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ISBN: 9781685858131 1685858139 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,
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Hilary Tham's memoirs reveal the many images, cultures, myths, and memories out of which her poetry has emerged.
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ISBN: 9780813197203 Year: 2023 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them was author Emily Strasser's grandfather George, a chemist. All employees--from scientists to secretaries, from military personnel to construction workers--were restricted by the tightest security. They were provided only the minimum information necessary to perform their jobs.It wasn't until three years later that the citizens of Oak Ridge, and the rest of the world, learned the true purpose of the local industry. Oak Ridge was one of three secret cities constructed by the Manhattan Project for the express purpose of developing the first atomic bomb, which devastated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.In Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History, Emily Strasser exposes the toxic legacy--political, environmental, and personal--that forever polluted her family, a community, the nation, and the world. Sifting through archives and family memories, and traveling to the deserts of Nevada and the living rooms of Hiroshima, she grapples with the far-reaching ramifications of her grandfather's work. She learns that during the three decades he spent building nuclear weapons, George suffered from increasingly debilitating mental illness. Returning to Oak Ridge, Strasser confronts the widespread contamination resulting from nuclear weapons production and the government's disregard for its impact on the environment and public health. With brilliant insight, she reveals the intersections between the culture of secrecy in her family and the institutionalized secrecy within the nuclear industry, which persists, with grave consequences, to this day.
Personal Memoirs --- United States --- Southern States --- Nuclear Warfare --- Biography & Autobiography --- History
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ISBN: 9781910695456 1910695459 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions,
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"An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this portrait of translation as a compelling, complex and intensely relational activity. She recounts the story of Helen Lowe-Porter's translations of Thomas Mann, and their posthumous vilification. She writes about the loving relationship between André Gide and his translator Dorothy Bussy. She recalls how Robinson Crusoe laboriously made a table, for him for the first time, on an undeserted island. With This Little Art, a beautifully layered account of a subjective translating experience, Kate Briggs emerges as a truly remarkable writer: distinctive, wise, frank, funny and utterly original."--Back cover. Part-essay and part-memoir, 'This Little Art' is a manifesto for the practice of literary translation.
Literature --- translations [documents] --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Books and reading. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Littérature --- Translating and interpreting. --- Translators. --- Übersetzung. --- Literary Figures. --- Personal Memoirs. --- European. --- Women Authors. --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Translations. --- Traductions --- Histoire et critique. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Briggs, Kate
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