Download or read book Scoundrels of Deferral written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When new worlds are unfamiliar, when the terrain appears treacherous, when choices and their consequences are daunting, is it better to trust instinct and act or to sit down and think everything through? Scoundrels of Deferral is a collection of poems penned by two writers who seek to discover and animate what may be urgent in reflection itself. The poetry of Toyin Falola and Vik Bahl emerges from the experiences of dislocation, the unpredictability of good intentions and grand ambitions, the unrelenting longing for connection and community, and the determination to reinvent traditions and foundations to recreate the wholeness of fractured worlds. Theirs is an honest witnessing of loss, perplexity and violence, but also a commemoration of desire, hope and joy. Here is a poetry where acknowledgment, gratitude and mischief may serve as the basis for purposeful labor, emergent leadership, and fulfilled social being.
Download or read book Decolonizing African Knowledge written by Toyin Falola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.
Download or read book Nigerian Literary Imagination and the Nationhood Project written by Toyin Falola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how modern Nigerian fiction is rooted in writers’ understanding of their identity and perception of Nigeria as a country and home. Surveying a broad range of authors and texts, the book shows how these fictionalized representations of Nigeria reveal authentic perceptions of Nigeria’s history and culture today. Many of the lessons in these works of literature provide cautionary tales and critiques of Nigeria, as well as an examination of the lasting impact of colonialism. Furthermore, the book presents the nation as both the framework and subject of its narrative. By conducting literary analyses of Nigerian fiction with historical reference points, this work demonstrates how Nigerian literature can convey profound themes and knowledge that resonates with audiences, teaching Nigerians and non-Nigerians about the colonial and postcolonial experience. The chapters cover topics on nationhood, women’s writing, postcolonial modernity, and Nigerian literature in the digital age.
Download or read book Imagining Vernacular Histories written by Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola’s reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of “ritual archives,” the contributors to this volume rethink the historical archive in search of vernacular histories. Simultaneously, they recognize the contributions from various other disciplines in pluralizing the term vernacular. The book brings together a wide range of topics, such as reflections on African historiography; the relationship between memory, history and literature; gender relations; and the construction of historical archives. While appropriating Falola’s conception of vernacular histories, the contributors collectively argue that pluriversality and ritual archives can potentially rescue African historical and creative scholarship from the sustained practices of epistemicide. Simultaneously, Imagining Vernacular Histories focuses on the emerging interdisciplinary conversations on constructing the pluriverse as well as on the geopolitics of knowledge production. Through a critical appreciation of Falola’s engagement with the ideas of postcoloniality, decolonizing epistemologies, and pluriversality, this book locates his scholarship in relation to postcolonial theory emerging from the Global South.
Download or read book Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies written by A. Bangura and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Falola's work.
Download or read book Scribes and Scoundrels written by George Galt and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual entanglements, the libel suit of the decade, an accusation of plagiarism, and a sudden suicide layer this witty, acid-tongued journey through the Canadian media world of the 1990s.
Download or read book Etches on Fresh Waters written by Toyin Falola and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etches on Fresh Waters is a creative liaison between two poets: Toyin Falola, a historian of international repute and quintessentially prolific writer, who has already published a collection of poetry, Scoundrels of Deferral, and Adérónké Adésànyà, an artist and art historian, who hitherto wrote without the intent to publish and is cutting her first teeth in poetry with this outstanding book. The poetic cosmos of Falola engages the poetic universe of Adésànyà to give the literary world a phenomenal book of poetry that promises to generate debate for years to come. The poetic journey of Etches on Fresh Waters straddles spaces and epochs, and ties truth, laughter, joy and sadness, victory and failure, hope and despair to the apron of time. The frailty, docility, fragility and volatility of human life find space in the rapidity of a poetic train. This publication is a welcome feast to lovers of the rich craft of poetry. Words are reinvented and crafted in lucid, zesty, and breathtakingly thought-provoking lines. This volume covers a span of 25 to 50 years in the authors' professional range and observations of various societies and peoples, and contains over a hundred poems and numerous illustrations. Divided thematically, the collection seeks to provide moments of wisdom, words of solace, songs of abuse, songs of praise, songs of politics, songs of morality, songs of desire, and songs of labor, while theorizing in a subtle manner, on the value of foresight as opposed to hindsight, hard work in contrast to laziness, friendship instead of hatred, openness as an alternative to close-mindedness, intelligence as opposed to foolishness, and ultimately, on the imperative of love in many shades and textures as opposed to hatred and hypocrisy. "[T]he genius of a new and compelling African poetic voice... The beauty of the poems in Etches on Fresh Waters lies in their multiplicity of meanings and transcendence. When considered as an oeuvre of initiation, the energy they radiate can only come from the labyrinth of millennial musings in their multivocality and multidirectionality." -- Niyi Afolabi, literary critic and essayist "[M]etaphor has now reached its most eccentric moment... the center of patriarchy has crumbled, and the logic of an entire society has been demolished... Is there a revolution in the making?" -- Jane Rochbart, poet and columnist "[A] richness that defines the soulful vignettes and layers of emotional and passionate human motions." -- Anthony Agbali, poet and priest "This book should be placed neatly and squarely on everybody's coffee table." -- Ikhide R. Ikheloa
Download or read book African Studies Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dream Deferred written by Donald A. Filtzer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the present, the essays are organized around three broad themes: workers' politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics, economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on the collective farms.
Download or read book Miss Hillary Schools a Scoundrel written by Samantha Grace and published by HOLO Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and updated edition of the first book in Samantha Grace’s critically acclaimed steamy Regency-set Beau Monde Bachelors: Scandals and Rogues series. "CLEVER AND CHARMING, THIS TALE BRINGS IN EVERYTHING REGENCY FANS LOVE." Publisher's Weekly starred review There’s no taming the wicked… Debonaire bachelor Lord Andrew lives for pleasure and makes no apologies. But after a daring heiress falls from the sky and interrupts his plans for a tryst in the gardens, his once exciting life begins to feel dull. When he learns the intriguing miss is staying as his family’s house guest, he abandons London and travels to the country, only to learn the lady he cannot forget is forbidden—even if he is able to tear down the walls she hides behind. Reforming rakes is a fool’s game… After three Seasons of evading fortune hunters and a failed engagement, heiress Lana Hillary is exhausted and looking forward to a quiet month in the country with her best friend. Unfortunately, her social climbing mother views the invitation as the perfect opportunity to play matchmaker. While her mother sets out to win her a Bavarian count, Lana is captivated by her host’s charming brother. Flirting with trouble is meant to be harmless, but soon Lana finds herself entangled with the most infamous scoundrel in England, and their romance is destined for heartbreak.
Download or read book American Scoundrel written by Thomas Keneally and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler’s List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject. Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain—among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trial contained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial’s end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.
Download or read book Last Refuge of a Scoundrel written by Kelly Hennessy and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part epistolary novel laced with flights of magic realism escapist fantasy, part bellettrist polemic debating a shopping list of culture war topics, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel is an unusual, multifaceted and densely textured book meant to linger on your palate long after you put it down. Much of the action revolves around a bitter, protracted homeowners association dispute in north San Diego County, alternately, hilarious and enraging. It's a novel of ideas, ever strumming the
Download or read book A Debonair Scoundrel written by Lately Thomas and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco’s infamous era of graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other. Abraham Ruef (1864-1936), known as Abe Ruef, was a rogue of innumerable refinements. A classical scholar, a wit, a bon vivant, he was also a political boss who not only picked the city’s officials—among them, “Handsome Gene” Schmitz, San Francisco’s “bassoon mayor”—but picked the city’s pockets as well. When he was finally arraigned for graft, Ruef attempted to appoint himself District Attorney to prosecute the case! In A Debonair Scoundrel, Lately Thomas reconstructs the little known but fantastic career and its gaudy, dramatic setting: a city thrown into wild disorder; fighting in the courts reeking with corruption; kidnappings, and flying bullets with overtones of slapstick comedy and suspense. The men who saw to Ruef’s undoing were relics of a bygone West: millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, who tried to reform his own class; Fremont Older, the Evening Bulletin crusading editor—and others, such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Their encounter with Abe Ruef is wittily described by Lately Thomas, author of The Vanishing Evangelist, who has brought his magnificently creative gifts to a book as brilliant and rambunctious as the fabulous era he describes.
Download or read book Scoundrel Ever After written by Darcy Burke and published by Zealous Quill Press. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a very bad boy… Ethan Jagger will do anything to leave his illicit past behind and take his place as a gentleman in Society. Success is within his grasp until his boss discovers his double cross and frames him for murder. As if running from the law and the outlaws weren’t bad enough, he must protect an innocent young lady from the very cut-throats who want him dead. Worst of all, however, is the dangerous attraction that sparks between them. Who met a very nice girl… London only thinks of Audrey Cheswick as a wallflower—if they even think of her at all. She’s tried to find satisfaction—if not happiness—as a spinster-in-waiting, though her intrepid spirit yearns for a grand adventure. But when she runs away with England’s most wanted criminal, she learns adventure comes with a price—not just her reputation or her virtue, but her heart.
Download or read book Tempting the Scoundrel written by Katrina Kendrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She is society's most rebellious lady. After spending years writing scandalous political essays, Lady Alexandra Grey is used to society's censure. Her father, however, is determined to get his headstrong daughter under control. He is king of London's underworld. Nicholas Thorne has never been above lying, cheating, or stealing in his quest for power. When Alexandra's father offers up a fortune to swindle his daughter into marriage, Nick takes it – only to fall in love with his mark. In London's East End, happy endings only exist in fairytales. When Alexandra discovers Nicholas's deception, she vows to forget him for good. But word gets out of her secret marriage to London's most notorious crime lord, and she finds her life in danger. Back in close quarters with the man who betrayed her, passions ignite, secrets are revealed, old enemies rise – and some are willing to kill...
Download or read book How the Scoundrel Seduces written by Sabrina Jeffries and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third deliciously sexy novel in the New York Times bestselling Duke’s Men historical romance series, featuring an investigator who sets out to find gypsies—and unexpectedly finds love. Investigator Tristan Bonnaud has one aim in life—to make sure that his half-brother George can’t ever ruin his life again. So when the pesky Lady Zoe Keane, the daughter of the Earl of Olivier, shows up demanding that the Duke’s Men find a mysterious gypsy woman, he seizes the opportunity to also hunt for a gypsy friend who knows secrets about George. Tristan doesn’t expect to uncover Lady Zoe’s family secrets, as well…or end up falling for the woman who will risk all to discover the truth.
Download or read book Better an Honest Scoundrel written by Stephen T. Watts and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one deals with my law enforcement career and the second deals with a subsequent private investigation career. This book is true experiences that occurred during a 27 year law enforcement career and protrays my conclusions about police and the police world. My intended audience are people who have a general interest in the world of a detective. Those who are contemplating a law enforcement career might also have a interest. The manuscript has been well recieved by a variety of readers. Many of my police friends have told me they liked it and agree with my conclusions, but are uncomfortable with my not having supported police. As you read the manuscript you will see that I categorize police in percentage groups with some police being hero's and others being villains.
