She Tries Her Tongue Her Silence Softly Breaks

Author : M. NourbeSe Philip
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780819575685

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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks by M. NourbeSe Philip Pdf

Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley. An online reader's companion will be available at http://nourbesephilip.site.wesleyan.edu.

Author : Marlene Nourbese Philip
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0435989243

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Harriet's Daughter by Marlene Nourbese Philip Pdf

A beautifully written and paced story, sure to capture the imagination of both teenagers and adult readers.

Author : M. NourbeSe Philip,Setaey Adamu Boateng
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819571694

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Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip,Setaey Adamu Boateng Pdf

A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry

Author : Marlene Nourbese Philip
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 1551281554

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Looking for Livingstone by Marlene Nourbese Philip Pdf

Now in its 7th printing: A woman, travelling alone through time, Africa, and unnamed lands, searches for Dr. David Livingstone, celebrated by the West as a "discoverer" of Africa. Looking for Livingstone explodes Western assumptions about the "silence" of indigenous peoples; this is an elegant work which beautifully gives voice to the ancestors to whom it is dedicated.

Author : Marlene Nourbese Philip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0969514131

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She Tries Her Tongue by Marlene Nourbese Philip Pdf

Author : Samantha Pinto
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814759486

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Difficult Diasporas by Samantha Pinto Pdf

In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, and eschew linear narratives, as illustrated in the book-length, non-narrative poem by M. Nourbese Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks. Such an aesthetics, which protests against stable categories and fixed divisions, both reveals and obscures that which it seeks to represent: the experiences of Black women writers in the African Diaspora. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship in her study of authors such as Jackie Kay, Elizabeth Alexander, Erna Brodber, Ama Ata Aidoo, among others, Pinto argues for the critical importance of cultural form and demands that we resist the impulse to prioritize traditional notions of geographic boundaries. Locating correspondences between seemingly disparate times and places, and across genres, Pinto fully engages the unique possibilities of literature and culture to redefine race and gender studies. Samantha Pinto is Assistant Professor of Feminist Literary and Cultural Studies in the English Department at Georgetown University. In the American Literatures Initiative

Author : Rinaldo Walcott
Publisher : Insomniac Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781897414477

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Black Like Who? by Rinaldo Walcott Pdf

Rinaldo Walcott's groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused such an uproar upon its publication in 1997 that Insomniac Press has decided to publish a second revised edition of this perennial best-seller. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music and the electronic media, Walcott's book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As erudite on the issue of American super-critic Henry Louis Gates' blindness to black Canadian realities as he is on the rap of the Dream Warriors and Maestro Fresh Wes, Walcott's essays are thought-provoking and always controversial in the best sense of the word. They have added and continue to add immeasurably to public debate.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : Philip Metres
Publisher : Alice James Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781938584237

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Sand Opera by Philip Metres Pdf

Author : Marlene Nourbese Philip
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016357068

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Thorns by Marlene Nourbese Philip Pdf

Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545517126

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Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold) by Karen Hesse Pdf

Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.

Author : Marlene Nourbese Philip
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045624601

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A Genealogy of Resistance by Marlene Nourbese Philip Pdf

"Philip’s questions are difficult, and of an intensity of insistence rarely achieved."— Erin Mouré, Books in Canada "Philip’s writing lives on a linguistic frontier where the essay and poem merge to create a new literary form, uniquely hers. These pieces are a pleasure to read— at once sensual and thought-provoking."— Robin C. Pacific "[Philip deploys] all thoughtful ways of making readers aware of how history is created. And how it is denied."— Canadian Materials

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547190608

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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Celeste Ng
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101634615

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Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng Pdf

The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090302621

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Pdf