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Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459603141
In this unusual collection of stories and fables, Goncourt prize-winner Patrick Chamoiseau re-creates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique....
Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565843967
A collection of tales about trickery, prosperity, hunger, and chicanery
Author : Barry Jean Ancelet
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815314981
The largest and most diverse collection of Louisiana folktales ever published
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407034805
'You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise, it's just a cage.' There's power in stories. The Fairy Godmother is good. The servant girl marries the Prince. Everyone lives happily ever after . . . don't they? The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick are travelling to far-distant Genua to stop a wedding and save a kingdom. But how do you fight a happy-ever-after, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a power-hungry Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse? It's hard to resist a good story, even when the fate of the kingdom depends on it . . . 'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect' Daily Mail 'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George RR Martin Witches Abroad is the third book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Author : Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614291497
“What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?” In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through personal experience and practice to rethink problems of identity and privilege. Manuel brings her own experiences as a bisexual black woman into conversation with Buddhism to square our ultimately empty nature with superficial perspectives of everyday life. Her hard-won insights reveal that dry wisdom alone is not sufficient to heal the wounds of the marginalized; an effective practice must embrace the tenderness found where conventional reality and emptiness intersect. Only warmth and compassion can cure hatred and heal the damage it wreaks within us. This is a book that will teach us all.
Author : Sandra Jean Graham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050305
Spirituals performed by jubilee troupes became a sensation in post-Civil War America. First brought to the stage by choral ensembles like the Fisk Jubilee Singers, spirituals anchored a wide range of late nineteenth-century entertainments, including minstrelsy, variety, and plays by both black and white companies. In the first book-length treatment of postbellum spirituals in theatrical entertainments, Sandra Jean Graham mines a trove of resources to chart the spiritual's journey from the private lives of slaves to the concert stage. Graham navigates the conflicting agendas of those who, in adapting spirituals for their own ends, sold conceptions of racial identity to their patrons. In so doing they lay the foundation for a black entertainment industry whose artistic, financial, and cultural practices extended into the twentieth century. A companion website contains jubilee troupe personnel, recordings, and profiles of 85 jubilee groups. Please go to: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/graham/spirituals/
Author : Olive Lewin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9766400288
This volume describes the music and lore of Jamaica from the early 16th century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid-20th century. Olive Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of slaves and explores the life and beliefs of the Kumina cult queen, Imogene Queenie Kennedy.
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300129472
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade. The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery.
Author : Thomas Mullaney,Eric Armand Vanden Bussche
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289758
Critical Han studies : introduction and prolegomenon / Thomas S. Mullaney -- Han and China. Recentering China : the Cantonese in and beyond the Han / Kevin Carrico ; On not looking Chinese : does "mixed race" decenter the Han from Chineseness? / Emma J. Teng ; "Climate's moral economy" : geography, race, and the Han in early Republican China / Zhihong Chen ; Good Han, bad Han : the moral parameters of ethnopolitics in China / Uradyn E. Bulag -- The problem of Han origins. Understanding the snowball theory of the Han nationality / Xu Jieshun ; Antiquarian as ethnographer : Han ethnicity in early China studies / Tamara T. Chin ; The Han joker in the pack : some issues of culture and identity from the Minzu literature / Nicholas Tapp -- The problem of Han formations. Hushuo : the northern other and the naming of the Han Chinese / Mark Elliot ; From subjects to Han : the rise of Han as Identity in nineteenth-century southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch ; Searching for Han : early twentieth-century narratives of Chinese origins and development / James Leibold ; Han at Minzu's edges : what critical Han studies can learn from China's "Little Tibet" / Chris Vasantkumar.
Author : Lillian Allen
Publisher : Women's Press (UK)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110119703
These selected poems are loving tributes to women. Written in specific moments in history, and in charged political contexts, Allen's poetry examines and portrays the very essence of her subjects with masterly skill.
Author : S. A. M. Trainor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780953832828
We are to believe there was a time when The Birmingham Quean was just a poem: a mock-epic burlesque in which a fake pound coin told how she was won in a game of darts by a drag-queen called Britannia Spears. It parodied Pope ́s The Rape of the Lock, Byron ́s Don Juan and an anonymous eighteenth century novel, The Birmingham Counterfeit. The transformation of this bit of picaresque doggerel into the sprawling work barely contained by this cover is the central mystery of a ludic novel. It mirrors the unlikely story of a dirty little settlement of nailers and cutlers becoming the principle city of the Industrial Revolution by flooding the Restoration economy with counterfeit coins. What remains is an absurd scholarly edition of a poem recast as a futuristic dystopia in which nothing is authentic. It is also the tale of an impossible love affair that uncovers an impossible text by an impossible author. It is as strange, ironic, sombre, flashy and anarchic as the city to which it owes its existence.
Author : K. Post
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461341017
Author : Bruce Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195147629
Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.
Author : Ted C. Lewellen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780897898904
In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist Victor Turner wrote that this book was a succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the past four decades . . . the introduction we have all been waiting for. Unique in its field, this book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. The third edition has been significantly updated and expanded, with extensive changes in many chapters, two new chapters, a new Preface that replaces the Introduction of the first two editions, an updated Glossary and Suggested Readings list, and an expanded Bibliography. In a clearly written style, this introduction also provides the background necessary for further study. The new chapters cover such topics as the politics of identity, and the transition from modernism to postmodernism. As with the earlier editions, this third edition of what has become a classic in the discipline still serves as a basic text and structure for a full course.