Estéban's Dance

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Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642379794
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Book Synopsis Estéban's Dance by : Jay S. Sherman

Download or read book Estéban's Dance written by Jay S. Sherman and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the skipper of the Pinta discovers an island in the Antilles and doesn’t tell Columbus about it? What if a Marine captain and a Navy rabbi take up residence there in 1898, if Che Guevara plays some baseball there in 1963 and a widowed director of cut-rate horror films, the son of a one-eyed Bronx cabbie, arrives in 1990 to film the revolution he believes is brewing there but discovers, instead, the Cornell roommates he hasn’t seen in 30 years, and one of them carries a gun? ESTÉBAN’S DANCE follows Sammy Bronx and his unconventional friends from college in the late 1950’s, to Seattle and Hollywood, to Florida during the Cuban missile crisis, and finally to the curious island of San Estéban, where an unfinished Soviet hotel crumbles on the beach and most of the islanders are named Gruenfeld and Flanagan. The tales are inhabited by a tax attorney who encounters a Vietnam veteran who’s biking home from New York after 9/11, a little boy who is banished to a chicken farm during World War II, a physicist who discovers a dollar bill in a rain puddle and it triggers a torrent of memories, a documentary filmmaker who witnesses the death of two children in the back seat of an SUV, and an old black man who reflects on his working life in a factory loft in 1950s Manhattan. These stories are all about fathers, sons and daughters, first love and final loss, choices made amidst the chaos of our lives. And they are about reaching out from loneliness for family of one kind or another.

Treading Through

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Publisher : UP Press
ISBN 13 : 9789715425094
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Book Synopsis Treading Through by : Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz

Download or read book Treading Through written by Basilio Esteban S. Villaruz and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a first reader in Philippine dance, observed through forty-five years of viewing, reviewing, and doing. It is one observer's understanding of what, where, or how is dance, and who makes it and why we dance. It attempts to answer these questions, aware that more questions ought to be further asked."--BOOK JACKET.

Everynight Life

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319191
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Book Synopsis Everynight Life by : José Esteban Muñoz

Download or read book Everynight Life written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist studies. Viewing dance as privileged sites of identity formation and cultural resistance in Latin/o America, Everynight Life translates the motion of bodies into speech, and the gestures of dance into a provocative socio-political grammar. This anthology looks at many modes of dance--including salsa, merengue, cumbia, rumba, mambo, tango, samba, and norteño--as models for the interplay of cultural memory and regional conflict. Barbara Browning's essay on capoeira, for instance, demonstrates how dance has been used as a literal form of resistance, while José Piedra explores the meanings conveyed by women of color dancing the rumba. Pieces such as Gustavo Perez Fírmat's "I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd" and Jorge Salessi's "Medics, Crooks, and Tango Queens" illustrate the lively scope of this volume's subject matter. Contributors. Barbara Browning, Celeste Fraser Delgado, Jane C. Desmond, Mayra Santos Febres, Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia, Josh Kun, Ana M. López, José Esteban Muñoz, José Piedra, Gustavo Perez Fírmat, Augusto C. Puleo, David Román, Jorge Salessi, Alberto Sandoval

Esteban

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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359825
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Esteban by : Dennis Herrick

Download or read book Esteban written by Dennis Herrick and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pueblo Indians say, “The first white man our people saw was a black man,” they are referring to Esteban, who came to New Mexico in 1539. After centuries of negative portrayals, this book highlights Esteban’s importance in America’s early history. Books about the history of the American West have ignored Esteban or belittled his importance, often using his slave nickname, Estebanico. What little we know about Esteban comes from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and other Spanish chroniclers, whose condescension toward the African slave has carried over into most history books. In this work Herrick dispels the myths and outright lies about Esteban. His biography emphasizes Esteban rather than the Spaniards whose exploits are often exaggerated and jingoistic in the sixteenth-century chronicles. He gives Esteban full credit for his courage and his skill as a linguist and cultural intermediary who was trusted and respected by Indians from many tribes across the continent.

Cruising Utopia

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814757286
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Cruising Utopia written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Cross of the Bucanneer

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481744399
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis Cross of the Bucanneer by : R.A.S. Ginebra

Download or read book Cross of the Bucanneer written by R.A.S. Ginebra and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story takes place in spring of 1705 in a seaside village in Puerto Plata. A young boy's life will suddenly be change when his village is raided by pirates. Trills and adventures will conscript Esteban into a life he never could have imagined. He will struggle to reconcile the life that he is experiencing, versus the life he planned. Through Esteban and the other cast of characters we learn about the consequences of our actions, even if they happened long ago. The most important lesson, there is always opportunity for redemption. So, open up the pages and be part of this adventure!

An American Affair

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1680033352
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis An American Affair by : Mark Brazaitis

Download or read book An American Affair written by Mark Brazaitis and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The dozen short stories of An American Affair give us back a clear and accurate reflection of our own world here and now. Linked together by geographical setting and the clash of contemporary culture, they challenge our easy assumptions with complexity. The characters are wholly credible and fully dimensional. The stories they tell are moving and memorable. This is short fiction at its best and brightest.” —George Garrett, final judge “While the stories in An American Affair are united by various connections between Americans and Latin Americans, there is much more going on here beside culture clashes. These stories explore the complexities beneath our everyday lives, no matter where we live or have lived, no matter who we love or have loved. Mark Brazaitis inhabits a wide range of characters who want something more, who have to cope with dashed expectations, with time and memory’s betrayals. ‘It is hard to lie in a foreign language,’ Brazaitis writes. These rich, evocative stories deal with the nuances of truch and the inadequacy of language to express or even find truth, even when lying is made more difficult.” —Jim Daniels, author of Detroit Tales

The Golden Rose

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765351757
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis The Golden Rose by : Kathleen Bryan

Download or read book The Golden Rose written by Kathleen Bryan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to "The Serpent and the Rose," beautiful Averil is now the Duchess of Quitaine. To keep her people safe, she makes a vow to the traitor King of Lys to choose a husband from the men he offers her.

Masculinities

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000181367
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Masculinities by : Eduardo P. Archetti

Download or read book Masculinities written by Eduardo P. Archetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations. Because of its rich history, Argentina provides the ideal setting in which to study the intersection of masculine and national constructs: hybridization, creolization and a culture of performance have all informed both gender and national identities. Further, the author argues that, counter to claims made by globalization theorists, the importance of performance to Argentinian men and women has a long history and has powerfully shaped the national psyche. But this book takes the analysis far beyond national boundaries to address general arguments in anthropology which are not culture-specific, and the discussion poses important comparative questions and addresses central theoretical issues, from the interplay of morality and ritual, to a comparison between the popular and the aristocratic, to the importance of ‘othering' in national constructions - particularly those relating to sport. This book represents a major contribution, not only to anthropology, but to the study of gender, nationalism and culture in its broadest sense.

Texas

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Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0804151415
Total Pages : 1474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Texas by : James A. Michener

Download or read book Texas written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Texas “Fascinating.”—Time “A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, frontier and settlement, money and power . . . [James A. Michener] manages to make history vivid.”—The Boston Globe “A sweeping panorama . . . [Michener] grapples earnestly with the Texas character in a way that Texas’s own writers often don’t.”—The Washington Post Book World “Vast, sprawling, and eclectic in population and geography, the state has just the sort of larger-than-life history that lends itself to Mr. Michener’s taste for multigenerational epics.”—The New York Times

Once Upon A Time In America

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Publisher : Michael J Bowler
ISBN 13 : 099087110X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon A Time In America written by Michael J. Bowler and published by Michael J Bowler. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Lance leading the way, the Knights of the Round Table have set out to convince the American people that amending the Constitution to protect children is long overdue. As the team travels from state to state, they are met with acceptance, indifference, and hostility. But Lance’s popularity, coupled with his innate charm, gradually sways more of the populace to their cause. The journey becomes a rite of passage that propels the young people into adulthood and solidifies Lance’s status as an iconic and influential figure. But he’s uneasy. He knows Arthur is hiding something from him. After The Excalibur Incident in Las Vegas, Lance is certain the future will bring him great sorrow. Then comes the attack, sudden and brutal. Now the Round Table is in disarray, and Lance must confront a cold-blooded killer who’s luring him into an obvious trap. If he refuses the challenge, more loved ones will die, and everything he’s accomplished will die with them. Surrounded by the diverse young people who have become his family, Lance sets out for the final showdown with his enemy. The Lance Chronicles conclude… The Lance Chronicles: Children of the Knight (The Lance Chronicles Book 1) Running Through A Dark Place (The Lance Chronicles Book 2) There Is No Fear (The Lance Chronicles Book 3) And The Children Shall Lead (The Lance Chronicles Book 4) Once Upon A Time In America (The Lance Chronicles Book 5) Warrior Kids (standalone set within The Lance Chronicles universe)

Queering the Chilean Way

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113756248X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Queering the Chilean Way written by Carl Fischer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past fifty years, the country’s view of itself as a “model” in contrast to other Latin American countries has remained constant. By deploying an artistic, literary, and cinematic archive of queer figures from this period, this book draws parallels among the exceptionalisms of Chile’s economic discourse, the subjects deemed most (and least) apt to embody it, and the maneuvers of its cultural production between local and global ideas of gender and politics to delineate its place in the world. Queering the Chilean Way thus sheds light on the sexual, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of exceptionalism—at its heart, a discourse of exclusion that often comprises a major element of nationalism—in Chile and throughout the Americas.

And The Children Shall Lead

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Publisher : Michael J Bowler
ISBN 13 : 0990306364
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book And The Children Shall Lead written by Michael J. Bowler and published by Michael J Bowler. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The campaign to save California’s children was only the beginning. Now Lance and Ricky target America’s most sacred document – The Constitution. Native American teens Kai and Dakota—harboring secrets of their own—join the crusade and swear undying loyalty to Lance. They carry the hope of their people that the movement will better the lives of Indian children, who are inexcusably neglected by government. This new campaign will take the young people to The White House, the halls of Congress, and beyond in their quest to change the prevailing opinion that children are property, rather than human beings in their own right. But an unseen nemesis stalks Lance and ratchets up the attacks on New Camelot, promising to destroy all that Arthur has put in place. “You were right, little boy, death is coming for you, but slowly, and only after it takes out the people you love.” These chilling words haunt Lance, but also strengthen his resolve to protect the people he loves. Or die trying. The Lance Chronicles continue… Second Edition The Lance Chronicles: Children of the Knight (The Lance Chronicles Book 1) Running Through A Dark Place (The Lance Chronicles Book 2) There Is No Fear (The Lance Chronicles Book 3) And The Children Shall Lead (The Lance Chronicles Book 4) Once Upon A Time In America (The Lance Chronicles Book 5)

Came from Afar Woman

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496909062
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Came from Afar Woman written by Susan Schaffner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eventually, between the dreamer and the dreamed, reality fades, as Alison MacGiverson discovers on a field trip to Sonora, Mexico to study the Seri Indians. Attached to the Smithsonian Museum, Alison becomes immersed in the Seri myth, Came from Afar Man. Employing the mystical powers of a tribal elder, she travels back in time and embarks on a journey with Viking explorers in the uncharted lands of the Americas. Drawn to Viking, Eirik Sigmusson, Alisons dreams reveal glimpses of a former life, but her love for Eirik lures her toward a dangerous crossroads of life and death.

Don Esteban, Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Don Esteban, Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard by : Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez

Download or read book Don Esteban, Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard written by Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing in The Costa Rican Rain

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Publisher : Edward A St Amant
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in The Costa Rican Rain written by Edward St Amant and published by Edward A St Amant. This book was released on 2006 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story from the Sandinista Revolution.

Don Esteban, Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Don Esteban, Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard written by Valentin Llanos Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: