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Author : Ronald L. Fair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Many Thousand Gone written by Ronald L. Fair and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald L. Fair
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537644
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable written by Ronald L. Fair and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks The premise of Ronald Fair’s short, parable-like novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (1965), is that in a rural corner of Mississippi—the fictional Jacobs County—slavery did not end in 1865 but continued uninterrupted into the 1960s through the brutal tactics of the local sheriff's office and the willing complicity of surrounding counties. Black outsiders are not allowed into Jacobs County while Black inhabitants attempting to escape are hunted down and killed. All the Black women in the county have been made sexually available to any white man for generations, resulting in the mixed blood of nearly all the enslaved population. When the last all-Black child, “the Black Prince,” is born, he is secreted out of the county by his great-grandmother and a family friend, and eventually makes his way north to join his father. Years later, when the Black Prince becomes a celebrated writer in Chicago, his growing fame puts an unwanted spotlight on Jacobs County, emboldening the enslaved population, exposing the white supremacists’ false sense of superiority, and setting in motion a series of events that will change everything. Will the white population change with the times? Or will they willingly see the destruction of Jacobsville—the county’s principal town—before sharing power with the Black population? An introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks explores Fair’s extended metaphor for Black life under Jim Crow and reflects on the power of literature to illuminate the past.
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125021766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172706
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Author : Ronald L. Fair
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810129884
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Hog Butcher written by Ronald L. Fair and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequently courtside in the South Side of Chicago watching their role model Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton as he prepares to leave for college on a basketball scholarship. Their world comes crashing down in an alley when two cops--one white, one black--mistake Cornbread for a fleeing burglary suspect. What follows threatens to tear apart the community.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198031750
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019987946X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Lever of Riches written by Joel Mokyr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-09 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr sets the background for his analysis by tracing the major inventions and innovations that have transformed society since ancient Greece and Rome. What emerges from this survey is often surprising: the classical world, for instance, was largely barren of new technology, the relatively backward society of medieval Europe bristled with inventions, and the period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution was one of slow and unspectacular progress in technology, despite the tumultuous developments associated with the Voyages of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution. What were the causes of technological creativity? Mokyr distinguishes between the relationship of inventors and their physical environment--which determined their willingness to challenge nature--and the social environment, which determined the openness to new ideas. He discusses a long list of such factors, showing how they interact to help or hinder a nation's creativity, and then illustrates them by a number of detailed comparative studies, examining the differences between Europe and China, between classical antiquity and medieval Europe, and between Britain and the rest of Europe during the industrial revolution. He examines such aspects as the role of the state (the Chinese gave up a millennium-wide lead in shipping to the Europeans, for example, when an Emperor banned large ocean-going vessels), the impact of science, as well as religion, politics, and even nutrition. He questions the importance of such commonly-cited factors as the spill-over benefits of war, the abundance of natural resources, life expectancy, and labor costs. Today, an ever greater number of industrial economies are competing in the global market, locked in a struggle that revolves around technological ingenuity. The Lever of Riches, with its keen analysis derived from a sweeping survey of creativity throughout history, offers telling insights into the question of how Western economies can maintain, and developing nations can unlock, their creative potential.
Author : Linda Metzger
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Writers written by Linda Metzger and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical and bibliographical entries on some 400 black authors active in the 20th century. Some of the sketches are updated from Gale's Contemporary authors series; others were written especially for this volume. Covers not only contemporary American authors, but also earlier 20th century writers, social figures (e.g. Malcolm X, Desmond Tutu), and important African and Caribbean writers. In addition to the descriptive personal and career information, there are illuminating biographical/critical essays including comments, often by the authors themselves, on personal interests, aspirations, motivations, and thoughts on writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Author : Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History written by Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog written by Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terrell Dixon
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820323503
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (235 download)
Download or read book City Wilds written by Terrell Dixon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The assumptions we make about nature writing too often lead us to see it only as a literature about wilderness or rural areas. This anthology broadens our awareness of American nature writing by featuring the flora, fauna, geology, and climate that enrich and shape urban life. Set in neither pristine nor exotic environs, these stories and essays take us to rivers, parks, vacant lots, lakes, gardens, and zoos as they convey nature's rich disregard of city limits signs. With writings by women and men from cities in all regions of the country and from different ethnic traditions, the anthology reflects the geographic differences and multicultural makeup of our cities. Works by well-known and emerging contemporary writers are included as well as pieces from important twentieth-century urban nature writers. Since more than 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, we need to enlarge our environmental concerns to encompass urban nature. By focusing on urban nature writing, the selections in City Wilds can help develop a more inclusive environmental consciousness, one that includes both the nature we see on a day-to-day basis and how such nearby nature is viewed by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 2250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larissa Lai
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551521688
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book When Fox is a Thousand written by Larissa Lai and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative novel that links the lives of a ninth-century poet/nun and a contemporary Asian-American woman.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1968 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1965-04 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
