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Buried in the Mississippi Mud

Author : Chinna Dunigan
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798582151715

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Buried in the Mississippi Mud by Chinna Dunigan Pdf

Almost every place of worship in the Mississippi Delta is filled on any given Sunday with practically every black woman in town. They're quoting scriptures from behind beautiful smiles and offering godly counsel for hurting souls. Leia Devine, like so many other black women, sought spiritual healing to overcome generational curses and personal demons. Digging deep in her past uncovers layers of tragedies, that composes this young black woman into the epitome of the Mississippi Blues. She looked to those smiling faces as a segue to religion to lift her broken spirit. What she got instead was familiar faces of worldly perpetrators camouflaged as workers of God. Did the Bible Belt strangle the life out of Leia? Her journey for healing through religion lead to her discovery of God. But was it enough to save her life from being buried in the Mississippi mud.

Once Upon a Midnight Eerie

Author : Gordon McAlpine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698136526

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Once Upon a Midnight Eerie by Gordon McAlpine Pdf

A perfect choice for smart, funny tweens who love Roald Dahl and Lemony Snicket. In The Tell-Tale Start, Edgar and Allan Poe (great-great-great-great-grandnephews of the legendary Edgar Allan Poe) managed to outwit the nefarious Professor P. Pangborn Perry, who was (and is) determined to kill just one of them, in order to prove a mad scientific theory. Now the boys are in New Orleans, about to play the young Poe in a feature film. But the role may cost them their lives, because now someone else wants them dead. But who? And can the twins—with the help of their co-stars, Em and Milly Dickinson, their ghostly forebear, and a pair of real ghosts—manage to outwit them?

She Had Some Horses: Poems

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345810

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She Had Some Horses: Poems by Joy Harjo Pdf

A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets. First published in 1983 and now considered a classic, She Had Some Horses is a powerful exploration of womanhood's most intimate moments. Joy Harjo's poems speak of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love.

Louisiana Sojourns

Author : Frank de Caro
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807122408

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Louisiana Sojourns by Frank de Caro Pdf

A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393345803

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How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 by Joy Harjo Pdf

Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement. This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo's twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 in the age marked by the takeover at Wounded Knee and the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures in the world through poetry and music. How We Became Human explores its title question in poems of sustaining grace. To view text with line endings as poet intended, please set font size to the smallest size on your device.

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Author : Joy Harjo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781324036494

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Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo Pdf

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice” (John Freeman, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR). Her poems are musical, intimate, political, and wise, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection, Joy Harjo’s “poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times” (Sandra Cisneros, Millions).

Death of All Life on Earth Iv

Author : Don McComber
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781698701028

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Death of All Life on Earth Iv by Don McComber Pdf

Since the Period of Death, survivors wondered if any of the government of the old USA survived. Then, a small group actually traveled to the eastern seaboard and Washington DC to find out. They found that most of the survivors there were hostile and had to fight nearly every step of the way. This final book of the series finishes the story of death for most and survival of a few.

Red on Red

Author : Craig S. Womack
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816630224

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Red on Red by Craig S. Womack Pdf

How can a square peg fit into a round hole? It can't. How can a door be unlocked with a pencil? It can't. How can Native literature be read applying conventional postmodern literary criticism? It can't. That is Craig Womack's argument in Red on Red. Indian communities have their own intellectual and cultural traditions that are well equipped to analyze Native literary production. These traditions should be the eyes through which the texts are viewed. To analyze a Native text with the methods currently dominant in the academy, according to the author, is like studying the stars with a magnifying glass. In an unconventional and piercingly humorous appeal, Womack creates a dialogue between essays on Native literature and fictional letters from Creek characters who comment on the essays. Through this conceit, Womack demonstrates an alternative approach to American Indian literature, with the letters serving as a "Creek chorus" that offers answers to the questions raised in his more traditional essays. Topics range from a comparison of contemporary oral versions of Creek stories and the translations of those stories dating back to the early twentieth century, to a queer reading of Cherokee author Lynn Riggs's play The Cherokee Night. Womack argues that the meaning of works by native peoples inevitably changes through evaluation by the dominant culture. Red on Red is a call for self-determination on the part of Native writers and a demonstration of an important new approach to studying Native works -- one that engages not only the literature, but also the community from which the work grew.

Native American Writers

Author : Steven Otfinoski
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781604133141

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Native American Writers by Steven Otfinoski Pdf

Summarizes, analyzes, and explores the themes of the major works of notable Native American authors, and presents short biographies about them.

Crockett's Devil

Author : Evan Lewis
Publisher : Steeger Properties, LLC
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791220887113

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Crockett's Devil by Evan Lewis Pdf

Davy Crockett has a Devil in his heart: The Time: 1813. The Place: The Mississippi Territory. The Problem: Rebelling Creek warriors, under war chief Red Eagle, spread terror across the frontier, slaughtering settlers and peaceful Creeks alike. The Solution: Kill Red Eagle! But Davy Crockett disagrees. He sees Red Eagle as the young nation’s best hope for peace, and risks his hair—and his life—to stop the fighting. Standing in his way are: General Andrew Jackson, seeking glory to restart his political career. A Militia Commander leading some of the most brutal killers in the South. A Revolutionary War hero offering a bounty for Creek scalps. Davy’s best friend, who demands vengeance for his family. An Indian Princess who lost her mother to Red Eagle’s war. Red Eagle himself and his thousand bloodthirsty warriors. And most of all, Crockett’s Devil, an inner demon threatening all his hopes. Can Davy best them all and bring peace to the wild frontier?

Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence

Author : Colleen E. Boyd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803236189

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Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence by Colleen E. Boyd Pdf

The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in both regional and local folklore and in the national literature of the United States and Canada, as settlers struggled to create a new identity for themselves that melded their European heritage with their new, North American frontier surroundings. In this interdisciplinary volume, Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush bring together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss this North American fascination with "the phantom Native American." "Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence" explores the importance of ancestral spirits and historic places in Indigenous and settler communities as they relate to territory and history--in particular cultural, political, social, historical, and environmental contexts. From examinations of how individuals reacted to historical cases of "hauntings," to how Native phantoms have functioned in the literature of North Americans, to interdisciplinary studies of how such beliefs and narratives allowed European settlers and Indigenous people to make sense of the legacies of colonialism and conquest, these essays show how the past and the present are intertwined through these stories.

Reconstructing the Native South

Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820341880

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Reconstructing the Native South by Melanie Benson Taylor Pdf

In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South--literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation, purity, and violence. Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal and colonial devastation, what remains--for Native and non-Native southerners--to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian "lost cause"? Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South: Volume 1

Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491679

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South: Volume 1 by Harilaos Stecopoulos Pdf

Drawing on diverse theories and methods, this collective volume emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period.

Prayers for the People

Author : Rebecca Louise Carter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226635668

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Prayers for the People by Rebecca Louise Carter Pdf

“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural violence in America—from the legacies of slavery to free but unequal citizenship, from mass incarceration and overpolicing to social abandonment and the unequal distribution of goods and services. And yet Carter offers a vision of restorative kinship by which communities of faith work against the denial of Black personhood as well as the violent severing of social and familial bonds. A timely directive for human relations during a contentious time in America’s history, Prayers for the People is also a hopeful vision of what an inclusive, nonviolent, and just urban society could be.

The Architecture of Address

Author : Jake Adam York
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 041597058X

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The Architecture of Address by Jake Adam York Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.