In the Shadow of the Flame (Chronicles of Transformation)

Continuum

ISBN 10: 0826406289 / ISBN 13: 9780826406286

Editore: Continuum, 1993

Codice articolo mon0003182802

Riassunto:

These three journeys take theater critic Margaret Croyden to a Polish forest retreat devised by experimental theater director Jerzy Grotowski, through intensive sessions at a Catskills ashram with Hindu guru Baba Muktananda, and, finally, to a spiritual teacher in an Israel divided by both the metaphor and the reality of war. Each experience, powerfully evoked, arouses memories of Croyden's past - her long forgotten childhood with her Jewish family in Brooklyn, her youthful dreams and aspirations, and her adult search for fulfillment and spiritual transendence. Each experience brings her closer to her identity as a woman, a Jew, and a writer. Croyden's quest turns up no easy answers, no doctrinaire catharses. The struggle for self-knowledge is slow and painful, requiring both a remembering and a forgetting. Croyden's perceptions may sometimes shock - especially those of the relationship between sexuality and religious ecstasy and of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This memoir - moving, thought-provoking, and daringly honest - tells a brave tale of a modern woman's discovery of her authentic self.

Informazioni sull?autore: Margaret Croyden is a retired professor of English literature at Jersey City State College.

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Titolo: In the Shadow of the Flame (Chronicles of ...
Casa editrice: Continuum
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: hardcover
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: Includes dust jacket.