mann describes the sustained efforts by police and intelligence agencies as well as university administrators and other academic adversaries to discredit or otherwise “neutralize” both the man and his work. Also included are both the initial “stream-of-consciousness” version of Churchill’s famous—or notorious—“little Eichmanns” opinion piece analyzing the causes of the attacks on 9/11, as well as the counterpart essay in which his argument was fully developed.

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