Author : Naseem Khan
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN :
Table of Contents Preface Introduction Taking the Drawing Room Through Customs Deep Roots, New Language Waltzing Across Four and a Half Decades Journeys without Maps Becoming a Caribbean Man West Indian Writers in Britain A Writer in Exile Changes of Scenery Crossing Boundaries In Search of a Talisman Liars, Hypocrites, Imperialists and Sages The Vernacular Cosmopolitan Ancestors I Carry Speaking in Tongues Afterword Biographical Notes
Author : Morgan Wills Walsh
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Louise Peacock
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2007-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416958908
Examines the events leading up to the Battle of Trenton, the battle itself, and its aftermath, as told through historical excerpts, a tour of Washington's crossing, and a series of fictionalized letters.
Author : Alex E. Chávez
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822372207
In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Chávez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics of huapango arribeño, a musical genre originating from north-central Mexico. Following the resonance of huapango's improvisational performance within the lives of audiences, musicians, and himself—from New Year's festivities in the highlands of Guanajuato, Mexico, to backyard get-togethers along the back roads of central Texas—Chávez shows how Mexicans living on both sides of the border use expressive culture to construct meaningful communities amid the United States’ often vitriolic immigration politics. Through Chávez's writing, we gain an intimate look at the experience of migration and how huapango carries the voices of those in Mexico, those undertaking the dangerous trek across the border, and those living in the United States. Illuminating how huapango arribeño’s performance refigures the sociopolitical and economic terms of migration through aesthetic means, Chávez adds fresh and compelling insights into the ways transnational music-making is at the center of everyday Mexican migrant life.
Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0300255268
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel weaves together a series of devastating confessions about life in contemporary Arab society “Barakat isn't writing about ‘the immigrant.’ She's writing about the human.”—Rumaan Alam, 4columns “Spare and deep, Voices of the Lost captivates. Hoda Barakat is one of Lebanon's greatest gifts to literature, and Booth allows her English audience to explore this painful and irresistible present.”—Amy Bloom, author of White Houses In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six strangers are compelled to share their darkest secrets. Taking pen to paper, each character attempts to put in writing what they can’t bring themselves to say to the person they love—mother, father, brother, lost love. Their words form a chain of dark confessions, none of which reaches the intended recipient. Profound, troubling, and deeply human, Voices of the Lost tells the moving story of characters living on the periphery, battling with displacement, devastating poverty, and the demons within themselves. From one of today’s most talented Arabic writers, Voices of the Lost is an urgent story of lives intimately woven together in a society that is tearing itself apart.
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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780393057379
A collection of first-person narratives and anecdotes, close-up portrait photographs, and the author's personal and historical reflections capture the rich ethnic diversity of the people and landscapes of the borough of Queens in New York City, in a volume that comes complete with an audio rendition of the oral histories and music by composer Scott Johnson. Original.
Author : Lara Medina
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816539561
Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1596058668
[A]s I mounted the slopes of the mountains my spirits rose too at the prospect of the life before me. The woods were all aflame with color, with wine and amber and gold, and the hills wore the misty mantle of shadowy blue so dear to my youthful memory. As I left the rude taverns of a morning and jogged along the heights, I watched the vapors rise and roll away from the valleys far beneath, and saw great flocks of ducks and swans and cackling geese darkening the air in their southward flight. -from The Crossing At the turn of the 20th century, Winston Churchill was the most popular novelist in the United States, the J.K. Rowling of his day-his second novel, Richard Carvel, sold a phenomenal two million copies, and his extraordinary fame forced the British Winston Churchill-the future prime minister whom we associate with the name today-to use his middle name to avoid confusion with his American counterpart. This 1904 novel is considered by many to be Churchill's best, a sweeping historical romance of the settling of the Kentucky frontier during the American Revolution. Meticulously researched, it features appearances by such legendary names as George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, and Daniel Boone. A century after it was written, Churchill's sensitive and poetic prose continues to bring the era and its players alive for readers today. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Churchill's The Dwelling-Place of Light OF INTEREST TO: readers of historical fiction, Revolutionary War buffs
Author : Gaëlle Planchenault
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 38,57 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1472588045
Verbal performances are often encountered in the media where they are used to embody characters or social archetypes. Performed voices define the norm as well as the linguistic Others and by doing so circulate associated values and linguistic ideologies. This book explores the idea that, far from simply being exercises in verbal skill and flair, performances of social, ethnic or gendered voices in the media not only have the power to accomplish ideological work, they are also sites of linguistic tension and negotiation. Critically examining performances of French voices in the media, this book raises the following questions: - How are repertoires of voices constructed and subsequently perpetuated in the media? - How do the stereotypic personae these voices contribute to build become familiar to national as well as transnational audiences? - How do such performed voices reproduce hegemonic ideologies of standard and non-standard languages and participate in the perpetuation of social discriminations? - How are these performed voices commodified into cultural products of otherness that may later be reclaimed by stigmatized communities? Following an innovative framework which allows for analysis of performances of varied voices and their impact in the media sphere, Voices in the Media offers a new approach to the linguistics of media performance.
Author : Serita Ann Jakes
Publisher : Waterbrook Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400073030
Claudia Campbell and Casio Hightower are haunted by an assault by a gunman ten years earlier, and when Claudia's husband, Victor, the assistant district attorney, starts investigating the case, Casio is determined to help him.
