In The Unsettled Homeland Of Dreams
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In The Unsettled Homeland Of Dreams
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Author : Thomas Davis
language : en
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press
Release Date : 2019-08-16
In The Unsettled Homeland Of Dreams written by Thomas Davis and has been published by All Things That Matter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-16 with Fiction categories.
"... we were going to West Harbor to hear Negro Bennett preach in 1854 ... Bennett was about sixty years old at the time. I think the largest negro settlement in the county, if not the state, was at West Harbor in the early fifties." [From Jesse Miner, 1937. History and Anecdotes of Washington Island: Duo Van Publishing Company]Washington Island, Wisconsin in the 1850s was about as remote from the slave-holding southern states as it was possible to get in the United States. Before the passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act, which made it legal for bounty hunters to capture any black person they claimed was an escaped slave in the abolitionist states, a number of black families established a fishing community on the island.This is the tale of those slaves who escaped from the boot of Missouri and eventually made it, under the leadership of the charismatic black preacher Tom Bennett, and with the invaluable help of the Underground Railroad, to a new life in freedom and what happened then.
Mythos Of The Door
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Author : Thomas Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-01-30
Mythos Of The Door written by Thomas Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-30 with categories.
Mostly traditional forms of poetry, Mythos of the Door explores the landscape, people, and underlying narrative that exists in Door County, Wisconsin and the Door Peninsula, one of the most beautiful places in the midwest. Lake Michigan on one side, with the bay of Green Bay on the other, with Washington and Rock Island out in the lake and the by of Sturgeon Bay in the middle, the history of the peninsula includes a plethora of significant events that reflect on the history of today's United States of America. Sonnets and a variety of verse forms are interspersed with longer poems that explore the American Indian heritage of the peninsula, Christmas, and events that happened over time or didn't happen, but explores some aspect of the Door's mythos. A mythos is a myth or mythology, a traditional theme or plot structure, or a set of beliefs. Great poetry, whether it is written in free verse or traditional forms, contains an exploration into place, self, time, relations, and the times in which poets live. The title first appeared one morning after a sleepless night. A door can lead almost anywhere in place, time, or the imagination. This significant collection of poetry by Thomas Davis, the author of a dozen books, explores the Mythos of the Door.
Borderland Dreams
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Author : June Hee Kwon
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-13
Borderland Dreams written by June Hee Kwon and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-13 with Social Science categories.
In Borderland Dreams June Hee Kwon explores the trajectory of the “Korean dream” that has fueled the massive migration of Korean Chinese workers from the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in northeast China to South Korea since the early 1990s. Charting the interplay of bodies, money, and time, the ethnography reveals how these migrant workers, in the course of pursuing their borderland dreams, are transformed into a transnational ethnicized class. Kwon analyzes the persistent desire of Korean Chinese to “leave to live better” at the intersection between the neoliberalizing regimes of post-socialist China and post–Cold War South Korea. Scrutinizing the tensions and affinities among the Korean Chinese, North and South Koreans, and Han Chinese whose lives intertwine in the borderland, Kwon captures the diverse and multifaceted aspirations of Korean Chinese workers caught between the ascendant Chinese dream and the waning Korean dream.
The Prophecy Of The Wolf
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Author : Thomas Davis
language : en
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press
Release Date : 2023-04-13
The Prophecy Of The Wolf written by Thomas Davis and has been published by All Things That Matter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-13 with categories.
If it's true, as I suspect, that most of us have only the most vague notions of the time when the French were exploring and exploiting the interior of North America, and perhaps have no realistic notion at all of the Native peoples with whom they would interact, then I think this brilliantly researched and imagined historical novel will bring us one giant step closer to clarity in our thinking of that time and place. That we may also gain some clarity in our thinking of cultural and familial relationships is a bonus. Told in the voice of its very uncertain boy-becoming-man (non)hero, Ogima, Davis' story leads his reader, in an entertaining and mythic manner, through the woods and over the waters of real-world places - villages, islands, and a peninsula - and also through a belief system in large part erased since the time portrayed, which is the very dawning of recorded history in this part of the world, although the oral tradition reaches back to time immemorial, and is the basis for much of what we learn here. Ralph Murre (Door County, Wisconsin poet laureate, 2015-2017), Editor, and Publisher Set in a time of great turmoil and with a framework of crucial historical events, Prophecy of the Wolf, a gripping tale, is primarily about a young Neshnabek man, Ogima, who doubts his own abilities. Following our protagonist, we plunge deep into cultures just beginning to feel the clash between Europeans, represented by French fur traders in the novel, and American Indian tribes that will soon grip the entire North American continent. Set in the mid 1600s, this adventure, set on the Door Peninsula and Washington Island in Wisconsin, involves some of the earliest known historical figures on the Great Lakes. Thomas Davis, the well-known author of In the Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, is a master of taking a few stray threads of elusive history and weaving from them a masterful tapestry. His works are full of historical and cultural gems, but, above all, deep personal insights into interesting and compelling individuals. The connections become more significant the more you know about early French and Potawatomi history in Wisconsin but will pull you in on whatever level you embark on this amazing tale! David Lea, local Door County historian
Meditation On Ceremonies Of Beginnings
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Author : Thomas Davis
language : en
Publisher: Tribal College Press
Release Date : 2020-11-15
Meditation On Ceremonies Of Beginnings written by Thomas Davis and has been published by Tribal College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-15 with categories.
Thirty years ago, tribal college educator and poet Thomas Davis began writing poems about the tribal college movement, beginning with the founding of College of Menominee Nation in Northern Wisconsin. He had no intention of developing a book out of the poems, using napkins and scraps of papers to create a mostly free verse poetry that chronicled the events and people trying to build a new kind of educational system that would preserve and evolve Indigenous language, history, and culture. Davis gave these poems away and many were lost. Until now. Meditation on the Ceremonies of Beginnings is a new kind of narrative poetry, an informal history of the tribal college movement and the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium told through poetic verse. It recounts, as acclaimed poet Kimberly Blaeser (Ojibwe) says, "the liquid fire of oratory" becoming "the great song a movement sings." Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings captures the dreams and vision of Indigenous leaders in higher education. It tells their story, illuminating how two great movements set out to change the world and succeeded in a multitude of ways, both big and small.
Savage Dreams
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Author : Rebecca Solnit
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-06-06
Savage Dreams written by Rebecca Solnit and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-06 with Nature categories.
"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.
Unsettled States
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Author : Dana Luciano
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Unsettled States written by Dana Luciano and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Unsettled States, Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson present some of the most exciting emergent scholarship in American literary and cultural studies of the “long” nineteenth century. Featuring eleven essays from senior scholars across the discipline, the book responds to recent critical challenges to the boundaries, both spatial and temporal, that have traditionally organized scholarship within the field. The volume considers these recent challenges to be aftershocks of earlier revolutions in content and method, and it seeks ways of inhabiting and amplifying the ongoing unsettledness of the field. Written by scholars primarily working in the “minor” fields of critical race and ethnic studies, feminist and gender studies, labor studies, and queer/sexuality studies, the essays share a minoritarian critical orientation. Minoritarian criticism, as an aesthetic, political, and ethical project, is dedicated to finding new connections and possibilities within extant frameworks. Unsettled States seeks to demonstrate how the goals of minoritarian critique may be actualized without automatic recourse to a predetermined “minor” location, subject, or critical approach. Its contributors work to develop practices of reading an “American literature” in motion, identifying nodes of inquiry attuned to the rhythms of a field that is always on the move.
Mirror Of Reality And Dreams
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Author : Irena Avsenik Nabergoj
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Mirror Of Reality And Dreams written by Irena Avsenik Nabergoj and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Slovenian literature categories.
This book deals with the works of Ivan Cankar, the greatest Slovenian writer, focusing on his relation to existential, social, and moral reality as reflected in individuals and in society at large. The method of literary analysis shows a surprising harmony between personal confessions and a rich symbolism that reveals the writer's unconditional belief in the power of conscience, strong conviction of the sense of victims and the longing for the triumph of love and justice. A holistic interpretation yields the conclusion that most of Cankar's works are confessions that purport to be true to life. His inclination to self-disclosure in dreams alongside the objective disclosure of imperceptible reality indicates that expressive language and a lyrical style are of vital importance to him.
Pens And Swords
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Author : Marda Dunsky
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-06
Pens And Swords written by Marda Dunsky and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
As world attention is renewed and refocused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the sixtieth anniversary of its seminal year of 1948, Marda Dunsky takes a close look at how more than two dozen major American print and broadcast outlets have reported the conflict in recent years. Beginning with the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 through the waning of the second Palestinian uprising in the summer of 2004, she finds that the media omit two key contextual elements: the significant impact that U.S. policy has had and continues to have on the trajectory of the conflict, and the way international law and consensus have addressed the key issues of Israeli settlement and annexation policies and Palestinian refugees. Dunsky explores how reports of the conflict routinely take on the contours of American policy and rarely challenge the premises of this "Washington consensus." She also examines the media's responses to allegations of biased coverage and gauges the effect that mainstream news reporting has on public opinion and U.S. foreign policy.
Mckenna Of Dreams And Substance
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Author : Joszann St John
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2010-10-19
Mckenna Of Dreams And Substance written by Joszann St John and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-19 with Fiction categories.