Heeding The Ancestral Call
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Heeding The Ancestral Call
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Author : Iya Ifalola Aboyade Omobola
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2011
Heeding The Ancestral Call written by Iya Ifalola Aboyade Omobola and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
The Grasp That Reaches Beyond The Grave
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Author : Venetria K. Patton
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Grasp That Reaches Beyond The Grave written by Venetria K. Patton and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Explores black women writers treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambaras The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshalls Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perrys Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrisons Beloved,Tananarive Dues The Between, and Julie Dashs film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as natally dead has impacted African American women writers emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.
A Treasure Chest Of Verse From The Cutting Edge
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Author : Ralph Reynaud
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2017-06-22
A Treasure Chest Of Verse From The Cutting Edge written by Ralph Reynaud and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-22 with Poetry categories.
This Book of Poetic Verse spans some thirty (30) odd years of writing which is presented here as excepts from two (2) as yet unpublished works by this writer Unleash a CeaseFire Peace and Abiding within the Oneness of the One along with additional sections of verse. This Volume portrays the heartache and heartbreak of gun violence, pinpoints and analyzes the causative factors involved and proposes possible solutions. It challenges America to make word and deed one in reference to equality and equal justice under the law with all deliberate speed its Creed to heed. It gives an African-American perspective or world view of events across the years. It looks within the Spirit-Soul and Heart Beat of life for lifes existential vital answers about itself-for lifes sake! This Book of Verse is a treatise confronting the agony and challenge of gun violence in America specifically in the Black Community; the realities of inequality and injustice in racial America; and life as a spiritual journey with its existential ponderings and quest which is in its raw essence-a dare to be and a wonder unfolding to do and to see. The reader is invited to experience, to feel, to understand and to know through this poetic verse the vitality of Being, the value of the unfolding of Ones True-Self, the Unity of Community and the price of equality & justice in a truly egalitarian and democratic America!
Sentinel Island A Novel
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Author : Benjamin Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2024-02-09
Sentinel Island A Novel written by Benjamin Hoffmann and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-09 with Literary Collections categories.
Located some 600 miles from the coast of India, Sentinel Island is the home of the last people entirely cut off from the modern world, the Sentinelese. No one knows where they come from, what language they speak, their beliefs. Only one thing is certain: for centuries they have violently rejected outsiders who set foot on their island, including Venetian travellers, British colonists, shipwrecked Chinese, Malaysian poachers, European monarchs, or American missionaries. Sentinel Island tells the story of this people and of Krish and Markus, two friends who have little in common other than their fascination with this forbidden island. One is an anthropologist of Indian origin in a badly fraught marriage to an American woman; the other an unmarried New York editor, heir to an enormous fortune built in the art market. Swept up in a grand adventure, Sentinel Island is the story of peoples in far-flung places, friendship, class relations, contemporary America, the gradual unravelling of an interracial marriage—and the story of globalization and those who attempt to escape it.
She Threw A Stone Tomorrow
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Author : Iya Ifalola Omobola
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-12-14
She Threw A Stone Tomorrow written by Iya Ifalola Omobola and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-14 with Fiction categories.
""You can't simply read ""She Threw A Stone Tomorrow,"" child, you got to ingest it. If you are fortunate enough to free your mind, you will find yourself ... looking for the true meaning of your own existence. You will question the essence of life, of love, and your quest for spiritual enlightenment in the age of cyber morality gone wrong. This is not some far out there in the cosmos lecture on science versus theology. These are Ifa principles, this is Odu, this is Ancestor-wit, this is AfriKan third eye intellectualism. This is a novel light-years ahead of its time. It is ingeniously wicked and yet it speaks to who we Displaced AfriKans are this very second-children ducking and dodging industrialized plantations. Maybe, just maybe after reading Oloyabi and Malcolm's vision quest we can fine tune our psyches and salvage what's left of our pre-soaked brains and perhaps then we can consensually decide to either burn the plantation to the ground or ..."" - Olorisha Aboyade Bomani
The River Where Blood Is Born
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Author : Sandra Jackson-Opoku
language : en
Publisher: One World
Release Date : 2009-07-08
The River Where Blood Is Born written by Sandra Jackson-Opoku and has been published by One World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-08 with Fiction categories.
This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?
The Cambridge History Of Nationhood And Nationalism Volume 1 Patterns And Trajectories Over The Longue Dur E
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Author : Cathie Carmichael
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-28
The Cambridge History Of Nationhood And Nationalism Volume 1 Patterns And Trajectories Over The Longue Dur E written by Cathie Carmichael and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with History categories.
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivotal moments and turning points in the history of identity politics during the age of globalization, from 1500 through to the twentieth century. This overview is truly global, covering countries in East and South Asia as well as Europe and the Americas.
Serendipity
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Author : Brij V. Lal
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Serendipity written by Brij V. Lal and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with History categories.
The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have made fundamental contributions to the field of Pacific history, enduring in their impact, and the identity of the discipline is now firmly established. This volume is not so much about their individual research but, rather, their improbable journeys into Pacific history—why and how they came to it in the first place. Almost without exception, they did not choose Pacific history but rather stumbled into the field through serendipity. They came from forays into African, Indian, East Asian, French, British imperial, and other fields, and were enticed into Pacific history through chance or the efforts of kindly mentors. All this is evident in the values and understandings they bring to the subject. The one commonality that binds them is a love of the islands that have been the center of their lifetime work. Many distinguished Pacific historians of the last four to five decades are represented in this collection. Serendipity presents fourteen autobiographical chapters in which the contributors trace their paths as Pacific historians. They offer their sources of inspiration, supporters, and publications that shaped them as historians. With a significant focus on the importance of teaching and mentoring that they both received and provided, their writing not only illuminates their lives, but the state of Pacific history as an academic field. The experiences of the contributors are moving, replete with sorrows and regrets, as well as of achievements and satisfactions. Part of these careers were spent working in areas other than scholarship, such as high school teaching, consultancies, volunteering, teaching English as a second language, or doing menial jobs just to keep going. Serendipity is a pathbreaking form of historiography and essential to the Pacific history field.
Linguistics For The Age Of Ai
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Author : Marjorie Mcshane
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-03-02
Linguistics For The Age Of Ai written by Marjorie Mcshane and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-02 with Computers categories.
A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than attempting to model what people do and how they do it. In this book, Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg return to the original goal of recreating human-level intelligence in a machine. They present a human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems that emphasizes meaning--the deep, context-sensitive meaning that a person derives from spoken or written language.
South African Homelands As Frontiers
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Author : Steffen Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-02
South African Homelands As Frontiers written by Steffen Jensen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-02 with Political Science categories.
This book explores what happened to the homelands – in many ways the ultimate apartheid disgrace – after the fall of apartheid. The nine chapters contribute to understanding the multiple configurations that currently exist in areas formerly declared "homelands" or "Bantustans". Using the concept of frontier zones, the homelands emerge as areas in which the future of the South African postcolony is being renegotiated, contested and remade with hyper-real intensity. This is so because the many fault lines left over from apartheid (its loose ends, so to speak) – between white and black; between different ethnicities; between rich and poor; or differentiated by gender, generation and nationality; between "traditions" and "modernities" or between wilderness and human habitation – are particularly acute and condensed in these so-called "communal areas". Hence, the book argues that it is particularly in these settings that the postcolonial promise of liberation and freedom must face its test. As such, the book offers highly nuanced and richly detailed analyses that go to the heart of the diverse dilemmas of post-apartheid South Africa as a whole, but simultaneously also provides in condensed form an extended case study on the predicaments of African postcoloniality in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.