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Ishmael's Burden

Author : John Olsen
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781514349236
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Ishmael's Burden written by John Olsen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A burden is placed upon Ishmael - illegitimate first born son of the prophet Abraham - when he and his slave mother are cast away from the family and into the dessert. Ishmael is instructed to compile an Almanac and entrusted with a powerful secret to be employed with great discretion in the defense of history. This burden and its Almanac have been continuously maintained throughout the millennia in the world's oldest and least known university, forgotten at the proverbial end of the world, in the basement of Timbuktu's Sankore Madrasah. Professor Thomas Robinson of Princeton University is the latest man to assume Ishmael's Burden. His tenure will lead him to Rome's Milvian Bridge, site of an ancient Roman battle. Pursuant to strict instructions written by the very hand of Ishmael in the Almanac, Thomas must carefully recruit an improbable group of three earnest people to execute his mandate. A troubled Lithuanian Rabbi, a mystical Sufi Muslim man from war torn Iraq and a soulful black Christian woman from southern Louisiana are assembled by Thomas to do battle as instructed. Albeit separated by 1700 years, they are joined by a Roman Auxiliary Century and two audacious former slave boys to secure the outcome of one of history's most consequential battles. Ishmael's Burden is a work of Historical Fiction. It exclusively weaves well documented historical events and anecdotes into a breathtaking clash between nature's two most fundamental forces, quite literally the forces of Good and Evil. The premise is simple: Love Thy Neighbor.

The Aesthetic Cold War

Author : Peter J. Kalliney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123065X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetic Cold War written by Peter J. Kalliney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean How did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Cold War, Peter Kalliney explores the various ways that rival states used cultural diplomacy and the political police to influence writers. In response, many writers from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean—such as Chinua Achebe, Mulk Raj Anand, Eileen Chang, C.L.R. James, Alex La Guma, Doris Lessing, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and Wole Soyinka—carved out a vibrant conceptual space of aesthetic nonalignment, imagining a different and freer future for their work. Kalliney looks at how the United States and the Soviet Union, in an effort to court writers, funded international conferences, arts centers, book and magazine publishing, literary prizes, and radio programming. International spy networks, however, subjected these same writers to surveillance and intimidation by tracking their movements, tapping their phones, reading their mail, and censoring or banning their work. Writers from the global south also suffered travel restrictions, deportations, imprisonment, and even death at the hands of government agents. Although conventional wisdom suggests that cold war pressures stunted the development of postcolonial literature, Kalliney's extensive archival research shows that evenly balanced superpower competition allowed savvy writers to accept patronage without pledging loyalty to specific political blocs. Likewise, writers exploited rivalries and the emerging discourse of human rights to contest the attentions of the political police. A revisionist account of superpower involvement in literature, The Aesthetic Cold War considers how politics shaped literary production in the twentieth century.

Don't Call Me Ishmael

Author : Michael Bauer
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848776861
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Don't Call Me Ishmael written by Michael Bauer and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time ninth grade begins, Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before Barry Bagsley, the class bully, says, "Ishmael? What kind of wussy-crap name is that?" Ishmael's perfected the art of making himself virtually invisible. But all that changes when James Scobie joins the class. Unlike Ishmael, James has no sense of fear - he claims it was removed during an operation. Now nothing will stop James and Ishmael from taking on bullies, bugs and Moby Dick, in the toughest, weirdest, most embarrassingly awful - and the best - year of their lives.

Radiance of Tomorrow

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374709432
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Radiance of Tomorrow written by Ishmael Beah and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Named one of the Christian Science Monitor's best fiction books of the year. When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called "arguably the most read African writer in contemporary literature," has returned with his first novel, an affecting, tender parable about postwar life in Sierra Leone. At the center of Radiance of Tomorrow are Benjamin and Bockarie, two longtime friends who return to their hometown, Imperi, after the civil war. The village is in ruins, the ground covered in bones. As more villagers begin to come back, Benjamin and Bockarie try to forge a new community by taking up their former posts as teachers, but they're beset by obstacles: a scarcity of food; a rash of murders, thievery, rape, and retaliation; and the depredations of a foreign mining company intent on sullying the town's water supply and blocking its paths with electric wires. As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order, they're forced to reckon with the uncertainty of their past and future alike. With the gentle lyricism of a dream and the moral clarity of a fable, Radiance of Tomorrow is a powerful novel about preserving what means the most to us, even in uncertain times.

Ishmael

Author : James Baird
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421435640
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Ishmael written by James Baird and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956. In Ishmael, Professor James Baird responds to the increasing secularization of Western civilization and the creation of what he calls "authentic primitivism." For Baird, the aesthetic austerity of Protestantism undermined the structure of symbols created by Catholicism. In the absence of a meaningful structure of cultural authority in Western civilization, "primary art" took on a quasi-religious role by connecting humans to a transcendent being. Ishmael describes a new system of art, beginning around 1850, that supplanted Christian symbolism. Baird examines writers who helped to create a modern authentic primitivism, with emphasis on Herman Melville, whom Baird sees as a locus of change for the cultural significance of primary art. Baird provides a social history and biography of writers who participated in the primary art movement from 1850 to 1950

Overland Monthly

Author : Bret Harte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Overland Monthly written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overland Monthly and The Out West Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ishmael Alone Survived

Author : Janet Reno
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838751718
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Ishmael Alone Survived written by Janet Reno and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on studies of survivor psychology, this work provides an illuminating new reading of Moby-Dick. Janet Reno gives Ishmael new prominence and casts light on many of Moby-Dick's structural and thematic features.

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

Author : Carol Bailey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 197882968X
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization written by Carol Bailey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.

Little Family

Author : Ishmael Beah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735211795
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Little Family written by Ishmael Beah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together. Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country’s tumultuous past. Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise. Clever Khoudiemata maneuvers to keep the younger kids—athletic, pragmatic Ndevui, thoughtful Kpindi, and especially their newest member, Namsa—safe and fed. When Elimane makes himself of service to the shadowy William Handkerchief, it seems as if the little family may be able to keep the world at bay and their household intact. But when Khoudi comes under the spell of the “beautiful people”—the fortunate sons and daughters of the elite—the desire to resume an interrupted coming of age and follow her own destiny proves impossible to resist. A profound and tender portrayal of the connections we forge to survive the fate we’re dealt, Little Family marks the further blossoming of a unique global voice.

Arabs in the Shadow of Israel

Author : Tony Maalouf
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 9780825493638
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Arabs in the Shadow of Israel written by Tony Maalouf and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Foreword by Eugene H. Merrill) A compelling call for Christians to rethink the role of Arabs—also descendents of Abraham and recipients of his blessing.

Ishmael

Author : Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ishmael written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments

Author : Robert Jamieson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Old and New Testaments written by Robert Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ishmael

Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Ishmael written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chambers's Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Be Obedient

Author : Warren W. Wiersbe
Publisher : David C Cook
ISBN 13 : 9780896938755
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Be Obedient written by Warren W. Wiersbe and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth Bible study series now covers the entire New Testament and much of the Old Testament. With more than 3 million copies sold, the Be Series has touched people's hearts everywhere. Let Warren Wiersbe's words of wisdom touch your heart, too.

Ishmael

Author : Nels Jensen Herby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ishmael written by Nels Jensen Herby and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: