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Although Sarra Copia Sulam's sonnets present various challenges to translators, the opportunity to convey her distinctive voice offers ample compensation. Since translation is an iterative art, the best any translator can achieve is a version of the original, ideally one that combines historically accurate understanding of the era's context with poetic diction that sounds idiomatic and mellifluous in the target language and target, that is, contemporary, era. Sulam's sonnets bridge multiple steams of influence—emulation of the magnificent Italian sonnet tradition; echoes of Biblical Hebrew (particularly The Psalms); firm handling of early seventeenth-century poetic trends; and finally distinctive individual talent and style. The English translator must connect these strands while simultaneously conveying the complex autobiographical narratives which prompted and continue to underlay the sonnet content. Her battles with the Italian religious and literary establishment, while exposing her to mortal risk, inspired her best work. Thus, the translator's chosen phrases and rhythms must also suggest the conscious and unconscious unease of a woman under duress. While her writings often adopt paradigms from the dominant Italian culture and popularized by Christian males, they are enriched by deliberate interweaving of traditional Jewish thought and depiction of the troubled pilgrim as a female Jew, a status which both exposed her to profound exile from Italy's literary community and enabled her unique contribution to it.

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Elucidating the meaning of democracy through narrative -- 3. Toward the 'Ocean of Democracy'? -- 4 Burma after independence -- 5. A liberal narrative -- 6. A benevolence narrative -- 7. An equality narrative -- 8. Exposing the political use of narratives -- 9. Beyond an 'ideal type' -- 10. Playing different games -- Index

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING AUTHENTIC REVIVAL -- PART ONE: OLD TESTAMENT REVIVALISTS -- 1 ABRAHAM: THE CONVERSION ENCOUNTER -- 2 MOSES: THE FIRST DELIVERANCE MINISTRY -- 3 JOSHUA: THE POWER OF IMPARTATION -- 4 JUDGES: THE CYCLE OF DISOBEDIENCE -- 5 KING ASA: OBEDIENCE TO THE PROPHETIC WORD -- 6 JOSIAH: AGE IS NOTHING BUT A NUMBER -- 7 JONAH: YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE -- 8 EZRA: REVELATION LEADS TO REFORMATION -- PART TWO: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA: CHURCH AGE REVIVALISTS -- 9 JESUS, THY KINGDOM COME -- 10 THE REVIVAL THAT CHANGED THE WORLD -- 11 THE RESTORATION OF GRACE -- 12 HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE -- 13 THE ENEMY'S ASSAULT AGAINST THE ZEALOUS -- 14 THE REBIRTH OF PENTECOST -- 15 DIVINE HEALING -- 16 WORSHIP HIM! -- 17 THE POWER THAT UNITES ALL DENOMINATIONS -- 18 STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS -- PART THREE: THE JOEL 2 GENERATION: THE NEXT REVIVALISTS -- 19 WHAT IS THE JOEL 2 GENERATION? -- 20 THE HIDDEN ONES OF JOEL 2 -- 21 JOEL'S ARMY -- 22 JOEL 2 BASIC TRAINING -- 23 PROPHECIES OF THE JOEL 2 GENERATION -- 24 RELEASING JOEL 2 THROUGH PRAYER AND FASTING -- 25 THE GENERATION THAT WILL FULFILL JOEL 2 -- 26 MARKED BY LOVE -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- CONTACT US.

"By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism—that was Washington's abiding preoccupation—but between democracy and dictatorship. Beginning in the 1920s, the fight against authoritarianism was contested on multiple fronts—political, ideological, and cultural—taking on the dimensions of a political crusade. Convinced that despots represented an existential threat, reformers declared that no civilian government was safe until the cancer of dictatorship was excised from the hemisphere. Dictators retaliated, often with deadly results, exporting strategies that had been honed at home to guarantee their political survival. Grafted onto this war without borders was a belated Cold War, with all its political convulsions, the aftershocks of which are still felt today.--Dust jacket

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