Dedicated to the People of Darfur

Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope
Herausgeber: Reynolds, Luke; Reynolds, Jennifer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope brings together Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, O.Henry award recipients, best-selling authors who share personal and compelling challenges and experiences. They reflect on simple, yet powerful choices that provoked change in one's self and for humanity. All royalties from the sales of this book will benefit The Save Darfur Coalition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546186
• ISBN-10: 0813546184
• Artikelnr.: 26526108

Autorenporträt

Edited and with an Introduction by Luke Reynolds and Jennifer Reynolds

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Part I: The Fears Within
Weeping Unfamiliar Tears
Scared
The Risk of (Not) Communicating
Real Risks
Holding a Little Girl's Hand
Safe Passage
Rescuing Fire from the Flood
Part II: Writing Risk
Life Drawings
Writing Toward the Center
Like a Syrupy Sweet
An Apostate in Academe
Risks in Writing the Novel, The Rape of Sita
One Man's Risk
Writing Sucks
On the Line
Politics and the Imagination
Part III: Where I Come From
That Other World That Was The World
Melodious Chimes
Rescued by Junkies
The Prozac Variations
Our Side of the Tracks
The House Fire
The Risk of Deadness
The Risk of Consciousness
High Noon at Midnight
Recipe
Risk
Part IV: Creating Change
Taking Risks
Spinning
Girls and Guns
From Individual Despair to Collective Risk-Taking
Angels or Apes? An Inquiry Into the Nature of Modern Sadism and the
Optional Extinction of Our Species
Reclaiming the Self, Pain and Risk in the Pursuit of Our Best
Skateboarding the Third Rail
Choices on a Runaway Train
A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism
Part V: Leaving Safety
XYZ
Sunday Morning in Oakland
Island Journal
Devil's Work
Camping Out of the Comfort Zone
Males and Risk
The Politics of Hope
Everyday Courage and the "How" of Our Work
Mutually Assured Destruction and Jumping Horses
Jump
The Only Word I Heard was "Abeeda." That Means Slave