Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism
Author: Graeme Harper
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847142168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Net Cast in Many Waters
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Crackling Ice
Author: Nicholas Walker
Publisher: Nicholas Walker
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again…and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform? This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.
Publisher: Nicholas Walker
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Samantha is thrown out of dance school and told she will never dance again…and dancing is her whole life. Then she meets 14 year old Alex who is an ice dancer and secretly they start skating together. Can Samantha hide her obsession from her parents? Will they even stay as partners when his attitude is so casual? Will their tempestuous relationship tear them apart before they ever get to perform? This gripping novel by best seller Nicholas Walker tears the top of the ice skating world and reveals all the agony and heartbreak that lies underneath.
Not Quite Sane in America
Author: Nicholas Walker
Publisher: Nicholas Walker
ISBN: 1520233256
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This is the hilarious follow up to Going Around the Bend on the QE2 (available on Kindle/Google+) where Nick now runs away to America to escape his proctologist. He is welcomed by the American people and delighted to find that they love his accent. As always the outspoken Nick, runs into many situations some of which would seem to be unbelievable, but they are true: he meets a number of Hollywood Stars and has a flaming row with one of them, he is interrogated by the FBI, lives with a top model, has a fight with a mobster and sadly witnesses the American's reaction to 9/11! He falls out with the police and falls in with three lovely ladies as he lives as an illegal immigrant for two years in one of America's loveliest towns, Laguna Beach CA. This is the travelogue of a man who is trouble prone and who is lucky enough to encounter hilarious situations wherever he goes...it is, as always, the story of a man who is not quite sane!
Publisher: Nicholas Walker
ISBN: 1520233256
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This is the hilarious follow up to Going Around the Bend on the QE2 (available on Kindle/Google+) where Nick now runs away to America to escape his proctologist. He is welcomed by the American people and delighted to find that they love his accent. As always the outspoken Nick, runs into many situations some of which would seem to be unbelievable, but they are true: he meets a number of Hollywood Stars and has a flaming row with one of them, he is interrogated by the FBI, lives with a top model, has a fight with a mobster and sadly witnesses the American's reaction to 9/11! He falls out with the police and falls in with three lovely ladies as he lives as an illegal immigrant for two years in one of America's loveliest towns, Laguna Beach CA. This is the travelogue of a man who is trouble prone and who is lucky enough to encounter hilarious situations wherever he goes...it is, as always, the story of a man who is not quite sane!
Report and Proceedings
Author: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Commission on Native laws and Customs
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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The New evangelical magazine and theological review
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Children of the Church Magazine
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
God's Interpreters: The Making of an American Mission and an African Church
Author: Les Switzer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.
Foreign Affairs
Author: Edmund Dene Morel
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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