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Fires in the Mirror

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101911298
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Fires in the Mirror written by Anna Deavere Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.

Notes from the Field

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525564608
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Field written by Anna Deavere Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. "One of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation” (Variety). Smith renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: “Rich kids get mischief, poor kids get pathologized and incarcerated.”) Using people’s own words, culled from interviews and speeches, Smith depicts Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who eulogized Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a high school student who confronted a violent police deputy; activist Bree Newsome, who took the Confederate flag down from the South Carolina State House grounds; and many others. Their voices bear powerful witness to a great iniquity of our time—and call us to action with their accounts of resistance and hope.

Twilight

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385473761
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Twilight written by Anna Deavere Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed playwright comes "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Twilight is a stunning work of "documentary theater" that explores the devastating human impact of the five days of riots following the Rodney King verdict. From nine months of interviews with more than two hundred people, Smith has chosen the voices that best reflect the diversity and tension of a city in turmoil: a disabled Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican-American artist, Rodney King's aunt, beaten truck driver Reginald Denny, former Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, and other witnesses, participants, and victims. A work that goes directly to the heart of the issues of race and class, Twilight ruthlessly probes the language and the lives of its subjects, offering stark insight into the complex and pressing social, economic, and political issues that fueled the flames in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and ignited a conversation about policing and race that continues today.

Summer Fires

Author : Giulia Sagramola
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506726712
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Summer Fires written by Giulia Sagramola and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giulia Sagramola's first long-form graphic novel, we follow the story of two sisters, Rachel and Sylvia, as they come of age in a typical Italian town. The two find themselves faced with the tough choices of teenaged life, which mirror the fires in the surrounding hillsides of the town, as one decision or another leads to unsettled feelings and desires. This wonderfully and meticulously illustrated tale takes all of the consternation and heartbreak we know too well from teenaged life, and puts it on display in a beautiful and subdued package. Summer Fires is presented here for the first time in English.

The Mirror of Merlin

Author : T. A. Barron
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780441008469
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Merlin written by T. A. Barron and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Young sorcery fans . . . set aside Harry Potter and pick up Merlin! ["The Mirror of Merlin" is] ingeniousIfilled with rich images [and] surprising touches of humor.U--"Cincinnati Enquirer. TRich with magic."--"The New York Times Book Review."

Let Me Down Easy (TCG Edition)

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559368675
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Let Me Down Easy (TCG Edition) written by Anna Deavere Smith and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying. The speakers Smith inhabits include healthcare professionals, theologians, artists, athletes, and activists. They speak of the body as a battleground, a tool, a weapon, a joy, a burden. Smith’s great gift has always been her ability to break down her subjects’ defenses and present them in their full, complicated beauty. Whether channeling Lance Armstrong, Lauren Hutton, Peter Gomes, or others who are not in the public eye, Smith reminds us again and again that in learning to die we learn to live.

The Mirror & the Maze

Author : Renée Ahdieh
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399547746
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror & the Maze written by Renée Ahdieh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Rey is burning. With smoke billowing, fires blazing and his people fleeing, Khalid races back to defend his city, and protect his queen. But Khalid is too late to do either. He and his men arrive to find the city in ruins, nothing but a maze of destruction, and Shahrzad is gone. But who could have wrought such devastation? Khalid fears he may already know the answer, the price of choosing love over the people of Rey all too evident.

Breathing Fire

Author : Jaime Lowe
Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374721920
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Breathing Fire written by Jaime Lowe and published by MCD. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and up the ravine. She was feeling the adrenaline, but also the terror of doing something for the first time. She knew how to run with a backpack; they had trained her physically. But that’s not training for flames. That’s not live fire. California’s fire season gets hotter, longer, and more extreme every year — fire season is now year-round. Of the thousands of firefighters who battle California’s blazes every year, roughly 30 percent of the on-the-ground wildland crews are inmates earning a dollar an hour. Approximately 200 of those firefighters are women serving on all-female crews. In Breathing Fire, Jaime Lowe expands on her revelatory work for The New York Times Magazine. She has spent years getting to know dozens of women who have participated in the fire camp program and spoken to captains, family and friends, correctional officers, and camp commanders. The result is a rare, illuminating look at how the fire camps actually operate — a story that encompasses California’s underlying catastrophes of climate change, economic disparity, and historical injustice, but also draws on deeply personal histories, relationships, desires, frustrations, and the emotional and physical intensity of firefighting. Lowe’s reporting is a groundbreaking investigation of the prison system, and an intimate portrayal of the women of California’s Correctional Camps who put their lives on the line, while imprisoned, to save a state in peril.

Building Fires in the Snow

Author : Martha Amore
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602233012
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Building Fires in the Snow written by Martha Amore and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state’s population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family—shopping, going out, working—to intimate encounters with Alaska’s breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes and reveals a side of Alaska that’s been little seen until now.

The Fires of Merlin

Author : T. A. Barron
Publisher : Philomel
ISBN 13 : 9780399250224
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Fires of Merlin written by T. A. Barron and published by Philomel. This book was released on 2007 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having voyaged to the Otherworld in his quest to find himself, the young wizard Merlin must face fire in many different forms and deal with the possibility of losing his own magical power.

Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy

Author : Dani Anguiano
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324005157
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy written by Dani Anguiano and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.

Shattering Hamlet's Mirror

Author : Marvin Carlson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121863
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Shattering Hamlet's Mirror written by Marvin Carlson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection. Throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display. In recent years theaters in Europe and North America have begun calling attention to the real in their work—presenting performers who did not create characters and who may not even have been actors, but who appeared on stage as themselves; texts created not by dramatic authors but drawn from real life; and real environments sometimes shared by actors and performers and containing real elements accessible to both. These practices, argues Marvin Carlson, constitute a major shift in the practical and phenomenological world of theater, and a turning away from mimesis, which has been at the heart of the theater since Aristotle. Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality examines recent and contemporary work by such groups as Rimini Protokoll, Societas Raffaelo Sanzio, the Gob Squad, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, and Foundry Theatre, while revealing the deep antecedents of today’s theater, placing it in useful historical perspective. While many may consider it a post-postmodern phenomenon, the “theater of the real,” as it turns out, has very deep roots.

Fire on the Mountain

Author : Dale A. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435739922
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Fire on the Mountain written by Dale A. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.

Forged by Fire

Author : Sharon M. Draper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442489146
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Forged by Fire written by Sharon M. Draper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and tragedy strikes. The one bright light in Gerald's life is his little half sister, Angel, whom he struggles to protect from her abusive father. Gerald finds success on the Hazelwood Tigers basketball team, and Angel develops her talents as a dancer, despite the trouble that still haunts them.

A Different Mirror

Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456611062
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

Letters to a Young Artist

Author : Anna Deavere Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 030748744X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Letters to a Young Artist written by Anna Deavere Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and no-nonsense guide for aspiring artists of all stripes—from “the most exciting individual in American theater” (Newsweek). In vividly anecdotal letters to the young BZ, Anna Deavere Smith addresses the full spectrum of issues that all artists starting out will face: from questions of confidence, discipline, and self-esteem, to fame, failure, and fear, to staying healthy, presenting yourself effectively, building a diverse social and professional network, and using your art to promote social change. At once inspiring and no-nonsense, Letters to a Young Artist will challenge you, motivate you, and set you on a course to pursue your art without compromise.

Enacting Others

Author : Cherise Smith
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822347997
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Enacting Others written by Cherise Smith and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the complex engagements with issues of identity in the performances of the artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee.