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Book The Wild Zone

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joy Fielding
  • Publisher : Anchor Canada
  • Release : 2011-01-25
  • ISBN : 0385670729
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Wild Zone written by Joy Fielding and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Joy Fielding comes a pulse-racing story of a harmless bet gone deadly wrong. This is how it starts. With a joke. Two brothers - Will and Jeff - and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar when they decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent - almost ordinary - girl-next-door way about her. "Just waiting for Prince Charming to hit on her," Jeff says. But Suzy isn't as naive as she seems. And she has an agenda of her own. Soon another challenge is born, only this one proves to be lethal. Dark secrets, hidden passions and a story filled with intrigue, The Wild Zone will keep you in suspense until the very last page is turned.

Book Toni Morrison

Download or read book Toni Morrison written by Carmen Gillespie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination. Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor, publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four decades. Some of the highlights of the collection include contributions from many of the major scholars of Morrison's canon: as well as art pieces, music, photographs and commentary from poets, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez; novelist, A.J. Verdelle; playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour; photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published interview with Morrison's friends from Howard University, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama. What distinguishes this book from the many other publications that engage Morrison's work is that the collection is not exclusively a work of critical interpretation or reference. This is the first publication to contextualize and to consider the interdisciplinary, artistic, and intellectual impacts of Toni Morrison using the formal fluidity and dynamism that characterize her work. This book adopts Morrison's metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Beloved. The narrative describes the clearing as "a wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. . . . In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees." Morrison's Clearing is a complicated and dynamic space. Like the intricacies of Morrison's intellectual and artistic voyages, the Clearing is both verdant and deadly, a sanctuary and a prison. Morrison's vision invites consideration of these complexities and confronts these most basic human conundrums with courage, resolve and grace. This collection attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of this metaphorical terrain.

Book Writing Across Cultures

Download or read book Writing Across Cultures written by Omar Sougou and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely and comprehensive study combining various critical approaches to the fiction of Buchi Emecheta, one of Africa's most illustrious and contentious women writers. Feminist (Showalter, Cixous, Kristeva) and postcolonial approaches (writing back) are taken to Emecheta's texts to illuminate the personal, political and aesthetic ramifications of the production of this “born writer.” Poststructural programmes of analysis are shown to be less relevant to this writer’s fiction than Marxist and Bakhtinian perspectives. Emecheta is shown to be a bridge-builder between two cultures and two worlds in narratives (both challenging and popular) characterized by ambiguity, ambivalence and double-voiced discourse, all of which evince the writer's determination to expose imaginatively the colonial heritage of centre-periphery conflicts, cultural corruption, ethnic discrimination, gender oppression, and the migrant experience in multiracial communities.

Book Montana Wilderness

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1292 pages

Download or read book Montana Wilderness written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feminisms

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robyn R. Warhol
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780813523897
  • Pages : 1238 pages

Download or read book Feminisms written by Robyn R. Warhol and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News

Book The Archive of Fear

Download or read book The Archive of Fear written by Christina Zwarg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archive of Fear explores the trauma theory in relation to U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition before and after the Civil War.

Book Forests and Fences

    Book Details:
  • Author : Myer Taub
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2024-06-28
  • ISBN : 1040042910
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Forests and Fences written by Myer Taub and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies. It experiments with forms along with the practice of praxis to provide radical frameworks for resilience in the contemporary age of crisis. Drawing on Ravi Sundaram’s concept of “Wild Zones”, it explores the kinetic overflows in informal sites, but also in the intimate spaces that have been realigned or shocked or fenced in, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of theatre and performance studies, environment and sustainability, and environmental humanities.

Book Women s Language

Download or read book Women s Language written by Eva Haettner Aurelius and published by Nordic Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By linguistic close-reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centuries - written in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and English - this compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis, this volume attempts to answer the question Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? As it pinpoints the variations in how women expressed themselves when addressing men or other women, 'this detailed investigation of style and expression comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a particular female language; however, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, linguistics, stylistic analysis, and gender.

Book Sexuality  the Female Gaze  and the Arts

Download or read book Sexuality the Female Gaze and the Arts written by Ronald L. Dotterer and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female sexuality as expressed both in the art of women and in images of women in art is the focus of this collection of thirteen essays -- the second in a three-volume series on women, the arts, and society. The idea that art created by a woman has a particular relationship to the female body is explored by most of these essays.

Book San Gorgonio Wilderness Area

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 568 pages

Download or read book San Gorgonio Wilderness Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book San Gorgonio Wilderness Area

Download or read book San Gorgonio Wilderness Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arizona Statewide Wild and Scenic River s   WSR  Legislative EIS

Download or read book Arizona Statewide Wild and Scenic River s WSR Legislative EIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Conversations with Experience

Download or read book Conversations with Experience written by Andréa Staskowski and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical films of German women form a unique body of work. Merging documentary and fiction footage, the filmmakers present a self (de)formed, but not constructed, by social forces. By historicizing, rather than psychologizing, their experience, these filmmakers call prevailing models of subject construction into question. Conversations with Experience examines the social and theoretical context of the films' production and proposes feminist hermeneutics as a theory of textual analysis. Drawing on the insights of Christa Wolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich, feminist hermeneutics recalls ontology as the basis for a conversational approach to critical engagement.

Book A Southern Weave of Women

Download or read book A Southern Weave of Women written by Linda Tate and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context

Book Disarming the Playground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rena Kornblum
  • Publisher : Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781885473493
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Disarming the Playground written by Rena Kornblum and published by Wood 'N' Barnes Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cowboy Politics

Download or read book Cowboy Politics written by John S. Nelson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of popular westerns are surprising in substance and significance, especially of late. Cowboy Politics shows how westerns in literature, cinema, and television face the challenges of Western Civilization even more than the perils of American frontiers. Its strategy is to compare key westerns with major theories of modern and postmodern politics. So it analyzes novels from Owen Wister to Zane Grey and Larry McMurtry. It focuses on films from the western revival beginning in the 1990s and featuring Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, while its interest in TV stretches from singing cowboys and Gunsmoke to David Milch’s Deadwood. Critics are apt to find in westerns the modern politics of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. They tap devices of individuality, rationality, contract, sovereign enforcement, and representation to overcome the chaotic violence of a wild zone. Cowboy Politics examines how westerns often find such measures insufficient to tame the West as a culture of honor and anger that deteriorates into feud-al vengeance. Instead westerns see the West as the sunset land that is already growing old and moving on. So westerns seek fresh starts informed by comparing civilizations more than demonizing savages. Westerns worry that modern politics devolve into exploitation, oppression, spectacle, and terror. So they pursue supplements in such postmodern politics as republicanism, perfectionism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. Especially westerns explore politics of persuasive speech-in-action-in-public, doing beauty, and self-reliance in the modes of Hannah Arendt and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first two chapters of Cowboy Politics explain how westerns do political theory for popular audiences by making many of our myths: the symbolic stories of individuals and communities which we live daily. The next three chapters trace the initially modern theories of government in many westerns. Then western turns to republican honor, rhetoric, response-ability, and character tracking occupy the following four chapters. And these set the stage for another four chapters on western attention to postmodern terror, mythmaking, celebrity, spectacle, and forgiveness. The final two chapters analyze how “late,” “satirical,” and “transformative” westerns develop realist defenses for their surprisingly postmodern politics.

Book Creating the Hybrid Intellectual

Download or read book Creating the Hybrid Intellectual written by Anne Lambright and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contribution to the study of Peruvian anthropologist and creative writer, Jose Maria Arguedas. It asserts that it is through reading the role and trajectory of the feminine in Arguedian narrative that we can best understand the author's national vision.