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Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060916497
The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780061847394
“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061695130
Based on acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica—where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s—Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. An invaluable resource and remarkable guide to Voodoo practices, rituals, and beliefs, it is a travelogue into a dark, mystical world that offers a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies, customs, and superstitions.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9394270280
"Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information."―New York Times Book Review. This travelogue into a dark world, based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica during her visits in the 1930s, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practises, paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.
Author : La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810129086
Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture; this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel. Much in the way that Voudoun and its North American derivative Voodoo are syncretic religions, Hurston’s fiction enacts a syncretic, performative practice of reference, freely drawing upon Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Haitian Voudoun mythologies for its political, aesthetic, and philosophical underpinnings. Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” connects Hurston’s work more firmly to the cultural and religious flows of the African diaspora and to the literary practice by twentieth-century American writers of subscripting in their fictional texts symbols and beliefs drawn from West and Central African religions.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : African American tales
ISBN : UCSD:31822003638129
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Author : Betty Bard MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 1888173300
The bestselling author of the American humor classic The Egg and I continues the adventure with this collection of tales about life on the fringe of the Western wilderness. Writing in the 1950s, Betty MacDonald, sophisticated and urbane, captivated readers with her observations about raising a family on an island in Puget Sound. As usual, humorist MacDonald is her own favorite target. She manages to get herself into scrapes with washing machines set adrift in rowboats, used cars, and a $25 Turkey Squasher. And then there's the scariest aspect of island life -- teenaged children.
Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553659709
"An unforgettable work of art."—The National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well.
Author : Gwen Petersen
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781616731526
Gwen Petersen earlier enlightened us on the joys of shoveling manure. Now, in this delightful new collection of pithy and hilarious essays, she explains how her philosophy of life comes with a good dose of horse sense. Here’s advice on how to fall off a horse with style, dressing to avoid embarrassing your equine friend, 1,001 uses for bag balm, perfecting the care and feeding of veterinarians and farriers, cattle drives and brandings, and falling in love all over again (with a horse, that is). Petersen’s words are as amusing as they are instructive, and whether you’re a horse lover or simply someone in need of a down-to-earth laugh, this is a book you won’t want to miss.
Author : Valerie Boyd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684842301
Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.
Author : Catherine Hapka
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375892530
Iceland, circa AD 1000 Elska is a silver dapple Icelandic filly. She spends summers frisking about the countryside and winters in the farmyard, where the girl human Amma takes special care of her. But when a powerful neighbor notices Elska, her contented life suddenly changes. Here is Elska’s story . . . in her own words.
Author : Marcy Campbell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525552789
A classic in the making, this heartwarming story about empathy and imagination is one that families will treasure for years to come. Adrian Simcox tells anyone who will listen that he has a horse--the best and most beautiful horse anywhere. But Chloe does NOT believe him. Adrian Simcox lives in a tiny house. Where would he keep a horse? He has holes in his shoes. How would he pay for a horse? The more Adrian talks about his horse, the angrier Chloe gets. But when she calls him out at school and even complains about him to her mom, Chloe doesn't get the vindication she craves. She gets something far more important. Written with tenderness and poignancy and gorgeously illustrated, this book will show readers that kindness is always rewarding, understanding is sweeter than judgment, and friendship is the best gift one can give.
Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780940450844
This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set. “Folklore is the arts of the people,” Hurston wrote, “before they find out that there is any such thing as art.” A pioneer of African-American ethnography who did graduate study in anthropology with the renowned Franz Boas, Hurston devoted herself to preserving the black folk heritage. In Mules and Men (1935), the first book of African-American folklore written by an African American, she returned to her native Florida and to New Orleans to record stories and sermons, blues and work songs, children’s games, courtship rituals, and formulas of voodoo doctors. This classic work is presented here with the original illustrations by the great Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. Tell My Horse (1938), part ethnography, part travel book, vividly recounts the survival of African religion in Jamaican obeah and Haitian voodoo in the 1930s. Keenly alert to political and intellectual currents, Hurston went beyond superficial exoticism to explore the role of these religious systems in their societies. The text is illustrated by twenty-six photographs, many of them taken by Hurston. Her extensive transcriptions of Creole songs are here accompanied by new translations. A special feature of this volume is Hurston’s controversial 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. With consultation by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is presented here for the first time as she intended, restoring passages omitted by the original because of political controversy, sexual candor, or fear of libel. Included in an appendix are four additional chapters, one never published, which represent earlier stages of Hurston’s conception of the book. Twenty-two essays, from “The Eatonville Anthology” (1926) to “Court Order Can’t Make Races Mix” (1955), demonstrate the range of Hurston’s concerns as they cover subjects from religion, music, and Harlem slang to Jim Crow and American democracy. The chronology of Hurston’s life prepared for this edition sheds fresh light on many aspects of her career. In addition, this volume contains detailed notes and a brief essay on the texts. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : Steve Glassman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813010500
A collection of essays which discuss the influence of Huston's home state of Florida on her works
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545466400
An e-book edition of War Horse with movie stills, behind-the-scenes photos, storyboards, and more! In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles in France. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him and he is able to find warmth and hope. But his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he left behind. Will he ever see his true master again?