Author: Chloe Buckley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1782844147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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This collection develops a body of research around critically acclaimed author Helen Oyeyemi, putting her in dialogue with other contemporary writers and tracing her relationship with other works and literary traditions. Spanning the settings and cultural traditions of Britain, Nigeria and the Caribbean, her work highlights the interconnected histories and cultures wrought by multiple waves of enslavement, colonization, and migration. This collection describes how Oyeyemi's work engages in an innovative way with Gothic literature, reworking the tropes of a Western Gothic tradition in order to examine the fraught process of establishing identity in a postcolonial context. It demonstrates ways in which Oyeyemi is also a trouble-making feminist voice, employing feminist strategies to rewrite genres, parody literary forms, and critique the characterization of woman in literature. Finally it suggests that Oyeyemi's oeuvre marks a new direction in postcolonial studies as she writes within and about the former colonial centre of Britain, whilst foregrounding enduring colonial legacies that are referenced through the physical and psychological trauma associated with migration, displacement, racism, and contested national identities.
Author: Richard Dansky
Publisher: Crossroad Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The first short fiction collection from acclaimed novelist and video game writer Richard Dansky, Snowbird Gothic goes deep into the haunted forest of his imagination. From kudzu that smothers more than just trees to the secrets at the heart of a cloud of volcanic ash, from the beasts prowling the swamps of North Carolina to the battle cry of a thousand fallen leaves, Snowbird Gothic showcases the nightmares that can’t always be conjured on a monitor screen. Stories included in this collection: The Mad Eyes of the Heron King And the Rain Fell Through Her Fingers Connecting Door Unhaunted House Small Cold Things The Road Best Not Taken For the Autumn Queen, Where She Rests Among the Fallen Come Quietly and No One Gets Hurt Losing Altitude Minus One The Deep End of the Shallow Water Suburban Sprawl Fat Man on an Airplane Let the House Sing Me to Sleep Good Advice Missing Pages There is No Bird Shadows in Green Jeremy's Castle
Author: Richard Dansky
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN: 1637898908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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There’s something in Gary’s house that doesn’t want him there. Ever since his marriage fell apart, he’s been seeing things, things that everyone keeps on telling him aren’t there. But Gary’s not just seeing things, and soon it’s more than his peace of mind that’s at stake—it’s his life.
Author: Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773586628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Developing numerous themes, including leisure, state-promoted tourism, citizenship, and business investment, Godefroy Desrosiers-Lauzon considers advertisements, movies, policymakers, and the behaviour of snowbirds in Florida to provide the most thorough study of the vacation state to date. He also looks at the temporary communities of Canadians, Québecois, New Englanders, and Mid- Westerners that develop, showing how they blur the lines that usually divide national and regional identities, and youth and age. An insightful work full of amusing details, Florida's Snowbirds pieces together a complete cultural atlas of Florida Snowbirds that goes far beyond the familiar postcards they send home
Author: Caroline Lee Hentz
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Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Author: Jennifer Leetsch
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030677540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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This book sets out to investigate how contemporary African diasporic women writers respond to the imbalances, pressures and crises of twenty-first-century globalization by querying the boundaries between two separate conceptual domains: love and space. The study breaks new ground by systematically bringing together critical love studies with research into the cultures of migration, diaspora and refuge. Examining a notable tendency among current black feminist writers, poets and performers to insist on the affective dimension of world-making, the book ponders strategies of reconfiguring postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the analyses of literary works and intermedia performances by Chimamanda Adichie, Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, Shailja Patel and Warsan Shire reveal an urge of moving beyond a familiar insistence on processes of alienation or rupture and towards a new, reparative emphasis on connection and intimacy – to imagine possible inhabitable worlds.
Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1743519591
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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BOY Novak turns twenty and decides to try for a brand-new life. Flax Hill, Massachusetts, isn't exactly a welcoming town, but it does have the virtue of being the last stop on the bus route she took from New York. Flax Hill is also the hometown of Arturo Whitman - craftsman, widower, and father of Snow. SNOW is mild-mannered, radiant and deeply cherished - exactly the sort of little girl Boy never was, and Boy is utterly beguiled by her. If Snow displays a certain inscrutability at times, that's simply a characteristic she shares with her father, harmless until Boy gives birth to Snow's sister, Bird. When BIRD is born Boy is forced to re-evaluate the image Arturo's family have presented to her, and Boy, Snow and Bird are broken apart.
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Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Author: Jim Hargan
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581577885
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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In a new, updated edition, this comprehensive guide offers full coverage of both sides of the Tennessee–North Carolina divide. In a new, updated edition, this comprehensive guide offers full coverage of both sides of the Tennessee–North Carolina divide. Spend some time in the woods in two of the most popular national parks in the country—Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. You’ll find the best scenic drives, boating, horseback riding, fishing, rock climbing, skiing, and golf, and great local produce, crafts, music, historic homes, and museums in brick-fronted downtowns and bucolic artists’ colonies.
