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Soucouyant

Author : David Chariandy
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551523760
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Soucouyant written by David Chariandy and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “soucoyant” is an evil spirit in Caribbean lore, a reminder of past transgressions that refuse to diminish with age. In this beautifully told novel that crosses borders, cultures, and generations, a young man returns home to care for his aging mother, who suffers from dementia. In his efforts to help her and by turn make amends for their past estrangement from one another, he is compelled to re-imagine his mother’s stories for her before they slip completely into darkness. In delicate, heartbreaking tones, the names for everyday things fade while at the same time a beautiful, haunted life, stained by grief, is slowly revealed. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Sucking Salt

Author : Meredith Gadsby
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265219
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Sucking Salt written by Meredith Gadsby and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the literature of black Caribbean emigrant and island women including Dorothea Smartt, Edwidge Danticat, Paule Marshall, and others, who use the terminology and imagery of "sucking salt" as an articulation of a New World voice connoting adaptation, improvisation, and creativity, offering a new understanding of diaspora, literature, and feminism"--Provided by publisher.

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Author : Winfried Siemerling
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582134
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered written by Winfried Siemerling and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.

The Things That Fly in the Night

Author : Giselle Liza Anatol
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813565758
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Things That Fly in the Night written by Giselle Liza Anatol and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag—an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night’s darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of conventional depictions of the European vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease about old age and female power. Tracing relevant folklore through the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and parts of West Africa, Anatol shows how tales of the nocturnal female bloodsuckers not only entertain and encourage obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but also work to instill particular values about women’s “proper” place and behaviors in society at large. Alongside traditional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts include work by authors as diverse as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. National Book Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and science fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

Brother

Author : David Chariandy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572002
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Brother written by David Chariandy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." --Marlon James "Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy--concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." --Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter WINNER--Toronto Book Award WINNER--Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize WINNER--Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. While their Trinidadian single mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home, Francis helps the days pass by inventing games and challenges, bringing Michael to his crew's barbershop hangout, and leading escapes into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the beats and styles of hip hop, Francis dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. Honest and insightful in its portrayal of kinship, community, and lives cut short, David Chariandy's Brother is an emotional tour de force that marks the arrival of a stunning new literary voice.

Diasporic Marvellous Realism

Author : María Alonso Alonso
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004302395
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Diasporic Marvellous Realism written by María Alonso Alonso and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diasporic Marvellous Realism highlights the interesting switch in perspective found in contemporary literary production where the supernatural is regarded from a diasporic perspective as marvellous rather than magical. The titular term is applied to the influence of transterritorialization on the works of first- and second generation immigrant writers when approaching and exploring the myths and legends of their culture of origin. The texts included in this analysis show that the employment of this literary philosophy and narrative technique in contemporary literature involves a fruitful refocusing of the rhetorical gaze regarding the importance of cultural heritage as vindicatory resistance to the lacunae of history and as celebratory re-enfranchisement of diasporic communities in host countries such as Canada and the UK.

The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film

Author : Lisa Kröger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494524
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film written by Lisa Kröger and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities is a collection of essays expanding the concepts of "ghost" and "haunting" beyond literary tools used to add supernatural flavor to include questions of identity, visibility, memory and trauma, and history. Using a wide scope of texts from varying time periods and cultures, including fiction and film, this collection explores the phenomenon of social ghosts. What does it mean, for example, to be invisible, to be a ghost, particularly when that ghost is representative of a person or group living on the margins of society? Why do specific types of ghosts tend to haunt certain cultures and/or places? What is it about a people's history that invites these types of hauntings? The essays in this book, like pieces of a puzzle, approach the larger questions from diverse individual perspectives, but, taken together, they offer a richly detailed composite discussion of what it means to be haunted.

Caribbean Military Encounters

Author : Shalini Puri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137580143
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Military Encounters written by Shalini Puri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how Caribbean people negotiate militarization in their everyday lives. The volume explores topics such as the US occupation of Haiti; British West Indians in World War I; the British naval invasion of Anguilla; military bases including Chaguaramas, Vieques and Guantánamo; the militarization of the police; sex work and the military; drug wars and surveillance; calypso commentaries; private security armies; and border patrol operations.

Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy

Author : Rodolphe Solbiac
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623287
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy written by Rodolphe Solbiac and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy explores the fiction written by this Caribbean Canadian writer to bring new perspectives to the existing scholarship on memory, history, trauma, myth, second-generation issues, cultural inheritance and transmission. The works presented in this collection about Chariandy’s novels Soucouyant and Brother consider new aspects and bring a fresh gaze to themes that have previously been explored. Critical Perspectives on David Chariandy presents second-generation Caribbean Canadian cultural affiliation to the Caribbean and North America as an outcome of a self-managed reparatory postcolonial aural transmission. It brings a new exploration of relationships between dementia, animality, forgetting, transformation, and identity, as well as an original analysis of the implications and stakes raised by Canadian middlebrow reception of Soucouyant in 2007. The new readings of Chariandy’s exploration of the relationship between history, memory, and myth, included in this collection, disclose the stakes and scope of the author’s use of the myth of the soucouyant, and of the mythologies of Scarborough and Canada. This collection also approaches Soucouyant as the literary form of a process of searching for healing that operates both at personal and collective levels, demonstrating the author's use of different types of memories for healing power.

The Undead and Water Beasts #1

Author : John Gatehouse
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698192680
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Undead and Water Beasts #1 written by John Gatehouse and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now it’s the monsters’ turn to be scared! Monster Hunters Unlimited is a new series of tongue-in-cheek handbooks that instruct readers on the not-so-deadly art of monster hunting. Complete with comical, full-color art and irreverent narratives based around actual myths, folklore, and legends, Monster Hunters Unlimited: The Undead & Water Beasts is a must have book for anyone plagued by Ankou, the King of the Dead, or Mamlambo, the brain sucker.

Mobile and Entangled America(s)

Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095294
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mobile and Entangled America(s) written by Maryemma Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined the history of the Americas. From religious networks to music and dance, and across a range of literary and artistic works, the mobility of people, objects, and ideas in the Americas is expertly mapped. At the same time, the book represents a serious enterprise of theory-building. Drawing on the histories of postcolonial thought, mobility studies, and work on human migration, Mobile and Entangled America(s) clearly establishes a new interdisciplinary field attentive both to the complexities of cultural form and the pervasiveness of power relations. Each article stands as a significant piece of scholarship on its own, but all are in dialogue with each other. The result is a richly satisfying and important volume of cultural scholarship.

Globalgothic

Author : Glennis Byron
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526102986
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Globalgothic written by Glennis Byron and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.’ Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition which expands the horizons of the gothic in diverse new and exciting ways. Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of different media, including literary texts, film, dance, music, cyberculture, computer games, and graphic novels. This book will be essential reading for all students and academics interested in the gothic, in international literature, cinema, and cyberspace.

Property of the Alpha Prince

Author : Joanna J
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property of the Alpha Prince written by Joanna J and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Hayden is the beloved heir of the Alpha King whereas Cory is a peasant girl with a dark secret. The pair become unlikely friends when a common goal unites them, a quest to rid the land of Stormbringers, vicious beasts who control the weather and leave wreckage in their wake. Will their friendship stand the test of time, will it endure during the quest, will it wither or will it give way to something more powerful...passion?

African Goddess Initiation

Author : Abiola Abrams
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401962955
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book African Goddess Initiation written by Abiola Abrams and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul care rituals, tools, and exercises. Spiritual teacher, intuitive coach, and award-winning author, Abiola Abrams invites you to activate African goddess magic to transmute your fears and limiting beliefs, so that you can create more happiness, abundance, and self-acceptance. Africa is a continent of 54+ countries, and her children are global. There is no one African spiritual tradition. Our ancestors who were trafficked in "The New World" hid the secrets of our orishas, abosom, lwas, álúsí, and god/desses behind saints, angels, and legendary characters. From South Africa to Egypt, Brazil to Haiti, Guyana to Louisiana, goddess wisdom still empowers us. Writes Abiola, "Spirit told me, "We choose who shows up." And if you are holding this book, then this sacred medicine is meant for you. In this book, you will meet ancient goddesses and divine feminine energy ancestors, legendary queens, and mystical spirits. As you complete their powerful rituals, and ascend through their temples, you will: . Awaken generational healing in the Temple of Ancestors; . Manifest your miracles in the Temple of Conjurers; . Release the struggle in the Temple of Warriors; . Embrace your dark goddess self in the Temple of Shadows; . Heal your primal wounds in the Temple of Lovers; . Liberate your voice in the Temple of Griots; . Open your third eye intuition in the Temple of Queens; and . Surrender, meditate, and rise in the Temple of High Priestesses. Welcome to your goddess circle!

New Postcolonial British Genres

Author : Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137505222
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book New Postcolonial British Genres written by Sarah Ilott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

Popularizing Dementia

Author : Aagje Swinnen
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 383942710X
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Popularizing Dementia written by Aagje Swinnen and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are individual and social ideas of late-onset dementia shaped and negotiated in film, literature, the arts, and the media? And how can the symbolic forms provided by popular culture be adopted and transformed by those affected in order to express their own perspectives? This international and interdisciplinary volume summarizes central current research trends and opens new theoretical and empirical perspectives on dementia in popular culture. It includes contributions by internationally renowned scholars from the humanities, social and cultural gerontology, age(ing) studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and bioethics. Contributions by Lucy Burke, Marlene Goldman, Annette Leibing and others.

Women and the Gothic

Author : Avril Horner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748699139
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Gothic written by Avril Horner and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-assessment of the Gothic in relation to the female, the 'feminine', feminism and post-feminismThis collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'. The 14 chapters in this volume engage with debates about 'Female Gothic' from the 1970s and '80s, through second wave feminism, theorisations of gender and a long interrogation of the 'women' category as well as with the problematics of post-feminism, now itself being interrogated by a younger generation of women. The contributors explore Gothic works from established classics to recent films and novels from feminist and post-feminist perspectives. The result is a lively book that combines rigorous close readings with elegant use of theory in order to question some ingrained assumptions about women, the Gothic and identity. Key FeaturesRevitalises the long-running debate about women, the Gothic and identityEngages with the political agendas of feminism and post-feminismPrioritises the concerns of woman as reader, author and criticOffers fresh readings of both classic and recent Gothic works