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...life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black Is My Robe. Even the most upbeat play, A Granny for All Seasons, about individual freedoms, is clouded by the dark legacy of partition...
...evening. “When they came for me it was on a day when my parents were not at home. I was fifteen. They had no way of knowing where I was,” Kang said through a translator. “They had to live with sorrow. How much I missed my country I could not explain.” Kang was one of 200,000 Korean and Chinese women who were forced to live at “comfort stations” throughout imperial Japan as “comfort women?...
...with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access for the exports of developing nations. Droughts, commodity market speculation, and spiked food, oil, and biofuel prices also bring sorrow. While some first-graders will say goodbye to friends when they are forced to move houses in Indianapolis, more six-year-olds will die from the lack of cooking oil in Dhaka...
...idyllic New Orleans of her 1940s childhood to the renunciation of her Catholic faith - indeed, of all faiths - during her student years and after in 1960s San Francisco. Rice's reminiscences about her ensuing atheist period and the success of her decidedly irreligious vampire novels are tinged with some sorrow; she moves earnestly on to the 90s, years in which, she says, a benevolent deity "hunted" her down until she gave in and accepted His divine love...
...phalanges fall one by one”—before finally ending with the emotionally compelling—“enjoying...so many festive colors, among the most salient being that joyous cheerful red, as if red had nothing to do with blood and sorrow but was rather the emblem of happiness.” The positioning of the fantastical next to the historical and both of them next to the possible throws into question what exactly is real. Moya examines Latin American politics and nationalism closely, especially the struggle for power between the Catholic Church...