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Book The Ebony Idol

    Book Details:
  • Author : G.M. Flanders
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-07-20
  • ISBN : 3375096747
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Ebony Idol written by G.M. Flanders and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Book The Ebony Idol

Download or read book The Ebony Idol written by Mrs. G. M. Flanders and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Reverend Carey brings a fugitive slave named Caesar to the New England village of Minton, the town is torn apart between pro- and anti-slavery factions.

Book The Ebony Idol

Download or read book The Ebony Idol written by Mrs. G. M. Flanders and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Reverend Carey brings a fugitive slave named Caesar to the New England village of Minton, the town is torn apart between pro- and anti-slavery factions.

Book Sex Objects

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Doyle
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780816645268
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Sex Objects written by Jennifer Doyle and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The declaration that a work of art is “about sex” is often announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a conversation when instead it should begin a new one. Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday life: exciting, ordinary, emotional, traumatic, embarrassing, funny, even profoundly boring. Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding of highly sexualized images, words, and performances. In chapters on the “boring parts” of Moby-Dick, the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, “bad sex” and Tracey Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal Davis's pornographic parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates what such works can tell us about the nature of desire. In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a piece of art “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why it matters. Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan Flatley and Jos Esteban Muoz, of Pop Out: Queer Warhol.

Book Origins of The Black Idol

Download or read book Origins of The Black Idol written by Michael Diamond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artifact hidden for centuries... A power man was not meant to wield... A horror unlike anything ever unleashed... Postgraduate student and Renaissance man Julius Godom uncovers the legend of a mysterious artifact rumored to hold the key to human understanding. He sets off on a journey that will take him around the world to India during the Roaring Twenties, chasing the only thing that will quench his thirst for knowledge. From the monsoon-swollen banks of the Ganges to heights of the Himalayan mountains, the search for the Idol threatens to possess Julius' mind with fiery desire. The knowledge contained within is unlike anything he has ever experienced, and now he cannot be without it... But a shadowy coterie of assassins has other plans. Julius must navigate steamy markets, lush jungles, and perilous mountains to track down the Idol before it's used to unleash an ancient horror that will rip apart the world with its own carnal desires.

Book Origins of the African American Jeremiad

Download or read book Origins of the African American Jeremiad written by Willie J. Harrell, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the moralistic texts of jeremiadic discourse, authors lament the condition of society, utilizing prophecy as a means of predicting its demise. This study delves beneath the socio-religious and cultural exterior of the American jeremiadic tradition to unveil the complexities of African American jeremiadic rhetoric in antebellum America. It examines the development of the tradition in response to slavery, explores its contributions to the antebellum social protest writings of African Americans, and evaluates the role of the jeremiad in the growth of an African American literary genre. Despite its situation within an unreceptive environment, the African American jeremiad maintained its power, continuing to influence contemporary African American literary and cultural traditions.

Book Ebony

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Book Unrequited Toil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Calvin Schermerhorn
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-08-16
  • ISBN : 1107027667
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Unrequited Toil written by Calvin Schermerhorn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.

Book Neither Black Nor White Yet Both

Download or read book Neither Black Nor White Yet Both written by Werner Sollors and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in "Neither Black nor White yet Both," a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between." From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The South Atlantic Quarterly

Download or read book The South Atlantic Quarterly written by John Spencer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Her Black Body

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  • Author : Sallie Wear Laing
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Her Black Body written by Sallie Wear Laing and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

Download or read book Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture written by Sarah N. Roth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.

Book Inscrutable Malice

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  • Author : Jonathan A. Cook
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2012-12-15
  • ISBN : 1609090780
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Inscrutable Malice written by Jonathan A. Cook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the dominant role of the Bible in shaping his best-known novel. Drawing on recent research in the fields of biblical studies, the history of religion, and comparative mythology, Cook provides a new interpretation of Moby-Dick that places Melville's creative adaptation of the Bible at the center of the work. Cook identifies two ongoing concerns in the narrative in relation to their key biblical sources: the attempt to reconcile the goodness of God with the existence of evil, as dramatized in the book of Job; and the discourse of the Christian end-times involving the final destruction of evil, as found in the apocalyptic books and eschatological passages of the Old and New Testaments. With his detailed reading of Moby-Dick in relation to its most important source text, Cook greatly expands the reader's understanding of the moral, religious, and mythical dimensions of the novel. Both accessible and erudite, Inscrutable Malice will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Melville's classic whaling narrative.

Book Whitewashing Uncle Tom s Cabin

Download or read book Whitewashing Uncle Tom s Cabin written by Joy Jordan-Lake and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic indictment of slavery - by preaching a "theology of whiteness" from the pages of their books.

Book The Crayon

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  • Author : William James Stillman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1860
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Crayon written by William James Stillman and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FICTION MOBY DICK  OR THE WHITE WHALE

Download or read book FICTION MOBY DICK OR THE WHITE WHALE written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moby Dick  Arabic language

Download or read book Moby Dick Arabic language written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: