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Author : Jean Toomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882580289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Wayward and the Seeking written by Jean Toomer and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rainbow Rowell
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250146097
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Wayward Son written by Rainbow Rowell and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED SEQUEL TO THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER CARRY ON Simon Snow is back and he's coming to America! The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place. With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter. Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
Author : Dana Spiotta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 059331249X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Wayward written by Dana Spiotta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.
Author : Gerry Carlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847603343
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Reading Jean Toomer's 'Cane' written by Gerry Carlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) is regarded by many as a seminal work in the history of African American writing. It is generally called a novel, but it could more accurately be described as a collection of short stories, poems and dramatic pieces whose stylistic indeterminacy is part of its unique appeal. The ambiguities and seeming oddities of Toomer's text make Cane a difficult work to understand, which is why this lucid, accessible guide is so valuable. Exploring some of the difficulties that both the writer and his work embody, Gerry Carlin offers an enthralling account of Toomer's eloquent and exquisite expression of the African American experience. The Author Dr Gerry Carlin is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton. He teaches, researches and has published in the areas of modernism, critical theory, and the literature and culture of the 1960s.
Author : Willard B. Gatewood
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750257
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Aristocrats of Color: the Black Elite 1880-1920 (p) written by Willard B. Gatewood and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. -- from publisher description.
Author : Therman Benjamin O'Daniel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer written by Therman Benjamin O'Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six essays, including several first published in College Language Associaton Journal and in other publications that have been pioneers in Toomer research. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Cynthia Earl Kerman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807115480
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Jean Toomer written by Cynthia Earl Kerman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1989-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?
Author : Robert B. Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469616416
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer written by Robert B. Jones and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the only collected edition of poems by Jean Toomer, the enigmatic American writer, Gurdjieffian guru, and Quaker convert who is perhaps best known for his 1923 lyrical narrative Cane. The fifty-five poems here -- most of them previously unpublished -- chart a fascinating evolution of artistic consciousness. The book is divided into sections reflecting four distinct periods of creativity in Toomer's career. The Aesthetic period includes Imagist, Symbolist, and other experimental pieces, such as "Five Vignettes," while "Georgia Dusk" and the newly discovered poem "Tell Me" come from Toomer' s Ancestral Consciousness period in the early 1920s. "The Blue Meridian" and other Objective Consciousness poems reveal the influence of idealist philosopher Georges Gurdjieff. Among the works of this period the editor presents a group of local color poems picturing the landscape of the American Southwest, including "Imprint for Rio Grande." "It Is Everywhere," another newly discovered poem, celebrates America and democratic idealism. The Quaker religious philosophy of Toomer's final years is demonstrated in such Christian Existential works as "They Are Not Missed" and "To Gurdjieff Dying." Robert Jones's clear and comprehensive introduction examines the major poems in this volume and serves as a guide through the stages of Toomer's evolution as an artist and thinker. The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer will prove essential to Toomer's admirers as well as to scholars and students of modern poetry, Afro-American literature, and American studies.
Author : Jon Woodson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1578061318
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book To Make a New Race written by Jon Woodson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer's adamant stance against racism and his call for a raceless society were far more complex than the average reader of works from the Harlem Renaissance might believe. In To Make a New Race Jon Woodson explores the intense influence of Greek-born mystic G. I. Gurdjieff on the thinking of Toomer and his coterie--Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larson, George Schuyler, Wallace Thurman--and, through them, the mystic's influence on many of the notables in African American literature. Gurdjieff, born of poor Greco-Armenian parents on the Russo-Turkish frontier, espoused the theory that man is asleep and in prison unless he strains against the major burdens of life, especially those of identification, like race. Toomer, whose novel Cane became an inspiration to many later Harlem Renaissance writers, traveled to France and labored at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. Later, the writer became one of the primary followers approved to teach Gurdjieff's philosophy in the United States. Woodson's is the first study of Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance to look beyond contemporary portrayals of the mystic in order to judge his influence. Scouring correspondence, manuscripts, and published texts, Woodson finds the direct links in which Gurdjieff through Toomer played a major role in the development of "objective literature." He discovers both coded and explicit ways in which Gurdjieff's philosophy shaped the world views of writers well into the 1960s. Moreover Woodson reinforces the extensive contribution Toomer and other African-American writers with all their international influences made to the American cultural scene. Jon Woodson, an associate professor of English at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is a contributor to the collection, Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960. He has published articles in African American Review and other journals.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199729174
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987-07-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those who are already well versed in Afro-American literature, and those who, after reading this book, will eagerly begin to be."--Barbara E. Johnson, Harvard University. "A critical enterprise of the first importance.... Gates promises to lead and to show the way in boldness of conception, in vigor of execution, and in vitality and pertinence of expression."--James Olney, Louisiana State University. Recently awarded Honorable Mention from the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee of the American Studies Association, Figures in Black takes a provocative new look at how we analyze and define black literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attacks the notion that the dominant mode of Afro-American literature is, or should be, a kind of social realism, evaluated primarily as a reflection of the "Black Experience." Instead, Gates insists that critics turn to the language of the text and bring to their work the close, methodical analysis of language made possible by modern literary theory. But his goal in this volume is not merely to "apply" contemporary theory to black texts. Indeed, as he ranges from 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley to modern writers Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, he attempts to redefine literary criticism itself, moving it away from a Eurocentric notion of a hierarchical canon--mostly white, Western, and male--to foster a truly comparative and pluralisic notion of literature. In doing so, he provides critics with a powerful tool for the analysis of black art and, more important, reveals for all readers the brilliance and depth of the Afro-American tradition.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052891
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book African American Dramatists written by Emmanuel S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.
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Publisher : Fred McAllen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Surviving the Affair written by and published by Fred McAllen. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Scruggs
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280665X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History written by Charles Scruggs and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History, Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr examine original sources—Toomer's rediscovered early writings on politics and race, his extensive correspondence with Waldo Frank, and unpublished portions of his autobiographies—to show how the cultural wars of the 1920s influenced the shaping of Toomer's book and his subsequent efforts to escape the racial definitions of American society. That those definitions remain crucial for American society even today is one reason Toomer's work continues to fascinate and to influence contemporary writers and readers.
Author : Paul Allen Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822325918
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Deep River written by Paul Allen Anderson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA critical and historical study of the debate over early African-American music that draws on the views of W.E.B. Du Bois, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, and others to show competing notions of how this music relates to cultural inherita/div
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Luther League Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Husting
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387405942
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Life in the Kingdom, book 1 written by Steve Husting and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself, ""Is this all there is to being saved? Isn't there something more to this?"" Most of us are only being taught half a salvation. Jesus' views on salvation are quite at odds with the way many of us experience it in our day-to day-lives. Life in the Kingdom is a devotional commentary on living the Christian life as Jesus anticipated it. Covering Matthew chapters 1-14 in this volume, we begin to see how the many elements of the Christian life are actually building materials for the Kingdom of God. We Christians seldom use the phrase, ""Kingdom of God,"" choosing rather to use ""saved."" But seeing our salvation in the context of the Kingdom clarifies why we do what we do, our position in God's plan of the ages, and imparts meaning to us who surrender to it.
Author : Bruce E. Winston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331970527X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Biblical Principles of Hiring and Developing Employees written by Bruce E. Winston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with the scriptural support for person-organization fit and person-job fit. The book then examines scriptural support for the four-Cs of people’s work-fit: Calling, Competence, Confidence, and Character. Finally, the book uses Acts 6:1-7 as a basis for identifying the type of people one should look to hire. The book covers two development concepts: Nomos, about ruling in an organization, and progressive responsibility from Luke 16:10. The chapters present the concepts from a scriptural base and include composite case examples that relate to contemporary organizations.
