Margaret Garner

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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938686
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Margaret Garner by : La Vinia Delois Jennings

Download or read book Margaret Garner written by La Vinia Delois Jennings and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery. Toni Morrison first imaginatively treated Margaret Garner’s infanticide in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Beloved (1987). In 2004, it became the subject of her libretto Margaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, a lyrical text designed to be paired with music and sung operatically. Grammy Award–winning composer Richard Danielpour had tapped Morrison to write the libretto for his opera Margaret Garner: A New American Opera, which world premiered in Detroit in 2005. La Vinia Delois Jennings’s edited volume records key events, debates, and critical assessments of Morrison's success with Garner’s story as a libretto. It also includes essays by individuals who played central roles in bringing the opera to the stage and recovering Garner's story. The collection opens with a foreword by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, for whom Danielpour composed the title role. The other contributors range from literary and opera scholars to specialists in American slavery studies and scholars of Toni Morrison's oeuvre. Their essays position her libretto within the African American operatic and libretto tradition, a tradition not fully known to performance scholars and heretofore unexamined.

Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452900159
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Book Synopsis Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? by : Mark Reinhardt

Download or read book Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? written by Mark Reinhardt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gendered Resistance

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252095162
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Gendered Resistance by : Mary E. Frederickson

Download or read book Gendered Resistance written by Mary E. Frederickson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example--the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved andthe opera Margaret Garner--as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States. Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.

Driven Toward Madness

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ISBN 13 : 9780821421598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Driven Toward Madness by : Nikki Marie Taylor

Download or read book Driven Toward Madness written by Nikki Marie Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather than have her face a life in slavery-has inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, a film based on the novel starring Oprah Winfrey, and an opera

Modern Medea

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809069547
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Medea by : Steven Weisenburger

Download or read book Modern Medea written by Steven Weisenburger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely acclaimed inquiry into the story that inspired Toni Morrison's "Beloved"--a nuanced portrait of the not-so-genteel Southern culture that perpetuated slavery and had such destructive effects on all who lived with it and in it. 25 illustrations.

Margaret Garner

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ISBN 13 : 9780615207131
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Margaret Garner by : Joanne Caputo

Download or read book Margaret Garner written by Joanne Caputo and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Books in One: Historical Spiritual Non-Fiction and Memoir. Margaret Garner slit her daughter's throat to protect her from American slavery in 1856. The tale was fictionalized in Toni Morrison's Beloved, but a young white mother began researching the true story in 1994. Soon paranormal events with Margaret began, revealing the mother's past life connection to the murder and a chance to heal a tragedy more than a century old.

Beloved

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Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0307264882
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Beloved by : Toni Morrison

Download or read book Beloved written by Toni Morrison and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Sethe works at beating back the past, but it makes itself heard and felt incessantly in her memory and in the lives of those around her. When a mysterious teenage girl arrives, calling herself Beloved, Sethe’s terrible secret explodes into the present. Combining the visionary power of legend with the unassailable truth of history, Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature.

Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134361300
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' by : Justine Tally

Download or read book Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' written by Justine Tally and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims the very origins of civilization’s primal concerns with life, procreation and regeneration, springing from the very Heart of Africa. Despite the weight of "white" authority and the disparaging of "blackness," Beloved’s multiple "ghosts" conjure up a legacy so potent that no authoritarian discourse has been able to entirely erase it, a legacy that still speaks to us from a heritage we no longer acknowledge yet that nevertheless remains, and sustains us.

The Making of "Mammy Pleasant"

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252027710
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis The Making of "Mammy Pleasant" by : Lynn Maria Hudson

Download or read book The Making of "Mammy Pleasant" written by Lynn Maria Hudson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pleasant's legacy is steeped in scandal and lore. Was she a voodoo queen who traded in sexual secrets? A madam? A murderer? In The Making of "Mammy Pleasant," Lynn M. Hudson examines the folklore of this remarkable woman's real and imagined powers.

Among the Hidden

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689848072
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Among the Hidden by : Margaret Peterson Haddix

Download or read book Among the Hidden written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows—does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan? Can he afford not to?

When I Crossed No-Bob

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618717153
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis When I Crossed No-Bob by : Margaret McMullan

Download or read book When I Crossed No-Bob written by Margaret McMullan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "How I Found the Strong" pens a gritty, beautifully told story about a girls adjustment to life after the Civil War, and how she tries to rise above the bad reputation of her entire family.

Among the Impostors

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689848080
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Book Synopsis Among the Impostors by : Margaret Peterson Haddix

Download or read book Among the Impostors written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate child escapes from hiding only to face new dangers in the New York Times–bestselling author’s near future YA adventure series. In a world where the Population Police wield terrifying power, Luke Garner is an illegal third child. After spending his entire life in hiding, he’s found a way to escape—by assuming the identity of a deceased child. But living among other people isn’t going at all how he imagined. Luke now attends Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. He knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn’t know is whom he can trust—and where the answers to his questions may lead him.

Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786469870
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution written by Gordon S. Barker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. African Americans and white abolitionists seized upon these dramatic events to exhort citizens to complete the Revolution by extending liberty to all Americans. Casting fugitive slaves and their slave revolt leaders as heroic American Revolutionaries seeking freedom for themselves and their enslaved brethren, this book provides a broader interpretation of the American Revolution.

Toni Morrison's Beloved

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195107969
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Toni Morrison's Beloved by : William L. Andrews

Download or read book Toni Morrison's Beloved written by William L. Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999-01-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in which readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tra published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery—the very incident Morrison fictionalizes in Beloved.

Among the Brave

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106703
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Among the Brave by : Margaret Peterson Haddix

Download or read book Among the Brave written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of a crisis that threatens the safety of all shadow children -- illegal third-borns in a society that allows only two children per family -- Trey's friends expect him to take charge -- a function he doesn't want or think he can do. Trey's new role leads him to travel with Luke Garner's brother, Mark, to Population Police headquarters. There he impersonates an officer to try to rescue Luke, who has been taken prisoner. The nonstop adventure puts all three boys in danger and risks exposing the underground movement to help all shadow children. In this, the fifth book in the Shadow Children series, Margaret Peterson Haddix returns to the futuristic setting and compelling characters she created in Among the Hidden. With an adrenaline-fueled plot and surprising twists, Haddix has again crafted a story that is suspenseful until the last page.

First Light

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Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783522534
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis First Light by : Erica Wagner

Download or read book First Light written by Erica Wagner and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 50 years, Alan Garner has enraptured generations of readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift, and The Stone Book Quartet. Described by Philip Pullman as 'the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkein', Alan Garner has inspired readers and writers alike. Now, in celebration of his 80th birthday, comes First Light. A collaboration by many of the acclaimed writers, artists, archaeologists and historians he has influenced over the years, this anthology includes original contributions from David Almond, Margaret Atwood, John Burnside, Susan Cooper, Helen Dunmore, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Garner, Paul Kingsnorth, Katherine Langrish, Helen Macdonald, Robert Macfarlane, Gregory Maguire, Neel Mukherjee, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith, Elizabeth Wein, Michael Wood, and many, many more. Whether a literary essay, a personal response to Alan's work, a memory of the first time they read his work, or a story about the man himself, each piece is a tribute to his remarkable impact. Edited by the acclaimed literary journalist and novelist, Erica Wagner, First Light is a striking collection that will touch the heart of anyone who grew up reading the works of Alan Garner.

Plain Beautiful

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ISBN 13 : 9781593930172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Plain Beautiful by : Sandra Grabman

Download or read book Plain Beautiful written by Sandra Grabman and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Peggy Ann Garner, Oscar-winning actress of the 1945 film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.