The Careless Seamstress

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149621532X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis The Careless Seamstress by : Tjawangwa Dema

Download or read book The Careless Seamstress written by Tjawangwa Dema and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways. The female body—as a daughter, wife, worker, cultural mutineer—moves continually across this collection, fetching water, harvesting corn, raising children, sewing, migrating, and spurning designations. Sewing is rendered subversive, the unsayable is weft into speech and those who are perhaps invisible in life reclaim their voice and leave evidence of their selves. As a consequence the body is rarely posed—it bleeds and scars; it ages; it resists and warns. The female gaze and subsequent voices suggest a different value system that grapples with the gendering of both physical and emotional labor, often through what is done, even and especially when this goes unnoticed or unappreciated. A body of work that examines the nature of power and resistance, The Careless Seamstress shows both startling clarity of purpose and capaciousness of theme. Using gender and labor as their point of departure, these poems are indebted to Dema’s relationship to language, intertextuality, and narrative. It is both assured and inquiring, a quietly complex skein that takes advantage of poetry’s capacity for the polyphonic.

The Careless Seamstress

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496214129
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis The Careless Seamstress by : Tjawangwa Dema

Download or read book The Careless Seamstress written by Tjawangwa Dema and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema’s collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political. The girls and women in these poems are not mere objects; they speak, labor, and gaze back, with difficulty and consequence. The tropes are familiar, but in their animation they question and move in unexpected ways. The female body—as a daughter, wife, worker, cultural mutineer—moves continually across this collection, fetching water, harvesting corn, raising children, sewing, migrating, and spurning designations. Sewing is rendered subversive, the unsayable is weft into speech and those who are perhaps invisible in life reclaim their voice and leave evidence of their selves. As a consequence the body is rarely posed—it bleeds and scars; it ages; it resists and warns. The female gaze and subsequent voices suggest a different value system that grapples with the gendering of both physical and emotional labor, often through what is done, even and especially when this goes unnoticed or unappreciated. A body of work that examines the nature of power and resistance, The Careless Seamstress shows both startling clarity of purpose and capaciousness of theme. Using gender and labor as their point of departure, these poems are indebted to Dema’s relationship to language, intertextuality, and narrative. It is both assured and inquiring, a quietly complex skein that takes advantage of poetry’s capacity for the polyphonic.

Sacrament of Bodies

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496219643
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacrament of Bodies by : Romeo Oriogun

Download or read book Sacrament of Bodies written by Romeo Oriogun and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where everything is designed to prevent such restoration. With honesty, precision, tenderness of detail, and a light touch, Oriogun explores grief and how the body finds survival through migration.

Book of Days

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679604014
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Book Synopsis Book of Days by : Emily Fox Gordon

Download or read book Book of Days written by Emily Fox Gordon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.

The Rinehart Frames

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496225813
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rinehart Frames by : Cheswayo Mphanza

Download or read book The Rinehart Frames written by Cheswayo Mphanza and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man with the film 24 Frames by Abbas Kiarostami, the poems leap into secondary histories, spaces, and languages that encompass a collective yet varied consciousness of being. Cheswayo Mphanza's collection questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe on monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it. The poems continue the conversations of the infinite possibilities of the imagination to dabble in, with, and out of history.

‘mamaseko

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220110
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis ‘mamaseko by : Thabile Makue

Download or read book ‘mamaseko written by Thabile Makue and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named after the poet’s mother, ‘mamaseko is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood—to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.

If Your Back's Not Bent

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743296842
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis If Your Back's Not Bent by : Dorothy F. Cotton

Download or read book If Your Back's Not Bent written by Dorothy F. Cotton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the Citizenship Education Program, Dorothy Cotton, recounts the accomplishments of the program and her experiences in the civil rights movement.

Last Call at the Nightingale

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Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250831830
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Call at the Nightingale by : Katharine Schellman

Download or read book Last Call at the Nightingale written by Katharine Schellman and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a captivating Jazz age mystery series from author Katharine Schellman, Last Call at the Nightingale beckons readers into a darkly glamorous speakeasy where music, liquor, and secrets flow. "Schellman is at the top of her craft and delivers a murder mystery with clever twists and turns and memorable personalities."—Denny S. Bryce, Bestselling Author of Wild Women and the Blues New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly's days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows and the band plays the Charleston with reckless excitement. With a bartender willing to slip her a free glass of champagne and friends who know the owner, Vivian can lose herself in the music. No one asks where she came from or how much money she has. No one bats an eye if she flirts with men or women as long as she can keep up on the dance floor. At The Nightingale, Vivian forgets the dangers of Prohibition-era New York and finds a place that feels like home. But then she discovers a body behind the club, and those dangers come knocking. Caught in a police raid at the Nightingale, Vivian discovers that the dead man wasn't the nameless bootlegger he first appeared. With too many people assuming she knows more about the crime than she does, Vivian finds herself caught between the dangers of the New York's underground and the world of the city's wealthy and careless, where money can hide any sin and the lives of the poor are considered disposable...including Vivian's own.

Tie-Dye Disaster

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 153441729X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis Tie-Dye Disaster by : Martha Maker

Download or read book Tie-Dye Disaster written by Martha Maker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book of the Craftily Ever After chapter book series, Maddie, Emily, Bella, and Sam accidentally tie-dye a shirt Maddie’s mother made for the mayor! Maddie gets her knack for fashion and sewing from her mom, a seamstress. And she’s made a lot for an eight-year-old—from theater costumes, to brand-new pairs of pants, to pillows for the Craft Clubhouse. But she’s never tie-dyed before! Maddie, Emily, Bella, and Sam have lots of fun turning clothing bright, groovy colors. But then something not so bright and groovy happens. The kids accidentally tie-dye a shirt Maddie’s mother made for the mayor of the town! They try all sorts of things to fix their mistake, but nothing works. What is the foursome going to do about their tie-dye disaster? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Craftily Ever After chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.

Terms of Endearment

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439128464
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Terms of Endearment by : Larry McMurtry

Download or read book Terms of Endearment written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award–winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma. Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer. Terms of Endearment is the Oscar-winning story of a memorable mother and her feisty daughter and their struggle to find the courage and humor to live through life’s hazards—and to love each other as never before.

The January Children

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803295987
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The January Children by : Safia Elhillo

Download or read book The January Children written by Safia Elhillo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani--an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

Exodus

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622180X
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Exodus by : 'Gbenga Adeoba

Download or read book Exodus written by 'Gbenga Adeoba and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, 'Gbenga Adeoba's collection Exodus focuses on forms of migration due to the slave trade, war, natural disasters, and economic opportunities. Using the sea as a source of language and metaphor, Adeoba explores themes of memory, transition, and the intersections between the historic and the imagined. With great tenderness and power his poetry of empathy searches for meaning in sharply constructed images, creating scenes of making and unmaking while he investigates experiences of exile and displacement across time and place.

Mummy Eaters

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234111
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Mummy Eaters by : Sherry Shenoda

Download or read book Mummy Eaters written by Sherry Shenoda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt. Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife. Parallel to this exploration run the implications of colonialism on her passage. The mythology of the ancient Egyptians was oriented toward resurrection through the preservation of the human body in mummification. Shenoda juxtaposes this reverence for the human body as sacred matter and a pathway to eternal life with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European fascination with ingesting Egyptian human remains as medicine and using exhumed Egyptian mummies as paper, paint, and fertilizer. Today Egyptian human remains are displayed in museums. Much of Mummy Eaters is written as a call and response, in the Coptic tradition, between the imagined ancestor and the author as descendant.

Master George's People

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426307594
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Master George's People by : Marfe Ferguson Delano

Download or read book Master George's People written by Marfe Ferguson Delano and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first President of the United States of America and the Commander in Chief who led a rebel army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington was a legendary leader of men. He had high expectations of his soldiers, employees, and associates. At his Virginia plantation, Mount Vernon, his expectations of his workers were no different: "I expect such labor as they ought to render" he wrote. Except there was a big difference. The workers who kept Mount Vernon operating were enslaved. And although Washington called them "my people," by law they were his property. But the people of Mount Vernon were so much more, and they each have compelling stories to tell. These are fascinating portraits of cooks, overseers, valets, farm hands, and more- essential people nearly lost in the shadows of the past- interwoven with an extraordinary examination of the conscience of the Father of Our Country.

Inside the Royal Wardrobe

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474269958
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Inside the Royal Wardrobe by : Kate Strasdin

Download or read book Inside the Royal Wardrobe written by Kate Strasdin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales – who later became Queen Consort – to unlock a rich tapestry of royal dress and society in the second half of the 19th century. More than 130 extraordinary garments from Alexandra's wardrobe survive, from sumptuous court dress and politicised fancy dress to mourning attire and elegant coronation gowns, and can be found in various collections around the world, from London, Oslo and Denmark to New York, Toronto and Tokyo. Curator and fashion scholar Kate Strasdin places these garments at the heart of this in-depth study, examining their relationships to issues such as body politics, power, celebrity, social identity and performance, and interpreting Alexandra's world from the objects out. Adopting an object-based methodology, the book features a range of original sources from letters, travel journals and newspaper editorials, to wardrobe accounts, memoirs, tailors' ledgers and business records. Revealing a shrewd and socially aware woman attuned to the popular power of royal dress, the work will appeal to students and scholars of costume, fashion and dress history, as well as of material culture and 19th century history.

The Red Ribbon

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Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536204188
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis The Red Ribbon by : Lucy Adlington

Download or read book The Red Ribbon written by Lucy Adlington and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shining a light on a little-known aspect of the Holocaust, Lucy Adlington weaves an unforgettable story of strength, survival, and a friendship that can endure anything. Three weeks after being detained on her way home from school, fourteen-year-old Ella finds herself in the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop inside a Nazi concentration camp. There, two dozen skeletal women toil over stolen sewing machines. They are the seamstresses of Birchwood, stitching couture dresses for a perilous client list: wives of the camp’s Nazi overseers and the female SS officers who make prisoners’ lives miserable. It is a workshop where stylish designs or careless stitches can mean life or death. And it is where Ella meets Rose. As thoughtful and resilient as the dressmakers themselves, Rose and Ella’s story is one of courage, desperation, and hope — hope as delicate and as strong as silk, as vibrant as a red ribbon in a sea of gray.

The Music of Time

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218862
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis The Music of Time by : John Burnside

Download or read book The Music of Time written by John Burnside and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.