Download or read book Call Me by My Rightful Name written by Michael Shurtleff and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1961 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: An honest, moving and courageous drama set in the early 1960s about two Columbia students rooming together in New York: Doug, a white, rebellious, young man; and Paul, an African-American. When the two disagree on their defi-nitions of l
Download or read book Call Me by My Rightful Name written by Isidore Okpewho and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young African American falls into periodic spasms and chants a text that nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from the Yoruba of Nigeria. The doctor advises a trip to that ethnic region. The spiritual voices that have been summoning Otis finally bring him to the spot where his ancestor was enslaved over a century before. Two years on, armed with a recovered identity and a chastened wisdom, Otis returns to the U.S. to join the 1960s civil rights struggle.
Download or read book I Only Say This Because I Love You written by Deborah Tannen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages —unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom. This eye-opening book explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers; and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters; why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives; and much, much more. By helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.
Download or read book Impresario written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dancing Revelations written by Thomas DeFrantz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses concerns about how dance performance is documented, including issues around spectatorship and the display of sexuality, the relationship of Ailey's dances to civil rights activism, and the establishment and maintenance of a successful, large-scale Black Arts institution."--Jacket.
Download or read book Confessions of a Prodical Daughter written by Katie McDaniel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up, Elyza felt like she was the black sheep of the family. She would always try and pour her love onto them, and to always try to do her best in school, but it always felt like her best was never good enough for them, and that whenever she wanted a hug, hugs were just not their “thing”. It felt like her parents were more focused on her sisters for some things than others. When she got to college, it was practically problematic roommates, scandalous coeds, and really trying to figure out if there was one major that she could focus on for a career that she could do for the rest of her life. As an adult, well, Elyza had quite the adventures with some of her trips that she went on with scandalous tour guides, people taking advantage of her, and getting quite the ailments. She also had quite the trouble finding her perfect job. Will Elyza ever find her perfect job, and finally be happy with her life, or is she doomed to always have one heartache after another? Find out as you read this one very interesting story of one girl’s life.
Download or read book I Hope I Look that Good when I m that Old written by Dona L. Irvin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book repeats compliments to the author and her chronological mates from younger women who recognize something in their presence that engenders consideration of a gratifying existence beyond middle age. The chapters describe Dona Irvin's journey from childhood to older age, facing individual milestones that improved every stage of development, and her victories over low esteem through a long marriage, sustained friendships, a successful career, and a comforting spiritual foundation. The author explores her attitudes about evolving personal and societal conditions, spirituality, sexuality, and the uncertainties of the elder years. This book is the story of the continuing pleasures and the real challenges of life as an elder.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories written by Adetayo Alabi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories discusses the oral life stories and poems that Africans, particularly the Yoruba people, have told about the self and community over hundreds of years. Disproving the Eurocentric argument that Africans didn’t produce stories about themselves, the author showcases a vibrant literary tradition of oral autobiographies in Africa and the diaspora. The oral auto/biographies studied in this book show that stories and poems about individuals and their communities have always existed in various African societies and they were used to record, teach, and document history, culture, tradition, identity, and resistance. Genres covered in the book include the panegyric, witches’ and wizards’ narratives, the epithalamium tradition, the hunter’s chant, and Udje of the Urhobo. Providing an important showcase for oral narrative traditions this book will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers in African and Africana studies, literature and auto/biographical studies.
Download or read book African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources written by Alice Bellagamba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.
Download or read book Kathleen and the Priests written by Lord Gittoes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Kathleen the Waif’, as she had become known was revered throughout Britain as the instigating inspiration for one of the World’s largest Charities. ‘White Angel’ caring for the poor. Was she a Saint or a sinner? --- A prostitute or prude? The clues are in these pages, it’s up to the reader to decide. She fled her childhood home at the age of sixteen after an attempted rape by her father. She prostituted herself for six months simply to survive. Her Father was charged with murder and suspected of being Jack the Ripper. A benefactor picked her up, they married and migrated to Australia where she bore three children, before her husband decided that he had alternative sexual urges. He eloped with his boyfriend, leaving her destitute. Her eldest daughter fell to paedophile Priests. KATP. Contains Rape, Murder, Paedophilia, Prostitution, Adultery, Mafia, Graft and Corruption. The other side of the ledger—record-- Tender love scenes, Joy, Happiness, Births, Achievements, and Wealth. Categorising this novel as an adult read. The waif had kept prostitution in her past secret, she was exposed on a trip to London and heralded as a heroine she was to be nominated for Canonisation. Which was debunked; whether fairly or unfairly, even the author can’t decide. But readers of KATP will form their own opinion. The highs and lows of Kathleen the Waif story must be told.
Download or read book Power written by Linda Hogan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our best Native American writers, author of "Solar Storms", presents a mythical, far-reaching masterpiece about a young girl at a crossroads, who must determine her place in the world.
Download or read book Read My Lips written by Sally Kellerman and published by Weinstein Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sally Kellerman explores her life and career, and also examines how Hollywood itself has changed over the years.
Download or read book Entertainment Awards written by Don Franks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What show won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 1984? Who won the Oscar as Best Director in 1929? What actor won the Best Actor Obie for his work in Futz in 1967? Who was named “Comedian of the Year” by the Country Music Association in 1967? Whose album was named “Record of the Year” by the American Music Awards in 1991? What did the National Broadway Theatre Awards name as the “Best Musical” in 2003? This thoroughly updated, revised and “highly recommended” (Library Journal) reference work lists over 15,000 winners of twenty major entertainment awards: the Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy, Country Music Association, New York Film Critics, Pulitzer Prize for Theater, Tony, Obie, New York Drama Critic’s Circle, Prime Time Emmy, Daytime Emmy, the American Music Awards, the Drama Desk Awards, the National Broadway Theatre Awards (touring Broadway plays), the National Association of Broadcasters Awards, the American Film Institute Awards and Peabody. Production personnel and special honors are also provided.
Download or read book We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live written by Joan Didion and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and “compassionate conservatism,” among others–show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.
Download or read book Past Redemption written by George Melville Baker and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touchstones written by Dr. Robin S. Shapiro and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays and poems, Dr. Robin Shapiro captures the depth of the struggles and the triumphs of a healing journey. Using her own healing path as a canvas for her words, Robin offers solace and encouragement to all who are seeking health, wellness, and happiness. Her experiences in medicine have provided rich soil for understanding the nature of compassion and skilled listening, as the people she cares for and teaches heal their lives. Throughout TOUCHSTONES, there is something that will resonate with the reader and touch those wounded places that need a soft space to land. Robin creates a healing landscape with her stories and places it on the heart as a salve that mends us in the broken places. TOUCHSTONES is a call to action... Since everything is impermanent and everyone is impermanent, healing must unfold now... TOUCHSTONES will help the reader become more aware of how precious this human life is and move in the world in a way that can bring about inner peace...
