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Palm Latitudes

Author : Kate Braverman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802837
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Palm Latitudes written by Kate Braverman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-filled "barrio" of Los Angeles. Frances Ramos is a voluptuous prostitute who flaunts her wealth and is held in high esteem by the local street gangs. Gloria Hernandez is a dutiful young wife and mother—until her husband’s act of betrayal sparks her growing estrangement and fury. Marta Ortega, a prophetic old woman connected viscerally with the forces/elements of nature, nods as past and present mingle and quietly charts the cross-pollenization of her turbulent neighborhood, and of human destiny.

Lithium for Medea

Author : Kate Braverman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609802497
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Lithium for Medea written by Kate Braverman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addiction—to sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chains—as it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rose—the daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridors—as she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Rose’s breathless, fierce, visceral flight—like a drug that leaves one’s perceptions forever altered.

Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction

Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816531048
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction by : Ignacio López-Calvo

Download or read book Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction written by Ignacio López-Calvo and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles has long been a place where cultures clash and reshape. The city has a growing number of Latina/o authors and filmmakers who are remapping and reclaiming it through ongoing symbolic appropriation. In this illuminating book, Ignacio López-Calvo foregrounds the emotional experiences of authors, implicit authors, narrators, characters, and readers in order to demonstrate that the evolution of the imaging of Los Angeles in Latino cultural production is closely related to the politics of spatial location. This spatial-temporal approach, he writes, reveals significant social anxieties, repressed rage, and deep racial guilt. Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction sets out to reconfigure the scope of Latino literary and cultural studies. Integrating histories of different regions and nations, the book sets the interplay of unresolved contradictions in this particular metropolitan area. The novelists studied here stem from multiple areas, including the U.S. Southwest, Guatemala, and Chile. The study also incorporates non-Latino writers who have contributed to the Latino culture of the city. The first chapter examines Latino cultural production from an ecocritical perspective on urban interethnic relations. Chapter 2 concentrates on the representation of daily life in the barrio and the marginalization of Latino urban youth. The third chapter explores the space of women and how female characters expand their area of operations from the domestic space to the public space of both the barrio and the city. A much-needed contribution to the fields of urban theory, race critical theory, Chicana/o–Latina/o studies, and Los Angeles writing and film, López-Calvo offers multiple theoretical perspectives—including urban theory, ecocriticism, ethnic studies, gender studies, and cultural studies—contextualized with notions of transnationalism and post-nationalism.

Incantation of Frida K.

Author : Kate Braverman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800079
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Incantation of Frida K. written by Kate Braverman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wounds of her body and spirit with a stark pride, transcending all limitations, wrapping her senses around the places, events, and conversations in her past. Frida K. interacts from her hospital bed with her mother, sister, Diego, and her nurse. She calls herself a "water woman," navigating into unexplored dimensions of her world, leading us through the alleys of San Francisco’s Chinatown, of Paris in 1939 (where she rubbed shoulders with André Breton), and of her neighborhood in Mexico City, Coyoacan. Her voyage is an inward one, an incantation before dying. In The Incantation of Frida K., Braverman’s language dances and spins. She carves out a bold interpretation of the life of an artist to whom she is vitally connected.

Commercial Commodities

Author : Frank W. Matthews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Commercial Commodities written by Frank W. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

CLIMATOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE TEMPERATE LATITUDES OF THE NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT.

Author : LORIN BLODGET,
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CLIMATOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THE TEMPERATE LATITUDES OF THE NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT. written by LORIN BLODGET, and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coconut Latitudes

Author : Rita M. Gardner
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631529021
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Coconut Latitudes written by Rita M. Gardner and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Medal Winner, Autobiography/Memoir, 2015 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards. A father makes the fateful decision to leave a successful career in the US behind and move to an isolated beach in the Dominican Republic. He plants ten thousand coconut seedlings, transplants his wife and two young daughters to a small village, and declares they are the luckiest people alive. In reality, the family is in the path of hurricanes and in the grip of a brutal dictator, Rafael Trujillo—and the children are additionally under the thumb of an increasingly volatile and alcoholic father. Set against a backdrop of shimmering palms and kaleidoscope sunsets, The Coconut Latitudes is Rita Gardner’s compelling memoir of a childhood in paradise, a journey into unexpected misery, and a twisted path to redemption and truth.

Inter/View

Author : Mickey Pearlman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185467
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Inter/View written by Mickey Pearlman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today—writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in an essay/interview reflecting the dynamic that develops naturally when two vital minds meet to discuss topic of mutually interest. The writers talk about the role of memory, space, and family in their work, about politics, dreams, and race, about their mothers and children and alma maters, about book reviewing and their agents, editors, and publishers, and about each others' work. A bibliography of principal works follows each essay. A valuable contribution to writers both female and male, for above all else, this is a book about writing.

The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028035
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.

Imagining Los Angeles

Author : David Fine
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174600
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Los Angeles written by David Fine and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America. In Imagining Los Angeles, the first literary history of the city in more than fifty years, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. His lively and engaging text focuses on the way these writers saw Los Angeles and used the image of the city as an element in their work, and on how that image has changed as the city itself became ever larger, more complex, and more socially and ethnically diverse. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the literature and changing image of Southern California.

Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

Author : J A Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317966627
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended written by J A Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan dimensions. In the course of its epic history, the Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies, from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics represent an essential component of modern global history. The Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Women & Aging

Author : Helen Rippier Wheeler
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555876616
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Women & Aging written by Helen Rippier Wheeler and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide with more than two thousand bibliographic entries and cross-references. It includes journal articles, book chapters, essays, and doctoral dissertations, as well as complete books.

Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere

Author : Brian J. Hoskins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470833696
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere written by Brian J. Hoskins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a coherent development of the current understanding of the fluid dynamics of the middle latitude atmosphere. It is primarily aimed at post-graduate and advanced undergraduate level students and does not assume any previous knowledge of fluid mechanics, meteorology or atmospheric science. The book will be an invaluable resource for any quantitative atmospheric scientist who wishes to increase their understanding of the subject. The importance of the rotation of the Earth and the stable stratification of its atmosphere, with their implications for the balance of larger-scale flows, is highlighted throughout. Clearly structured throughout, the first of three themes deals with the development of the basic equations for an atmosphere on a rotating, spherical planet and discusses scale analyses of these equations. The second theme explores the importance of rotation and introduces vorticity and potential vorticity, as well as turbulence. In the third theme, the concepts developed in the first two themes are used to give an understanding of balanced motion in real atmospheric phenomena. It starts with quasi-geostrophic theory and moves on to linear and nonlinear theories for mid-latitude weather systems and their fronts. The potential vorticity perspective on weather systems is highlighted with a discussion of the Rossby wave propagation and potential vorticity mixing covered in the final chapter.

Captain Cook Rediscovered

Author : David L. Nicandri
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774862254
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Captain Cook Rediscovered written by David L. Nicandri and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accomplishments of the Australasian first voyage but focuses on the second- and third-voyage discovery missions in the extreme latitudes, where Cook pioneered the science of iceberg and icepack formation. A truly modern appraisal of early polar science, Captain Cook Rediscovered resonates in the climate change era.

LAtitudes

Author : Luis Alfaro
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597142977
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book LAtitudes written by Luis Alfaro and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA is a seemingly endless combination of unique geography, communities, and cultures that calls for a literary vision of its complex landscape of humanity and geography inspired by Rebecca Solnits Infinite City

LA Sports

Author : Wayne Wilson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610756290
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book LA Sports written by Wayne Wilson and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LA Sports brings together sixteen essays covering various aspects of the development and changing nature of sport in one of America’s most fascinating and famous cities. The writers cover a range of topics, including the history of car racing and ice skating, the development of sport venues, the power of the Mexican fan base in American soccer leagues, the intersecting life stories of Jackie and Mack Robinson, the importance of the Showtime Lakers, the origins of Muscle Beach and surfing, sport in Hollywood films, and more.

Myth and Southern History: The Old South

Author : Patrick Gerster
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252060243
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Southern History: The Old South written by Patrick Gerster and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historical myths are actually false yet psychologically true. The contributors to this volume see myth and reality as complementary elements in the historical record. Myth and Southern History is as much a commentary on southern historiography as it is on the viability of myth in the historical process. Volume 2: The New South offers new perspectives on the North's role in southern mythology, the so-called Savage South, twentieth-century black and white southern women, and the "changes" that distinguish the late twentieth-century South from that of the Civil War era.