The Washerwoman S Dream

Author : Hilarie Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809287825

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Washerwoman's Dream by Hilarie Lindsay Pdf

Author : Hilarie Lindsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biographical fiction
ISBN : 0731810929

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The Washerwoman's Dream by Hilarie Lindsay Pdf

Author : Hilarie Lindsay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925685602

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Washerwoman's Dream by Hilarie Lindsay Pdf

A beloved Australian outback classic The epic true story of the indomitable Winifred Steger and her extraordinary life in 19th century outback Australia. Winifred Steger travelled to Australia with her father in the 1880s when he took up a land grant in north Queensland. The grant proved to be worthless, and faced with poverty, endless backbreaking work and isolation, Winifred's father spiralled into depression and alcoholism. Left to fend for herself, Winifred battled insurmountable odds to maintain her dignity and sanity, finding solace in writing to ease her hardship. Fleeing an abusive marriage also meant the heartbreak of abandoning her four children – but then miraculously she found love with an Indian trader, Ali. Together with their children, they moved to outback Australia where they ran a camel line. A new phase began in Winifred's life, taking her to places she had only ever dreamed of. The Washerwoman's Dream is the story of a remarkable woman with a tenacious spirit, and is now an enduring Australian classic. Pieced together by Hilarie Lindsay from Winifred’s memoirs, short stories, letters and unpublished novels, this is an account of the amazing life of a forgotten Australian writer. ‘One of the hardest punishments is to be thrown into the world with aspirations and dreams that cannot be fulfilled for want of education . . ’ Winifred Steger

Author : Richard van Leeuwen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514034

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Hajj Travelogues by Richard van Leeuwen Pdf

In Hajj Travelogues: Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950 Richard van Leeuwen maps the corpus of hajj accounts from the Muslim world and Europe. The work outlines the main issues in a field of study which has largely been neglected. A large number of hajj travelogues are described as a textual type integrating religious discourse into the form of the journey. Special attention is given to their intertextual embedding in the broader discursive tradition of the hajj. Since the corpus is seen as dynamic and responsive to historical developments, the texts are situated in their historical context and the subsequent phases of globalisation. It is shown how in travelogues forms of religious subjectivity are constructed and expressed.

Author : Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Quiñonez
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253108810

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Decolonial Voices by Arturo J. Aldama,Naomi Quiñonez Pdf

The interdisciplinary essays in Decolonial Voices discuss racialized, subaltern, feminist, and diasporic identities and the aesthetic politics of hybrid and mestiza/o cultural productions. This collection represents several key directions in the field: First, it charts how subaltern cultural productions of the US/ Mexico borderlands speak to the intersections of "local," "hemispheric," and "globalized" power relations of the border imaginary. Second, it recovers the Mexican women's and Chicana literary and cultural heritages that have been ignored by Euro-American canons and patriarchal exclusionary practices. It also expands the field in postnationalist directions by creating an interethnic, comparative, and transnational dialogue between Chicana and Chicano, African American, Mexican feminist, and U.S. Native American cultural vocabularies. Contributors include Norma AlarcÃ3n, Arturo J. Aldama, Frederick Luis Aldama, Cordelia Chávez Candelaria, Alejandra Elenes, RamÃ3n Garcia, MarÃa Herrera-Sobek, Patricia Penn Hilden, Gaye T. M. Johnson, Alberto Ledesma, Pancho McFarland, Amelia MarÃa de la Luz Montes, Laura Elisa Pérez, Naomi Quiñonez, Sarah Ramirez, Rolando J. Romero, Delberto Dario Ruiz, Vicki Ruiz, José David SaldÃvar, Anna Sandoval, and Jonathan Xavier Inda.

Author : José David Saldívar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520918368

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Border Matters by José David Saldívar Pdf

Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.

Author : Beverly Lowry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307765956

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Her Dream of Dreams by Beverly Lowry Pdf

“I am a woman that came from the cotton fields of the South; I was promoted from there to the wash-tub; then I was promoted to the cook kitchen, and from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.” --Madam C. J. Walker, National Negro Business League Convention, 1912 Now, from a writer acclaimed for her novels and the memoir Crossed Over, a remarkable biography of a truly heroic figure. Madam C. J. Walker created a cosmetics empire and became known as the first female self-made millionaire in this nation’s history, a noted philanthropist and champion of women’s rights and economic freedom. These achievements seem nothing less than miraculous given that she was born, in 1867, to former slaves in a hamlet on the Mississippi River. How she came to live on another river, the Hudson, in a Westchester County mansion, and in a New York City town house, is at once inspirational and mysterious, because for all that is known about the famous entrepreneur, much that occurred before her magnificent transformation—years that trace a circuitous route across the country—remains obscure. By breathing life into scattered clues and dry facts, and with a deep understanding of the times and places through which Madam Walker moved, Beverly Lowry tells a story that stretches from the antebellum South to the Harlem Renaissance and bridges nearly a century of our history in her search for the distant truths of a woman who defied all odds and redefined conventional expectations. “Wherever there was one colored person, whether it was a city, a town, or a puddle by the railroad tracks, everybody knew her name.” --Violet Davis Reynolds, Stenographer, Madam C. J. Walker Co

Author : Philip Jones,Anna Kenny
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781862548725

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Australia's Muslim Cameleers by Philip Jones,Anna Kenny Pdf

Between 1870 and 1920 as many as 2000 cameleers and 20,000 camels arrived in Australia from Afghanistan and northern India. Australia's Muslim Cameleers is a rich pictorial history of these men, their way of life and the vital role they played in pioneering transport and communication routes across outback Australia's vast expanses. Many of the images and artefacts in this fascinating account are published here for the first time, and this new edition contains additions to the biographical listing of more than 1200 cameleers.

Author : John C. Greene
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611461107

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Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820 by John C. Greene Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

Author : K. Ellinghaus,J. Carey,L. Boucher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230101289

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Re-Orienting Whiteness by K. Ellinghaus,J. Carey,L. Boucher Pdf

This book brings together historians from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe to historicize constructions of whiteness as a colonial formation. Confronting the privilege inherent in the invisibility of contemporary whiteness requires that the historical roots of racial power be interrogated, and the history of European colonialism is of much more than passing significance to this task. This collection functions to read the colonial back into whiteness by demonstrating how this racial category traveled around the routes of empire. It shows how a transnational focus can bring historical and spatial specificity to the study of whiteness and thus re-orients the frames of whiteness for American and non-American scholars alike.

Author : Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252053832

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Dream Books and Gamblers by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach Pdf

Ubiquitous illegal lotteries known as policy flourished in Chicago’s Black community during the overlapping waves of the Great Migration. Policy “queens” owned stakes in lucrative operations while women writers and clerks canvased the neighborhood, passed out winnings, and kept the books. Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach examines the complexities of Black women’s work in policy gambling. Policy provided Black women with a livelihood for themselves and their families. At the same time, navigating gender expectations, aggressive policing, and other hazards of the infromal economy led them to refashion ideas about Black womanhood and respectability. Policy earnings also funded above-board enterprises ranging from neighborhood businesses to philanthropic institutions, and Schlabach delves into the various ways Black women straddled the illegal policy business and reputable community involvement. Vivid and revealing, Dream Books and Gamblers tells the stories of Black women in the underground economy and how they used their work to balance the demands of living and laboring in Black Chicago.

Author : Chas Bogan
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738754444

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The Secret Keys of Conjure by Chas Bogan Pdf

Discover the Primal Energy of Modern Conjure The Secret Keys of Conjure is a guide to the tricks and enchantments of Hoodoo, rootwork, and other American folk traditions. Written by a sought-after Conjure doctor, this book shares recipes for magical oils, baths, powders, mojo bags, and more. With more than 35 tricks and 50 recipes, The Secret Keys of Conjure is an invitation to join a powerful current of magic and explore practices that have been passed down through the generations. Whether you want to practice life-changing enchantments or deepen your connection to the spiritual realm, you will find the tools and techniques that you need for: Divination Rituals Cleansing Curios Setting Lights Sweetening Graveyard Work Psychic Awareness Blessings Good Luck Healing Spiritual Purification Sexual Enticement Influence Love Justified Hexes Spirit Conjuration Protection

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791449319

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The Films of Harold Pinter by Steven H. Gale Pdf

Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.

Author : Gerald MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443825924

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Britain and the Muslim World by Gerald MacLean Pdf

Based on papers presented at an international three-day conference, sponsored by the British Academy and held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in April 2009, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of the most advanced specialist and scholarly knowledge to date concerning historical perspectives on relations between Britain and the Muslim World. Ranging from the early-modern period to the present day, the essays collected here represent work by leading writers and scholars from relevant fields—history, international relations, economics, religion, law, art history and design, film studies, and sociology, as well as literary and cultural studies. These essays explore the historical impacts of cross-cultural encounters between Islam and Britain by variously addressing the question of how relations between Britain and the Muslim world in the past have brought us to our current situation and, in some cases, by proposing directions for necessary further consideration and research.

Author : Howard Henry Peckham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : MSU:31293104524107

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Kate, the Washerwoman's Daughter by Howard Henry Peckham Pdf