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Author : Sarah McAneney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645084808
In Mina's Rain Dance, a special girl finds joy when her imperfect dancing helps others-and ultimately herself. A heartwarming and beautifully illustrated picture book that celebrates the magnificence of compassion, kindness and community.
Author : Yvette Christiansë
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635425000
PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A fiercely poetic literary debut re-creating the life of an 19th-century slave woman in South Africa. Slavery as it existed in Africa has seldom been portrayed—and never with such texture, detail, and authentic emotion. Inspired by actual 19th-century court records, Unconfessed is a breathtaking literary tour de force. They called her Sila van den Kaap, slave woman of Jacobus Stephanus Van der Wat of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. A woman moved from master to master, farm to farm, and—driven by the horrors of slavery to commit an unspeakable crime—from prison to prison. A woman fit for hanging . . . condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island. Sila spends her days in the prison quarry, breaking stones for Cape Town's streets and walls. She remembers the day her childhood ended, when slave catchers came — whipping the air and the ground and we were like deer whipped into the smaller and smaller circle of our fear. Sila remembers her masters, especially Oumiesies ("old Missus"), who in her will granted Sila her freedom, but Theron, Oumiesies' vicious and mercenary son, destroys the will and with it Sila's life. Sila remembers her children, with joy and with pain, and imagines herself a great bird that could sweep them up in her wings and set them safely on a branch above all harm. Unconfessed is an epic novel that connects the reader to the unimaginable through the force of poetry and a far-reaching imagination.
Author : Antoinette Tidjani Alou
Publisher : Amalion Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782359260731
"Tidjani Alou's writing sketches the commonplace and the metaphysical, with heft, honesty, and audacity. The range is compelling, as she takes us through lives in places as diverse as Accra and Niamey. The prose is deft, her metaphors sting with accuracy. This is a writer to think and feel with."--Emmanuel Iduma, Editor, Saraba Magazine. A grandmother with a food-induced encounter, an ecclesial romance with a tomcat set in the throes of uncertain times, eating and drinking for freedom, wife battery under the watchful eyes of communal love, desperately seeking lovers burdened by violent pasts, and a woman taking liberty after nine children with nine husbands are some of the characters and stories in Antoinette Tidjani Alou's debut fiction collection. In fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we yearn to tie around ourselves: familial, spousal, parental, professional, and societal. It tackles how we struggle in relationships for nourishment and fulfilment, and how relationships could kill us and how we could kill to survive-a potent force for understanding humanity and the nuances of acts of violence, tolerance, faith and love.
Author : Mark Chase,Maarten Christenhusz,Tom Mirenda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226224664
“Clear, informative text. It is a superb production, reminding us of the astonishing diversity of these plants.” —Times Literary Supplement One in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery—and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an astonishing array of colors, forms, and smells that captivate growers from all walks of life across the globe. Though undeniably elegant, the popular moth orchid—a grocery store standard—is a bland stand-in when compared with its thousands of more complex and fascinating brethren, such as the Demon Queller, which grows in dark forests where its lovely blooms are believed to chase evil forces away. Or the Fetid Sun-God, an orchid that lures female flies to lay their eggs on its flowers by emitting a scent of rancid cheese. The Book of Orchids revels in the diversity and oddity of these beguiling plants. Six hundred of the world’s most intriguing orchids are displayed, along with life-size photographs that capture botanical detail, as well as information about distribution, peak flowering period, and each species’ unique attributes, both natural and cultural. With over 28,000 known species, the orchid family is the largest and most geographically widespread of the flowering plant families. Including the most up-to-date science and accessibly written by botanists Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz, and Tom Mirenda, each entry in The Book of Orchids will entice researchers and orchid enthusiasts alike. “A luscious coffee-table tome.” —Nature
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357367
Author : Candace Slater
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226924892
In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of provoking death or madness, but also called upon to help shamanic healers. Male dolphins—accomplished dancers who appear dressed in dapper straw hats, white suits, and with shiny black shoes—reportedly father numerous children. The females are said to lure away solitary fishermen. Both sinister and charming, these characters resist definition and thus domination; greedy and lascivious outsiders, they are increasingly symbolic of a distinctly Amazonian culture politically, socially, economically, and environmentally under seige. Candace Slater examines these stories in Dance of the Dolphin, both as folk narratives and as representations of culture and conflict in Amazonia. Her engaging study discusses the tales from the viewpoints of genre, performance, and gender, but centers on them as responses to the great changes sweeping the Amazon today. According to Slater, these surprisingly widespread tales reflect Amazonians' own mixed reactions to the ongoing destruction of the rainforest and the resulting transformations in the social as well as physical landscape. Offering an informed view of Brazilian culture, this book crosses the boundaries of folklore, literature, anthropology, and Latin American studies. It is one of the very few studies to offer an overview of the changes taking place in Amazonia through the eyes of ordinary people. "This book is a rich collection of stories about the transformation of dolphins in the city of enchantment. . . . The joy in this book is not just its vibrant analysis and careful relating of tradition and lore, but also its uncanny accurateness in capturing the very essence of Amazonia."-Darrell Posey, Journal of Latin American Studies "Slater's fluid prose reads like a novel for those interested in Amazonian culture and folklore, while her integrated approach makes this a must read for those interested in innovative methodology."-Lisa Gabbert, Western Folklore
Author : Hastings Charles Dent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Brazil
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010448210
Author : Carroll Edward Mace
Publisher : New Orleans : Department of French and Italian, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018584711
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crops and climate
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216566377
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39076000716006
Author : Rev. Charles Marriott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : English language
ISBN : BL:A0023786595
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford Business Group
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Oman
ISBN : 9781902339894
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1714
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z18178160X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Horses
ISBN : NYPL:33433082509187
Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.
Author : Jonathon Grasse
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496838292
Minas Gerais is a state in southeastern Brazil deeply connected to the nation’s slave past and home to many traditions related to the African diaspora. Addressing a wide range of traditions helping to define the region, ethnomusicologist Jonathon Grasse examines the complexity of Minas Gerais by exploring the intersections of its history, music, and culture. Instruments, genres, social functions, and historical accounts are woven together to form a tapestry revealing a cultural territory’s development. The deep pool of Brazilian scholarship referenced in the book, with original translations by the author, cites over two hundred Portuguese-language publications focusing on Minas Gerais. This research was augmented by fieldwork, observations, and interviews completed over a twenty-five-year period and includes original photographs, many taken by the author. Hearing Brazil: Music and Histories in Minas Gerais surveys the colonial past, the vast hinterland countryside, and the modern, twenty-first-century state capital of Belo Horizonte, the metropolitan region of which is today home to over six million. Diverse legacies are examined, including an Afro-Brazilian heritage, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century liturgical music of the region’s “Minas Baroque,” the instrument known as the viola, a musical profile of Belo Horizonte, and a study of the regionalist themes developed by the popular music collective the Clube da Esquina (Corner Club) led by Milton Nascimento with roots in the 1960s. Hearing Brazil champions the notion that Brazil’s unique role in the world is further illustrated by regionalist studies presenting details of musical culture.
