Author: Stanley A. Vambe
Publisher: ShieldCrest
ISBN: 1911090275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Another insight into the intriguing township tales of yesteryear. Sylvia, (aka Mama Abi), the self-styled custodian of the ghetto morals, rules her roost with absolute sovereignty. Her children live in total submission and know not to contravene her code of conduct. Her Iron Lady demeanour however, inadvertently creates a chasm between her and her husband Njoro, who then resorts to the so called extra-curricular liaisons, in order to compensate for the deprivation of his conjugal rights. Sylvia, while lambasting her husband for his infidelity, plays the hypocrite when she succumbs to the carnal demands of her womanhood. She engages in an illicit affair and harbours a secret which only time reveals, after a rather strange sequence of events. Was it fate or mischief she wondered...? Football, with its plethora of talented players like George Shaya, Shaw Handriade, Majuta Mpofu, David Muchineripi and Shaky Tauro, becomes the equivalent of religion, with men, young and old, bowing unreservedly at its altar. Kamnolo, Sylvia s son, whom she loved and hated in equal measures, becomes disillusioned with the multi-layered conflicts within his family, and inevitably ends up experiencing his fair share of township misdemeanours. As much as it is an account of a dysfunctional family who seemed to thrive on high expressed emotion and conflict, this story is also a testament to the carthatic power of love and forgiveness.
Unsung but Unforgotten
Author: Stanley A. Vambe
Publisher: ShieldCrest
ISBN: 1911090275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Another insight into the intriguing township tales of yesteryear. Sylvia, (aka Mama Abi), the self-styled custodian of the ghetto morals, rules her roost with absolute sovereignty. Her children live in total submission and know not to contravene her code of conduct. Her Iron Lady demeanour however, inadvertently creates a chasm between her and her husband Njoro, who then resorts to the so called extra-curricular liaisons, in order to compensate for the deprivation of his conjugal rights. Sylvia, while lambasting her husband for his infidelity, plays the hypocrite when she succumbs to the carnal demands of her womanhood. She engages in an illicit affair and harbours a secret which only time reveals, after a rather strange sequence of events. Was it fate or mischief she wondered...? Football, with its plethora of talented players like George Shaya, Shaw Handriade, Majuta Mpofu, David Muchineripi and Shaky Tauro, becomes the equivalent of religion, with men, young and old, bowing unreservedly at its altar. Kamnolo, Sylvia s son, whom she loved and hated in equal measures, becomes disillusioned with the multi-layered conflicts within his family, and inevitably ends up experiencing his fair share of township misdemeanours. As much as it is an account of a dysfunctional family who seemed to thrive on high expressed emotion and conflict, this story is also a testament to the carthatic power of love and forgiveness.
Publisher: ShieldCrest
ISBN: 1911090275
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Another insight into the intriguing township tales of yesteryear. Sylvia, (aka Mama Abi), the self-styled custodian of the ghetto morals, rules her roost with absolute sovereignty. Her children live in total submission and know not to contravene her code of conduct. Her Iron Lady demeanour however, inadvertently creates a chasm between her and her husband Njoro, who then resorts to the so called extra-curricular liaisons, in order to compensate for the deprivation of his conjugal rights. Sylvia, while lambasting her husband for his infidelity, plays the hypocrite when she succumbs to the carnal demands of her womanhood. She engages in an illicit affair and harbours a secret which only time reveals, after a rather strange sequence of events. Was it fate or mischief she wondered...? Football, with its plethora of talented players like George Shaya, Shaw Handriade, Majuta Mpofu, David Muchineripi and Shaky Tauro, becomes the equivalent of religion, with men, young and old, bowing unreservedly at its altar. Kamnolo, Sylvia s son, whom she loved and hated in equal measures, becomes disillusioned with the multi-layered conflicts within his family, and inevitably ends up experiencing his fair share of township misdemeanours. As much as it is an account of a dysfunctional family who seemed to thrive on high expressed emotion and conflict, this story is also a testament to the carthatic power of love and forgiveness.
Reading Without Maps?
Author: Den Tandt Christophe (ed.)
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052012834
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Among the intellectual debates of the last forty years, the critique of cultural canons has attracted the highest share of public attention, stirring academic, educational, and media controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Postmodernism, feminism, postcolonialism, and multiculturalism have refashioned the attitudes of educators and audiences towards cultural memory, opening up curricula to subjects and traditions previously excluded from the humanities. Predictably, these new critical practices have triggered heated responses from commentators fearing that culture and education might thereby be deprived of their capacity to provide audiences and learners with proper groundings and landmarks. The present volume gathers contributions that throw light on multiple aspects of this reconfiguration of cultural memory. It brings together essays focusing on the dynamics of canon formation in several fields - literature, drama, film, and music. Contributors examine how writers and communities find their bearings in a cultural landscape more complex than that previously envisaged by advocates of the Great Tradition. Specifically, the present essays throw light on the status of modernist writing, drama in English, or popular genres within the new canonical topography elaborated at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052012834
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Among the intellectual debates of the last forty years, the critique of cultural canons has attracted the highest share of public attention, stirring academic, educational, and media controversies on both sides of the Atlantic. Postmodernism, feminism, postcolonialism, and multiculturalism have refashioned the attitudes of educators and audiences towards cultural memory, opening up curricula to subjects and traditions previously excluded from the humanities. Predictably, these new critical practices have triggered heated responses from commentators fearing that culture and education might thereby be deprived of their capacity to provide audiences and learners with proper groundings and landmarks. The present volume gathers contributions that throw light on multiple aspects of this reconfiguration of cultural memory. It brings together essays focusing on the dynamics of canon formation in several fields - literature, drama, film, and music. Contributors examine how writers and communities find their bearings in a cultural landscape more complex than that previously envisaged by advocates of the Great Tradition. Specifically, the present essays throw light on the status of modernist writing, drama in English, or popular genres within the new canonical topography elaborated at the turn of the twenty-first century.
The Collected Verse of Richard Wilson Moss
Author: Richard Wilson Moss
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430324910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A complete collection of RICHARD WILSON MOSS's poetry over a span of fourty years. Richard began writing poetry at the age of twelve. His journey as a poet is documented in an autobiographical journal, Northspur.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1430324910
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A complete collection of RICHARD WILSON MOSS's poetry over a span of fourty years. Richard began writing poetry at the age of twelve. His journey as a poet is documented in an autobiographical journal, Northspur.
Unsung Valor
Author: A. Cleveland Harrison
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Winner of the 2001 Forrest C. Pogue Prize from the Eisenhower Center for American Studies When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant eighteen-year-old Arkansas student sure that he would not make a good soldier. But inside thirty months he manfully bore arms and more. This book is his memoir about becoming a soldier, a common infantryman among the ranks of those who truly won the war. After the Allied victory in 1945, books by and about the major statesmen, generals, and heroes of World War II appeared regularly. Yet millions of American soldiers who helped achieve and secure victory slipped silently into civilian life, trying to forget the war and what they had done. Most remain unsung, for virtually none thought of themselves as exceptional. During the war ordinary soldiers had only done what they believed their country expected. Harrison's firsthand account is the full history of what happened to him in three units from 1943 to 1946, disclosing the sensibilities, the conflicting emotions, and the humor that coalesced within the naive draftee. He details the induction and basic training procedures, his student experiences in Army pre-engineering school, his infantry training and overseas combat, battle wounds and the complete medical pipeline of hospitalization and recovery, the waits in replacement depots, life in the Army of Occupation, and his discharge. Wrenched from college and denied the Army Specialized Training Program's promise of individual choice in assignment, students were thrust into the infantry. Harrison's memoir describes training in the Ninety-fourth Infantry Division in the U.S., their first combat holding action at Lorient, France, and the division's race to join Patton's Third Army, where Harrison's company was decimated, and he was wounded while attacking the Siegfried Line. Reassigned to the U.S. Group Control Council, he had a unique opportunity to observe both the highest echelons in military government and the ordinary soldiers as Allied troops occupied Berlin. This veteran's memoir reveals all aspects of military life and sings of those valorous but ordinary soldiers who achieved the victory.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801822
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Winner of the 2001 Forrest C. Pogue Prize from the Eisenhower Center for American Studies When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant eighteen-year-old Arkansas student sure that he would not make a good soldier. But inside thirty months he manfully bore arms and more. This book is his memoir about becoming a soldier, a common infantryman among the ranks of those who truly won the war. After the Allied victory in 1945, books by and about the major statesmen, generals, and heroes of World War II appeared regularly. Yet millions of American soldiers who helped achieve and secure victory slipped silently into civilian life, trying to forget the war and what they had done. Most remain unsung, for virtually none thought of themselves as exceptional. During the war ordinary soldiers had only done what they believed their country expected. Harrison's firsthand account is the full history of what happened to him in three units from 1943 to 1946, disclosing the sensibilities, the conflicting emotions, and the humor that coalesced within the naive draftee. He details the induction and basic training procedures, his student experiences in Army pre-engineering school, his infantry training and overseas combat, battle wounds and the complete medical pipeline of hospitalization and recovery, the waits in replacement depots, life in the Army of Occupation, and his discharge. Wrenched from college and denied the Army Specialized Training Program's promise of individual choice in assignment, students were thrust into the infantry. Harrison's memoir describes training in the Ninety-fourth Infantry Division in the U.S., their first combat holding action at Lorient, France, and the division's race to join Patton's Third Army, where Harrison's company was decimated, and he was wounded while attacking the Siegfried Line. Reassigned to the U.S. Group Control Council, he had a unique opportunity to observe both the highest echelons in military government and the ordinary soldiers as Allied troops occupied Berlin. This veteran's memoir reveals all aspects of military life and sings of those valorous but ordinary soldiers who achieved the victory.
Napoleon
Author: William Richard Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Writings on My Soul
Author: Fungai O Maboreke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524620440
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Its about word manipulation Through lyrical fornication. To speak about: the faces and places I have seen and been. the people I meet and greet, through dating, mating, relating about living amongst forests and speaking to trees listening to the ocean and feeling the winds cool breeze its about humanity, social justice and peace about balancing difference through wisdom and mentality of freedom and equality. Between man and woman, white or black about ethos and ethics. when we heed to biased silent voices we become products of those choices prisoners of our selfish vices.. its about this lifes ups and those rock bottom downs through genuine, forced smiles and beyond frowns This is a celebration of my life, others and more. Through love, pain, life death. Simply, the writings on my soul. The spirits do speak to me, sometimes!
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524620440
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Its about word manipulation Through lyrical fornication. To speak about: the faces and places I have seen and been. the people I meet and greet, through dating, mating, relating about living amongst forests and speaking to trees listening to the ocean and feeling the winds cool breeze its about humanity, social justice and peace about balancing difference through wisdom and mentality of freedom and equality. Between man and woman, white or black about ethos and ethics. when we heed to biased silent voices we become products of those choices prisoners of our selfish vices.. its about this lifes ups and those rock bottom downs through genuine, forced smiles and beyond frowns This is a celebration of my life, others and more. Through love, pain, life death. Simply, the writings on my soul. The spirits do speak to me, sometimes!
The River Home
Author: Franklin Burroughs
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland and the people who inhabit the banks of the Waccamaw River.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820319988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Burroughs chronicles a canoe voyage through the Carolinas, visiting his ancestral homeland and the people who inhabit the banks of the Waccamaw River.
Night Music
Author: L. E. Sissman
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395925706
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American original. (A Mariner Original)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395925706
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Selected by Peter Davison with an introduction by Edward Hirsch. Sissman was a true phenomenon in American poetry. He published his first book, a collection of antic, autobiographical episodes in blank verse, in 1968. Eight years and three books later, he died of Hodgkin's disease at the age of forty-eight. Of Sissman's remarkable final poems John Updike wrote, "What other poet had ever given such wry and unblinking witness to his own dying? His poetry gave back to life more generously than he had received, and carried his beautiful wit into darkness undimmed." Now Sissman's longtime editor, Peter Davison, has selected from his lifework the essential poems--the essence of an American original. (A Mariner Original)
Nature in Books
Author: Peter Anderson Graham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Unsung
Author: Maud Diver
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh ; London : W. Blackwood
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description