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Book Synopsis Gringa in a Strange Land by : Linda Dahl
Download or read book Gringa in a Strange Land written by Linda Dahl and published by Robert Reed Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid novel of the inner life of a young American artist traveling through Mexico in the 1970s, in search of her artistic identity and her self.
Book Synopsis First Chapter Plus: connecting readers to new books (Issue #1, April 2010) by : Watson, Irene
Download or read book First Chapter Plus: connecting readers to new books (Issue #1, April 2010) written by Watson, Irene and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nicaraguan Gringa written by John Keith and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her father's death, Sarah Rutledge returns from North Carolina to Nicaragua in an attempt to prevent the family's property from being expropriated by the Sandinista government. The novel begins with Sarah's childhood on the coffee farm where her British-American family has lived for almost a century. Natural disasters, civil conflicts, and political changes force her to ponder who belongs in Nicaragua, just where she belongs, to whom she belongs, and what belongs to her. Author John Keith's life was significantly shaped by two social transformations of the twentieth century, the civil rights movement in the United States and the new vision of mission and development by churches in Central America. In Canebrake Beach: A Novella and Four Short Stories (2012) he reflected on the relationships of black and white people in the South over a span of seventy years. In Nicaraguan Gringa: Claiming a Home, he explores the evolving relationships of nations and their citizens as ruling regimes ebb and flow.
Book Synopsis The Gringa and the Revolutionary by : T. M. Reichle
Download or read book The Gringa and the Revolutionary written by T. M. Reichle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gringa and the Revolutionary is an exciting look at a relationship between an American woman and a Mexican man. Set in Mexico in the 1980's, the ethic that 'love conquers all' is examined amidst the powerful backdrop of social change.
Book Synopsis Cleans Up Nicely by : Linda Dahl Vogl
Download or read book Cleans Up Nicely written by Linda Dahl Vogl and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2013-08-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twenty-something artist Erica Mason moves from laid-back Mexico to Manhattan in the mid-1970s, she finds a hard-edged, decadent, and radically evolving art scene. Peppered with characters who could only come from the latter days of the “turn-on-and-drop-out” ’60s in then-crumbling New York (a spaced-out drummer who’s completely given up on using or making money, a radical feminist who glues animal furs to her paintings of vaginas, and icons in the making like Patti Smith), Erica’s New York is fast-moving, funny, and heartrending—just like the city itself. Ultimately, her rite of passage is not only a love affair with art, men, alcohol, drugs, and music in the swirl that was the downtown scene in a radically evolving era in New York, but also a resurrection from addiction and self-delusion. More than the study of a celebrated period of artistic expression, Cleans Up Nicely is the story of one gifted young woman’s path from self-destruction to a hard-won self-knowledge that opens up a whole new world for her—and helps her claim the self-respect that has long eluded her.
Download or read book Gringa written by Sandra Jean Scofield and published by Permanent Press (NY). This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abilene's coming of age is masterfully conveyed through fully realized, complex characters and situations. Gringa succeeds in creating a richly sensory portrait of a world of exile not only in a foreign land but within one woman's own skin". -- New York Times New American Writing Award
Download or read book Applause written by Elizabeth Cain and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After admiring UCLA’s popular English professor and poet, Dr. William Langley for eleven years, twenty-seven-year-old graduate student Sela Hart is finally accepted into one of his exclusive creative writing classes. She has had her own work published and studied in Africa, and he has had a stressful twenty-year marriage to a lesbian woman while struggling to balance his world with the demands of academia. But the forty-year-old Langley is intrigued by Sela’s strange stories, while she is drawn to his emotional reeling at the sudden death of his wife in a horrendous car accident. The two become friends and then lovers, being touched along the way by Langley’s late wife’s gay friends, a Tanzanian man who cares for endangered animals, and Sela’s grandmother, who raises the only blue rose in the world. As Sela’s stories about an aging actor named William Hathaway and a girl named Angela Star—who may or may not be real—intensify, Langley begins to show signs of mental confusion and illness. The fictional Chalice River from Sela’s Quantum Crossing collection becomes a real place for him—one that is lonely, dark, and frightening. When he is ultimately swept away in a déjà vu car accident just yards from where his wife died, his only hope is the power of Sela’s passionate tale and her invincible love.
Book Synopsis Narrative Inquiries into Curriculum Making in Teacher Education by : Julian Kitchen
Download or read book Narrative Inquiries into Curriculum Making in Teacher Education written by Julian Kitchen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how individuals' identity and personal practical knowledge are being formed, shifted or interrupted through moments in teacher education.
Book Synopsis Identities in Transition by : Monisha Nayar-Akhtar
Download or read book Identities in Transition written by Monisha Nayar-Akhtar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the growth and development of a multicultural therapist/analyst, looking at how a history of immigration and exposure to analytic training began to influence clinicians as they evolved as analytic therapists and analysts.
Book Synopsis Excursions into Modernism by : Joyce Kelley
Download or read book Excursions into Modernism written by Joyce Kelley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.
Download or read book The Gringa written by Andrew Altschul and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and subversive novel about the slippery nature of truth and the tragic consequences of American idealism … Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. Ten years later, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels, he struggles to understand Leonora, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? In this powerful and timely new novel, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction, author and text, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice.
Download or read book La Gringa written by Carmen Rivera and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2008 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Gringa is about a young woman’s search for her identity. Maria Elena Garcia goes to visit her family in Puerto Rico during the Christmas holidays and arrives with plans to connect with her homeland. Although this is her first trip to Puerto Rico, she has had an intense love for the island, and even majored in Puerto Rican Studies in college. Once Maria is in Puerto Rico, she realizes that Puerto Rico does not welcome her with open arms. The majority of the Puerto Ricans on the island consider her an American – a gringa – and Maria considers this a betrayal. If she’s a Puerto Rican in the United States and an American in Puerto Rico, Maria concludes that she is nobody everywhere. Her uncle, Manolo, spiritually teaches her that identity isn’t based on superficial and external definitions, but rather is an essence that she has had all along in her heart. This play is published in a bilingual edition; if you are applying for licensing rights, please state which version you wish to produce.
Book Synopsis The Mongolian Conspiracy by : Rafael Bernal
Download or read book The Mongolian Conspiracy written by Rafael Bernal and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and hilarious 1960s Mexico City noir Only a couple of days before the state visit of the President of the United States, Filiberto García — an impeccably groomed "gun for hire," ex-Mexican revolutionary, and classic anti-hero — is recruited by the Mexican police to discover how much truth there might be to KGB and FBI reports of a Chinese-Mongolian plot to assassinate the Soviet and American presidents during the unveiling of a statue. García kills various bad guys as he searches for clues in the opium dens, curio shops, and Cantonese restaurants of Mexico City’s Chinatown — clues that appear to point not to Mongolia, but to Cuba. Yet as the bodies pile up, he begins to find traces of slimy political dealings: are local gears grinding away in these machinations of an "international incident"? Pulsating behind the smokescreen of this classic noir are fierce curses, a shockingly innocent affair,smoldering dialog, and unforgettable riffs about the meaning of life, the Mexican Revolution, women, and the best gun to use for close-range killing.
Book Synopsis South American Cinema by : Timothy Barnard
Download or read book South American Cinema written by Timothy Barnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. This text looks at the cinema from the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Presented by country and date order it includes the silent black and white Gaucho films of 1915 to the colour films coming out of Venezuela in 1991. Each entry provides a summary of the film content, its context, production and significance in the genre. It includes an index and glossary of Brazilian (Portuguese or African) Terms and film terms.
Book Synopsis South American Cinema by : Tim Barnard
Download or read book South American Cinema written by Tim Barnard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A filmography of South American motion pictures
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Book Synopsis A Land Without Sin by : Paula Huston
Download or read book A Land Without Sin written by Paula Huston and published by Slant Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books 2013 "In A Land Without Sin Paula Huston has written a novel that's wise and wry, tragic and tender, and altogether thrilling. Both moved and enthralled, I couldn't stop reading." --Robert Clark Author of In the Deep Midwinter and Love Among the Ruins "Huston treads where few writers dare, jumping fearlessly into the roiling cauldron of factious Central American politics, class, culture, and religions. No doubt it would have been easier to write a mere gloss, a panoramic report describing the horror of war, revolution, grinding poverty, and the inevitable human carnage. However, the lens through which Huston sees penetrates far deeper than a perusal of these surface wounds to examine the limits of family loyalty, faith, and the causes and cure of hatred. A Land Without Sin is a compelling narrative that leaves me both haunted and hungry for more." --Gina Ochsner Author of People I Wanted to Be and The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight "With some of the sheer excitement of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and the depth of soulful inquiry of Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, Paula Huston's A Land Without Sin is a savvy look at the violent struggles in southern Mexico over the last quarter century and a vivid perspective on the hopes and perils of liberation theology. It is a poignant and splendid book." --Ron Hansen Author of Mariette in Ecstasy and Atticus