The True Creole Odyssey

Author : Héctor Sanguino
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9798891338753

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The true creole odyssey by Héctor Sanguino Pdf

A TRUE HERO, ALTHOUGH IS FIGHTING AGAINST HIS OWN TRAGEDIES, ALWAYS IS WILLING TO AVOID IN OTHERS THAT THE MISFORTUNE WILL NOT HURTING THEM. Based on the true story of a brave man who, despite the onslaught of fate, never gave up. The true creole odyssey is a non-fiction story about love and the tragedies experienced by its main character. His interrupted chain of fatalities began before he was born; his premature birth, would be to hours away to ending his mother's life. Years later, during his military life and his stage as a bodyguard, the fate attacks against the people he loved continued to increase. In these events several of his companions would be murder and his best friend Carrillo committed suicide by shooting himself under the chin with a rifle. Afterwards, in a terrorist attack, he would lose Jessica his first wife. That tragedy would lead Moisés to take refuge in Martha's love. They, very much in love married and from that love would born their son Jaime, however, that happiness would vanish like water in the desert because in a guerrilla attack, his son and his wife would die, while he would remain in a coma for several months.

Author : Gordon Collier,Ulrich Fleischmann
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9042009284

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A Pepper-pot of Cultures by Gordon Collier,Ulrich Fleischmann Pdf

The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the processes of globalization initiated by the colonial migrations of past centuries. The present volume is intended to illustrate these various stages either by historical and/or theoretical discussion of the concept or through selected case studies. The authors are established scholars from the areas of literature, linguistics and cultural studies; they all share a lively and committed interest in the Caribbean area - certainly not the only or even oldest realm in which processes of creolization have shaped human societies, but one that offers, by virtue of its history of colonialization and cross-cultural contact, its most pertinent example. The collection, beyond its theoretical interest, thus also constitutes an important survey of Caribbean studies in Europe and the Americas. As well as searching overview essays, there are - sociolinguistic contributions on the linguistic geography of 'criollo' in Spanish America, the Limonese creole speakers of Costa Rica, 'creole' language and identity in the Netherlands Antilles and the affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese in Curaçao - ethnohistorical examinations of such topics as creole transgression in the Dominican/Haitian borderland, the Haitian Mandingo and African fundamentalism, creolization and identity in West-Central Jamaica, Afro-Nicaraguans and national identity, and the Creole heritage of Haiti - studies of religion and folk culture, including voodoo and creolization in New York City, the creolization of the "Mami Wata" water spirit, and signifyin(g) processes in New World Anancy tales - a group of essays focusing on the thought of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, and the Créolité writers and case-studies of artistic expression, including creole identities in Caribbean women's writing, Port-au-Prince in the Haitian novel, Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer and Surinamese fiction, Afro-Cuban artistic expression, and metacreolization in the fiction of Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson.

Author : MICHAEL L. GODFREY
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781312054400

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DIABLO'S CARAVAN A Surreal Travel Odyssey by MICHAEL L. GODFREY Pdf

This provocative story illuminates the lives of 2 wayward adventure seekers. It's the unfortunate true account of myself and equally neurotic traveling companion. As young, naive gringos, we sought a mood altering pilgrimage to South America. We followed our siren's call towards drama, chaos and confusion in the jungles and mountains of the Inca Empire. For nearly a year, we played hide and seek from military police, danced the jig of civility while dodging the bullet of sanity. Exploits contained in this work are not intended for the squeamish, timid, faint of heart or too delicate. Graphic episodes may offend fragile, tightly wrapped and emotionally stable individuals. That being said, this narrative is equally seductive to extreme travel junkies and adventure seekers. A burgeoning population of recovery oriented Baby Boomers, will discover a niche of paradoxical insight. Arm chair travelers will be shocked, amused, entertained and educated. Hipsters will marvel at the high drama and drop dead humor.

Author : Patrick Brode,Osgoode Society
Publisher : Published for the Osgoode Society by University of Toronto Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015505772

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The Odyssey of John Anderson by Patrick Brode,Osgoode Society Pdf

Author : Laura Mason,Tracey Rizzo
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647920968

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The French Revolution by Laura Mason,Tracey Rizzo Pdf

"This new edition of Mason and Rizzo's anthology is a welcome addition to the study of the revolutionary and Napoleonic French Atlantic. It includes a wealth of documents related to life in metropolitan and colonial France from the middle of the eighteenth century through the Napoleonic Consulate as well as concise section overviews that detail experiences on the continent and in Saint-Domingue, France’s wealthiest Caribbean colony, during this tumultuous era. These features, along with images, maps, and a detailed timeline, provide an invaluable resource for scholars and students alike." —Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A&M University

Author : Rebecca J. Scott,Jean M. Hébrard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674068407

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Freedom Papers by Rebecca J. Scott,Jean M. Hébrard Pdf

Around 1785, a woman was taken from her home in Senegambia and sent to Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. Those who enslaved her there named her Rosalie. Her later efforts to escape slavery were the beginning of a family's quest, across five generations and three continents, for lives of dignity and equality. Freedom Papers sets the saga of Rosalie and her descendants against the background of three great antiracist struggles of the nineteenth century: the Haitian Revolution, the French Revolution of 1848, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States. Freed during the Haitian Revolution, Rosalie and her daughter Elisabeth fled to Cuba in 1803. A few years later, Elisabeth departed for New Orleans, where she married a carpenter, Jacques Tinchant. In the 1830s, with tension rising against free persons of color, they left for France. Subsequent generations of Tinchants fought in the Union Army, argued for equal rights at Louisiana's state constitutional convention, and created a transatlantic tobacco network that turned their Creole past into a commercial asset. Yet the fragility of freedom and security became clear when, a century later, Rosalie's great-great-granddaughter Marie-José was arrested by Nazi forces occupying Belgium. Freedom Papers follows the Tinchants as each generation tries to use the power and legitimacy of documents to help secure freedom and respect. The strategies they used to overcome the constraints of slavery, war, and colonialism suggest the contours of the lives of people of color across the Atlantic world during this turbulent epoch.

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429969451

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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher Pdf

A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography “[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic “Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best.” —Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule; before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. She demonstrated a complex but crucial fact of the times: that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery. In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, “Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.”

Author : New Orleans Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132345765

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The Odyssey Continues by New Orleans Museum of Art Pdf

Author : Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604736175

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Cajun Country by Barry Jean Ancelet,Jay Edwards,Glen Pitre Pdf

This insightful book is by far the broadest examination of traditional Cajun culture ever assembled. It goes beyond the stereotypes and surface treatment given to Cajuns by the popular media and examines the great variety of cultural elements alive in Cajun culture today--cooking, music, storytelling, architecture, arts and crafts, and festivals, as well as traditional occupations such as fishing, hunting, and trapping. It not only gives fascinating descriptions of elements in Cajun life that have been woven into the fabric of American history and folklore; it also explains how they came to be. Cajun Country reveals the historical background of the Cajun people, who migrated to Louisiana as exiles from their Canadian homeland, and it shows their folklife as a living and ongoing legacy that enriches America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015053413210

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Louisiana Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wolfgang Binder
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023080596

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Creoles and Cajuns by Wolfgang Binder Pdf

The French presence in Louisiana, its history, literature and language date back into the 17th century. Seventeen leading scholars from the USA, France, Germany, and Austria analyze aspects of the French heritage in this part of the New World. Both white and black Creole and Cajun cultures, their literatures and their ongoing influence are dealt with in this interdisciplinary publication.

Author : Ronald E. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015057603063

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Skin Color as a Post-colonial Issue Among Asian-Americans by Ronald E. Hall Pdf

Without minimizing White racism or other forms of Western social ills, and without criticizing or passing judgements on Asian-American, Hall (human ecology and social work, Michigan State U.) offers some insight into the implications of skin color for Asian-Americans, demonstrating a form of interaction among those who would otherwise be considered post-colonial victims. Among the dimensions he explores are the sport of color, psychological colonization, the bleaching syndrome, a survey of Asian's color bias in the Philippines, what Asian-American women say, Eurasian identity, racism though skin color, and beyond race. The text is double spaced. Annotation ♭2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Florian Freitag
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000196955

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Popular New Orleans by Florian Freitag Pdf

New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing students and fans of the city and of popular culture, Popular New Orleans examines three pivotal moments in the history of New Orleans in popular media: the creation of the popular image of the Crescent City during the late nineteenth century in the local-color writings published in Scribner’s Monthly/Century Magazine; the translation of this image into three-dimensional immersive spaces during the twentieth century in Disney’s theme parks and resorts in California, Florida, and Japan; and the radical transformation of this image following Hurricane Katrina in public performances such as Mardi Gras parades and operas. Covering visions of the Crescent City from George W. Cable’s Old Creole Days stories (1873-1876) to Disneyland’s "New Orleans Square" (1966) to Rosalyn Story’s opera Wading Home (2015), Popular New Orleans traces how popular images of New Orleans have changed from exceptional to exemplary.

Author : Saul Galin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015056068813

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Odyssey Review by Saul Galin Pdf

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811770620

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Brothers in Liberty by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

After failing to defeat the Continental Army in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania during the first half of the Revolutionary War, British generals decided to turn south, where they believed they could win the war in a region more heavily populated by Loyalists. In late 1778, a British expeditionary force sailed south from New York City and captured Savannah, which became a British base of operations and strategic hinge. To thwart the British, an international force gathered around Savannah, including Americans, Poles, Germans, Irish, and—significantly—a volunteer force of free Blacks from present-day Haiti: the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue. The Chasseurs constituted the largest Black military unit in the American Revolution. The soldiers were free men, the sons of French fathers, mostly sugar plantation owners, and slave mothers in France’s most prosperous overseas colony. In the fall of 1779, this force joined the attack on the British at Savannah in a series of frontal results. The French and Americans were repulsed at great cost in lives, but the free Black Haitians stood their ground—and, in a moment of high courage that has never received its due, stymied a British counterattack that salvaged the day for the Americans and French. A rock at Savannah on behalf of the American Revolution, many of the Haitian survivors of the battle went on to serve the cause of liberty in the Haitian Revolution and help found the first Black republic in world history. This is their story.