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Salvage Work

Author : Angela Naimou
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823264777
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Salvage Work written by Angela Naimou and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. What emerges is a compelling and original study of how law invents categories of identification and how literature contends with the person as a legal fiction. Through readings of Francisco Goldman’s The Ordinary Seaman, Edwidge Danticat’s Krik?Krak!, Rosario Ferre’s Sweet Diamond Dust (Maldito Amor), Gayl Jones’s Song for Anninho and Mosquito, and John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon, Naimou shows how literary engagements with legal personhood reconfigure formal narrative conventions in Black Atlantic historiography, the immigrant novel, the anticolonial romance, the trope of the talking book, and the bildungsroman. Revealing links between colonial, civic, slave, labor, immigration, and penal law, Salvage Work reframes debates over civil and human rights by revealing the shared hemispheric histories and effects of legal personhood across seemingly disparate identities—including the human and the corporate person, the political refugee and the economic migrant, and the stateless person and the citizen. In depicting the material remains of the legal slave personality in the de-industrialized neoliberal era, these literary texts develop a salvage aesthetic that invites us to rethink our political and aesthetic imagination of personhood. Questioning liberal frameworks for civil and human rights as well as what Naimou calls death-bound theories of personhood—in which forms of human life are primarily described as wasted, disposable, bare, or dead in law—Salvage Work thus responds to critical discussions of biopolitics and neoliberal globalization by exploring the potential for contemporary literature to reclaim the individual from the legal regimes that have marked her.

Salvage

Author : Alexandra Duncan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062220160
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Salvage written by Alexandra Duncan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by Beth Revis, and The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood. Internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins called it "brilliant, feminist science fiction." Ava is the captain's daughter. This allows her limited freedom and a certain status in the Parastrata's rigid society—but it doesn't mean she can read or write or even withstand the forces of gravity. When Ava learns she is to be traded in marriage to another merchant ship, she hopes for the best. After all, she is the captain's daughter. But instead, betrayal, banishment, and a brush with love and death are her destiny, and Ava stows away on a mail sloop bound for Earth in order to escape both her past and her future. The gravity almost kills her. Gradually recuperating in a stranger's floating cabin on the Gyre, a huge mass of scrap and garbage in the Pacific Ocean, Ava begins to learn the true meaning of family and home and trust—and she begins to nourish her own strength and soul. This sweeping and harrowing novel explores themes of choice, agency, rebellion, and family, and after a tidal wave destroys the Gyre and all those who live there, ultimately sends its main character on a thrilling journey to Mumbai, the beating heart of Alexandra Duncan's post–climate change Earth. An Andre Norton Award nominee.

Unscrewed

Author : Ed Sobey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569768943
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Unscrewed written by Ed Sobey and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling old and broken electronics. Each of the more than 50 deconstruction projects includes a "treasures cache" of the components to be found, a required tools list, and step-by-step instructions with photos on how to safely extract the working components. Projects include building a desk lamp from an old flatbed scanner, a barbeque supercharger from a Dustbuster impeller, and a robot from the gears, rollers, and stepper motor found in an ink-jet printer. Now, old VHS players and fax machines will find new life with these fun ideas.

Brother Salvage

Author : Rick Hilles
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990997
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Brother Salvage written by Rick Hilles and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of the title poem—"Brother Salvage: a genizah," provides a skeleton key to unlock the powerful forces that bind Rick Hilles's collection. A genizah is a depository, or hiding place, for sacred texts. It performs a double function: to keep hallowed objects safe and to prevent more destructive forces from circulating and causing further harm. Brother Salvage serves exactly this purpose. The poems are heartrending and incisive, preserving stories and lives that should not be forgotten. Yet, through the poet's eloquent craft, painful histories and images are beautifully and luminously contained. Like scholars sifting through ancient genizahs in search of spiritual and historical insights, readers immersed in Brother Salvage will find, at the heart of the book, the most sacred entity: hope.

Salvage

Author : Jane F. Kotapish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571232338
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Salvage written by Jane F. Kotapish and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of Salvage - a woman in her early thirties - has left her hectic Manhattan lifestyle for rural Virginia. Escaping a trauma suffered on the New York subway, she is also fighting demons from her childhood - in the form of Nancy, an imagined product of her mother Lois's miscarried pregnancy. Lois is the other problematic relationship in her life. Bizarrely unhinged and increasingly eccentric, it seems that she's developing close friendships with various Saints from the Dark Ages. The narrator fears for her sanity, but when the Saints actually start to turn up for dinner and drinks, the fragile reality of her own world seems to be under threat.

Salvage the Bones

Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140882700X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Salvage the Bones written by Jesmyn Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.

Salvage and Demolition

Author : Tim Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596065154
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Salvage and Demolition written by Tim Powers and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Blanzac, a San Francisco-based rare book dealer, opens a box of consignment items and encounters the unexpected. There, among an assortment of literary rarities, he discovers a manuscript in verse, an Ace Double Novel, and a scattering of very old cigarette butts. These commonplace objects serve as catalysts for an extraordinary-- and unpredictable-- adventure. Without warning, Blanzac finds himself traversing a 'circle of discontinuity' that leads from the present day to the San Francisco of 1957. Caught up in that circle are an ancient Sumerian deity, a forgotten Beat-era poet named Sophie Greenwald, and an apocalyptic cult in search of the key to absolute non-existence" -- from publisher's web site.

American Salvage

Author : Bonnie Jo Campbell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814334126
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book American Salvage written by Bonnie Jo Campbell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner lives of working-class characters, Campbell illustrates the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs, and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but to live off what is left behind. The harsh Michigan winter is the backdrop for many of the tales, which are at turns sad, brutal, and oddly funny. One man prepares for the end of the world--scheduled for midnight December 31, 1999--in a pole barn with chickens and survival manuals. An excruciating burn causes a man to transcend his racist and sexist worldview. Another must decide what to do about his meth-addicted wife, who is shooting up on the other side of the bathroom door. A teenaged sharpshooter must devise a revenge that will make her feel whole again. Though her characters are vulnerable, confused, and sometimes angry, they are also resolute. Campbell follows them as they rebuild their lives, continue to hope and dream, and love in the face of loneliness. Fellow Michiganders, fans of short fiction, and general readers will enjoy this poignant and affecting collection of tales.

Salvage

Author : Kristy Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625579478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Salvage written by Kristy Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. "In her gorgeous new collection, salvage, Kristy Bowen builds an associative world, where details intensify and dissipate like the sea. Haunted and mysterious, lush and encompassing, this word is wet often submerged, scaled, salt-washed. The poems within it bob and sink as they explore love and disconnection, 'the riptide / pull of strange, lonely dogs and broken phone lines.'" Ruth Foley"

Resurrection

Author : Daniel Madsen
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513549
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Resurrection written by Daniel Madsen and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at the general reader with an interest in World War II and the U.S. Navy, this book looks at the massive salvage effort that followed the attack on Pearl Harbor, beginning with the damage control efforts aboard the sinking and damaged ships in the harbor on 7 December 1941 and ending in March 1944 when salvage efforts on the USS Utah were finally abandoned. Dan Madsen describes the Navy's dramatic race to clear the harbor and repair as many ships as possible so they could return to the fleet ready for war. Numerous photographs, many never before published in books for the general public, give readers a real appreciation for the momentous task involved, from the raising of the USS Oglala in 1942 and the USS Oklahoma in 1943 to the eventual dismantling of the above-water portions of the USS Arizona.

Admiralty Salvage in Peace and War 1906 - 2006

Author : Tony Booth
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848848935
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Admiralty Salvage in Peace and War 1906 - 2006 written by Tony Booth and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-10-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of marine salvage during armed conflict has been vastly underestimated since becoming a vital Naval arm during the First World War. Between 1915 and 1918 the Admiralty Salvage Section saved nearly 400 merchant vessels, desperately needed to bring food and war materials into Britain. During the Second World War, some two million tons of shipping was successfully recovered. From D-Day onwards Admiralty salvage men cleared many stricken craft from the Normandy beaches alone, often under heavy shellfire. Then, as the Germans retreated back across Europe, salvage teams undertook vital port clearance duties. During the Suez Crisis, Falklands Conflict and even the Gulf War the same story can be told. And their peacetime operations have also been important. Drawing on a wealth of official documents, Admiralty Salvage is the first book to explore in depth the courage, personal sacrifice and invaluable contribution these forgotten heroes have made during both peace and war.

Seidl V. Schuyler

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seidl V. Schuyler written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lowell National Park, Archeological Salvage, and PADC

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lowell National Park, Archeological Salvage, and PADC written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fire Engineering

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Fire Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navy Salvage Facilities

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Navy Salvage Facilities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (80) S. 1785, (80) H.R. 4490.

To Provide Salvage Facilities, Hearing ..., on S. 1731 ..., July 15, 1941

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Provide Salvage Facilities, Hearing ..., on S. 1731 ..., July 15, 1941 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Navy Salvage Facilities. Hearings on S. 1785 and H.R. 4490. Feb. 20; Mar. 10; April 21, 1948

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navy Salvage Facilities. Hearings on S. 1785 and H.R. 4490. Feb. 20; Mar. 10; April 21, 1948 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: