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Author : Lolita Hernandez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173015338005
Remarkable, moving stories celebrating the inhabitants and ghosts of Detroit's last Cadillac factory.
Author : Ric Hernandez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781503588516
Letters from the Caribbean, Arizona, and Elsewhere is a compilation of essays selected from a column by author Ric Hernandez, who wrote them over a three-year period for the Trinidad Express. They were first published in a more abridged version as Letters from Port of Spain. Come along as the writer recalls the sometimes quixotic events of his life as he travels in and outside his native Trinidad and Tobago. This book offers Trinidadians at home and abroad a unique personal insight into the author’s life as it morphed from country villages into and experiences in Europe and America as an advertising executive.
Author : Kelly Fordon
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780814347539
If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon’s I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon’s latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking. They might catch you off guard, but are always infused with deep humanity and tenderness. In these thirteen short stories, Fordon presents people dealing with the grayness of reality and longing for transcendence. Characters within these stories are often as surprised by their own behavior as that of their neighbor’s. In "Jungle Life," the narrator attempts to clarify and document the stories of his father, a war veteran, before he descends into dementia. In "Where’s the Baby?" a woman reflects on her difficult childhood as she grudgingly cares for her more successful, yet exasperating sister. In "In the Dog House," a woman visits an estate sale and sifts through the layers of lifetimes past while grappling with her long-standing jealousy of a mysterious neighbor. In "The Shorebirds and The Shaman," a woman who has just lost her husband winds up at a kooky weekend retreat role-playing her way out of debilitating grief. Award-winning author Desiree Cooper has called the stories in I Have the Answer "pitch perfect . . . Fordon takes us to the precipice where trauma and triumph are equal possibilities. The people in these stories are so hauntingly real that long after I put the book down, I found myself wondering what had become of them." Readers of contemporary fiction and short stories will enjoy mulling over the complicated feelings this collection evokes.
Author : Sherry Lee Linkon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472053797
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
Author : Rebecca J. Kinney
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452953397
According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst kind of adversity, and supposedly now it’s back. But what does this narrative of “new Detroit” leave out? Beautiful Wasteland reveals that the contemporary story of Detroit’s rebirth is an upcycled version of the American Dream, which has long imagined access to work, home, and upward mobility as race-neutral projects. They’re not. As Rebecca J. Kinney shows, the narratives of Detroit’s rise, decline, and potential to rise again are deeply steeped in material and ideological investments in whiteness. By remapping the narratives of contemporary Detroit through an extension of America’s frontier mythology, Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty-first century cultural locations—an Internet forum, ruin photography, advertising, documentary film, and print and online media. She illuminates how the stories we tell about Detroit as a frontier of possibility enable the erasure of white privilege and systemic racism. By situating Detroit as a “beautiful wasteland,” both desirable and distressed, this shows how the narrative of ruin and possibility form a mutually constituted relationship: the city is possible precisely because of its perceived ruin. Beautiful Wasteland tackles the key questions about the future of postindustrial America. As cities around the country reckon with their own postindustrial landscapes, Rebecca Kinney cautions that development that elides considerations of race and class will only continue to replicate uneven access to the city for the poor, working class, and people of color.
Author : Nicholas Coles,Paul Lauter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108509022
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subjects range from transportation narratives and slave songs to the literature of deindustrialization and globalization. Among the literary forms discussed are memoir, journalism, film, drama, poetry, speeches, fiction, and song. Essays focus on plantation, prison, factory, and farm, as well as on labor unions, workers' theaters, and innovative publishing ventures. Chapters spotlight the intersections of class with race, gender, and place. The variety, depth, and many provocations of this History are certain to enrich the study and teaching of American literature.
Author : Loren D. Estleman,P.J. Parrish
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070275
This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city’s dark vitality. The collection includes stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Loren D. Estleman, Craig Holden, P.J. Parrish, Desiree Cooper, Nisi Shawl, M.L. Liebler, Craig Bernier, Joe Boland, Megan Abbott, Dorene O’Brien, Lolita Hernandez, Peter Markus, Roger K. Johnson, Michael Zadoorian, and E.J. Olsen. “Few cities are as well suited to the genre as Detroit, with its embattled inner city and history of urban decline and blight, and the editors have assembled a talented lineup to do it justice.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher : HMH
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780547506012
Eliminate mistakes and improve your vocabulary with this engaging guide to the world’s most misused words. Do you know your delegate from your relegate, your cachet from your cache? At one time or another we’ve all suffered the embarrassment of having our remarks corrected by a family member, colleague, or stranger. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles presents fifty pairs of words that people have trouble getting right and keeping straight—words that tend to get corrected when we’re least expecting it. These words include near-synonyms—words with subtle but important distinctions in meaning—like baleful vs. baneful, and effectual vs. efficacious. Other pairings bring together notorious sound-alikes, like faze (bother) vs. phase (stage), pour (put in fluid) vs. pore (read closely), and waive (forgo) vs. wave (say hello). The book also addresses some classic spelling blunders and “nonwords,” like beyond the pail, full reign, injust, and inobstrusive. Each word has a definition and a pronunciation, and most have etymologies explaining the word’s origin. The mix-ups themselves are described in fun-to-read notes that provide clear solutions to help readers avoid making needless, uncomfortable gaffes. 100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles gives readers the chance to improve their command of words that are often heard but just as often misused.
Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015071443108
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015063375011
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066043210
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066394811
Author : Gloria Steinem,Robin Morgan,Joanne Edgar,Patricia Theresa Carbine,Nina Finkelstein,Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Feminism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121670025
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hispanic American women
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172148014620
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Industrial archaeology
ISBN : UVA:X030047511