Jeremy Beckett was born in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, on June 7, 1975. He grew up in southern California. Jeremy graduated high school at sixteen years of age, and joined the U.S. Navy weeks after his seventeenth birthday, making him the youngest person in the military. He served for four years in the Navy with the Seabees, and was discharged honorably in July of 1996. Jeremy became a commercial fisherman in Alaska shortly after. He attained sea time and schooling to become a merchant marine. He has worked on fishing boats, cargo ships, supply ships, research vessels and tankers. His job has taken him all over the world, including South America, Central America, Asia, Africa, and European countries. All of Jeremyas stories have been written at sea, and he continues to work at sea as a chief mate in the Gulf of Mexico. Jeremy has a wife and a daughter and a baby on the way.
The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama is the first book-length study on existential authenticity and its relation to ontological embodiment treated via analyses of characters of modern drama. Furthermore, it offers new methods of exploring characters and characterization and new ways of thinking about identity. Through its investigations of the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre, the book shows that the study of embodiment will allow for a new method of analyzing characters and how they form, or attempt to form, ever-changing identities.
The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama is the first book-length study on existential authenticity and its relation to ontological embodiment treated via analyses of characters of modern drama. Furthermore, it offers new methods of exploring characters and characterization and new ways of thinking about identity. Through its investigations of the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre, the book shows that the study of embodiment will allow for a new method of analyzing characters and how they form, or attempt to form, ever-changing identities.
Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die in trucks or drown en route; they are murdered in smuggling operations or ruthlessly exploited in illegal businesses that make it impossible for the abused to seek police help. More than 15,000 people have died in the last twenty years trying to circumvent European entry restrictions. In this beautifully written book, Jeremy Harding draws haunting portraits of the migrants - and anti-immigrant zealots - he encountered in his investigations in Europe and on the US-Mexico border. Harding's painstaking research and global perspective identify the common characteristics of immigration policy across the rich world and raise pressing questions about the future of national boundaries and universal values.
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