Download or read book Breaking the Silence written by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley has gathered work from the 1800s to the present, including poets and emerging young writers exploring contemporary literary traditions with African and African diaspora poetry that transcends borders. In this collection, Liberia's founding settlers wrestle with their identity as African free slaves in the homeland from which their ancestors were captured, and writers of the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries find themselves navigating a landscape at odds with itself. From poets of Liberia's past to young writers of the present, the contributors to this volume celebrate the beauty of their nation while mourning the devastation of a long, bloody civil war. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a professor of English, creative writing, and African literature at Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. She immigrated to the United States with her husband and children in 1991, during the Liberian civil war. Wesley is the winner of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation and is the author of six collections of poetry, including Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, winner of the 2023 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize; Becoming Ebony, a 2002 Crab Orchard Award winner; and When the Wanderers Come Home (Nebraska, 2016). She is a founder of Young Scholars of Liberia.
Download or read book Under Ducor Skies written by Patrice D. Juah and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under Ducor Skies is a reflective journey across lost childhood, war, arduous youth, and caged dreams, to a time of soaring peace, where bullets are finally silenced, with an even greater battle left to silence within. In a town that is a shadow of its previous self, and everything around you tells you that you'll fail, how do you keep the shredded pieces of hope alive?Under Ducor Skies mirrors life in its various forms-love, growth, adventure, everyday happenings and experiences of people, near and far - known and unknown. You'll be entertained, inspired, provoked, and pushed to think beyond the layers of what seems ordinary. It is a voyage of dreamers and wanderers, who've held onto the tattered threads of their dreams; pushing beyond limitations and challenges, to make something of themselves.Readers will be given a front row seat into Ducor, the city of dreams, through the authors' lens. They'll enjoy the openness, depth, vulnerability, and ease with which she shares each poem. Together, they'll open old scars, mend wounds, laugh, cry, heal and rise. The girl power-themed poems are particularly armed with the right ingredients to give any woman, or girl, back her power, and inspire her to elevate to her most authentic and exceptional self. Leave all your worries, fears and doubts at the door of this book, losing yourself in every page, exploring, rediscovering and emerging as a wholesome you. It's time to weave stories we've long held close to our hearts; those that inspire, challenge, and keep us thriving, in spite of all the crooked paths we tread Under Ducor Skies.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of cases decided in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the state of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Novels of Wilton Sankawulo written by Robert Brown and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first chapter of this monograph, Dr. Robert H. Brown tries to lay the groundwork by discussing some of the problems of writing in Liberia and prospects for Liberian writers. Then he lists in chronological order some of the works published by Liberian writers as evidential proof that there is a paucity of creative fiction in Liberia. In three subsequent chapters, he undertakes a critical study of Wilton Sankawulo's The Rain and the Night, Sundown at Dawn: A Liberian Odyssey, and Birds Are Singing. The chapters situate Wilton Sankawulo's creative fiction in its proper context, revealing the currents of indigenous Liberian thought that run through it and tracing the connections that link the novels to a new development in his thinking. Indeed, however dissimilar in titles, The Rain and the Night, Sundown at Dawn: A Liberian Odyssey, and Birds Are Singing, to some extent, share tone, setting, and ambience that characterize the current moment of Liberia's history as a turning point. Despite their minor grammatical infelicities and stylistic ineptitude, the three novels are set to become classics in the canon of African literature.
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Era written by Charles W. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cycles of Therran written by Zakk Duffy and published by Xlibris US. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cycles of Therran began when the tainted god first appeared and attempted to annihilate the land of Therran and all life upon it. Since his defeat, the tainted god rises from dormancy every thousand years, creating the Cycles. Seepage of Darkness is the first volume that chronicles the occurrence of the 5th Cycle. Tret is raised by his parents on a reclusive mountainside. His parents are killed from a magical attack just prior to his thirteenth birthday. For the next four years he lives alone on the mountainside, surviving as best as he is able. Moreck, a friend of his deceased parents, finally locates him. Tret finds out the truth about himself and his parents, which had been hidden from him since his birth. The young sorcerer follows Moreck, a master swordsman, to continue with the quest his parents began before he was born. The races of the elf, dwarf, and fae separated themselves from the human race almost one thousand ago, after the ending of the last Cycle; becoming present day myths. A magical talisman, belonging to each of the races, must find a wielder of it and come together for the final battle with the tainted god. Three different harbingers appear in the world, one at a time, preparing the way for the coming of their master. Records of them and the past Cycles were written in an ancient language that has been forgotten. Moreck and Tret set out to uncover lost knowledge, unite the talismans and their wielders, engage in a campaign to defend the land of Therran from the harbingers, and battle an evil group of sorcerers known as the Pentad.
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Juju written by James E. Christie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COUNTRY TORN APART A bizarre chapter in American history began in 1820 when a group of former slaves sailed from New York to West Africa. They hoped to discover a lost homeland, but instead found a land of secret societies, magico-religious Juju and cannibalism. The ex-slaves became masters in Liberia, but after decades of simmering tribal hatred, the pot boiled over in 1980. Henry Roye, a descendent of American slaves, is in love with an African tribal woman named Konah Nambey. But when the Americo-Liberian president is assassinated by tribal enlisted men, Henry and Konah flee the chaos of Monrovia for the northern hinterlands. After full-blown civil war erupts, they must save their young son from the clutches of the village witch-woman and the warlord she supports.
Download or read book The Coup written by John Charles Gifford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1980, the world is teetering on the edge of darkness. The president of the Republic of Liberia, Charles Dunbar Cooper, is preparing to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union that will remove the presence of America in West Africa and signal the continued spread of Communism on the continent—an event that both American and European intelligence agents are working to prevent. CIA officer Tom Walsh is used to traveling to Monrovia as an undercover journalist who collects sensitive information—but Walsh knows this trip will be unlike any before. Assigned to an operation with French intelligence agent Yvette Dubois to prevent the Soviet takeover of Liberia, Walsh knows they are under the gun. With just days to organize key members of the Liberian government and army and stop President Cooper from traveling to Moscow, Walsh and Dubois soon find nothing is going as planned. One of their key players is assassinated while another is arrested and charged in a series of ritual murders. During a demonstration in the capital protesting the government crackdown on human rights, both civilians and soldiers are killed. The government foils an attempted coup and then must defend itself against another. As the oldest republic and the most stable government on the African continent tumbles headlong into a maelstrom of nightmare and chaos, sucking in everything within its radius, two spies face the mission of their lives, leaving them to wonder if either will make it out alive.
Download or read book The Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Modern Brazilian Stage written by David George and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a play and watching it performed onstage are quite different experiences. Likewise, studying a country's theatrical tradition with reference only to playtexts overlooks the vital impact of a play's performance on the audience and on the whole artistic community. In this performance-centered approach to Brazilian theatre since the 1940s, David George explores a total theatrical language—the plays, the companies that produced them, and the performances that set a standard for all future stagings. George structures the discussion around several important companies. He begins with Os Comediantes, whose revolutionary 1943 staging of Nelson Rodrigues' Vestido de Noiva (Bridal Gown) broke with the outmoded comedy-of-manners formula that had dominated the national stage since the nineteenth century. He considers three companies of the 1950s and 1960s—Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia, Teatro de Arena, and Teatro Oficina—along with the 1967 production of O Rei da Vela (The Candle King) by Teatro Oficina. The 1970s represented a wasteland for Brazilian theatre, George finds, in which a repressive military dictatorship muzzled artistic expression. The Grupo Macunaíma brought theatre alive again in the 1980s, with its productions of Macunaíma and Nelson 2 Rodrigues. Common to all theatrical companies, George concludes, was the desire to establish a national aesthetic, free from European and United States models. The creative tension this generated and the successes of modern Brazilian theatre make lively reading for all students of Brazilian and world drama.
Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heart of California written by Aaron Gilbreath and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Gilbreath writes a highly personal narrative of the San Joaquin Valley that incorporates history, Native American displacement, agriculture, environmental concerns, and more.
