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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Grove Atlantic
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34113979
    ISBN: 9780802189356
    Content: " Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees , is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer , in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams and hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice in American letters, The Refugees is a beautifully written and sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, and the relationships and desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives."
    Content: Rezension(1): " Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Sympathizer , which was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for First Novel, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. He is also the author of the nonfiction books Nothing Ever Dies and Race and Resistance . He teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles." Rezension(2): " Maxine Hong Kingston :“, magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance." Rezension(3): " Ron Charles, Washington Post :“,xtraordinary . Surely a new classic of war fiction." Rezension(4): " John Warner, Chicago Tribune :“,o skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel." Rezension(5): " Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer :“,elcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus . dazzles on all fronts." Rezension(6): " Wall Street Journal :“,ntelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny." Rezension(7): " Nancy Pearl :“, very special, important, brilliant novel . I don't say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . A fabulous book . that everyone should read." Rezension(8): " Akhil Sharma, Guardian :“,remendously funny . reminded me of how big books can be." Rezension(9): " Laura Miller, Slate :"
    Language: English
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  • 2
    UID:
    gbv_1738162494
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9789004379534
    Series Statement: International Law E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390843
    Content: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- List of Contributors -- Children and the Responsibility to Protect: An Introduction /Luke Glanville -- Two Agendas: R2P and Children and Armed Conflict -- ‘Children Heard, Half-Heard?’: A Practitioner’s Look for Children in the Responsibility to Protect and Normative Agendas on Protection in Armed Conflict /Jeremy Shusterman and Michelle Godwin -- ‘The Intolerable Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’: The United Nations Security Council and the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict /Katrina Lee-Koo -- r2p and the Prevention of Mass Atrocities: A Child-Centric Approach /Cecilia Jacob -- The Politics of Norm Glocalisation: Limits in Applying r2p to Protecting Children /Jochen Prantl and Ryoko Nakano -- Representing Children -- Responsibility to Protect the Future: Children on the Move and the Politics of Becoming /Jana Tabak and Letícia Carvalho -- r2p and the Novel: The Trope of the Abandoned Refugee Child in Stella Leventoyannis Harvey’s The Brink of Freedom /Erin Goheen Glanville -- Ultimate Tests: Children, Rights, and the Politics of Protection /J. Marshall Beier -- Case Studies -- Children on the Front Lines: Responsibility to Protect in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict /Timea Spitka -- Post-War Stigma, Violence and ‘Kony Children’: The Responsibility to Protect Children Born in Lord’s Resistance Army Captivity in Northern Uganda /Myriam Denov and Atim Angela Lakor -- Prevent to Protect: Early Warning, Child Soldiers, and the Case of Syria /Dustin Johnson , Shelly Whitman and Hannah Sparwasser Soroka -- Conclusion -- Of Responsibilities, Protection, and Rights: Children’s Lives in Conflict Zones /Bina D’Costa -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Content: In Children and the Responsibility to Protect , Bina D’Costa and Luke Glanville bring together more than a dozen academics and practitioners from around the world to examine the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the theory and practice of child protection. Contributors consider themes including how the agency and vulnerability of children is represented and how their voices are heard in discussions of R2P and child protection, and the merits of drawing together the R2P and Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agendas, as well as case studies of children’s lives in conflict zones, child soldiers, and children born of conflict-related sexual violence. This collection of essays was first published in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (vol.10/1-2, 2018) as a special issue. Contributors are: J. Marshall Beier, Letícia Carvalho, Bina D’Costa, Myriam Denov, Luke Glanville, Michelle Godwin, Erin Goheen Glanville, Cecilia Jacob, Dustin Johnson, Atim Angela Lakor, Katrina Lee-Koo, Ryoko Nakano, Jochen Prantl, Jeremy Shusterman, Hannah Sparwasser Soroka, Timea Spitka, Jana Tabak, Shelly Whitman
    Note: "This collection of essays was first published in the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (vol.10/1-2, 2018) as a special issue." , Includes bibliographical references
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9789004284197
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Children and the Responsibility to Protect Leiden, Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, [2019] ISBN 9789004284197
    Language: English
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