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Nothing's Mat

Author : Erna Brodber
Publisher : University of West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766404949
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Nothing's Mat written by Erna Brodber and published by University of West Indies Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing?s Mat is told by a black British teenager ? ?every black girl? ? for she has no name until the very last chapters when she is teasingly called ?Princess? by her husband. Somewhere in the 1950s London-based Princess is allowed to complete her sixthform final exams by writing a long paper on the West Indian family instead of sitting an exam. She thinks this a godsend and that all she has to do is to interview her parents. Her father tries to help her with his side but they both find that their kin will not fit into the standard anthropological template. Her father thinks it a good time for her to go to Jamaica and meet her grandparents, who can better help her with her study.In Jamaica, much as her middle-class black Jamaican grandparents and her parents in England might not have liked it, Princess meets and spends time with her obscure cousin Nothing, called Conut. Conut introduces Princess to a plant that obeys certain divine principles and is available to humans to make artefacts for their comfort. Accordingly, they begin to make a mat and as they twist straw and bend it into intricate shapes, Conut tells her the family history so that their creation becomes for her a mat of anthropological template. The resulting shape presented to her teacher earns her an A and the comment that she has managed to project the West Indian family as a fractal rather than fractured as the published literature sees it.Her studies and subsequent academic career take her to London University and then back to Jamaica, but understimulated by the academy, she chooses to continue the family study from high school and to do so by crafting the information into the mat, which becomes for her a shield against spiritual and physical evil. Making the mat of ancestors takes her into myriad histories of young Englishmen in Jamaica, of Jamaican women in Panama, and of African Americans in Virginia, among others.This work is at once a fictional family history and a comment on anthropological methodology and African systems of thought.

Nothing Mat(t)ers

Author : Somer Brodribb
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550284102
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Mat(t)ers written by Somer Brodribb and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing Mat(t)ers is a feminist critique of the theories of Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, among others. Somer Brodribb analyzes the texts and the arguments that post-structuralism has nominated as central, in the process exposing the misogyny at their core. Brodribb provides a history of definitions of structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, and postmodernism. She considers feminist encounters with structuralism and existentialism. She evaluates the originality of Foucault's contributions and discusses feminist responses to his work. Turning to Derrida, she considers his fixation with dissemination and demeaning versus conception and new embodiment. She contrasts the work of Lacan and Irigaray on ethics before turning to the work of de Beauvoir, O'Brien, and other feminists as an authentic alternative to postmodern critical theory.

Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard

Author : Violet Harrington Bryan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496836243
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard by : Violet Harrington Bryan

Download or read book Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard written by Violet Harrington Bryan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Velma Pollard was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica. By the time she was three, her parents had moved to Woodside, St. Mary, in northeast Jamaica, where her sister, Erna, was born. Even though they both travel widely and often, the sisters both still live in Jamaica. The sisters write about their homeland as a series of memories and stories in their many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They center on their home village of Woodside in St. Mary Parish, Jamaica, occasionally moving the settings of their fiction and poetry to other regions of Jamaica and various Caribbean islands, as well as other parts of the diaspora in the United States, Canada, and England. The role of women in the patriarchal society of Jamaica and much of the Caribbean is also a subject of the sisters’ writing. Growing up in what Brodber calls the kumbla, the protective but restrictive environment of many women in the Anglo-Caribbean, is an important theme in their fiction. In her fiction, Pollard discusses the gender gaps in employment and the demands of marriage and the special contributions of women to family and community. Many scholars have also explored the significance of spirit in Brodber’s work, including the topics of “spirit theft,” “spirit possession,” and spirits existing through time, from Africa to the present. Brodber’s narratives also show communication between the living and the dead, from Jane and Louisa (1980) to Nothing’s Mat (2014). Yet, few scholars have examined Brodber’s work on par with her sister’s writing. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due and study the sisters’ important contributions.

Matthew Arnold

Author : Hugh Kingsmill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Matthew Arnold written by Hugh Kingsmill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ...

Author : Thomas George Thrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-lore ... written by Thomas George Thrum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature collection of Hawaiian antiquities, legends, traditions, mele, and genealogies that were gathered by Abraham Fornander, S. M. Kamakau, J. Kepelino, S. N. Haleole and others. The original collection of manuscripts was purchased from the Fornander estate following his death in 1887 by Charles R. Bishop for preservation, and became part of the Bishop Musem collection. The papers were published from 1916-1919 as volume IV, V, and VI of the series Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. The manuscripts were translated, revised and edited by Dr. W. D. Alexander and Thomas G. Thrum.

Meditations from the Mat

Author : Rolf Gates
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773949
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Meditations from the Mat written by Rolf Gates and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 daily reflections offering a way to integrate the mindfulness that yoga teaches into everyday life, from the acclaimed yoga teacher, Rolf Gates. As more and more people in the West pursue yoga in its various forms, whether at traditional centers, in the high-powered atmosphere of sports clubs, or on their own, they begin to realize that far from being just another exercise routine, yoga is a discipline of the body and the mind. Whether used in the morning to set the tone for the day, during yoga exercise itself, or at the end of the day, during evening reflection, the daily reflections in Meditations from the Mat will support and enhance anyone’s yoga journey.

The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

Author : Allan Hazlett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198889844
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism written by Allan Hazlett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have wondered whether anything really matters, some have temporarily thought that nothing really matters, and some philosophers have defended the view that nothing really matters. However, if someone thinks that nothing matters--if they are a "nihilist about value"--then it seems that it is irrational for them to care about anything. It seems that nihilism about value mandates total indifference. This is the "problem of nihilism" Allan Hazlett addresses in The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism. Hazlett argues that the problem of nihilism arises because desire--and thus caring--is a species of evaluation that admits of irrationality. This contradicts the influential Humean view that desire does not admit of irrationality, which has a ready solution to the problem of nihilism: since desire does not admit of irrationality, it cannot be irrational to care about something that you believe does not matter. However, following G.E. Anscombe, Hazlett argues that desire has the same relationship to goodness as belief has to truth: just as truth is the accuracy condition for belief, goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This reveals desire as an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry, in the same way that belief is an appropriate target of epistemological inquiry. Desires can amount to knowledge (in the same way that beliefs can amount to knowledge) and, crucially for the problem of nihilism, desire admits of irrationality (in the same way that belief admits of irrationality). Nevertheless, although it is obviously irrational to believe something that you believe is not true, Hazlett argues that it is not irrational to desire something you believe is not good, despite the fact that goodness is the accuracy condition for desire. This provides a solution to the problem of nihilism, and shows that nihilism about value can coherently be combined with the anti-Humean view that desire is a species of evaluation.

Nothing Takes the Place of Leather

Author : Newark Museum Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Takes the Place of Leather written by Newark Museum Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nothing Like Example, and George Ranford's Happy Christmas Eve, Or, Facts for Young Working Men. [With Illustrations.]

Author : Ellen Ross (formerly Brook.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing Like Example, and George Ranford's Happy Christmas Eve, Or, Facts for Young Working Men. [With Illustrations.] written by Ellen Ross (formerly Brook.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Aramaic Covenants

Author : RavYaakov BarYosef
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329161106
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Aramaic Covenants written by RavYaakov BarYosef and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle

Author : Mohamed Leftah
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635420652
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle written by Mohamed Leftah and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published after the author’s death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant. Captain Ni’mat, a reservist from the Egyptian army defeated by the Israelis in 1967, finds himself aging and idle, spending his days at a luxurious private club in Cairo with former comrades. One night, Captain Ni’mat has an exquisite, chilling dream: he sees pure beauty in the form of his Nubian valet. Awakened by these searing images, he slips into the hut where the young man sleeps. The vision of his naked body so deeply disturbs Captain Ni’mat that his monotonous existence is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to his wife, he comes to know physical love with his valet. In a country where religious fundamentalism grows increasingly prevalent every day, this forbidden passion will lead him to the height of happiness, at least for a time.

A Season on the Mat

Author : Nolan Zavoral
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743254228
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book A Season on the Mat written by Nolan Zavoral and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unbeaten through his years of high school wrestling in Waterloo, Iowa, and almost all the way through Iowa State University, Dan Gable went on to coach at the University of Iowa for twenty-one years, winning the Big 10 every year and the NCAA championship fifteen times.

Miller's Modern Acting Drama

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miller's Modern Acting Drama written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems on several occasions. The dedication signed: Mat. Prior

Author : Matthew Prior
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Poems on several occasions. The dedication signed: Mat. Prior written by Matthew Prior and published by . This book was released on 1719 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Code of Fair Competition for the Stereotype Dry Mat Industry as Approved on July 27, 1934

Author : United States. National Recovery Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Code of Fair Competition for the Stereotype Dry Mat Industry as Approved on July 27, 1934 written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bible Text Cyclopedia

Author : James Inglis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Bible Text Cyclopedia written by James Inglis and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nothing Week

Author : Pete Hancock
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300162341
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Nothing Week written by Pete Hancock and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nothing Week' is the other week following pay-week when those with something left in their pockets contribute to the well-being of others whose meagre income has been largely absorbed by 'book-up' or gambling. Set in the remote South Australian township of Oodnadatta on the edge of the Simpson Desert, this enriching narrative offers a bridge into Aboriginal culture following the ups and downs which typify life in that unique community. A number of contemporary social and political issues are discussed in the context of a fictional five-week slice of time from the third week of May through to June.