Download or read book Winds Can Wake Up the Dead written by Eric Walrond and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new anthology of works by a major writer from the New Negro Movement.
Download or read book Wake Up Dead Man written by Bruce Jackson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.
Download or read book Tropic Death written by Eric Walrond and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance A J written by Cary D. Wintz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of Harlem Renaissance website.
Download or read book Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African American Literature written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waking the Dead written by John Eldredge and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waking the Dead—newly revised and updated for these trying times—reveals the secret of finding a full life, identifying the fierce battle over our hearts, and embracing all that God has in store. Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” That’s the offer of Christianity, from God himself. Jesus touched people, and they changed: the blind had sight, the lame walked, the deaf heard, the dead were raised. To be touched by God, in other words, is to be restored, to be made into all God means us to be. That is what Christianity promises to do—make us whole, set us free, bring us fully alive.
Download or read book Radical Moves written by Lara Putnam and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Download or read book Wind Sunday written by Coleman Luck and published by Thorncrown Books. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the strangest storm in history an airliner crashes into the ocean and only three young people survive - a brother and his two sisters. But they are not together, and the ocean is not on Earth. Alex, Amanda, and Tori Lancaster have entered Boreth, a world of ancient devastation and deep evil. Through this world they must travel with every choice taking them closer either to endless night or overwhelming glory. But this journey is not for them alone ... it’s for all those who are lost and can’t find their way home. What readers say: “Your book irrevocably shaped my understanding of the power of literature. The allegory, the imagery both vicious and blindly beautiful, the way you depicted trauma and betrayal and forgiveness and the deep, abiding capital-L Love - I have carried that with me as the standard to which I have held all other works of fantasy/speculative fiction. It’s still the most profound work of fiction I’ve ever read.” "In this novel, Coleman Luck accomplishes one of the most difficult tasks a writer can undertake -- to create a completely fresh, new and very believable world. The book is an excellent read -- imaginative and fast paced and full of wondrous, subtle connections with the finest developments in Christian thought. So good it seems like it came from Lewis, Tolkien or one of the other great masters. A must!" “I've NEVER read any book of any kind that took me on such an emotional and spiritual journey. At times I couldn't put it down, other times I HAD to, just to catch my breath. There were times that I felt MY faith was being put to the test. Other times I began to worry about the author's faith. But at the end of the day, I've never read a more beautiful story of redemption, love and faith. And I can't wait for Mountaincry!” (A previous version of Wind Sunday was published under the title Angel Fall.)
Download or read book The Last Darky written by Louis Chude-Sokei and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last “Darky” establishes Bert Williams, the comedian of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as central to the development of a global black modernism centered in Harlem’s Renaissance. Before integrating Broadway in 1910 via a controversial stint with the Ziegfeld Follies, Williams was already an international icon. Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. Louis Chude-Sokei contends that Williams’s blackface was not a display of internalized racism nor a submission to the expectations of the moment. It was an appropriation and exploration of the contradictory and potentially liberating power of racial stereotypes. Chude-Sokei makes the crucial argument that Williams’s minstrelsy negotiated the place of black immigrants in the cultural hotbed of New York City and was replicated throughout the African diaspora, from the Caribbean to Africa itself. Williams was born in the Bahamas. When performing the “darky,” he was actually masquerading as an African American. This black-on-black minstrelsy thus challenged emergent racial constructions equating “black” with African American and marginalizing the many diasporic blacks in New York. It also dramatized the practice of passing for African American common among non-American blacks in an African American–dominated Harlem. Exploring the thought of figures such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Claude McKay, Chude-Sokei situates black-on-black minstrelsy at the center of burgeoning modernist discourses of assimilation, separatism, race militancy, carnival, and internationalism. While these discourses were engaged with the question of representing the “Negro” in the context of white racism, through black-on-black minstrelsy they were also deployed against the growing international influence of African American culture and politics in the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Wind of Change written by Eudora Aletta and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “She was killing herself slowly, and this obsession with the war had to stop.” How can one man cope when his true love is a woman of great destiny? “The people are her purpose and she is my purpose.” The Wind of Change follows the intersecting fates of Francois and Zola as they struggle with the injustices of life and inconsistencies of love in a world where children are dying. Within the Frenchman’s narrative and declarations of love lies the tragic tale of the children of war-torn Africa and the personal cost of civil war and armed conflict, of torture, murder, resistance, and forgiveness. Set in the days of Nelson Mandela’s release from incarceration, it brings to life the Pan-African ideals of the 60s through the journey of a young woman who would be queen to unite and bring peace to all of Africa. If you imagine a future can you make it real? Can you make a difference? If you give from your heart, can you make the wind change? Watch out for Volume 2 of The Wind of Change: "What Happened in Africa"
Download or read book African American Writers written by Philip Bader and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American authors have consistently explored the political dimensions of literature and its ability to affect social change. African-American literature has also provided an essential framework for shaping cultural identity and solidarity. From the early slave narratives to the folklore and dialect verse of the Harlem Renaissance to the modern novels of today
Download or read book Cabal written by Clive Barker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the stories in this volume have been previously published in Great Britain by Sphere Books, Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Download or read book A Wind Age written by Miss Delaney Carpenter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the historical backdrop of the Middle Ages at the turn of the first millennium, begins the Sarcian Legacy and the telling of the Sybil Prophecy.Her parents murdered and herself sold into slavery by a violent and cruel baron, Princess Andrea travels through Europe with the Viking horde led by the dark and heroic Sveinn Sumarlithr. Michel’s only calling in life is to be a physician but his father, the callous Duke Gervaise, abhors the medicine men and seeks to quell his youngest son’s aspirations. Fleeing from his father, Michel makes his way across the West Frankish Kingdom, fulfilling his dream while running for his life.When his village is ravaged by Vikings, Rhys is kidnapped and taken back to their homeland where he is adopted by his captor and taught the life of a Viking warrior.Through daring escapes and savage battles, Andrea, Michel and Rhys find each other and a common goal leads them to discover the place they can all call home: Sarcia.
Download or read book A Kite in the Wind written by Andrea Barrett and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kite in the Wind is an anthology of essays by 20 veteran writers and master teachers. While the contributors offer specific, practical advice on such fundamental aspects of craft as characterization, character names, the first person point of view, and unreliable narrators, they also give extended, thoughtful consideration to more sophisticated topics, including “imminence,” or the power of a sense of beginning; creating and maintaining tension; “lushness”; and the deliberate manipulation of information to create particular effects. The essays in A Kite in the Wind begin as personal investigations — attempts to understand why a decision in a particular story or novel seemed unsuccessful; to define a quality or problem that seemed either unrecognized or unsatisfactorily defined; to understand what, despite years of experience as a fiction writer, resisted comprehension; and to pursue haunting, even unanswerable questions. Unlike a how-to book, the anthology is less an instruction manual than it is an intimate visit with twenty very different writers as they explore topics that excite, intrigue, and even puzzle them. Each discussion uses specific examples and illustrations, including both canonical stories and novels and writing less frequently discussed, from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, by both American and international authors. The contributors share their hard-earned insights for beginning and advanced writers with humility, wit, and compassion. The first section of the book focuses on narration, with particular attention paid to various kinds of narrators; the second, on strategic creation and presentation of character; the third, on some of the roles of the visual, beginning with establishing setting; and the fourth, on structural and organizational issues, from movement through time to the manipulation of information to create mystery and suspense.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Countee Cullen s Incident written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Literature written by Hans Ostrom and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.
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