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Book Synopsis Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia by : Katerina Prajznerova
Download or read book Cultural Intermarriage in Southern Appalachia written by Katerina Prajznerova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Lee Smith written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary companion surveys the works of Lee Smith, a Southern author lauded for her autobiographical familiarity with Appalachian settings and characters. Her dialogue captures the distinct voices of mountain people and their perceptions of local and world events, ranging from the Civil War to ecology and modernization. Mental and physical disability and the Southern cultural norm of including the disabled as both family and community members are recurring themes in Smith's writing. An A to Z arrangement of entries incorporates specific titles, and themes such as belonging, healing and death, humor, parenting and religion.
Book Synopsis Understanding Lee Smith by : Danielle N. Johnson
Download or read book Understanding Lee Smith written by Danielle N. Johnson and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the life and work of this award-winning feminist Appalachian writer Since the release of her first novel, The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, in 1968, Lee Smith has published nearly twenty books, including novels, short stories, and memoirs. She has received an O. Henry Award, Sir Walter Raleigh Award, Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction, and a Reader's Digest Award; and her New York Times best-selling novel, The Last Girls, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. While Smith has garnered academic and critical respect for many of her novels, such as Black Mountain Breakdown, Oral History, and Fair and Tender Ladies, her writing has been viewed by some as lightweight fiction or even "chick lit." In Understanding Lee Smith Danielle N. Johnson offers a comprehensive analysis of Smith's work, including her memoir, Dimestore, treating her as a major Appalachian and feminist voice. Johnson begins with a biographical sketch of Smith's upbringing in Appalachia, her formal education, and her career. She explicates the themes and stylistic qualities that have come to characterize Smith's writing and outlines the criticism of Smith's work, particularly that which focuses on female subjectivity, artistry, religion, history, and place in her fiction. Too often, Johnson argues, Smith's consistent and powerful messages about artistry, gender roles, and historical discourse are missed or undervalued by readers and critics caught up in her quirky characters and dialogue. In Understanding Lee Smith, Johnson offers an analysis of Smith's oeuvre chronologically to study her growth as a writer and to highlight major events in her career and the influence they had on her work, including a major shift in the early 1990s to writing about families, communities, and women living in the mountains. Johnson reveals how Smith has refined her talent for creating nuanced voices and a narrative web of multiple perspectives and evolved into a writer of fine literary fiction worthy of critical study.
Book Synopsis The New Southern Girl by : Caren J. Town
Download or read book The New Southern Girl written by Caren J. Town and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about America's troubled teens, particularly endangered teenage girls. Works like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia and many others have contributed to the general perception that contemporary young women are in a state of crisis. Parents, educators, social scientists, and other concerned individuals worry that our nation's girls are losing their ambition, moral direction, and self-esteem as they enter adolescence--which can then lead them to promiscuous sex, anorexia, drug abuse, and at the very least, declining math scores. In spite of evidence to the contrary in life and literature, this bleak picture is seldom challenged, but a good place to begin may be with recent literary representations of young women, fictional and autobiographical, which show proud young women who are highly focused and use their brains and good humor to work toward satisfying adult lives. This book addresses the ways in which 12 women writers use their heroines' stories to challenge commonly held and frequently damaging notions of adolescence, femininity, and regional identity. The book begins with a chapter on sociological and literary theories of adolescent female development. This chapter also includes theoretically informed discussions of young adult fiction and Southern literature. Chapters that follow focus on adolescent heroines in the novels and autobiographies of the contemporary Southern women writers Anne Tyler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Josephine Humphreys, Dorothy Allison, Kaye Gibbons, Tina Ansa, Janisse Ray and Jill McCorkle and young adult writers Katherine Paterson, Mildred Taylor and Cynthia Voigt. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis Indigeneity in the Courtroom by : Jennifer A. Hamilton
Download or read book Indigeneity in the Courtroom written by Jennifer A. Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question of this book is when and how does indigeneity in its various iterations – cultural, social, political, economic, even genetic – matter in a legal sense? Indigeneity in the Courtroom focuses on the legal deployment of indigenous difference in US and Canadian courts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through ethnographic and historical research, Hamilton traces dimensions of indigeneity through close readings of four legal cases, each of which raises important questions about law, culture, and the production of difference. She looks at the realm of law, seeking to understand how indigeneity is legally produced and to apprehend its broader political and economic implications.
Book Synopsis Media and Ethnic Identity by : Ritva Levo-Henriksson
Download or read book Media and Ethnic Identity written by Ritva Levo-Henriksson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture. The research data is built on a number of interviews with Hopis of a variety of ages from nine villages. The study also makes use of the results of a survey of a large number of students in the Hopi Jr./Sr. High School. The framework for examining the research data is intercultural communication (both interpersonal and media-mediated) between an indigenous group and a majority from the viewpoint of the indigenous group. This book provides tools for understanding the experiences of communication between social and political minorities and majorities from the indigenous perspective.
Book Synopsis The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000 by : Claudia Haake
Download or read book The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, 1620-2000 written by Claudia Haake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the forced migration of the Delawares in the United States and the Yaquis in Mexico, focusing primarily on the impact removal from tribal lands had on the (ethnic) identity of these two indigenous societies. It analyzes Native responses to colonial and state policies to determine the practical options that each group had in dealing with the states in which they lived. Haake convincingly argues that both nation-states aimed at the destruction of the Native American societies within their borders. This exemplary comparative, transnational study clearly demonstrates that the legacy of these attitudes and policies are readily apparent in both countries today. This book should appeal to a wide variety of academic disciplines in which diversity and minority political representation assume significance.
Book Synopsis The State and Indigenous Movements by : Keri E. Iyall Smith
Download or read book The State and Indigenous Movements written by Keri E. Iyall Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the comparative historical method, this book looks at the experience of indigenous peoples, specifically the Native Hawaiians, showing how a nation can express culture and citizenship while seeking ways to attain greater sovereignty over territory, culture, and politics.
Book Synopsis The Present Politics of the Past by : Seán Patrick Eudaily
Download or read book The Present Politics of the Past written by Seán Patrick Eudaily and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each phrase in the title of this work gives a clue as to its purpose and agenda. "Thepresent politics of the past" refers to the conditions that have arisen in the recent politicsof advanced liberal states with indigenous populations (such as the U.S., Canada,Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Australia) where "the past" is an issue or even at stake incontemporary struggles.
Book Synopsis Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest by : Christina M. Hebebrand
Download or read book Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the American Southwest written by Christina M. Hebebrand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies Native American and Chicano/a writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Claims by : Christa Scholtz
Download or read book Negotiating Claims written by Christa Scholtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do governments choose to negotiate indigenous land claims rather than resolve claims through some other means? In this book Scholtz explores why a government would choose to implement a negotiation policy, where it commits itself to a long-run strategy of negotiation over a number of claims and over a significant course of time. Through an examination strongly grounded in archival research of post-World War Two government decision-making in four established democracies - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States - Scholtz argues that negotiation policies emerge when indigenous people mobilize politically prior to significant judicial determinations on land rights, and not after judicial change alone. Negotiating Claims links collective action and judicial change to explain the emergence of new policy institutions.
Book Synopsis Indigenous Nations and Modern States by : Rudolph C. Ryser
Download or read book Indigenous Nations and Modern States written by Rudolph C. Ryser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in whose territories the United Nations says 80 percent of the world’s life sustaining biodiversity remains. Once thought of as remnants of a human past that would soon disappear in the fog of history, indigenous peoples—as we now refer to them—have in the last generation emerged as new political actors in global, regional and local debates. As countries struggle with economic collapse, terrorism and global warming indigenous peoples demand a place at the table to decide policy about energy, boundaries, traditional knowledge, climate change, intellectual property, land, environment, clean water, education, war, terrorism, health and the role of democracy in society. In this volume Rudolph C. Ryser describes how indigenous peoples transformed themselves from anthropological curiosities into politically influential voices in domestic and international deliberations affecting everyone on the planet. He reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human life.
Book Synopsis National Identity and the Conflict at Oka by : Amelia Kalant
Download or read book National Identity and the Conflict at Oka written by Amelia Kalant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism and ethnicity and post-colonial theory.
Book Synopsis Negotiations in the Indigenous World by : Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
Download or read book Negotiations in the Indigenous World written by Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiated agreements play a critical role in setting the conditions under which resource development occurs on Indigenous land. Our understanding of what determines the outcomes of negotiations between Indigenous peoples and commercial interests is very limited. With over two decades experience with Indigenous organisations and communities, Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh's book offers the first systematic analysis of agreement outcomes and the factors that shape them, based on evaluative criteria developed especially for this study; on an analysis of 45 negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and mining companies across all of Australia’s major resource-producing regions; and on detailed case studies of four negotiations in Australia and Canada.
Book Synopsis Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest by : Robert Ross McCoy
Download or read book Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest written by Robert Ross McCoy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.
Book Synopsis Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature by : Matthew Herman
Download or read book Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature written by Matthew Herman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for this shift and examines the key moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives. He highlights such notable cases as the prevailing readings of the popular within Native American writing; the Silko-Erdrich controversy; the ongoing debate over the comparative value of nationalism versus cosmopolitanism within Native American literature and politics; and the status of native nationalism in relation to recent critiques of the nation coming from postmodernism, postcolonialism, and subaltern studies. Herman concludes that the central problematic defining the last two decades of Native American literary studies has involved the emergence in theory of anti-colonial nationalism, its variants, and its contradictions. This study will be a necessary addition for students and scholars of Native American Studies as well as 20th-century literature.
Book Synopsis Speaking with Authority by : Michael W. Posluns
Download or read book Speaking with Authority written by Michael W. Posluns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the emergence of the vocabulary of First Nations' self-government into the realm of public and parliamentary discourse in Canada during the decade of the 1970s. The emergence of the vocabulary is chronicled through a study of the testimony of First Nations and aboriginal witnesses before a series of Joint Committees on the Constitutions and the Commons Committee on Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
