Author: Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield
Publisher: Kepler Press
ISBN: 0971377014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Nicole Stamant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000594572
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging provides a fresh look at the complex dialogue of race and identity in memoir, examining three generations of biracial African Americans’ experiences in their autobiographies. Exploring writers from James McBride and Shirlee Taylor Haizlip to Barack Obama, Toi Dericotte, Natasha Trethway, Rebecca Walker, and Emily Raboteau, this volume explores the ways in which these memoirists refute terms regarding race and simple understandings of belonging, using their contested embodied positions as sites for narration, quest, and protest. Organized chronologically, this volume will provide readers insight into memoirs from Jim Crow America to the Civil Rights period and finally those considering the post-soul (and post-Loving v. Virginia) generation. Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging interrogates these difficult spaces surrounding identity construction, encouraging new conversations surrounding visibility of mixed-race individuals and experiences for future generations. Through archives and personal testimony, this book provides a model for interweaving theoretical and personal accounts of color in American culture to encourage discussions that transgress disciplinary boundaries in the today’s dialogue.

Author: S. Salim Shihab
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Memoirs of the Phenomenal Primex: Book 1: That Time I was Sun Wukong by S. Salim Shihab

Author: Deborah DeNicola
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN: 0892545593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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A dynamic blend of history, science, psychology, dreams, and visions, Deborah DeNicola's memoir is a compelling account of self-discovery that is provocative and humble. A poet, dream analyst, and college professor DeNicola writes about her struggle to live in the ordinary world of academia while honoring the competing call of the creative and the spiritual. DeNicola's memoir shows her range of intellectual pursuits and spiritual experiences as she battles an inner war between depressive cynicism and faith and shares her lifelong search to heal the trauma of her father's tragic death when she was a teenager. Struggles between cynicism and faith, depression and hope, independence and attachment, creativity and financial security in the midst of spiritual searching, motherhood, teaching and writing are inextricably woven into the fabric of her story. Sharing the process of her awakening and how dreams and visions guide her, DeNicola stirs readers to listen courageously to their own inner voices. Her visionary quest takes her to the American West, Israel, and Southern France. Along the way she weaves together references from the Bible and the Gnostic Gospels, the story of Mary Magdalene, medieval history, the Templar Knights, the Black Madonnas, String Theory and quantum physics to find the repeated linkage between divinity and humanity.

Author: Rochelle Tobias
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803215924
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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"Pseudo-Memoir explores the twentieth-century return of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century"--

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250342236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay “Royal Bodies,” on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.

Author: Katherine Flannery Dering
Publisher: Bridgeross Communications
ISBN: 192763721X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This true story brings to life the experiences of one large family before and after the onset of mental illness. Using a mix of narrative, photographs, emails and pictures of various cherished objects, the book takes the reader into the author's world of caring for her younger brother Paul, who suffered from schizophrenia and then lung cancer. "So powerful and emotional" Ann Cloonan, Director, Bedford Free Library, Bedford, NY

Author: Darren Hollinshead
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1447517059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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The final entry in the series covered by Jason Sacis. His attempts to end the Lotarian war had cost him more than he would've liked. His final entry covers his time in the Expanse. The space between our galaxies, which had never been explored by any human. His only problem is lacking the ability to return home. The Dauntarians who are his allies are their only hope. In the time that passes, the crew of the station and Relay construction site start to act strange. Their attitudes worsen and Jason begins to see something familiar about it. He feels compelled to try and solve the mystery behind everyone's behaviour. In his attempts he faces mass hallucinations and chaos. In this madness now gripping his friends and loved ones, he finds a signal in space. This leads him to the Dauntarian stronghold Achilles. Believing that the danger came from here, he boards to end it. Little to his knowledge, the greatest creation of those he calls allies lies in wait and also his greatest challenge.

Author: Deb Everson Borofka
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440180334
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Why is the memoir genre so important? What is it that drives us to tell our own stories? The ancient Greek myth of Goddess Memory, and her daughters, the Muses, offers new ways to re-enter the stories of our lives and shape them in surprising ways. Mnemosyne's birthing of the Muses underscores her commitment to express all of the facets of her personal story: grief, joy, love, body, breath, history, spirituality, reverie, and humor. The memoirist follows Mnemosyne's imaginal lineage in crafting all memoirs. Memories live in matter, in the very cells of our bodies. Writing our life stories allows us to consider the content of our experiences, the plurality of perspectives from which we can choose to shape them, and the use that we want to make of them. We may choose to write for many reasons, psychological, physical, and cultural healing being just a few. This book suggests the exploration of an imaginable field is possible when we look at how figures from Greek mythology continue to inspire contemporary life writing.

Author: Thomas Larson
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0804011001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal narrative urge writers to face the intimacies of the self and ask what is true. In The Memoir and the Memoirist, critic and memoirist Thomas Larson explores the craft and purpose of writing this new form. Larson guides the reader from the autobiography and the personal essay to the memoir--a genre focused on a particularly emotional relationship in the author's past, an intimate story concerned more with who is remembering, and why, than with what is remembered. The Memoir and the Memoirist touches on the nuances of memory, of finding and telling the truth, and of disclosing one's deepest self. It explores the craft and purpose of personal narrative by looking in detail at more than a dozen examples by writers such as Mary Karr, Frank McCourt, Dave Eggers, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Mark Doty, Nuala O'Faolain, Rick Bragg, and Joseph Lelyveld to show what they reveal about themselves. Larson also opens up his own writing and that of his students to demonstrate the hidden mechanics of the writing process. For both the interested reader of memoir and the writer wrestling with the craft, The Memoir and the Memoirist provides guidance and insight into the many facets of this provocative and popular art form.