Author: Stephen Gallagher
Publisher: Gateway
ISBN: 1473225884
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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The woman in the red dress. He called it the painted bride. Pippa showed the picture to her father and her father called the police. They had Jack in a room all yesterday and kept asking him about it. Now they're all trying to twist it by saying it means something." "What are they trying to say?" "That he must have seen her lying on the kitchen floor. That the rainbow means he saw her blood come out.
Author: Yaba Blay
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807073369
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines who is Black and who is not? Who’s Black, who’s not, and who cares? In the United States, a Black person has come to be defined as any person with any known Black ancestry. Statutorily referred to as “the rule of hypodescent,” this definition of Blackness is more popularly known as the “one-drop rule,” meaning that a person with any trace of Black ancestry, however small or (in)visible, cannot be considered White. A method of social order that began almost immediately after the arrival of enslaved Africans in America, by 1910 it was the law in almost all southern states. At a time when the one-drop rule functioned to protect and preserve White racial purity, Blackness was both a matter of biology and the law. One was either Black or White. Period. Has the social and political landscape changed one hundred years later? One Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Although contributors use varying terms to self-identify, they all see themselves as part of the larger racial, cultural, and social group generally referred to as Black. They have all had their identity called into question simply because they do not fit neatly into the stereotypical “Black box”—dark skin, “kinky” hair, broad nose, full lips, etc. Most have been asked “What are you?” or the more politically correct “Where are you from?” throughout their lives. It is through contributors’ lived experiences with and lived imaginings of Black identity that we can visualize multiple possibilities for Blackness.
Author: Charles Bukowski
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006177121X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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In the literary pantheon, Charles Bukowski remains a counterculture luminary. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he has struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women in an authentic voice that is, like the work of the Beats, iconoclastic and even dangerous. Edited by his longtime publisher, John Martin, of Black Sparrow Press, and now in paperback, The Continual Condition includes more of this legend’s never-before-collected poems.
Author: L. L. Chaikin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780736900041
Category : Christian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Award-winning novelist Linda Chaikin brings her series to a rousing conclusion in the fast-paced trilogy with a grand finale complete with sword fighting, sea battles, and the quest for silver.
Author: G.A. Mendoza
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145009550X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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In his latest work, g.a. mendoza looks at cycle of lifes most emotional issues. Views on belief and faith, life and death; the loss of love or the love of life all spark something within us. The beauty of the imagery captives and fl ows as his thoughts bring both passion and animation to feelings we all share and sometimes quietly hide. Its modern poetry at its edgy fi nest with a fl avor of classic art with a splash of sexy.
Author: Hannah Westley
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042023988
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois and Orlan - to articulate the twentieth century's radical revisions of subjectivity that originated from and returned to representations of the word, the image, and the body. This volume will be of interest to students of both French Literature and Art History, particularly those who are interested in the interdisciplinary exchanges between visual arts and literature.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Author: Peter Carnahan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479735620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 775
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WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE WORK, volume three of an autobiography by Peter Carnahan, covers the 18-plus years the author worked as Director of the Theatre and Literature Programs of The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This time, from 1972 to 1991, was a period of enormous growth for the arts in Pennsylvania and the nation. Reflecting that growth, the PCA budget grew from $286,000 to $12 million during the period. During the second decade covered by this volume, Carnahan began his next career, as a writer, publishing his first nonfiction book in 1989.
Author: Louis McKee
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589980709
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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