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Author : Jacinda Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Release Date : 2022-05-03
Mother Country written by Jacinda Townsend and has been published by Graywolf Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Shortlisted for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author. Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. In rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. Mother Country is a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival, in the name of love.
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Author : Marilynne Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1989-06
Mother Country written by Marilynne Robinson and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-06 with Science categories.
"Britain, the welfare state and nuclear pollution"--Dust jacket.
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Author : Libby Purves
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Mother Country written by Libby Purves and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Americans categories.
Everyone agreed that Shark Grayson wasn't fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict living in a sordid London squat, she was already close to death when her American lover took charge, carrying off the baby Alexander to give him an affluent future and a loving home in the Midwest. But now Alex is 27 and afflicted by his lost roots and a romantic vision of England. When a business trip provides the chance to go and trace his unknown relatives, he discovers that while some British people are, indeed, very hard to get along with, others turn out to be more closely akin to him than he ever could have imagined.
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Author : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Mother Country written by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, success and failure. It's one that is too often neglected in our media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy MP Contributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.
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Author : Irina Reyn
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Mother Country written by Irina Reyn and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Fiction categories.
Starred reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.
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Author : Donald Hinds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Mother Country written by Donald Hinds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Brixton (London, England) categories.
While the characters that inhabit Mother Country may be fictional, their stories are not uncommon and are set against the backdrop of actual events that took place in Britain from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. The story reflects how so many Britons reacted to Black migrants and how idioms such as 'Keep Britain White' and 'No (blacks) coloureds, no Irish' were commonplace. The narrative is rich, direct and laced with humour and pathos, but without bitterness.
Beyond The Mother Country
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Author : Edward Pilkington
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 1988
Beyond The Mother Country written by Edward Pilkington and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
The British Government's relaxed approach to black immigration after 1948 is examined in detail up to the Nottiing Hill riots of 1958.
Out Of A Far Country
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Author : Christopher Yuan
language : en
Publisher: WaterBrook
Release Date : 2011-05-03
Out Of A Far Country written by Christopher Yuan and has been published by WaterBrook this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with Religion categories.
Over 100,000 copies sold! Coming Out, Then Coming Home Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control—and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her. Years of heartbreak, confusion, and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender, which is God’s desire for all families. Their amazing story, told from the perspectives of both mother and son, offers hope for anyone affected by homosexuality. God calls all who are lost to come home to him. Casting a compelling vision for holy sexuality, Out of a Far Country speaks to prodigals, parents of prodigals, and those wanting to minister to the gay community. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” - Luke 15:20 Includes a discussion guide for personal reflection and group use.
Mother Country
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Author : Stephen Bourne
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2010-08-10
Mother Country written by Stephen Bourne and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-10 with History categories.
Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester, and many volunteered as civilian defence workers, such as air-raid wardens, fire-fighters, stretcher-bearers, first-aid workers and mobile canteen personnel. Many helped unite people when their communities faced devastation. Black children were evacuated and entertainers risked death when they took to the stage during air raids. Despite some evidence of racism, black people contributed to the war effort where they could. The colonies also played an important role in the war effort: support came from places as far away as Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Nigeria. Mother Country tells the story of some of the forgotten Britons whose contribution to the war effort has been overlooked until now.
The Goddess And The Nation
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Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-09
The Goddess And The Nation written by Sumathi Ramaswamy 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 2010-04-09 with History categories.
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India’s appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it. In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it.