Author: Wendy W. Walters File Type: pdf Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced a sort of pure homesickness while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris. Through writing, Himes constructed an imaginary home informed both by nostalgia for a community he never knew and a critique of the racism he left behind in the United States. Half a century later, Michelle Cliff wrote about her native Jamaica from the United States, articulating a positive Caribbean feminism that at the same time acknowledged Jamaicas homophobia and color prejudice.In At Home in Diaspora, Wendy Walters investigates the work of Himes, Cliff, and three other twentieth-century black international writersCaryl Phillips, Simon Njami, and Richard Wrightwho have lived in and written from countries they do not call home. Unlike other authors in exile, those of the African diaspora are doubly displaced, first by the discrimination they faced at home and again by their life abroad. Throughout, Walters suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. In this way, writing in exile is much more than a literary performance it is a profound political act.Wendy W. Walters is assistant professor of literature at Emerson College.

Author: William Wesley Patton File Type: pdf This 2006 book provides a fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state-mandated and private legal disputes involving the custody and best interest of children. It surveys thousands of court cases, statutes, state bar ethics codes, Attorney General opinions and model codes regarding ethical constraints in family and dependency proceedings. The book not only analyzes ethical rules in terms of the chronology of these proceedings, it also surveys those principles for each of the primary participants - childrens counsel, parents counsel, government attorneys and judges. The book contains chapters on pre-hearing alternative dispute resolution, motion and trial practice, appellate procedures and separation of powers. Finally, the book provides a complete child abuse case file with a comprehensive analysis of the inherent ethical issues.Book DescriptionThis 2006 book provides a fully annotated discussion of the ethical universe surrounding state-mandated and private legal disputes involving the custody and best interest of children. It surveys court cases, statutes, state bar ethics codes, Attorney General opinions and model codes regarding ethical constraints in family and dependency proceedings. About the AuthorWilliam W. Patton received his B.A. from California State University and his M.A. and J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. He is the founding Director of the Center for Childrens Rights and Legal Policy Clinic. He is also the Deputy State Public Defender and is the Assistant and Associate Dean of Whittier Law School. He has written many articles and books on the topic of juvenile justice and juvenile law advocacy.

Author: Primo Levi File Type: epub En 1945, la comandancia sovietica del campo de exprisioneros de Katowice, Polonia, pidio a Primo Levi y a Leonardo De Benedetti que redactaran un informe detallado sobre las condiciones sanitarias del campo de concentracion de Auschwitz, en el que habian pasado casi un ano recluidos. El resultado fue un texto extraordinario, de los primeros que se escribieron acerca de los campos de exterminio. Publicado en 1946 en la revista especializada Minerva Medica, es el punto de partida de toda la obra de Primo Levi como testigo, analista y escritor. Levi jamas dejaria de hablar de su experiencia en Auschwitz en escritos de distinto tipo, muchos de los cuales nunca se habian publicado en forma de libro. Asi fue Auschwitz es un mosaico de esos testimonios, de inestimable valor humano e historico. Una coleccion de informes, recuerdos y reflexiones de un testigo presencial que, gracias a su consistencia, la claridad de su estilo y su rigor, nos ofrece un Primo Levi muy alejado de la retorica, mesurado y preciso. El Primo Levi que nadie duda en reconocer como un clasico de la literatura universal.

Author: J. G. Bellamy File Type: pdf Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.Book DescriptionProfessor Bellamy traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.