Falling Floating Flickering

Author : Hershini Bhana Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479818457

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Falling, Floating, Flickering by Hershini Bhana Young Pdf

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital’s weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering.

Author : Hershini Bhana Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479818488

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Falling, Floating, Flickering by Hershini Bhana Young Pdf

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital’s weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering.

Author : Mara Mills,Rebecca Sanchez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781479819355

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Crip Authorship by Mara Mills,Rebecca Sanchez Pdf

An expansive volume presenting crip approaches to writing, research, and publishing Crip Authorship: Disability as Method is a comprehensive volume presenting the multidisciplinary methods brought into being by disability studies and activism. Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez have convened leading scholars, artists, and activists to explore how disability shapes authorship, transforming cultural production, aesthetics, and media. Starting from the premise that disability is plural and authorship is an ongoing project, this collection of thirty-five compact essays asks how knowledge about disability is produced and shared in disability studies. Crip authorship takes place within and beyond the commodity version of authorship, in books, on social media, and in creative works that will never be published. Crip authorship celebrates people, experiences, and methods that have been obscured; it also involves protest and dismantling. It can mean innovating around accessibility or attending to the false starts, dead ends, and failures resulting from mis-fit and oppression. The chapters draw on the expertise of international researchers and activists in the humanities, social sciences, education, arts, and design. Across five sections--Writing, Research, Genre/Form, Publishing, Media--contributors consider disability as method for creative work: practices of writing and other forms of composition; research methods and collaboration; crip aesthetics; media formats and hacks; and the capital, access, legal standing, and care networks required to publish. Designed to be accessible and engaging for students, Crip Authorship also provides theoretically sophisticated arguments in a condensed form that will make the text a key resource for disability studies scholars. Essays include Mel Y Chen on the temporality of writing with chronic illness; Remi Yergeau on perseveration; La Marr Jurelle Bruce on the wisdom in mad Black rants; Alison Kafer on the reliance of the manifesto genre on conceptualizations of disability; Jaipreet Virdi on public scholarship for disability justice; Ellen Samuels on the importance of disability and illness to autotheory; Xuan Thuy Nguyen on decolonial research methods for disability studies; Emily Lim Rogers on virtual ethnography; Cameron Awkward-Rich on depression and trans reading methods; Robert McRuer on crip theory in translation; Kelsie Acton on plain language writing; and Georgina Kleege on description as an access technique.

Author : Words Alive, anthology one
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781471093937

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Pen to Paper by Words Alive, anthology one Pdf

Older folk are treasure houses when it comes to stories, and memories, having a lifetime of experience to draw on. This collection of poems, stories, recollections and reflections gives us a slice of many lives and sensibilities. Some pieces evoke an era that seems light years from today, yet only yesterday. Others allow us to imagine what it might be like to stand in someone else's shoes - or bare feet! There is sadness, joy, anger, humour and insight. In the words of one of the members: "Please enjoy the writings of our group in this book and perhaps be inspired to put pen to paper yourself." Ruth Carr, tutor.

Author : Melanie Hooyenga
Publisher : Melanie Hooyenga
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781480200845

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Flicker by Melanie Hooyenga Pdf

First place winner (MG/YA) of the 3rd Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published eBook Awards Biz is a perfectly normal teenager except for one minor detail: she uses sunlight to jump back to yesterday. She takes advantage of flickering by retaking Trig tests, fixing fights with her boyfriend (or reliving the making up), and repeating pretty much anything that could be done better. Trouble is, flickering makes her head explode from the inside. Or feel like it anyway. No one knows about her freakish ability and she's content to keep it that way. Guys don't stick around because she refuses to let them in, but all that changes when Cameron, her best friend, starts looking oh-so-yummy. Suddenly she's noticing his biceps, his smile, and the cute way his eyes crinkle when he — gah! This is her friend! But the butterflies come to a screeching halt when little girls start disappearing, then take a nosedive when the police link the kidnappings to Cameron's sister, who vanished years earlier. As the police grasp for clues, Biz photographs a strange man lurking in the shadows and realizes that her flickering can help more than just herself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433068283401

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De La Salle Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frank A. Jones,Dolphus
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595169856

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Ba-Gee-Bas! by Frank A. Jones,Dolphus Pdf

Ba-Gee-Bas! is a combination of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror stories for readers of all ages. An unsuspecting school teacher watches in disbelief as a competition takes place between strange and powerful mutants who hold the key to all myths and folklore since the beginning of humankind. Their end game will effect the past, present and future of our human world. Can a bewildered school teacher find a way to deal with mutant legends and ageless monsters ready to thrive in the new millennium? Get ready for a bold new era of exciting and though provoking stories that will leave readers hungry for more. Turn out everything except your reading light and prepare to have Ba-Gee.Bas rock your safe, structured, little world!

Author : Hershini Bhana Young
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1584655194

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Haunting Capital by Hershini Bhana Young Pdf

In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora "so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element." Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models. Instead, Young explores the notion of injury as a collective wounding, resulting from the trauma of capitalistic regimes such as slavery and colonialism. She also introduces the idea of the ghost to her discussion of collective injury, where it functions not only on theoretical and metaphorical levels, but also by invoking African cosmologies in which ghosts are ancestral beings with a real spiritual presence. More specifically, Young insists on the contemporary reality of African nations and eschews the presentation of Africa as a vague, undifferentiated point of origin that characterizes many other studies of the African diaspora. Her reading of African contemporary novels by women, alongside African American and Caribbean novels, works to show the African diaspora as haunted by similar, though different, issues of gendered and racialized violence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780615148526

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A2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marisa Montes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780544003040

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A Circle of Time by Marisa Montes Pdf

“An enjoyable, compelling read. Much like Caroline B. Cooney’s Both Sides of Time” from the author of Los Gatos Black on Halloween (School Library Journal). “I helped you. Now you help me.” As fourteen-year-old Allison Blair lies comatose in the hospital, she hears in her head the voice of Becky Lee Thompson, pleading for help and pulling Allison back in time to 1906—and into Becky’s body. But why? Is it to prevent Becky’s tragic death, or the death of Joshua, the boy who loves her? Allison must remain in the past—fortified by her own growing feeling for Joshua, and Becky’s will—to make sense of the layers of mystery, blackmail, and mistaken identity so that history will be altered. Becky’s spirit struggles to keep Allison’s body alive. Can Allison save Becky and Joshua and return to her own body before time runs out? “Fans of both mysteries and time-slip stories will like the novel, which is liberally spiced with romance and melodrama, and clarifies a bit of intriguing and tragic California history.”—Booklist

Author : Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002191040

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The Peasants ... [from the Polish of Ladislas St. Reymont] by Władysław Stanisław Reymont Pdf

Author : Louis Charbonneau
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936535897

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Corpus Earthling by Louis Charbonneau Pdf

In one man’s mind, the alien invasion has already begun... Professor Paul Cameron is the only one who can hear them, the voices in his mind, sinister and menacing. At first he believes that they are only delusions. But the truth is far more disturbing—somehow, Cameron is able to hear Martian spies conferring telepathically. Their ominous plotting is terrifying enough, until the moment they realize someone has been listening in... The aliens attack Cameron’s mind with commands to kill himself, terrible orders he is barely able to resist. When an alien-possessed human murders a witness to the latest attempt on Cameron’s life, he realizes they are more powerful than even he imagined. The extraterrestrials can invade human bodies, as well as minds, but they have an even bigger target in sight: Earth. Cameron must stop them, but with their parasitic abilities, the enemy could be anyone—from the alluring student who is trying to seduce Cameron, to her jealous boyfriend, the skeptical university colleague, to the unassuming stranger at the local diner. As Cameron desperately searches for answers, he holds the fate of mankind in his hands. But will anybody believe his warnings?

Author : Keguro Macharia
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479861675

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Frottage by Keguro Macharia Pdf

Winner, 2020 Alan Bray Memorial Prize, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association A new understanding of freedom in the black diaspora grounded in the erotic In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must start from the black diaspora, which requires re-thinking not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual, but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genres—psychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetry—as well as regional geohistories across Africa and Afro-diaspora to map the centrality of sex, gender, desire, and eroticism to black freedom struggles. In lyrical, meditative prose, Macharia invigorates frottage as both metaphor and method with which to rethink diaspora by reading, and reading against, discomfort, vulnerability, and pleasure.

Author : Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076006135359

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The Peasants by Władysław Stanisław Reymont Pdf

Author : Christopher Blankley
Publisher : Christopher Blankley
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780983867609

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The Bobbies of Bailiwick by Christopher Blankley Pdf

Welcome to the Bailiwick, young Constable - a world like no other. Here, a vast city clings to the inside surface of a sphere and a tumultuous ocean is the only sky. Are you ready to join your fellow Bobbies? There's Jack, the boy with a sixth sense for machines; Red Ruby, the fiery pirate princess from the golden age of sail; and LOF-t, the sixty-sixth century cyborg. Together with Murray, the hyper-intelligent lemur, you are the new generation of Constables; sworn to protect the topsy-turvy world from the ever encroaching shadows of the evil Zed. Even as we speak, they drill through the crust of the Bailiwick, down towards the city within... So, climb aboard your sky cycle, young Constable, and fly! There's not a moment to lose! Bobbies of Bailiwick is a Steampunk Adventure Fantasy for middle readers (8 to 12), filled with Dyson's Spheres, pirates, cyborgs, lemurs, giant robots and steam-powered sky cycles.