Making Callaloo In Detroit
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Making Callaloo In Detroit
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Author : Lolita Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Making Callaloo In Detroit written by Lolita Hernandez and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Fiction categories.
The daughter of parents from Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent, Lolita Hernandez gained a unique perspective on growing up in Detroit. In Making Callaloo in Detroit she weaves her memories of food, language, music, and family into twelve stories of outsiders looking at a strange world, wondering how to fit in, and making it through in their own way. The linguistic rhythms and phrases of her childhood bring distinctive characters to life: mothers, sons, daughters, friends, and neighbors who crave sun and saltwater and would rather dance on a bare wood floor than give in to despair. In their kitchens, they make callaloo, bakes, buljol, sanchocho, and pelau—foods not usually associated with Detroit. Hernandez’s characters sing and dance, curse and love, and cook and eat. A niece races to make a favorite family dish correctly for an uncle in the hospital, three friends watch an unfamiliar and official-looking man in the neighborhood, lovers and daughters cope with sudden deaths of the men in their lives, a man who can no longer speak escapes his life in imagination, and families gather to celebrate the new year with joyful dancing against a backdrop of calypso music. Hernandez’s stories reflect the diversity of characters to be found at the intersection between cultures while also offering a window into a very particular and rich Caribbean culture that survives in the deepest recesses of Detroit. In addition to being a compelling and colorful read, Making Callaloo in Detroit explores questions of how we assimilate and retain identity, how families evolve as generations pass, how memory guides the present, and how the spirit world stays close to the living. All readers of fiction will enjoy this lush collection.
Food Text And Culture In The Anglophone Caribbean
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Author : Sarah Lawson Welsh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Food Text And Culture In The Anglophone Caribbean written by Sarah Lawson Welsh and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ‘tradition’ and ‘authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean shows how the creation of food and the creation of narrative are intimately linked cultural practices which can tell us much about each other. Historically, Caribbean writers have explored, defined and re-affirmed their different cultural, ethnic, caste, class and gender identities by writing about what, when and how they eat. Images of feeding, feasting, fasting and other food rituals and practices, as articulated in a range of Caribbean writings, constitute a powerful force of social cohesion and cultural continuity. Moreover, food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.
I Have The Answer
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Author : Kelly Fordon
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-07
I Have The Answer written by Kelly Fordon and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Fiction categories.
If you thought the suburbs were boring, think again. Kelly Fordon’s I Have the Answer artfully mixes the fabulist with the workaday and illuminates relationships and characters with crisp, elegant prose and dark wit. The stories in Fordon’s latest collection are disquieting, humorous, and thought-provoking. They might catch you off guard, but are always infused with deep humanity and tenderness. In these thirteen short stories, Fordon presents people dealing with the grayness of reality and longing for transcendence. Characters within these stories are often as surprised by their own behavior as that of their neighbor’s. In "Jungle Life," the narrator attempts to clarify and document the stories of his father, a war veteran, before he descends into dementia. In "Where’s the Baby?" a woman reflects on her difficult childhood as she grudgingly cares for her more successful, yet exasperating sister. In "In the Dog House," a woman visits an estate sale and sifts through the layers of lifetimes past while grappling with her long-standing jealousy of a mysterious neighbor. In "The Shorebirds and The Shaman," a woman who has just lost her husband winds up at a kooky weekend retreat role-playing her way out of debilitating grief. Award-winning author Desiree Cooper has called the stories in I Have the Answer "pitch perfect . . . Fordon takes us to the precipice where trauma and triumph are equal possibilities. The people in these stories are so hauntingly real that long after I put the book down, I found myself wondering what had become of them." Readers of contemporary fiction and short stories will enjoy mulling over the complicated feelings this collection evokes.
States Of Motion
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Author : Laura Hulthen Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-15
States Of Motion written by Laura Hulthen Thomas and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Fiction categories.
Newton’s Laws of Motion describe the relationship between a body and its response to the forces acting upon it. For the men and women in States of Motion, imbalance is a way of life. Set in Michigan small towns both real and fictional, the stories in Laura Hulthen Thomas’s collection take place against a backdrop of economic turmoil and the domestic cost of the war on terror. As familiar places, privilege, and faith disappear, what remains leaves these broken characters wondering what hope is left for them. These stories follow blue collars and white, cops and immigrants, and mothers and sons as they defend a world that is quickly vanishing. The eight stories in States of Motion follow tough, quixotic characters struggling to reinvent themselves even as they cling to what they’ve lost. A grieving father embraces his town’s suspicions of him as the sole suspect in his daughter’s disappearance. A driving instructor struggles to care for his abusive mother between training lessons with two flirtatious teens. A behavioral researcher studying the fear response must face her own fears when her childhood attacker returns to ask for her forgiveness. Conditioned by their traumatic pasts to be both sympathetic and numb to suffering, the characters in these stories clutch at a chance to find peace on the other side of terror. From the isolated roadways of Michigan’s countryside to the research labs of a major university, the way forward is both one last hope and a deep-seated fear. The profoundly emotional stories in States of Motion will interest any reader of contemporary literary fiction.
Callaloo
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Callaloo written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with African American art categories.
A Black South journal of arts and letters.
Eventyret Om Klippfisken
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Author : Karsten Alnæs
language : no
Publisher: Kagge forlag
Release Date : 2020-10-01
Eventyret Om Klippfisken written by Karsten Alnæs and has been published by Kagge forlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with History categories.
Klippfisk var Norges første eksportvare. Lenge før trelast, shipping, olje og laks. Derfor er dette både en historie om Norge, om driftige norske entreprenører og om spennende handel med eksotiske land. Alnæs beretter om kyst- og Lofotfisket, om klippfiskproduksjonens langsomme oppstart i Norge og om den eventyrlige klippfiskeksporten fra 1500-tallet til i dag. Her er fortellinger fra det farefulle og slitsomme arbeidet, både til sjøs og på land. Historien tar oss dessuten til de viktigste eksportmarkedene: Spania, Portugal, Italia, Brasil. I bokens siste del tegner Alnæs et større historisk bilde av de store fiskerinasjonene fra 1400-tallet og fremover; om livet på fiskebankene langt hjemmefra, om kriger og konflikter som endret rammene for fisket, men også om hvilken rik betydning klippfisken hadde for mat og kultur.
Mending The World
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Author : Rosemarie Robotham
language : en
Publisher: Civitas Books
Release Date : 2009-07-21
Mending The World written by Rosemarie Robotham and has been published by Civitas Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-21 with Social Science categories.
The many facets of black family life have not always been fully visible in American literature. Black families have often been portrayed as chaotic, fractured, and emotionally devastated, and historians and sociologists are just beginning to acknowledge the resilience and strength of African American families through centuries of hardship. In Mending the World, a host of beloved writers celebrate the richness of black family life, revealing how deep, complicated, and joyous modern kinship can be. From James McBride's tender recollection of the man who claimed eight stepchildren as his own to Toi Derricotte's moving portrait of a pregnant teenager who decides to keep her child; from Debra Dickerson's lament over the shooting that crippled her nephew to Charles Johnson's whimsical look at a married couple's mid-life crisis; from Shay Youngblood's moving fictional evocation of a lost mother to poet Kendel Hippolyte's poignant telling of a father's unexpected legacy, this inspiring volume presents-through fiction, memoir, and poetry-a multi-layered and optimistic portrait of today's black America. Mending the World features fiction, personal memoir, and poetry by new writers (some publishing here for the first time) and established members of the canon.
Demands Of The Dead
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Author : Katy Ryan
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Demands Of The Dead written by Katy Ryan and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Literary Collections categories.
This collection by death-row prisoners, playwrights, poets, activists, and literary scholars provides literary perspectives on the subject of the death penalty.
Dudley Randall Broadside Press And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit 1960 1995
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Author : Julius Eric Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Dudley Randall Broadside Press And The Black Arts Movement In Detroit 1960 1995 written by Julius Eric Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
In 1965 Dudley F. Randall founded the Broadside Press, a company devoted to publishing, distributing and promoting the works of black poets and writers. In so doing, he became a major player in the civil rights movement. Hundreds of black writers were given an outlet for their work and for their calls for equality and black identity. Though Broadside was established on a minimal budget, Randalls unique skills made the press successful. He was trained as a librarian and had spent decades studying and writing poetry; most importantly, Randall was totally committed to the advancement of black literature. The famous and relatively unknown sought out Broadside, including such writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Mae Jackson, Lance Jeffers, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde and Sterling D. Plumpp. His story is one of battling to promote black identity and equality through literature, and thus lifting the cultural lives of all Americans.
Making The Black Jacobins
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Author : Rachel Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-27
Making The Black Jacobins written by Rachel Douglas 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 2019-09-27 with Social Science categories.
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture—as well as manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts—Douglas shows how James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She also points to the vital significance theater played in James's work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of rewriting renewing its call to new generations.