Bøger af Alison Lewis

America as we know it is gone, consumed and torn apart by its citizens own lack of empathy, and unwillingness to work together. The old welfare system has collapsed, in its place is a new system that is as inefficient as it is unfair. Pearl Wood is an introverted, yet passionate, housing clinic employee, working in the system. She sees the injustice in the system, but can't seem to find the strength to assert herself. One day, a confident, abrasive, "all-American" reporter named Luke Matthews comes in to research a documentary on the new welfare system. Through Luke we are introduced to the system, meeting the employees and really seeing the horrible conditions that people are forced to live in. Pearl encounters many different people in her day to day job, but she is most intrigued by Luke, who possesses a confidence and detachment to the people around him, and Dr. James, who reflects Pearl's empathy for people and desire to fight the injustice of the system. Although this is set in the future, this is a story about the attitude of American society today, and what it will become if we don't learn to listen to each other, and form a new, more inclusive and empathetic American Dream. All proceeds will benefit The Bally Foundation, Inc, a community fund dedicated to providing immediate funds to people facing financial obstacles from underemployment or unemployment, and who are trying to rebuild their lives. The community fund was started to inspire a new American dream, about sharing not getting, about real community.

A series of five interlaced, in-depth biographical studies from across the spectrum of writers-turned-spies recruited by the Stasi.

One of the most innovative examples of the use of fantastic forms in feminist fiction can be found in the work of Irmtraud Morgner. This book looks at the way Morgner uses fantasy both as a feminist critique of the history of patriarchy, and as a test of the viability of feminist alternatives.

New essays exploring the tension between the versions of the past in secret police files and the subjects' own personal memories-and creative workings-through-of events.The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. Theserecords, now open to the public in many former Eastern Bloc countries, reflect a textually mediated reality that has defined and shaped the lives of former victims and informers, creating a tension between official records and personal memories. Exploring this tension between a textually and technically mediated past and the subject/victim's reclaiming and retrospective interpretation of that past in biography is the goal of this volume. While victims' secret police files have often been examined as a type of unauthorized archival life writing, the contributors to this volume are among the first to analyze the fragmentary and sometimes remedial nature of these biographies and to examine the subject/victims' rewriting and remediation of them in various creative forms. Essays focus, variously, on the files of the East German Stasi, the Romanian Securitate (in relation to Transylvanian Germans in Romania), andthe Hungarian State Security Agency. Contributors: Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, Ulrike Garde, Valentina Glajar, Yuliya Komska, Alison Lewis, Corina L. Petrescu, Annie Ring, Aniko Szucs. Valentina Glajar is Professor of German at Texas State University, San Marcos. Alison Lewis is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Corina L. Petrescu is Associate Professor of Germanat the University of Mississippi.

Simple to prepare, yet sublime to eat, sandwich recipes for every occasion.