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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Author : Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813525709
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus written by Carolina Maria de Jesus and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolina Maria de Jesus' book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums, but it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. More than a million copies of her diary are believed to have been sold worldwide. Yet many Brazilians refused to believe that someone like de Jesus could have written such a diary, with its complicated words (some of them misused) and often lyrical phrasing as she discussed world events. Doubters prefer to believe the book was either written by Audáulio Dantas, the enterprising newspaper reporter who discovered her, or that Dantas rewrote it so substantially that her book is a fraud. With the cooperation of de Jesus' daughter, recent research shows that although Dantas deleted considerable portions of the diary (as well as a second one), every word was de Jesus'. But Dantas did "create" a different Carolina from the woman who coped with her harsh life by putting things down on paper. This book sets the record straight by providing detailed translations of de Jesus' unedited diaries and explains why Brazilian elites were motivated to obscure her true personality and present her as something she was not. It is not only about the writer but about Brazil as recorded by her sarcastic pen. The diary entries in this book span from 1958 to 1966, five years beyond text previously known to exist. They show de Jesus as she was, preserving her Joycean stream-of-consciousness language and her pithy characterizations.

The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785

Author : Cinzia Recca
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319319876
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, 1781-1785 written by Cinzia Recca and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a new portrayal of Queen Maria Carolina of Naples as a woman of power with weaknesses and ambitions, and analyzes the Queen's actions, from her political choices to her alliance and betrayals. A careful examination of the period (1781-1785) covered by the diary shows that the daily life of the Queen and offers key evidence of her political acumen and her personal relationships. Recca cross-analyses unpublished personal documents, which include the integral diary and private correspondence. The book focuses on the political influence that Queen Maria Carolina wielded beside her husband, King Ferdinand IV, and the criticism that has been made by contemporary historians and intellectuals who have often tended to discredit the sovereign for personal rather than political reasons.

Keep the Days

Author : Steven M. Stowe
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146964097X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Keep the Days written by Steven M. Stowe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.

Fear in North Carolina

Author : Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry
Publisher : Reminiscing Books
ISBN 13 : 0979396131
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book Fear in North Carolina written by Cornelia Catherine Smith Henry and published by Reminiscing Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia Henrys three journals, written between 1860 and 1868, offer an excellent source for daily information on western North Carolina during the Civil War period.

The Southern Mind Under Union Rule

Author : Judkin Browning
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059011
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Mind Under Union Rule written by Judkin Browning and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2009-09-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the Neuse River in March 1862 and took control of the area. In response to laws enacted by occupying forces, Rumley took the Oath of Allegiance, stood aside as his beloved courthouse was used for pro-Union rallies, and watched helplessly as friends and neighbors had their property seized and taken away. In public, Rumley appeared calm and cooperative, but behind closed doors he poured all his horror, disgust, and outrage into his diary. Safely hidden from the view of military authority, he explained in rational terms how his pledge of allegiance to the invading forces was not morally binding and expressed his endless worry over seeing former slaves emancipated and empowered. This constantly surprising diary provides a rare window onto the mind of a Confederate sympathizer under the rule of what he considered to be an alien, unlawful, and "pestilent" power.

The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution

Author : Charles Woodmason
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469600021
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution written by Charles Woodmason and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness--Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister whose moral earnestness and savage indignation, combined with a vehement style, make him worthy of comparison with Swift. The book consists of his journal, selections from the sermons he preached to his Backcountry congregations, and the letters he wrote to influential people in Charleston and England describing life on the frontier and arguing the cause of the frontier people. Woodmason's pleas are fervent and moving; his narrative and descriptive style is colorful to a degree attained by few writers in Colonial America.

Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Author : Carolina Maria De Jesus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317475852
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Bitita's Diary: The Autobiography of Carolina Maria de Jesus written by Carolina Maria De Jesus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race relations and sexual intimidation.

The Carolina Diaries

Author : Darlene Winters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736101711
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Carolina Diaries written by Darlene Winters and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her cousin wants to die. She has the whole roadtrip to convince her otherwise. Darlene only knows of one way to help her cousin Belle after a life of disappointments--go with her on a cross-country road trip, head back to California where Belle was born... and where she intends to die. But deep family resentments and drama rides with them across the country, shedding light on heavy themes like sexual abuse and depression, as well as religion and politics. Growing up in North Carolina, these cousins have a lot of stories to share: some sad, some comical, and some just down right disturbing. If you enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine and Girl, Interrupted, you'll want to read The Carolina Diaries with its unique blend of dark humor and even darker perspectives of life past, present and future; the real take-aways being how to cope and heal.

I'm Going to Have a Little House

Author : Carolina Maria de Jesus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803275997
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book I'm Going to Have a Little House written by Carolina Maria de Jesus and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never before published in English, Carolina's second diary, written in 1960-61, describes her life in the first year after the sudden (and, as it turned out, temporary) fame of Quarto de despejo (see HLAS 25:4741). Translated faithfully into English, evo

Journal of a Secesh Lady

Author : Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN 13 : 9780865264984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Journal of a Secesh Lady written by Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston presents a unique portrait of Civil War North Carolina. Wife of a prominent planter and slaveholder in Halifax County, North Carolina, Mrs. Edmondston spent most of the war on the family plantations Hascosea and Looking Glass. Occasionally she made trips with her husband Patrick to Richmond, Virginia, and to various eastern North Carolina towns. Despite this relative isolation and insulation Kate Edmondston's imagination and inquisitive mind allowed her to observe and follow closely the progress of the war. An avid reader of newspapers, particularly those from the Confederate capital Richmond, she commented extensively on the war and recorded in minute detail the strategies and maneuverings of the Confederate and Union armies, casualties among North Carolina troops, and the weaknesses and strengths of various leaders, North and South, local and sectional. She also fancied herself a poet and wrote odes to various fallen heroes and to the southern war effort. One of her poems even found its way into print in a South Carolina newspaper. Clearly she was influenced by poets and novelists of the Romantic period, for her diary abound with allusions to many pieces of classical literature and the Bible. A diehard "secesh lady," in her own words, she was uncompromisingly prosouthern in her loyalties and intensely bitter toward Unionists, Abraham Lincoln, and northern generals like Benjamin Butler and William Sherman. Inept Confederates and southern leaders she considered undeserving political lackeys did not escape her vitriolic pen, however. The diary reveals a rich mosaic of family, class, and sectional connections. It provides in addition an unusually intimate glimpse of plantation life and the social consequences of war as the conflict crept closer and as a miasma of fear and uncertainty enveloped eastern North Carolina. Mrs. Edmondston's distinct and finely etched class views of nonslaveholding whites, slaves, and freedmen and her perception of the role of women in southern society undergird the entire journal. An intriguing social document in itself, the diary depicts with profound clarity the shattering impact of the war on southern women in particular, whose circumscribed lives were suddenly exposed to the ravages of war and poverty. Characterized by new insights into the Civil War experience on the southern home front, and filled with copious data for historians and genealogists, the Edmondston diary will appeal to many readers as simply a gripping tale of southern life during the conflict. As such, it rivals some of the best-known accounts of the Civil War, including the diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut.

Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne

Author : Laura Matilda Towne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne written by Laura Matilda Towne and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discovering North Carolina

Author : Jack Claiborne
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620251
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Discovering North Carolina written by Jack Claiborne and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state's best-known sons and daughters, from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner, Doris Betts, and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics, sports, business, family life, education, race, religion, and war.

Swamp Doctor

Author : William Mervale Smith
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811715379
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Swamp Doctor written by William Mervale Smith and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Mervale Smith, surgeon of the 85th New York Volunteer Infantry, faithfully kept a diary of his Civil War experiences. Smith's introspective musings cover matters both professional and personal, from the horror of battle and the almost equally terrible politics of war to his deepest longings and questions about love and spirituality. While some diarists wrote self-consciously, anticipating eventual publication of their words, Smith's entries, as author Thomas Lowry explains, "are of such a personal and self-revelatory nature that we can reasonably conclude that he wrote to himself alone, as a sort of spiritual exercise of self-communication."

The Secret Eye

Author : Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620790
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Eye written by Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and reared in the tradition of the southern belle, tells of the hard days of war and the poverty brought on by emancipation and Reconstruction. Her entries illuminate experiences shared with thousands of other southern women.

A Faithful Heart

Author : Emmala Reed
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035456
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book A Faithful Heart written by Emmala Reed and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmala Reed's journals from 1865 and 1866 present a detailed account of life in western South Carolina as war turned to reconstruction. Reed's postwar writings are particularly important given their rarity - many Civil War diarists stopped writing at war's end. Also unlike many diarists of the period, Reed lived in a small town rather than on a plantation or in an urban center.

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

Author : Joyce Hansen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545280907
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly written by Joyce Hansen and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

Hiroshima Diary

Author : Michihiko Hachiya, M.D.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807873551
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Hiroshima Diary written by Michihiko Hachiya, M.D. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. His compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission and who became a friend of Dr. Hachiya. In a new foreword, John Dower reflects on the enduring importance of the diary fifty years after the bombing.