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Caucasia

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101650869
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Caucasia written by Danzy Senna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career “Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston. The sisters are so close that they speak their own language, yet Birdie, with her light skin and straight hair, is often mistaken for white, while Cole is dark enough to fit in with the other kids at school. Despite their differences, Cole is Birdie’s confidant, her protector, the mirror by which she understands herself. Then their parents’ marriage collapses. One night Birdie watches her father and his new girlfriend drive away with Cole. Soon Birdie and her mother are on the road as well, drifting across the country in search of a new home. But for Birdie, home will always be Cole. Haunted by the loss of her sister, she sets out a desperate search for the family that left her behind. A modern classic, Caucasia is at once a powerful coming of age story and a groundbreaking work on identity and race in America.

From Caucasia, with Love

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408847094
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book From Caucasia, with Love written by Danzy Senna and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up amidst the power politics of 1970s America, Birdie and her older sister Cole are so close they speak their own language. Daughters of a white activist mother and a black academic father, Birdie appears white, Cole black, their relationship a refuge from the rest of their lives. Yet when their parents separate, Birdie and Cole are thrown worlds apart. But Birdie's desperate need to reclaim her family forces her back on to the road, where her search for her sister becomes, inevitably, a search for her self. 'Twists serious issues - race, politics, identity, social and familial responsibility - around the structure of a compelling storyline ...an intelligent, questioning book that sparks with ideas' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia

Author : Shamil Shetekauri
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781784271732
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (717 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Flowers and Trees of Caucasia written by Shamil Shetekauri and published by Pelagic Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mountain Flowers & Trees of Caucasia describes and illustrates in full colour nearly all the wild flowers, trees and shrubs that can be found over 1,000 metres above sea level - 1,009 species.

The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes

Author : Stephen H. Rapp Jr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317016718
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes by : Stephen H. Rapp Jr

Download or read book The Sasanian World through Georgian Eyes written by Stephen H. Rapp Jr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georgian literary sources for Late Antiquity are commonly held to be later productions devoid of historical value. As a result, scholarship outside the Republic of Georgia has privileged Graeco-Roman and even Armenian narratives. However, when investigated within the dual contexts of a regional literary canon and the active participation of Caucasia’s diverse peoples in the Iranian Commonwealth, early Georgian texts emerge as a rich repository of late antique attitudes and outlooks. Georgian hagiographical and historiographical compositions open a unique window onto a northern part of the Sasanian world that, while sharing striking affinities with the Iranian heartland, was home to vibrant, cosmopolitan cultures that developed along their own trajectories. In these sources, precise and accurate information about the core of the Sasanian Empire-and before it, Parthia and Achaemenid Persia-is sparse; yet the thorough structuring of wider Caucasian society along Iranian and especially hybrid Iranic lines is altogether evident. Scrutiny of these texts reveals, inter alia, that the Old Georgian language is saturated with words drawn from Parthian and Middle Persian, a trait shared with Classical Armenian; that Caucasian society, like its Iranian counterpart, was dominated by powerful aristocratic houses, many of whose origins can be traced to Iran itself; and that the conception of kingship in the eastern Georgian realm of K’art’li (Iberia), even centuries after the royal family’s Christianisation in the 320s and 330s, was closely aligned with Arsacid and especially Sasanian models. There is also a literary dimension to the Irano-Caucasian nexus, aspects of which this volume exposes for the first time. The oldest surviving specimens of Georgian historiography exhibit intriguing parallels to the lost Sasanian Xwadāy-nāmag, The Book of Kings, one of the precursors to Ferdowsī’s Shāhnāma. As tangible products of the dense cross-cultural web drawing the re

New People

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 159448709X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book New People written by Danzy Senna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, 'King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.' Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation on the Jonestown massacre ... Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her--yet she can't stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows"--Back cover.

Mongol Caucasia

Author : Lorenzo Pubblici
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004503552
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Mongol Caucasia written by Lorenzo Pubblici and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing the Mongol invasions, conquest and early government of Caucasia, in the context of the Byzantine and the Central Asian broad political picture.

Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia

Author : Nikoloz Aleksidze
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474498639
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia by : Nikoloz Aleksidze

Download or read book Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia written by Nikoloz Aleksidze and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early fourth century, the veneration of saints and relics spread rapidly across Christendom from the British Isles to Iran. In late antique Caucasia, the cult of the saints was immediately integrated into Armenian and Georgian identity and political discourses. It was used to legitimise royal rule, sanctify domains and dynasties, define political realms and justify political decisions. This book is the first systematic study of this history. Discussing a wide variety of sources from Armenia, Georgia, Byzantium and Russia which have not been examined together before, it investigates the interaction of sanctity, holy relics, gender and politics in the medieval Caucasus, with a particular focus on Georgia. Nikoloz Aleksidze analyses three chronological eras: the first section focuses on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, when the cult of the relics was formed in Caucasian writing; the second explores the medieval era, when the Bagratids ruled in Georgia and the cults of figures such as St George, the Mother of God and Queen Tamar were shaped and politicised; and the third navigates a similar entanglement of sanctity, gender and political rhetoric in Russian Imperial and Georgian national discourse.

Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia

Author : David Ghambashidze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia written by David Ghambashidze and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: Asiatic Russia: Caucasia, Aralo-Caspian basin, Siberia

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: Asiatic Russia: Caucasia, Aralo-Caspian basin, Siberia written by Elisée Reclus and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Earth and Its Inhabitants: Asiatic Russia

Author : Elisée Reclus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Earth and Its Inhabitants: Asiatic Russia written by Elisée Reclus and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Archaeology in the Borderlands

Author : Adam T. Smith
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology in the Borderlands written by Adam T. Smith and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on a broad isthmus between the Black and Caspian Seas, Caucasia has traditionally been portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the political and cultural centers of the ancient world. Archaeology in the Borderlands: Investigations in Caucasia and Beyond critically re-examines traditional archaeological work in the region, assembling accounts of recent investigations by an international group of scholars from the Caucasus, its neighbors, Europe, and the United States. The twelve chapters in this book address the ways archaeologists must re-conceptualize the region within our larger historical and anthropological frameworks of thought, presenting critical new materials from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age. Challenging traditional models of economic, political, cultural, and social marginality that read the past through Cold War geographies, Archaeology in the Borderlands provides a new challenge to long dominant interpretations of the pre-, proto-, and early history of Eurasia, opening new possibilities for understanding a region that is critical to regional order in the post-Soviet era. This collection represents the first attempt to grapple with the problems and possibilities for archaeology in the Caucasus and its neighboring regions sparked by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of independent states.

The Muharram Mysteries Among the Azerbeijan Turks of Caucasia

Author : Ivar Lassy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Muharram Mysteries Among the Azerbeijan Turks of Caucasia written by Ivar Lassy and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You Are Free: Stories

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594485070
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book You Are Free: Stories written by Danzy Senna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Caucasia and the forthcoming Colored Television, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing. Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still single, and discovers how each of them pities-and envies- the other. A young woman responds to an adoptee in search of her birth mother, knowing it is not she.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

Author : Danzy Senna
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429964944
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Where Did You Sleep Last Night? written by Danzy Senna and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling Caucasia, a sad, revealing memoir of the mixed-race marriage of her parents, and the very different American origins that brought them together and pulled them apart. When Danzy Senna's parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds—a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father. They married in a year that seemed to separate the past from the present; together, these two would snub the histories that divided them and embrace a radical future. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, it was, as one friend put it, "the ugliest divorce in Boston's history"—a violent, traumatic war that felt all the more heartrending given the hopeful symbolism of their union. Decades later, Senna looks back not only at her parents' divorce but beyond it, to the opposing American histories that her parents had tried so hard to overcome. On her mother's side of the family she finds—in carefully preserved documents—the chronicle of a white America both illustrious and shameful. On her father's she discovers, through fragments and shreds of evidence, a no less remarkable history. As she digs deeper into this unwritten half of the story, she reconstructs a long buried family mystery that illuminates her own childhood. In the process, she begins to understand her difficult father, the power and failure of her parents' union, and, finally, the forces of history. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is at once a potent statement of personal identity, a challenging look at the murky waters of American ancestry, and an exploration of narratives—the narratives we create and those we forget. Senna has given us an unforgettable testimony to the paradoxes—the pain and the pride—embedded in history, family, and race.

Caucasian Battlefields

Author : William Edward David Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110801335X
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Caucasian Battlefields written by William Edward David Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative description and analysis of four major wars which took place in the Caucasus region between 1828 and 1921.

Caucasia

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caucasia written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legends of the Caucasus

Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 0863568238
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Caucasus written by David Hunt and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caucasus has an extremely rich folk literature, almost unknown among English speakers, which includes myths, legends, magical tales, anecdotes and proverbs. The one hundred and one legends included in this book reflect the cultures of fourteen different ethnic groups - their dynamism and the matters that concerned them: survival against external dangers, the risk of starvation and the persistence of the family or clan as a coordinated group. Descended from an oral tradition, much of their knowledge was retained in memories and passed down the generations. Yet, with the introduction of the alphabet, the way of life they portray is rapidly becoming extinct. An incomparable collection, Legends of the Caucasus conveys the poetry and romance of these swiftly vanishing tribes. 'This book has brought into light some of the hidden treasures of the Caucasus ... A major contribution not only to the study of the Caucasus, but also to world folklore.' John Colarusso, McMaster University, Canada 'Inventive and meticulous in rendering the extraordinary folk poetry of the many nations of the Caucasus ... [This is] essential reading for anyone seeking an insight into the cultures of the Caucasus.' Donald Rayfield, Queen Mary University of London, UK