Author: Ana Castillo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826363202
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world—the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency—and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.
My Book of the Dead
Author: Ana Castillo
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826363202
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world—the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency—and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826363202
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of our world—the environmental crisis, COVID-19, ongoing systemic racism and violence, children in detention camps, and the Trump presidency—and emerges stronger from exploring these troubling affairs of today. Drawings by Castillo created over the past five years are featured throughout the collection and further showcase her connection to her work as both a writer and a visual artist. My Book of the Dead is a remarkable collection that features a poet at the height of her craft.
Chapman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Narrative Form
Author: Suzanne Keen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137439599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137439599
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions.
Empathy and the Novel
Author: Suzanne Keen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884145
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debates and illustrates the techniques that invite empathetic response. She argues that the perception of fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy in part by releasing them from the guarded responses necessitated by the demands of real others. Narrative empathy is a strategy and subject of contemporary novelists from around the world, writers who tacitly endorse the potential universality of human emotions when they call upon their readers' empathy. If narrative empathy is to be taken seriously, Keen suggests, then women's reading and responses to popular fiction occupy a central position in literary inquiry, and cognitive literary studies should extend its range beyond canonical novels. In short, Keen's study extends the playing field for literature practitioners, causing it to resemble more closely that wide open landscape inhabited by readers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884145
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Does empathy felt while reading fiction actually cultivate a sense of connection, leading to altruistic actions on behalf of real others? Empathy and the Novel presents a comprehensive account of the relationships among novel reading, empathy, and altruism. Drawing on psychology, narrative theory, neuroscience, literary history, philosophy, and recent scholarship in discourse processing, Keen brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. Empathy robustly enters into affective responses to fiction, yet its role in shaping the behavior of emotional readers has been debated for three centuries. Keen surveys these debates and illustrates the techniques that invite empathetic response. She argues that the perception of fictiveness increases the likelihood of readers' empathy in part by releasing them from the guarded responses necessitated by the demands of real others. Narrative empathy is a strategy and subject of contemporary novelists from around the world, writers who tacitly endorse the potential universality of human emotions when they call upon their readers' empathy. If narrative empathy is to be taken seriously, Keen suggests, then women's reading and responses to popular fiction occupy a central position in literary inquiry, and cognitive literary studies should extend its range beyond canonical novels. In short, Keen's study extends the playing field for literature practitioners, causing it to resemble more closely that wide open landscape inhabited by readers.
Transgression and Taboo
Author: Nandita Batra
Publisher: College English Association Caribbean Chapter Publications
ISBN:
Category : Taboo in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: College English Association Caribbean Chapter Publications
ISBN:
Category : Taboo in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
In Another Place, Not Here
Author: Dionne Brand
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307368548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307368548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile.
Boats on Land
Author: Janice Pariat
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions. Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184003390
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions. Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.
It Begins with Tears
Author: Opal Palmer Adisa
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435989460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This novel is set in the stone-breaking harshness of South Africa's island prison.
Publisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435989460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This novel is set in the stone-breaking harshness of South Africa's island prison.
Sacred Possessions
Author: Margarite Fernández Olmos
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
For review see: Joseph M. Murphy, in HAHR : The Hispanic American Historical Review, 78, 3 (August 1998); p. 495-496.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523613
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
For review see: Joseph M. Murphy, in HAHR : The Hispanic American Historical Review, 78, 3 (August 1998); p. 495-496.
Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh
Author: Greg Thomas
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a critical, cultural study of radical sexual politics in a contemporary Hip-Hop lyricism -- what the author refers to as Hip-Hop’s "QUEEN B@#$H’ lyricism.”
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This is a critical, cultural study of radical sexual politics in a contemporary Hip-Hop lyricism -- what the author refers to as Hip-Hop’s "QUEEN B@#$H’ lyricism.”