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Writing from the shadow - the perspective of self imposed exile in America
Author : Tunui John-Ngariki
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0473347946
Writing from the shadow - the perspective of self imposed exile in America
Author : Marilyn Abildskov
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 15,85 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781587294495
In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Matsumoto, Japan, to teach English to junior high school students. “All I knew is that I had to get away and when I stared at my name on the Japanese contract, the squiggles of katakana, my name typed in English sturdily beneath, I liked how it looked. As if it—as if I—were translated, transformed, emerging now as someone new.” The Men in My Country is the story of an American woman living and loving in Japan. Satisfied at first to observe her exotic surroundings, the woman falls in love with the place, with the light, with the curve of a river, with the smell of bonfires during obon, with blue and white porcelain dishes, with pencil boxes, and with small origami birds. Later, struggling for a deeper connection—“I wanted the country under my skin”—Abildskov meets the three men who will be part of her transformation and the one man with whom she will fall deeply in love. A travel memoir offering an artful depiction of a very real place, The Men in My Country also covers the terrain of a complex emotional journey, tracing a geography of the heart, showing how we move to be moved, how in losing ourselves in a foreign place we can become dangerously—and gloriously—undone.
Author : Grace Alice Turkington
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Patriotism
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Author : Samuel ELLIOT (of Brattleborough, Vt.)
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 1842
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Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Staff
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780395548912
Author : Fan Wen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36474 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1922265454
Who is Zhao Xun? For those around him, the answer to this question is unclear. In KMT-occupied Kunming, Yunnan Province, a mist of uncertainty has already filled the air, and false names have become the norm. With the city’s liberation at the hands of the Communist Army, this trend only intensifies. My Country, My Blood traces the life story of former KMT officer who spends his entire life living in Yunnan. It relays stories of opera troupes operating behind the frontlines, student groups resisting tyrannical governments, and the reshuffling of the social order that followed the Chinese Civil War. Grand in scope, My Country, My Blood pushes through the period of establishing a new government clear through to the time of healing marked by China’s Opening Up to the world. Along the way, you will slowly piece together the puzzle of shifting pseudonyms, discovering who the characters actually are and the complicated, twisting paths that bring them together amid the throes of war. Painting a vibrant picture of how China came to be what it is today, My Country, My Blood is a story of war, revolution, and healing. As gripping as it is informative, this piece of fiction is truly a gem of modern Chinese literature.
Author : Sebastian De Grazia
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307789888
In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her means: the Socratic method. Her message: that the Constitution was itself unconstitutional, and that its authors' inability to choose a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for the future ahead. Through these "tutorials" de Grazia passes in review our most revered heroes—Jefferson, Washington, Marshall, Lincoln, and Thoreau—revealing the complexity of their characters. St. John's unsettling tales arouse more in her disciple than intellectual curiosity. Their relationship unrolls in so humorous and seductive a way that only a musty academic could object. Satirical, intelligent, and sure-handed, A Country with No Name combines history and literature, politics and law to reinvigorate our best traditions.
Author : E. S. A.
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Keith Ellison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145166687X
Filled with anecdotes, statistics, and social commentary, the first Muslim elected to Congress presents a thought-provoking look at America and what needs to change to accommodate different races and beliefs.