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Download or read book Eastern African Literatures written by Russell West-Pavlov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental literary tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern African writers such as Ngũgĩ to include a host of more recent, less-publicized novelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or Mauritian or Madagascan traditions. Rather than simply addressing national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the 'proximate' rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production. In this way, the book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global South.

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Download or read book Umbilicans of Babylon written by Richard Leviton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever think about solid ground? The author of this book does, a lot. Providing solid ground for consciousness is the umbilican function, he says. On January 1, 2020, the long-awaited Golden Age began. So did intense opposition to it from the shadows. It was like a thousand iron heels trying to stamp out spring blossoms. The dark forces exerted their manipulations in the outer world. The angelic contingent counterpointed in the subtle realm. The Earth wobbled. This is an insider’s report from three men who worked alongside the “good guys” to adjust the planet’s Light grid to better support the flowering of human consciousness that had been intended for this date and to resist, even undermine, the infernal opposition. These “good guy” benefactors included angels, archangels, the Great White Brotherhood, even some of the friendly Dead. Ronald, our narrator, with Joe and Mike, his dependable pals, call themselves geomantic engineers. They work on the Light grid, the subtle energy infrastructure of the Earth that supports the material world. They’re like electric utility pole linemen, up there in their extendable buckets, but their main tools are clairvoyance and knowledge of the mechanics of the planet’s many Light temples and systems. Ronald provides a vivid field account of an astonishing array of geomantic interventions and “adjustments” made in the last several years to shore up that potentially fabulous Golden Age, despite the dark forces’ protracted attempts to derail and smash it. The struggle reveals an Earth like you’ve never seen before. Our planet was designed to keep consciousness aligned with the spiritual world, galaxy, and beyond. People were supposed to feel firmly anchored in their bodies and planet. The Earth was meant to be the “gate of the gods,” the original pure meaning of Babylon. In recent centuries, that smooth reciprocal relationship has been upset. Light forces are trying to uplift awareness, dark forces to suppress it. Jump into Ronald’s riveting account to see how it all plays out.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature written by Gigi Adair and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory trajectories, lives, and experiences that have shaped the post-1989 world. The contributors examine a broad range of literary texts and critical approaches that cover the spectrum between voluntary and forced migration. In doing so, they reflect the shift in recent years from the author-centric study of migrant writing to a more inclusive conception of migration literature. The book contains sections on key terms and critical approaches in the field; important genres of migration literature; a range of forms and trajectories of migration, with a particular focus on the global South; and on migration literature’s relevance in social contexts outside the academy. Its range of scholarly voices on literature from different geographical contexts and in different languages is central to its call for and contribution to a pluriversal turn in literary migration studies in future scholarship. This Companion will be of particular interest to scholars working on contemporary migration literature, and it also offers an introduction to new students and scholars from other fields. Chapter 15 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Download or read book Somewhere Beyond written by Aline Riva and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-17 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris is searching for her best friend Ava, who has gone missing. Unknown to Iris, Ava has opened a gateway to another world, and if she ever finds them again she will be horrified at what they have become. Against the advice of Caitlin, a local white witch, Iris goes in search of her best friend, but her investigations will drag her into another world - a place where the inhabitants are strangely demonic yet magical - a place where she will meet Rain, a kind and ambitious Lord who is waiting to rule the land and make changes to the damage done by his sister Feather, but the Queen is reluctant to give up her throne and will stop at nothing to hold on to power. But Rain has a dark and terrible secret about his people and his own past that he can not hide from Iris forever, and when she discovers the truth Rain will not seem like the prince she first imagines him to be...

Download or read book Igniting the Internet written by Jiyeon Kang and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​Igniting the Internet is one of the first books to examine in depth the development and consequences of Internet-born politics in the twenty-first century. It takes up the new wave of South Korean youth activism that originated online in 2002, when the country’s dynamic cyberspace transformed a vehicular accident involving two U.S. servicemen into a national furor that compelled many Koreans to reexamine the fifty-year relationship between the two countries. Responding to the accident, which ended in the deaths of two high school students, technologically savvy youth went online to organize demonstrations that grew into nightly rallies across the nation. Internet-born, youth-driven mass protest has since become a familiar and effective repertoire for activism in South Korea, even as the rest of the world has struggled to find its feet with this emerging model of political involvement. Igniting the Internet focuses on the cultural dynamics that have allowed the Internet to bring issues rapidly to public attention and exert influence on both domestic and international politics. The author combines a robust analysis of online communities with nuanced interview data to theorize a “cultural ignition process”—the mechanisms and implications for popular politics in volatile Internet-driven activism—in South Korea and beyond. She offers a unique perspective on how local actors experience and remember the cultural dynamics of Internet-born activism and how these experiences shape the political identities of a generation who has essentially come of age in cyberspace, the so-called digital natives or millennials. South Korea’s debates on the nature of youth-driven Internet protest reverberated around the world following the events in Tahrir Square in 2010 and Zuccotti Park in 2011. Igniting the Internetoffers numerous points of comparison with countries following a path of technological development and urban youth formation similar to that of South Korea with a thorough consideration of general structural changes and locally specific triggers for Internet activism. Readers interested in social movement theory and new media in social context as well as students and scholars of Korean studies will find the work both far-reaching and insightful.

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Download or read book True Colors written by Constance L. Lubbert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clighton and his sister Sheigh have been the king and queen of Red since the murder of their parents many years ago. They have always been happy, but that happiness and the future of their kingdom are now in jeopardy. Strange soldiers of doubtful Color have begun infiltrating their homeland. Sheigh loves the Red and her brother, but perhaps she loves the young prince of Orange more. Clighton knows he must remain true to his Colors, but is haunted by the image of the Blue. Both of them know that they must find the origin of the strange new Color that threatens their security, their happiness, and their future. Who is this enemy? What does he want? And what are his True Colors?

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Download or read book Feng Shui Demystified written by Clear Englebert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feng Shui Demystified Feng Shui Demystified is one of the most understandable books written on feng shui. It was originally published by The Crossing Press in 2000 and became one of their best selling books. Readers say, "This is the first time feng shui made sense." This new edition is greatly revised and expanded to include more illustrations, situations, solutions, and success stories. One of the most useful new sections is the Checklist for Moving. Feng Shui Demystified is one of the The book explains why certain environments are conducive to harmony, prosperity, and health, and how to create those environments. It teaches how to minimize conflicts and arguments by avoiding the factors that signify their presence in your life. The book examines the many obstacles that prevent a person from reaching their highest potential. It shows how to develop conscious awareness of the obstacles, minimize their effect, and remove them when possible. It explores the energy and symbolism of objects and how those aspects affect their placement. It is especially sensitive to renters who often have very little control over their home. Feng Shui Demystified is one of the The writing is concise and powerful. When a problem is described, multiple solutions are always suggested. It explains the feng shui rules while encouraging you to cultivate your intuition and act on it. Author Clear Englebert draws from his own experience as a feng shui consultant to walk you through your home (and yard, and workplace, and even the car) with a consultant's eye. You will learn to observe how chi (Universal Energy) flows in and around your homewhere it is vibrant, where it stagnates, and where it picks up a negative charge. The book is a practical how-to guide rich with specific advice, including evocative explanations of the symbolic thought underlying feng shui concepts. The emphasis is on those concepts most accessible to the Western mind, and on those solutions most available to the modern reader.

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