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Author : Lucille Clifton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Two-headed Woman written by Lucille Clifton and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice Mattison
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062232045
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman written by Alice Mattison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, following an early first marriage, Daisy Andalusia remained single and enjoyed the company of men on her own terms, making the most of her independent life. Now in her fifties, she has remarried and settled into a quieter life in New Haven, Connecticut. She's committed to a job she loves: organizing the clutter of other people's lives. Her business soon leads her to a Yale project studying murders in small cities. While her husband, an inner-city landlord, objects to her new interest, Daisy finds herself being drawn more and more into the project and closer to its director, Gordon Skeetling. When Daisy discovers an old tabloid article with the headline "Two-Headed Woman Weds Two Men: Doc Says She's Twins," she offers it as the subject for her theater group's improvisational play. Over eight transformative months, this headline will take on an increasing significance as Daisy questions whether she can truly be a part of anything -- a two-headed woman, a friendship, a marriage -- while discovering more about herself than she wants to know.
Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528397
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Recovering the Black Female Body written by Michael Bennett and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
Author : Hilary Holladay
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144622
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Wild Blessings written by Hilary Holladay and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes of poems since 1969 and has received numerous accolades for her work, including the 2000 National Book Award for Blessing the Boats. Her verse is featured in almost every anthology of contemporary poetry, and her readings draw large and enthusiastic audiences. Although Clifton's poetry is a pleasure to read, it is neither as simple nor as blithely celebratory as readers sometimes assume. The bursts of joy found in her polished, elegant lines are frequently set against a backdrop of regret and sorrow. Alternately consoling, stimulating, and emotionally devastating, Clifton's poems are unforgettable. In Wild Blessings, Hilary Holladay offers the first full-length study of Clifton's poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in particular. Holladay places Clifton's poems in multiple contexts -- personal, political, and literary -- as she explicates major themes and analyzes specific works: Clifton's poems about womanhood, a central concern throughout her career; her fertility poems, which are provocatively compared with Sylvia Plath's poems on the same subject; her relation to the Black Arts Movement and to other black female poets, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez; her biblical poems; her elegies; and her poignant family history, Generations, an extended prose poem. In addition to a new preface written after Clifton's death in 2010, this updated edition includes an epilogue that discusses the poetry collections she published after 2004. Readers encountering Lucille Clifton's poems for the first time and those long familiar with her distinctive voice will benefit from Hilary Holladay's striking insights and her illuminating interview with the influential American poet.
Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489587
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (895 download)
Download or read book The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels written by Jan Bondeson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, the lives of the remarkable individuals concerned, and social reactions to their extraordinary bodies.Bondeson examines historical cases of dwarfism, extreme corpulence, giantism, conjoined twins, dicephaly, and extreme hairiness; his broader theme, however, is the infinite range of human experience. The dicephalous Tocci brothers and Lazarus Colloredo (from whose belly grew his malformed conjoined twin), the Swedish giant, and the king of Poland's dwarf--Bondeson considers these individuals not as "freaks" but as human beings born with sometimes appalling congenital deformities.He makes full use of original French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Scandinavian sources and explores elements of ethnology, literature, and cultural history in his diagnoses. Heavily illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, oil paintings, and photographs, The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels combines a scientist's scrutiny with a humanist's wonder at the endurance of the human spirit. Contents: The Two Inseparable Brothers, and a PrefaceThe Hairy Maid at the HarpsichordThe Stone-childThe Woman Who Laid an EggThe Strangest Miracle in the WorldSome Words about Hog-faced GentlewomenHorned HumansThe Biddenden MaidsThe Tocci Brothers, and Other DicephaliThe King of Poland's CourtDwarf Daniel Cajanus, the Swedish GiantDaniel Lambert, the Human ColossusCat-eating Englishmen and French Frog-swallowers
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1989-05-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Author : Harry Stephen Keeler
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1605432156
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot written by Harry Stephen Keeler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-03-22 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Author : Opal Palmer Adisa
Publisher : Tia Chucha
ISBN 13 : 9781882688463
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (884 download)
Download or read book 4-headed Woman written by Opal Palmer Adisa and published by Tia Chucha. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4-Headed Woman is a journey into and through womanhood--from preadolescence through menopause--and an exploration of women's relations with one another. The poems employ female domestic imagery, manifest in the titles in the book's first section, which name different types of breads found throughout the world--from coconut to pita. Yet many of these poems are sparse and abstract in their trajectory. The poems in the second section focus specifically on menses, weaving together biological, folk, and cultural aspects in a humorous tone. The third section, "Graffiti Poem," comprises poems centered around college restrooms, which Adisa sees as a site of communication--through graffiti among other means--for students on a wide variety of social-sexual issues. In 4-Headed Woman, Adisa bravely explores and uncovers taboos about womanhood in a controlled and at times lyrical style laced with humor.
Author : Sandra Birdsell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Two-headed Calf written by Sandra Birdsell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527536
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Home Girls written by Barbara Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-05-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504056019
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Collected Essays, Prose, and Stories written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling collections of short fiction and essays by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple and “marvelous writer” (San Francisco Chronicle). Whether she is writing fiction or nonfiction, sharing personal reflections or expressing political views, Alice Walker is without question “one of [our] best American writers” (The Washington Post). The first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize—for The Color Purple—Walker is both a committed artist and engaged activist, as reflected in the four works in this volume. Living by the Word: In this “entertaining and often stirring” follow-up to In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker reflects on issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war (Library Journal). You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down: The women in these “consummately skillful short stories” face their problems head on, proving powerful and self-possessed even when degraded by others—sometimes by those closest to them (San Francisco Chronicle). But even as the female protagonists face exploitation, social inequalities, and casual cruelties, Walker leavens her stories with ample wit and “[enters] their experience with sympathy but without sentimentality” (The Washington Post). In Love & Trouble: Walker’s debut short fiction collection features stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges. Some from the South, some from the North, some rich, and some poor, the “marvelous characters” that inhabit In Love & Trouble “come away transformed by knowledge and love but most of all by wonder” (Essence). In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: In essays both personal and political about her own work and other writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and Jean Toomer; the Civil Rights Movement; antinuclear activism; feminism; and a childhood injury that left her emotionally scarred and the healing words of her daughter, Walker “reflects not only ideas but a life that has breathed color, sound, and soul into fiction and poetry—and into our lives as well” (San Francisco Chronicle). Includes a new letter written by the author on In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.
Author : Chaim Tzvi Tanny
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469190141
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Three Thirty A.M. written by Chaim Tzvi Tanny and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in honor of my late mother, Faiga (Phyllis)— may she rest in peace — who passed away on what is commonly known by the misnomer “Mother’s Day” (May 8, 2011 or the 4th of the Hebrew month of IYAR, 5771). There are four types of people: 1. Naturally humorous 2. Naturally serious 3. Generally humorous, with some seriousness 4. Generally serious with some humor My mother was raised by a serious Polish-born father with some humor and a humorous British lady with some seriousness. She emulated the best of her parents and passed on these qualities to her sons, especially this one as is evident in the prose. We hope and pray that these poems will reflect her positive nature and inspire our dear readers. Please treat this book with respect as there are many quotations from holy writings.
Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453224076
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Living by the Word written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple—“Vintage Alice Walker: passionate, political, personal, and poetic” (Los Angeles Times). In a follow-up to her collection of essays, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, Walker takes a look at a vast range of issues both personal and global, from her experience with the filming of The Color Purple, to the history of African-American narrative traditions, to global threats of pollution and nuclear war. Walker travels broadly and maintains an eye for detail, resulting in a captivating journey of conscience by one of the most distinctive political and artistic voices in America. Readers will find inspiration and insights in even the briefest entries of this enthralling anthology. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Mal Leicester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135698627
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Spiritual and Religious Education written by Mal Leicester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V distinguishes religious and spiritual education and takes a multi-faith approach to pedagogic, curricular and resource issues. The important area of collective worship is also addressed.
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Author : Yolanda Williams Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313049076
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 volumes] written by Yolanda Williams Page and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s. This book surveys the world of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. The Encyclopedia covers established contemporary authors such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, along with a range of neglected and emerging figures. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Literature students will value this book for its exploration of African American literature, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of social issues through literature. African American women writers have made an enormous contribution to our culture. Many of these authors wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, a particularly vital time in African American arts and letters, while others have been especially active since the 1970s, an era in which works by African American women are adapted into films and are widely read in book clubs. Literature by African American women is important for its aesthetic qualities, and it also illuminates the social issues which these authors have confronted. This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. Some of these figures, such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, are among the most popular authors writing today, while others have been largely neglected or are recently emerging. Each entry provides a biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers will welcome this guide to the rich achievement of African American women. Literature students will value its exploration of the works of these writers, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of the social issues these women confront in their works.
