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| Author | : Bob Peterson |
| Publisher | : Sasquatch Books |
| Release Date | : 1994 |
| ISBN | : 9781570610134 |
| Pages | : 157 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (11 download) |
Download or read book Edge Walking on the Western Rim written by Bob Peterson and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 writers from Washington and Oregon write about their relationship to the place they call home.
| Author | : Patsy J. Daniels |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Release Date | : 2014-06-02 |
| ISBN | : 1443861111 |
| Pages | : 250 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (438 download) |
Download or read book Constructing the Literary Self written by Patsy J. Daniels and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions; this practice can be found throughout much of history. This volume is about that kind of oppression and various strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays, all by recognized scholars, are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and The Family and the Self.
| Author | : Emmanuel Sampath Nelson |
| Publisher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
| Release Date | : 1999 |
| ISBN | : 9780313305016 |
| Pages | : 560 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (5 download) |
Download or read book Contemporary African American Novelists written by Emmanuel Sampath Nelson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature. This force has been gathering momentum since the 1950s, when James Baldwin published some of his most compelling works and Ralph Ellison stunned the literary establishment with his dazzling Invisible Man (1952). Empowered by the Civil Rights Movement and revitalized by the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, this force became more potent and pervasive. The publication of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye in 1970 was a major event in the literary history of the United States. With a voice as original as America itself, she began to conquer the English language and redefine the international literary landscape. Along with Morrison, scores of African American writers have mapped bold new territories and firmly entrenched themselves in the forefront of contemporary American literature. This reference book is a guide to the lives, works, and achievements of 79 contemporary African American novelists. Through alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors, this volume offers lively, concise, and current information about these writers. Each entry begins with a biographical sketch of the author, provides a judicious critical assessment of the author's major works and themes, gives a representative sample of the critical responses the author's novels have elicited, and concludes with a selected bibliography that lists the author's publications as well as useful secondary material. Included are major figures, such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison. There are also entries for many noteworthy but lesser known figures, such as Tina McElroy Ansa, Bebe Moore Campbell, Randall Kenan, Reginald McKnight, Marita Golden, and Arthur Flowers. Some are popular writers with mass appeal, such as Terri McMillan and Frank Yerby; others, such as Octavia E. Butler, are known for their science fiction. Still others are distinguished poets or playwrights who have also published one or more significant novels. Of the 79 novelists profiled, 41 are women, and roughly a dozen have identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Thus the volume demonstrates the enormous diversity of these writers and the breadth of their contribution to world literature.
| Author | : Laura M. Furlan |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Release Date | : 2017-11 |
| ISBN | : 1496202740 |
| Pages | : 348 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (962 download) |
Download or read book Indigenous Cities written by Laura M. Furlan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narratives—such as those written by Sherman Alexie, Janet Campbell Hale, Louise Erdrich, and Susan Power—along with the work of filmmakers and artists. In these stories Native peoples navigate new surroundings, find and reformulate community, and maintain and redefine Indian identity in the postrelocation era. These narratives illuminate the changing relationship between urban Indigenous peoples and their tribal nations and territories and the ways in which new cosmopolitan bonds both reshape and are interpreted by tribal identities. Though the majority of American Indigenous populations do not reside on reservations, these spaces regularly define discussions and literature about Native citizenship and identity. Meanwhile, conversations about the shift to urban settings often focus on elements of dispossession, subjectivity, and assimilation. Furlan takes a critical look at Indigenous fiction from the last three decades to present a new way of looking at urban experiences, one that explains mobility and relocation as a form of resistance. In these stories Indian bodies are not bound by state-imposed borders or confined to Indian Country as it is traditionally conceived. Furlan demonstrates that cities have always been Indian land and Indigenous peoples have always been cosmopolitan and urban.
| Author | : James H. Cox |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Release Date | : 2012-11-19 |
| ISBN | : 0806185465 |
| Pages | : 354 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (61 download) |
Download or read book Muting White Noise written by James H. Cox and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native American fiction writers have confronted Euro-American narratives about Indians and the colonial world those narratives help create. These Native authors offer stories in which Indians remake this colonial world by resisting conquest and assimilation, sustaining their cultures and communities, and surviving. In Muting White Noise, James H. Cox considers how Native authors have liberated our imaginations from colonial narratives. Cox takes his title from Sherman Alexie, for whom the white noise of a television set represents the white mass-produced culture that mutes American Indian voices. Cox foregrounds the work of Native intellectuals in his readings of the American Indian novel tradition. He thereby develops a critical perspective from which to re-see the role played by the Euro-American novel tradition in justifying and enabling colonialism. By examining novels by Native authors—especially Thomas King, Gerald Vizenor, and Alexie—Cox shows how these writers challenge and revise colonizers’ tales about Indians. He then offers “red readings” of some revered Euro-American novels, including Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and shows that until quite recently, even those non-Native storytellers who sympathized with Indians could imagine only their vanishing by story’s end. Muting White Noise breaks new ground in literary criticism. It stands with Native authors in their struggle to reclaim their own narrative space and tell stories that empower and nurture, rather than undermine and erase, American Indians and their communities.
| Author | : Jeff Berglund |
| Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
| Release Date | : 2011-10-31 |
| ISBN | : 1607819740 |
| Pages | : 344 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (78 download) |
Download or read book Sherman Alexie written by Jeff Berglund and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie.
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| Release Date | : 1997 |
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| Pages | : 658 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Western Literature Association (U.S.) |
| Publisher | : TCU Press |
| Release Date | : 1997 |
| ISBN | : 9780875651750 |
| Pages | : 1072 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (517 download) |
Download or read book Updating the Literary West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
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| Publisher | : Northland Publishing |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 170 pages |
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Download or read book Writing Down the River written by and published by Northland Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copious, dramatic color photographs and poetic quotations illustrate these essays describing the whitewater rafting experiences of 15 prominent female writers sent down the Colorado River during the summer of 1997. 11x10". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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| Release Date | : 1994 |
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| Author | : David Laskin |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 1997 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 232 pages |
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Download or read book Rains All the Time written by David Laskin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rains All the Time is the first social history of the weather of this notoriously wet region-not just how damp it is, but what it does to the souls of those who have endured, cursed, and worshipped it. David Laskin documents the human response to the weather in the Northwest, from Francis Drake's condemnation-"Vile, thicke and stinking fogges"-to today's inhabitants. He also explores how the damp weather has been a great muse to writers and painters.
| Author | : Kim Stafford |
| Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
| Release Date | : 2014-01-10 |
| ISBN | : 1595341862 |
| Pages | : 304 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (953 download) |
Download or read book Early Morning written by Kim Stafford and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century. His first major collection--Traveling through the Dark--won the National Book Award. William Stafford published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose and was Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress--a position now know as the Poet Laureate. Before William Stafford's death in 1993, he gave his son Kim the greatest gift and challenge: to be his literary executor. In Early Morning, Kim creates an intimate portrait of a father and son who shared many passions: archery, photography, carpentry, and finally, writing itself. But Kim also confronts the great paradox at the center of William Stafford's life. The public man, the poet who was always communicating with warmth and feeling--even with strangers--was capable of profound, and often painful silence within the family. By piecing together a collage of his personal and family memories, and sifting through thousands of pages, of his father's daily writing and poems, Kim illuminates a fascinating and richly lived life.
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| Release Date | : 1995 |
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| Rating | : 4.:/5 (319 download) |
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| Release Date | : 1996 |
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| Pages | : 1326 pages |
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| Release Date | : 1998 |
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| Pages | : 464 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (91 download) |
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Bath and West and Southern Counties Society |
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| Release Date | : 1853 |
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Download or read book Journal of the Bath and West of England Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce written by Bath and West and Southern Counties Society and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Terrie M. Rooney |
| Publisher | : Contemporary Authors |
| Release Date | : 1998 |
| ISBN | : 9780787619947 |
| Pages | : 480 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (199 download) |
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Terrie M. Rooney and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1998 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Charles Frazier Joshua Henkin Gabrielle Reeche Arthur Stringer
