The Love Queen of the Amazon

The Love Queen of the Amazon PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Book Description
This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.

The Love Queen of the Amazon

The Love Queen of the Amazon PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Book Description
This hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.

Fishlight

Fishlight PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Told in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.

Bardo99

Bardo99 PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 1609401778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Depicting the 20th century as a character, this novel explores what happens when that character, dying, passes through a Bardo state—an intermediate state of the soul between death and rebirth.

Face

Face PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0930324900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.

Redoubt

Redoubt PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0930324862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Told in the voice of a lone holdout standing guard on an unnamed frontier, Redoubt addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war and the slouch toward Apocalypse. Structured like a series of jazz riffs, its thematic underpinnings are drawn in part from the dictionary definitions that introduce each section--back cover.

Show and Tell

Show and Tell PDF Author: Karen Christian
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826318312
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Book Description
What elements are present for a body of writing to be considered Latina/o? Through the analysis of nine recent Latina/o novels, Karen Christian melds the theory of "performativity" with the latest scholarship on ethnicity and ethnic literature to create a framework for viewing identity as a continuous process that cannot be reduced to static categories.

The Love Queen of the Amazon

The Love Queen of the Amazon PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780241131985
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Frieze

Frieze PDF Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
ISBN: 0930324919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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This poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse-artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work--a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave.

Bound by Love

Bound by Love PDF Author: Laura Mattoon D’Amore
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443831085
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Book Description
What does it mean to be bound by love? Sometimes, the bonds of love supply bliss, and sometimes they demand sacrifice. Sometimes, experiencing love saves people, and sometimes it kills them. Being bound by love often engenders moral responsibility; in other cases, it enslaves and imprisons the soul. American mythologies—especially those presented in film and television—perpetuate love as the central narrative of one’s life; the search for a connection forged by love permeates every facet of human existence, from our desire to be accepted, or our longing to be needed, to our fury at being rejected. Sometimes love is the stuff of happiness, fulfilling in every regard. But there are also times when love makes us do things we should not do; sometimes it turns us into people we do not want to become. The commonality between love that satisfies and love that destroys is the bond between people who open themselves to the vulnerability of love. Examination of the theme of familial bonds in film and television explores how the process of forming and maintaining those bonds complicates, revises, and reproduces ideas about love. The chapters in this book explore how the nature of bonds and familial responsibility inform a popular cultural dialogue about the changing nature of the American family over the past sixty years.

River Without a Cause

River Without a Cause PDF Author: Sam Moses
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365583
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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A riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt's "river of doubt" with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonder. Sam Moses took part in the adventure of a lifetime when he, along with seventeen men and two women, embarked on the Rio Roosevelt Expedition. They would follow the former president's wake down five-hundred miles of extreme whitewater into the dark heart of the Amazon. The party was guided by two chiefs from the Cinta Larga tribe—the same tribe that stalked Roosevelt’s expedition in 1914—who, between rapids, tell the story of the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. After the wildest whitewater is past, Moses travels with the chiefs to their village to witness the massive illegal mahogany logging from their forest, the Roosevelt Indigenous Territory. River Without a Cause puts us in the raft during those heart pounding rapid descents, as we experience the drama, dynamics and disputes between the Bull Moose and his co-leader, Brazil’s most famous explorer, the rigid Colonel Candido Rondon. As the Amazon stands on the precipiece of hope with the election of a new Brazillian president, River Without a Cause is a moving and galvanzing tale of adventure that is a fitting tribute to this world wonder.