Affection And Estrangement A Southern Family Memoir


Affection And Estrangement A Southern Family Memoir
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Affection And Estrangement


Affection And Estrangement
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Author : Preston Mercer Browning
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009

Affection And Estrangement written by Preston Mercer Browning and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Focusing on race, religion, and class, author Preston M. Browning Jr. discusses life in the rural South as he experienced it in the 1930s and 1940s. With humorous touches and an eye for detail, this memoir provides not only snippets about the era but also the history of some of Virginia's oldest families. Born in 1929, Browning's childhood coincided with the Great Depression, and much of what he tells about his Culpeper, Virginia home communicates the ubiquitous poverty of the time. In addition, Affection and Estrangement: A Southern Family Memoir includes stories about relatives Browning remembers some quite eccentric, as well as ancestors from two distinguished Virginia families, the Cockes and the Cabells. He also examines the impact of the oftentimes harsh and punitive Calvinist piety of the time, with its emphasis on human depravity. Including sketches of more than twenty relatives and ancestors, Affection and Estrangement: A Southern Family Memoir shows how Browning's family shaped his emerging sense of self from his mother's aristocratic heritage to his father's business-oriented, middle-class background. This memoir pays tribute to those people ancestors, parents, relatives, teachers, clergymen, siblings, and friends who contributed so much to the formation of Browning and his character.



Affection And Estrangement A Southern Family Memoir


Affection And Estrangement A Southern Family Memoir
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Author : Preston M. Browning Jr.
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-10-30

Affection And Estrangement A Southern Family Memoir written by Preston M. Browning Jr. and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-30 with Family & Relationships categories.


Preston Browning Jr. entered the world in 1929, a few months before the Crash and the onset of the Great Depression. In Culpeper, Virginia, Browning grew up amid the pervasive poverty of the times where he recalls being labeled by his father as the world’s worst grouch, led in song by Miss Lizzy Lovell—who banged on the piano at the local Episcopal church, and seated astride a cow who needed a lot of convincing to take him for a ride around the pasture beyond his house. With humor and exceptional detail, Browning shares a lively memoir that focuses on his coming-of-age journey and subsequent experiences in the rural South during the 1930s and 1940s, providing a compelling glimpse into how his family and others helped shape his emerging sense of self, his convictions, and his character. While providing snippets about the era and sketches of more than twenty relatives and ancestors that include an amusing retelling about his Uncle Sweets’ experiences at a hoochie-coochie show, Browning details the fascinating legacy of his Southern upbringing during a time when a struggle for racial, economic, and social justice prevailed in America. In this inspiring memoir, a Southerner reminisces about small-town Virginia before, during, and after the Great Depression through entertaining stories about his unconventional ancestors, his immediate family, and his own experiences.



Flannery O Connor


Flannery O Connor
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Author : Preston M. Browning
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2009-08-18

Flannery O Connor written by Preston M. Browning and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-18 with Religion categories.


When Flannery O'Connor began writing in the early 1950's, many reviewers assumed that she was little more than a talented female Erskine Caldwell, writing in the Southern gothic mode. And indeed her work was filled with freaks, one-armed con men, and pathological killers. By the time she died in 1964, serious readers of her fiction knew there was much more involved in her stories. What that extra was she called the added dimension, that is, the spiritual depth which she believed was as an ineluctable part of human life. Her stories dramatize the ways in which the holy or the sacred break into human life with the result of shocking readers out of their spiritual somnolence using characters who appear to be possessed by the Devil and who commit acts of terrifying violence. Browning bases his study of the works of O'Connor on the centrality of the yoking of opposites at the point where the opposites coincide, where violent crime and attraction for the Holy are held in tension, suggesting that out of this tension grew O'Connor's extraordinary creative power and unique vision. From this point of departure, Browning offers a detailed analysis of four O'Connor books: Wise Blood, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, The Violent Bear It Away, and Everything That Rises Must Converge.



Struggling For The Soul Of Our Country


Struggling For The Soul Of Our Country
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Author : Preston M. Browning Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-05-20

Struggling For The Soul Of Our Country written by Preston M. Browning Jr. and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-20 with History categories.


Struggling for the Soul of Our Country is a book in search of answers: what does it mean to struggle for the soul of a country and how does the life of citizenship influence our common future? While discussing major cultural and political issues, Browning addresses the deeper questions haunting many of our citizens and reflects upon the spiritual dimension of the crises America faces today. With titles such as "American Global Hegemony vs. the Quest for a New Humanity," "Why I Am a Christian Socialist," and "American Dystopia" these essays examine aspects of American political and cultural life in an effort to shed light on the pathologies that Browning claims undermine the health of the country's soul. This book invites the reader to examine the development of America as a militaristic empire, initiating multiple wars abroad, including a disastrous war in Iraq, and fostering at home a culture of violence that led to the assassination of an American president, John F. Kennedy, by agents of the US government.



Sandino S Grave And Other Poems


Sandino S Grave And Other Poems
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Author : Jr. Preston M Browning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-23

Sandino S Grave And Other Poems written by Jr. Preston M Browning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-23 with Poetry categories.


Several years ago, I contacted a poet who was known to advise writers about publication possibilities for their work. With considerable hope, I sent her 25 of my poems. When she came to consult with me a week later, she brought a sheet of paper on which were listed, under 3 headings--"too personal," "too political," and "Yes"--the results of decades of my labor. I was astonished to learn that the list marked "too political" contained many of what I considered my best poems. "Hell," I replied, "almost all of my poems are either political or personal." Even a totally innocuous poem such as "The Eyes of the Children of Solentiname" was destined to mold in the slush pile because I had included a slightly negative reference to Disneyland. Adrienne Rich defined a patriot as someone who "wrestles for the soul of her country." For decades I have followed Rich's injunction, and several years ago wrote a book entitled Struggling for the Soul of Our County. In that volume I wrote about the American Empire and castigated our political leaders for decades of invasions and occupations south of the Rio Grande, for C.I.A.-orchestrated coups from Guatemala to Chile and, much farther from home, from Indonesia to the Central African Republic, with lives lost, according to one former C.I.A. officer, numbering in the "gross millions." Hence readers will find here poems like "New World Order," angry poems, bitter in tone, as well as a satirical poem such as "Epitaph for Ronald Reagan." I even took a shot, in "Pledge of Allegiance," at Humpty Trumpty. But they will also encounter poems that are all sweetness and light such as the sonnet I composed in 1958 after my first date with Ann Hutt, who became my wife. As I approach my eighty-ninth birthday, I feel totally blessed to have had a career writing and teaching poetry. With luck I may live to write a few more poems. "In this wide-ranging book of exquisitely crafted poems, Preston Browning writes, "I long for poets/who speak a mother tongue/meant to connect//..." And that is precisely what he gives us. . . . Carry this book with you; when you need that special poem, you will no doubt find it here." --Patricia Lee Lewis, author of the poetry books, A Kind of Yellow and High Lonesome, leads creative writing workshops at Patchwork Farm "Preston Browning is a force of nature and a poet of remarkable range. In this volume of poems and translations, he moves effortlessly from poems of love and courtship to political reckoning. I was consistently transfixed." --Steve Almond, author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country "Browning's poems range from sonnet to elegy to nursery rhyme. Through all the changes, he knows exactly what he is doing: striving to create " . . . poetry in a language less precious / than that other tongue / that may be just the thing / for communicating with angels." Sandino's Grave welcomes in all of us the angels of listening, and being the better for it." --Pat Schneider, author: Writing Alone and With Others and How the Light Gets In, and founder, Amherst Writers & Artists "Sandino's Grave is an all-encompassing triumph of erudition, craft, and political convictions." --Mark Pawlak, author most recently of Reconnaissance



Estranged


Estranged
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Author : Jessica Berger Gross
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-07-11

Estranged written by Jessica Berger Gross and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


"To outsiders, Jessica Berger Gross's childhood--growing up in a 'nice' Jewish family in middle class Long Island--seemed as wholesomely American as any other. But behind closed doors, Jessica suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her father, whose mood would veer unexpectedly from loving to violent. At the age of twenty-eight, still reeling from the trauma but emotionally dependent on her dysfunctional family, Jessica made the anguished decision to cut ties with them entirely. Years later, living in Maine with a loving husband and young son, having finally found happiness, Jessica is convinced the decision saved her life. Jessica breaks through common social taboos and bravely recounts the painful, self-defeating ways in which she internalized her abusive childhood, how she came to the monumental decision to break free from her family, and how she endured the difficult road that followed. Ultimately, by extracting herself from the damaging patterns and relationships of the past, Jessica has managed to carve an inspiring path to happiness--one she has created on her own terms. Her story, told here in a careful, unflinching, and forthright way, completely reframes how we think about family and the past."--



Memoirs Of The Life And Family Of The Late Rev Mr Laurence Sterne


Memoirs Of The Life And Family Of The Late Rev Mr Laurence Sterne
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Author : Laurence Sterne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873

Memoirs Of The Life And Family Of The Late Rev Mr Laurence Sterne written by Laurence Sterne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.




Dog Flowers


Dog Flowers
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Author : Danielle Geller
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2022-04-12

Dog Flowers written by Danielle Geller and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history. “A candid and achingly fractured memoir of [Geller’s] mother, her family, her Navajo heritage and her own journey to self-discovery and acceptance.”—Ms. SHORTLISTED FOR: The Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, The Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Esquire, She Reads When Danielle Geller’s mother dies of alcohol withdrawal during an attempt to get sober, Geller returns to Florida and finds her mother’s life packed into eight suitcases. Most were filled with clothes, except for the last one, which contained diaries, photos, and letters, a few undeveloped disposable cameras, dried sage, jewelry, and the bandana her mother wore on days she skipped a hair wash. Geller, an archivist and a writer, uses these pieces of her mother’s life to try and understand her mother’s relationship to home, and their shared need to leave it. Geller embarks on a journey where she confronts her family's history and the decisions that she herself had been forced to make while growing up, a journey that will end at her mother's home: the Navajo reservation. Dog Flowers is an arresting, photo-lingual memoir that masterfully weaves together images and text to examine mothers and mothering, sisters and caretaking, and colonized bodies. Exploring loss and inheritance, beauty and balance, Danielle Geller pays homage to our pasts, traditions, and heritage, to the families we are given and the families we choose.



The Erratics


The Erratics
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Author : Vicki Laveau-Harvie
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release Date : 2020-08-25

The Erratics written by Vicki Laveau-Harvie and has been published by Doubleday Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humour and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now reassert themselves in the dysfunctional household: their father, undernourished and suffering from Stockholm syndrome, is unable to see that he is in danger from his outlandish and vindictive wife. Rearranging their lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father cope with the unending manipulations of their mother, and must encounter all the characters common in the circus of caretaking--oddball nurses and home helpers; over-opinionated hospital staff who have fallen for their mother's compulsive lies--along with the pressures that come with caring for elderly loved (and sometimes unloved) ones. Set against the natural world of remotest Alberta ("in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal"), this memoir--at once dark and hopeful--shatters precedents about grief, anger and family trauma with surprising tenderness and humour.



The Most Influential Women In History Over 100 Memoirs Biographies


The Most Influential Women In History Over 100 Memoirs Biographies
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Author : Elizabeth Cady Stanton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-14

The Most Influential Women In History Over 100 Memoirs Biographies written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Good Press presents to you this meticulously edited collection of memoirs, biographies and stories about the most incredible women in history, their lives and their legacies: Eighty Years and More by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helen Keller: The Story of My Life Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People Reminiscences by Julia Ward Howe My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst The Autobiography of Mother Jones Sweeper in the Sky: The Life of Maria Mitchell Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography The Life of Florence Nightingale The Grimké Sisters Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Countess of Artois Christine de Pisan Agnes Sorel Alcestis Antigone Iphigenia Paula Catherine Douglas Lady Jane Grey Flora Macdonald Madame Roland Grace Darling Sister Dora Florence Nightingale Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Pericles Xantippe Aspasia of Cyrus Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi Portia Octavia Cleopatra Mariamne Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Eudocia Hypatia The Wife of Maximus The Lady Rowena Olga The Lady Elfrida The Countess of Tripoli Jane, Countess of Mountfort Laura de Sade The Countess of Richmond Elizabeth Woodville Jane Shore Catharine of Arragon Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë... Marie Antoinette Sarah Siddons Mrs Grant Elizabeth Inchbald Elizabeth Hamilton Countess de Vemieiro Joanna Baillie Josephine Anne Radcliffe Miss Edgeworth Charlotte Corday Madame de Stael Madame de la Rochejaquelein Madame Recamier Mary Brunton Felicia Hemans Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Bronte Queen Anne Esther Johnson Esther Vanhomrigh Mary Astell Madame des Ursins Lady Grizel Jerviswoode Madame de Pontchartrain Elizabeth Halkett Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Madame du Deffand Phœbe Bentley Marquise du Chatelet Lady Huntingdon Flora Macdonald Madame Roland Grace Darling Sister Dora Maria Theresa Meta Moller Elizabeth Blackwell Lætitia Barbauld Hannah More Anna Seward Catherine Cockburn Elizabeth Berkeleigh...