Caucasia

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101650868

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Caucasia by Danzy Senna Pdf

Look out for Danzy Senna's latest book, New People, on sale in August! Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie’s confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Then their parents’ marriage collapses. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. The extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career, Caucasia is a modern classic, at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408847091

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From Caucasia, with Love by Danzy Senna Pdf

Growing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship a refuge from the rest of their lives. Yet when their parents separate, Birdie and Cole are thrown worlds apart. But Birdie's desperate need to reclaim her family forces her back on to the road, where her search for her sister becomes, inevitably, a search for her self. 'Twists serious issues - race, politics, identity, social and familial responsibility - around the structure of a compelling storyline ...an intelligent, questioning book that sparks with ideas' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Author : Lorenzo Pubblici
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004503557

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Mongol Caucasia by Lorenzo Pubblici Pdf

Reconstructing the Mongol invasions, conquest and early government of Caucasia, in the context of the Byzantine and the Central Asian broad political picture.

Author : Nikoloz Aleksidze
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474498630

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Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia by Nikoloz Aleksidze Pdf

From the early fourth century, the veneration of saints and relics spread rapidly across Christendom from the British Isles to Iran. In late antique Caucasia, the cult of the saints was immediately integrated into Armenian and Georgian identity and political discourses. It was used to legitimise royal rule, sanctify domains and dynasties, define political realms and justify political decisions. This book is the first systematic study of this history. Discussing a wide variety of sources from Armenia, Georgia, Byzantium and Russia which have not been examined together before, it investigates the interaction of sanctity, holy relics, gender and politics in the medieval Caucasus, with a particular focus on Georgia. Nikoloz Aleksidze analyses three chronological eras: the first section focuses on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the cult of the relics was formed in Caucasian writing; the second explores the medieval era, when the Bagratids ruled in Georgia and the cults of figures such as St George, the Mother of God and Queen Tamar were shaped and politicised; and the third navigates a similar entanglement of sanctity, gender and political rhetoric in Russian Imperial and Georgian national discourse.

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Geography
ISBN : PRNC:32101055189433

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The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: Asiatic Russia: Caucasia, Aralo-Caspian basin, Siberia by Elisée Reclus Pdf

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Geography
ISBN : OXFORD:600020440

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The Earth and Its Inhabitants: Asiatic Russia by Elisée Reclus Pdf

Author : Stephen H. Rapp Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317016717

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The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes by Stephen H. Rapp Jr Pdf

Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia’s diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of late antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire-and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia-is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K’art’li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family’s Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwadāy-nāmag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsī’s Shāhnāma. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the re

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698172463

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New People by Danzy Senna Pdf

Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, NPR and THE ROOT Named A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BY Vogue • Elle • Harper's Bazaar • Glamour • Buzzfeed • In Style • Men's Journal • Bustle • Ms. Magazine • Pop Sugar • Newsday • The Millions • Time Out • Bitch • CNN's The Lead • The Fader "[A] cutting take on race and class...part dark comedy, part surreal morality tale. Disturbing and delicious." -People "You’ll gulp Senna’s novel in a single sitting—but then mull over it for days.” –Entertainment Weekly "Everyone should read it." –Vogue From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America. As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre. They've even landed a starring role in a documentary about "new people" like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria's perfect new life but her very persona. Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves.

Author : Shamil Shetekauri,Martin Jacoby,Tolkha Shetekauri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 178427173X

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Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia by Shamil Shetekauri,Martin Jacoby,Tolkha Shetekauri Pdf

Mountain Flowers & Trees of Caucasia describes and illustrates in full colour nearly all the wild flowers, trees and shrubs that can be found over 1,000 metres above sea level - 1,009 species.

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Caucasus
ISBN : UVA:X000737731

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Caucasia by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Directorate of Military Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Caucasus
ISBN : IND:30000129342006

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Caucasia by Great Britain. Directorate of Military Survey Pdf

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101514962

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You Are Free: Stories by Danzy Senna Pdf

From the bestselling author of Caucasia and New People, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing. Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she.

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393652604

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Adjustment Day: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Pdf

New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval.…Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." —David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class men dream of burying the elites. Adjustment Day’s arrival makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Caucasus
ISBN : UVA:X004529236

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Addresses Delivered During the International Symposium on Islamic Civilisation in Caucasia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Louis J. Luzbetak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Families
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044694359

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Marriage and the Family in Caucasia by Louis J. Luzbetak Pdf