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Book Synopsis The Graywolf Annual Seven by : Scott Walker
Download or read book The Graywolf Annual Seven written by Scott Walker and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories included in this Annual are all by ethnic people who live in the United Sta tes, some who are new citizens, some not so new--all who make up unique parts of the culture of the United States, whose stories expand on the themes of cultural awareness of the previous two Annuals.
Book Synopsis The Graywolf Annual Nine by : Scott Walker
Download or read book The Graywolf Annual Nine written by Scott Walker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of "multi-culturalism" versus "Eurocentrism" has been much debated in the United States, most often as if "Europe" was a single cultural entity. This notion is encouraged by the development of the European Economic Community, a vision of a politically and economically united Europe. The short stories included in The Graywolf Annual 9: Stories from the New Europe illustrate another vision: the remarkable variety of European cultures, from the individual voices of the former Soviet Baltic states to the nuances of Croat/Serb and Czech/Slovak voices, and the surprising strength of Euzkadi (Basque), Icelandic, Irish, immigrant, and Catalan cultures. Despite political pressures to unify under artificial boundaries, economic pressures of the EEC, and a mass market and communications system that threatens to overwhelm localized customs and concerns; ancient, deep-rooted cultures and languages have managed to survive. In a precise counterbalance to the strength of mass culture, regional identities are in fact blossoming throughout Europe. These stories are told by writers whose use of their native language has resulted in their imprisonment, by Nobel Prize winners, by writers whose large audience is entirely "underground." Among authors included in this Graywolf Annual are Ivan Kliacute;ma, Mercegrave; Rodoreda, Danilo Kis, Halldoacute;r Laxness, and Dubravka Ugresic.
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Download or read book Reading Amy Tan written by Lan Dong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-06-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members. A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections. Reading Amy Tan is a handy resource that offers both groups plot summaries of five of Tan's novels, as well as character and thematic analysis. The handbook also provides an overview of Tan's life and discusses how she emerged onto the scene as a novelist. Tan's typical themes, including Asian American issues and mother-daughter relationships, are examined in relation to today's current events and pop culture. Readers will also discover how and where they can find Tan on the Internet, and how the media has received her works. The "What Do I Read Next" chapter will help readers find other authors and works that deal with similar subjects. This handbook is an indispensable tool for both high school and public libraries.
Download or read book The Laws of Cool written by Alan Liu and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge work is now the reigning business paradigm and affects even the world of higher education. But what perspective can the knowledge of the humanities and arts contribute to a world of knowledge work whose primary mission is business? And what is the role of information technology as both the servant of the knowledge economy and the medium of a new technological cool? In The Laws of Cool, Alan Liu reflects on these questions as he considers the emergence of new information technologies and their profound influence on the forms and practices of knowledge.
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative by : Kathy Leonard
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Chicana and Latina Narrative written by Kathy Leonard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so, it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature. The volume cites more than 2,750 short stories, novels, novel excerpts, and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies, novels, and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author, the other works the author has written, and the anthologies in which the author's shorter pieces have been reprinted, along with information about particular works.
Book Synopsis The Protean Self by : Robert Jay Lifton
Download or read book The Protean Self written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self "A fascinating and appealing book. . . . As he revises the psychology of the self, Dr. Lifton is subtle, even profound, in drawing a line between multiplicity and fragmentation. To those who are nostalgic for the age of the unitary ego, his message is that it is better to be fluid, resilient and on the move than to be firm, fixed, self-assured and settled. To those who worry that the post-modern age is an age of shattered selves, dissociative states, multiple personality disorders and identity diffusion, Dr. Lifton brings the good news that discontinuity can be a mirror of reality, and the standard for a reasonable life."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times "Lifton has challenged the conventional social-scientific wisdom of the last half century. . . .He has called attention to the emergence of a new form of self and considered it in a bold and imaginative light."—Howard Gardner, Boston Book Review
Book Synopsis The Autobiographical Demand of Place by : Brian Casemore
Download or read book The Autobiographical Demand of Place written by Brian Casemore and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Place is central to the study of the American South. The question of the meaning and power of place underpinned the earliest efforts to define and understand the region, and place remains a crucial concept in an ongoing process of regional identification and inquiry. This book examines Southern place autobiographically, historically, and theoretically in order to illuminate the subjective and social dimensions of place and to promote progressive conversation in the region. Using the interpretive tools of psychoanalysis to take account of the autobiographical roots of knowledge and society, Brian Casemore conceptualizes curriculum inquiry in the American South as a response to the complex role of place in self-formation. If we accept that place is ideological as well as physically dimensional - that it is created in the mind as well as the landscape - we have an opportunity to explore it as it emerges, laden with personal and public meaning.
Book Synopsis Asian American Short Story Writers by : Guiyou Huang
Download or read book Asian American Short Story Writers written by Guiyou Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian America has produced numerous short-story writers in the 20th century. Some emerged after World War II, yet most of these writers have flourished since 1980. The first reference of its kind, this volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 49 nationally and internationally acclaimed Asian American writers of short fiction. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Writers include Frank Chin, Sui Sin Far, Shirely Geok-lin Lim, Toshio Mori, and Bharati Mukherjee. An introductory essay provides a close examination of the Asian American short story, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
Book Synopsis Movements in Chicano Poetry by : Rafael Pèrez-Torres
Download or read book Movements in Chicano Poetry written by Rafael Pèrez-Torres and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Rosa Guy's "The Friends" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Rosa Guy's "The Friends" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 100 Most Popular African American Authors by : Bernard A. Drew
Download or read book 100 Most Popular African American Authors written by Bernard A. Drew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists of their works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide stresses African American writers of popular and genre literature-from Rochelle Alers and Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, and Omar Tyree, with a few classic literary giants also included. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Where can you find information about popular, contemporary African American authors? Web sites can be difficult to locate and unreliable, particularly for some of the newer authors, and their contents are inconsistent and often inaccurate. Although there are a number of reference works on African American writers, the emphasis tends to be on historical and literary authors. Here's a single volume containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with lists of their works. Short profiles provide an overview of the author's life and summarize his or her writing accomplishments. Many are accompanied by black-and-white photos of the author. The biographies are followed by a complete list of the author's published works. Focusing on writers who have made their mark in the past 25 years, this guide covers African American writers of popular and genre literature—from Rochelle Alers, Octavia Butler, and Samuel Delaney to Walter Mosley, Omar Tyree, and Zane. A few classic literary giants who are popular with today's readers are also included—e.g., Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Richard Wright. Readers who want to know more about their favorite African American authors or find other books written by those authors, students researching AA authors for reports and papers, and educators seeking background information for classes in African American literature will find this guide invaluable. (High school and up.)
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (comp. by Frederick Webb Hodge)":
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology by : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology
Download or read book Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Developing Cross-cultural Competence by : Eleanor W. Lynch
Download or read book Developing Cross-cultural Competence written by Eleanor W. Lynch and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition is filled with helpful updates such as chapter on South Asian roots, open-ended case studies on ethical and culture-based dilemmas, and an expanded discussion of Middle Eastern roots, this is an essential reference for early intervention professionals working with families whose customs, beliefs, and values may differ from their own.
Book Synopsis Unintimidated by : Scott Kevin Walker
Download or read book Unintimidated written by Scott Kevin Walker and published by Sentinel. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial governor recounts his fight to reform his state and issues a call to action for the whole country In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor of Wisconsin with a mandate to improve its economy and restore fiscal responsibility. With the state facing a $3.6 billion budget deficit, he proposed a series of reforms to limit the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, which was costing taxpayers billions in pension and health care costs. . In June 2012, he won a special recall election with a higher share of the vote than he had for his original election, becoming the first governor in the country to survive a recall election. In this book, Governor Walker shows how his commitment to limited but effective government paid off. During his tenure Wisconsin has saved more than $1 billion, property taxes have gone down for the first time in twelve years, and the deficit was turned into a surplus. He also shows what his experiences can teach defenders of liberty across the country about standing up to the special interests that favor the status quo.