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Louisiana Calls Me Home
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Download or read book Louisiana written by Erna Brodber and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana: A Novel she explores her continuing fascination with the power of the past to live in the present. Here, Ella Townsend, a young African American anthropologist whose roots are Caribbean, researches Louisiana folklife and discovers not only the world of voodoo and carnival but also the mystical connection of the living and the dead. With her tape recorder she explores the rich heritage of Creole Louisiana, but Mammy, Ella's primary informant, dies during the project. Then from beyond the grave she continues to transmit messages. Although the academically minded Ella is dubious about the authenticity of the medium, gradually, as she confronts her prejudices, the tapes convey enriching mysteries about the past lives of Mammy and her friend Lowly. From this supernatural experience, Ella learns much about herself and her background. Louisiana celebrates the magico-religious culture of hoodoo, conjure, obeah, and myal. Like Brodber's previous works, Myal: A Novel and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Louisiana reveals the author's fascinating gift of myth-making. The Louisiana of her title represents two places sharing the same name—the American state and Brodber's native parish in Jamaica. Through this blending of localities, Brodber shows how elements from the African diaspora are kept alive in the Creole culture of the Americas.
Book Synopsis Louisiana's Way Home by : Kate DiCamillo
Download or read book Louisiana's Way Home written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo comes a story of discovering who you are — and deciding who you want to be. When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana’s life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town — including a surly motel owner, a walrus-like minister, and a mysterious boy with a crow on his shoulder — she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes. (Which could be due to the curse on Louisiana's and Granny’s heads. But that is a story for another time.) Called “one of DiCamillo’s most singular and arresting creations” by The New York Times Book Review, the heartbreakingly irresistible Louisiana Elefante was introduced to readers in Raymie Nightingale — and now, with humor and tenderness, Kate DiCamillo returns to tell her story.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Calls Me Home: State of Louisiana College Ruled 6"x9" 120 Page Lined Notebook by : Home State Of Mind
Download or read book Louisiana Calls Me Home: State of Louisiana College Ruled 6"x9" 120 Page Lined Notebook written by Home State Of Mind and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Display your love for your home state and show your pride for Louisiana with this diary. Use this matte charcoal colored journal with classy handwritten white script as a gift for a high school or college graduate to celebrate the next step in their life.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Called My Name by : Colleen O'Brien Arthur
Download or read book Louisiana Called My Name written by Colleen O'Brien Arthur and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana Called My Name by Colleen O'Brien Arthur is an uplifting memoir about a woman who leaves San Francsico and moves to Louisiana. She falls in love with a lake, a man, and the Cajun culture. The book is full of her adventures from elk hunting in the Rockies to Scuba Diving in the Philippines. Her humor and passion for life will keep you turning the pages wanting more.
Book Synopsis Possessing the Past by : Lisa Hinrichsen
Download or read book Possessing the Past written by Lisa Hinrichsen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality. Focusing on the roles that narrative and fantasy play in creating a sense of regional distinctiveness, Lisa Hinrichsen brings a wealth of critical scholarship to her consideration of memory and southern literature. Hinrichsen's nuanced readings of a diverse group of southern authors, including William Faulkner, Roberto Fernández, Erna Brodber, Monique Truong, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, offer new ways of conceptualizing memory, place, and history. She unravels southern literature's critical confrontation with the region's history through complex systems of remembrance and erasure, and she traces how fantasy mediates trauma and adjudicates identity. Expansive in its psychoanalytical approach, her work explores issues of law, testimony, and social justice; the role of nostalgic fantasies of gentility at midcentury; the relationship between white empathy and social fantasy; the resemblance of regional patterns of disavowal to national ideologies of forgetting in Vietnam-era fiction; and the impact of contemporary multicultural literature on memory and community. Possessing the Past broadens the theoretical framework used to conceptualize memory and trauma, while grounding traumatic testimony in the specifics of time and place amply offered by southern literature. It provides new readings of an array of southern writers and deepens our understanding of the continuing importance of history, memory, and fantasy in the literature of the U.S. South.
Book Synopsis Louisiana's Song by : Kerry Madden-Lunsford
Download or read book Louisiana's Song written by Kerry Madden-Lunsford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Livy Two is happy that Daddy is finally out of his coma, but the befuddled man who comes home is not the daddy the Weems family once knew. He forgets their names, he wanders off—he won’t even touch his beloved banjo. Set in Appalachia in 1963, this heartwarming, and heart-wrenching, follow-up to Gentle’s Holler is narrated by the irrepressible Livy Two, and traces the ups and downs of her large mountain family. Shy and awkward 11-year-old Louise (Louisiana) becomes the reluctant hero as she develops a talent for painting, takes care of Daddy, and shows a surprised Livy Two that sometimes the quietest sibling turns out to be the strongest.
Download or read book Secret Graces written by Kathryn Magendie and published by BelleBooks. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second book of Kathryn Magendie's much-praised series about the journey of a woman dealing with the ghosts of a dysfunctional family, Virginia Kate Carey seeks the loving commitment that eluded her in TENDER GRACES. "Vee" is idealistic and naïve despite the witness she has served to the fractured heritage of her parents' and grandmother's dreams. Vee continues her journey toward wisdom, building small bridges over the chasms of hurt and longing. The inspiration of hope lingers in her. TENDER GRACES and now, SECRET GRACES, explores three women's lives: Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and passes through the fulcrum of Virginia Kate's emerging life as a lover and mother and storyteller, chronicling the heart ache and hope of her family and herself.
Author :Pierre-Clément de Laussat Publisher :University Press of America ISBN 13 :9780819174482 Total Pages :230 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (744 download)
Book Synopsis Louisiana, Napoleon and the United States by : Pierre-Clément de Laussat
Download or read book Louisiana, Napoleon and the United States written by Pierre-Clément de Laussat and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative first-time translation of the autobiography of Pierre-Clement de Laussat (1756-1835), offers a portrait of the middle-man in the transaction of 1803 which gave the United States the Louisiana territory. The life of this 'transfer agent' reads like a novel amply detailed with the love, pride, ambition, and courage that drove him to make a mark on history. Appointed by Napoleon in 1803 as Colonial Prefect for Louisiana and Commissioner General, Pierre-Clement de Laussat negotiated the cession of the Louisiana Territory to France from Spain and fended off the danger of foreign occupation and internal insurrections threatening Louisiana during the interim of the switch of control by the countries involved. It was he who represented France at the ceremonies of cession of Louisiana on December 20, 1803 and who received the French flag when it was lowered in Jackson Square to be replaced by the American colors. And it was he who continued to maintain peace in the newly-acquired territory until William C. Claiborn assumed governship for the United States. Translated with an introduction by Sister Agnes-Josephine Pastwa. Compiled by Sister Joan LaVerne Rutz.
Download or read book Callaloo written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some special issues devoted to the literatures of other minorities.
Book Synopsis H.R. 4100, the Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services
Download or read book H.R. 4100, the Louisiana Recovery Corporation Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Circle of Firelight by : Curtis Edmonds
Download or read book A Circle of Firelight written by Curtis Edmonds and published by Scary Hippopotamus Books. This book was released on 2021-11-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What results is a charming tale that allows every reader to smile knowingly. A sturdy, well-crafted, and vibrant fantasy." - Kirkus The execution is for the most part charming and clever, with lively dialogue, easy pacing, and fleshed-out protagonists... Edmonds's novel evokes the magic of portal fantasies while grounding it with emotionally resonant relationships." -- Booklife On the battlefield of dreams, the strongest weapons are imagination--and love. Ashlyn Revere is a bright, determined and resourceful college graduate trying to get a job in publishing. When Ashlyn and her sister Penny are left comatose after an automobile accident, they find themselves in Summervale, a beautiful and perilous realm straight from the pages of fantasy novels--which is ruled by a mysterious Dark Lord. When Ashlyn discovers that Penny is being held captive, she enlists the help of a talking black rabbit and a scarlet knight to save her sister. She learns that Penny is deep within her own fantasy of Regency romance--and that she sees being in a coma as a way to escape from her daily struggles with cystic fibrosis. Ashlyn tries to rescue her anyway, but a fire-breathing dragon and a real-world seizure complicate her plans. As Penny recovers from her injuries and leaves Summervale, Ashlyn is rescued by a servant of the Dark Lord who promises to show her just how precarious her own medical situation is. In the real world, Ashlyn's medical condition has worsened, forcing her doctors to consider risky surgery. Ashlyn rejects an offer from the Dark Lord to remain in Summervale forever, and chooses to raise an army of knights to fight for her freedom and independence. Penny must face a choice of her own. As Ashlyn hovers between life and death, Penny learns that Ashlyn would be a good match to provide the donor set of lungs that Penny needs to free her from the constraints of cystic fibrosis. As doctors battle to save Ashlyn's life, she leads her forces against the Dark Lord in a desperate conflict in the streets of an imaginary Manhattan--while Penny must find the answer to her own destiny in a dying circle of firelight. Can the sisters rescue themselves--and each other? A CIRCLE OF FIRELIGHT blends postmodern fantasy and real-world emotional conflict in a daring tale that will delight adult and young adult readers alike.
Download or read book Diary of a Misfit written by Casey Parks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part sweeping journalistic saga: As Casey Parks follows the mystery of a stranger's past, she is forced to reckon with her own sexuality, her fraught Southern identity, her tortured yet loving relationship with her mother, and the complicated role of faith in her life. "Most moving is Parks’s depiction of a queer lineage, her assertion of an ancestry of outcasts, a tapestry of fellow misfits into which the marginalized will always, for better or worse, fit." —The New York Times Book Review When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks's grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, pulled her aside and revealed a startling secret. "I grew up across the street from a woman who lived as a man," and then implored Casey to find out what happened to him. Diary of a Misfit is the story of Parks's life-changing journey to unravel the mystery of Roy Hudgins, the small-town country singer from grandmother’s youth, all the while confronting ghosts of her own. For ten years, Parks traveled back to rural Louisiana and knocked on strangers’ doors, dug through nursing home records, and doggedly searched for Roy’s own diaries, trying to uncover what Roy was like as a person—what he felt; what he thought; and how he grappled with his sense of otherness. With an enormous heart and an unstinting sense of vulnerability, Parks writes about finding oneself through someone else’s story, and about forging connections across the gulfs that divide us.
Book Synopsis I Call Him Jehovah Jireh by : Donna S. Goodman
Download or read book I Call Him Jehovah Jireh written by Donna S. Goodman and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a storybook marriage, Author Donna Goodman, was awakened in the wee hours of the morning to the horror of her husband paralyzed as a result of a devastating stroke when he was only 43 years old. Life would never be the same. Six long weeks in the hospital with no home in which to return, yet God, generously, abundantly provided year after year in ways unimaginable. In this book, read in awe of how God was and is indeed Jehovah Jireh to the Goodman family. Trusting God’s promises to never leave her or forsake her, she clung desperately to her sons, church friends, God’s Word and hope! If life seems so overwhelming that you just can’t face another day, find the hope and inspiration you need to trust God with your future in ways that only He can. Not only can He bless you, but He can also use your story to be a blessing to others. “He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” 2 Corinthians 1:4 HCSB
Book Synopsis Minutes of the Annual Session of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention by : Louisiana Baptist Convention
Download or read book Minutes of the Annual Session of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention written by Louisiana Baptist Convention and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When the Muses Came to Call by : Donald E. Smith
Download or read book When the Muses Came to Call written by Donald E. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a very personal collection of poems and other writings that were written over a period of more than fifty years. They were written at times of strong emotional feelings about love, death, triumphs, tragedies and, even, the most mundane of life's events. It took fifty years for the author to gain the insight, the perspective and the courage to reveal his feelings for all to see. He hopes that the readers will see and recognize some of the emotion that plays such a big role in the lives of all of us.
Download or read book The Story of Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana by : Keagan LeJeune
Download or read book Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana written by Keagan LeJeune and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State. His account confronts the challenging environmental record evident in Louisiana’s landscapes. LeJeune also celebrates and memorializes traditions of some underrepresented communities in Louisiana, communities that are vanishing or have vanished—communities including the author’s own. Each section in the memoir is a journey to a fascinating place, but it’s also a search for LeJeune’s own sense of belonging. The book is an adventure and a pilgrimage across Louisiana to explore its future and to reckon with feelings of loss and anxiety accompanying climate disasters. LeJeune travels to Louisiana’s geographic center to learn what waits there. He chases the ghosts of Hot Wells, a shuttered healing resort, and he kneels at the tomb of folk saint Charlene Richard. With every adventure, every memory, he ends up much closer to home.
