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Book In the Dream House

Download or read book In the Dream House written by Carmen Maria Machado and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Book From Mythic to Linear

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Nikolajeva
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0810849526
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book From Mythic to Linear written by Maria Nikolajeva and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this radically new approach to text typology, Maria Nikolajeva examines the depiction of time in literature for children.

Book The Hard Facts of the Grimms  Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Hard Facts of the Grimms Fairy Tales written by Maria Tatar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. Children's literature? -- 1. Sex and violence : the hard core of fairy tales -- 2. Fact and fantasy : the art of reading fairy tales -- 3. Victims and seekers : the family romance of fairy tales -- II. Heroes -- 4. Born yesterday : The spear side -- 5. Spinning tales : the distaff side -- III. Villains -- 6. From nags to witches : stepmothers and other ogres -- 7. Taming the beast : Bluebeard and other monsters -- Epilogue : getting even -- Appendixes -- A. Six fairy tales from the Nursery and household tales, with commentary -- B. Selected tales from the first edition of the Nursery and household tales -- C. Prefaces to the first and second editions of the Nursery and household tales -- D. English titles, tale numbers, and German titles of stories cited -- E. Bibliographical note.

Book Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion

Download or read book Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion written by María de Zayas y Sotomayor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of María de Zayas’s popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas’s signature topics—gender equality and domestic violence—written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative Counter-Reformation ideology. This edition updates the scholarship since the most recent English translations, with a new introduction to Zayas’s entire body of stories, and restores Zayas’s author’s note and prologue, omitted from previous English-language editions. Tracing her slow but steady progress from notions of ideal love to love’s treachery, Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion will restore Zayas to her rightful place in modern letters.

Book The Queen of Water

Download or read book The Queen of Water written by Laura Resau and published by Ember. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of I Am Malala comes this poignant novel based on the true story of one girl's unforgettable journey to self-discovery. *An ALA Amelia Bloomer Selection* *An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book* Born in an Andean village in Ecuador, Virginia lives with her family in a small, earthen-walled dwelling. In her Indigenous community, it is not uncommon to work in the fields all day, even as a child, or to be called a longa tonta—stupid Indian—by members of the privileged class of mestizos, or Spanish descendants. When seven-year-old Virginia is taken from her home to be a servant to a mestizo couple, she has no idea what the future holds. In this poignant novel based on her own story, the inspiring María Virginia Farinango has collaborated with acclaimed author Laura Resau to recount one girl's unforgettable journey to find her place in the world. It will make you laugh and cry, and ultimately, it will fill you with hope.

Book Domestic tales  containing The merchant s wife and her sister

Download or read book Domestic tales containing The merchant s wife and her sister written by Mary JOHNSTON (Author of the Lairds of Glenfern.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domestic Secrets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Ågren
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0807833207
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Domestic Secrets written by Maria Ågren and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a s

Book The Antijacobin Review  True Churchman s Magazine  and Protestant Advocate

Download or read book The Antijacobin Review True Churchman s Magazine and Protestant Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cockfight

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Fernanda Ampuero
  • Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 1936932830
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Cockfight written by Maria Fernanda Ampuero and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a "grotesque, unflinching" portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it.

Book The New American Cyclopaedia

Download or read book The New American Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First Woman in the Republic

Download or read book The First Woman in the Republic written by Carolyn L. Karcher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.

Book The New American Cyclop  dia

Download or read book The New American Cyclop dia written by George Ripley and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Take It As a Compliment

Download or read book Take It As a Compliment written by Maria Stoian and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After interviewing and receiving anonymous messages from women and men across the globe who have experienced sexual abuse and harassment, Maria Stoian has illustrated their experiences in this powerful collective graphic memoir to express the complex emotions felt by victims of sexual abuse and explore what needs to change.

Book Belinda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Edgeworth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1811
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Belinda written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Domestic Journal

Download or read book The Domestic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romantic Women Writers Reviewed  Part I Vol 1

Download or read book Romantic Women Writers Reviewed Part I Vol 1 written by Ann R Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.