Elsewhere In America
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Elsewhere In America
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Author : David Trend
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-28
Elsewhere In America written by David Trend and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet, in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with potential. In the face of America’s daunting challenges, can "elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose? Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).
American Elsewhere
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Author : Robert Jackson Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date : 2013-02-12
American Elsewhere written by Robert Jackson Bennett and has been published by Orbit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-12 with Fiction categories.
From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew. Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different . . . "Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman." -- Library Journal
From Elsewhere
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Author : Scott Mandelker
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 1995
From Elsewhere written by Scott Mandelker and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Scott Mandelker interviewed twenty-five Americans who claim extraterrestrial (E.T.) identity, a he made some astounding discoveries. Focusing on personal stories, Mandelker describes how childhood experiences, emotional traumas, and paranormal events led each subject from a life of confusion to one of clarity and self-validation. It is not easy to believe that you are an E.T., but once Mandeker's subjects were sure, all embraced their new identity with renewed sense of purpose Whether or not you accept it ad truth, "From Elsewhere" presents a compelling and credible examination of an unforgettable group of individuals who are firm in their beliefs and ardent in their desire to affect our lives for the better.
Only In Nigeria
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Author : Nathaniel I. Ndiokwere
language : en
Publisher:
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Only In Nigeria written by Nathaniel I. Ndiokwere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Nigeria categories.
America Is Elsewhere
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Author : Erik Dussere
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014
America Is Elsewhere written by Erik Dussere and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
America Films From Elsewhere
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Author : Clare Davies
language : en
Publisher: Shoestring Publisher
Release Date : 2019-05-21
America Films From Elsewhere written by Clare Davies and has been published by Shoestring Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Performing Arts categories.
The cities, landscapes and people of America have been the subject of many a film, but when seen through an outsider's perspective, new and often significant aspects of its culture are revealed. America: Films from Elsewhere examines film and America from the perspective of auteurs from around the world--from anyplace but America--covering the half-century from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 to the election of Donald Trump in 2017. Masters of the medium such as Chantal Akerman, Joyce Wieland, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lars von Trier, Jacques Demy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Chris Marker are discussed, alongside lesser-known greats such as Yolande du Luart and Babette Mangolte. The book also features specially commissioned portfolios by artists, including Camille Henrot, Harun Farocki, Lucy Raven, the Otolith Group and Ute Aurand.
America Is Elsewhere The Noir Tradition In The Age Of Consumer Culture
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Author : Erik Dussere
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
America Is Elsewhere The Noir Tradition In The Age Of Consumer Culture written by Erik Dussere and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
The Troupe
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Author : Robert Jackson Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date : 2012-02-21
The Troupe written by Robert Jackson Bennett and has been published by Orbit this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-21 with Fiction categories.
Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he suspects to be his father, the great Heironomo Silenus. Yet as he chases down his father's troupe, he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville: for wherever they happen to tour, the very nature of the world seems to change. Because there is a secret within Silenus's show so ancient and dangerous that it has won him many powerful enemies. And it's not until after he joins them that George realizes the troupe is not simply touring: they are running for their lives. And soon...he is as well.
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
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Author : Sindya Bhanoo
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2023-05-16
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere written by Sindya Bhanoo and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-16 with Fiction categories.
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women’s lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power—a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner Traveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart. In “Malliga Homes,” selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In "No. 16 Model House Road," a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In "Nature Exchange," a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In "A Life in America," a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students. Sindya Bhanoo’s haunting stories show us how immigrants’ paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.
The American Elsewhere
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Author : Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2017-09-15
The American Elsewhere written by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with History categories.
As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. A study of US expansionism from 1815–1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the “adventurelogues” of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into “elsewheres,” distant and dangerous. With their words and art, they entered these unfamiliar realms that had fostered caution and apprehension, and they reimagined them as regions that awakened romantic and reckless optimism. In doing so, Bryan shows, adventurers created the figure of the remarkable American male that generated a wide appeal and encouraged a personal investment in nationhood among their audiences. Bryan provides a thorough reading of a wide variety of sources—including correspondence, travel accounts, fiction, poetry, artwork, and material culture—and finds that adventurers told stories and shaped images that beguiled a generation of Americans into believing in their own exceptionality and in their destiny to conquer the continent.