Paper Kingdom And Other Stories
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Paper Kingdom And Other Stories
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Author : Celeste Young
language : en
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-01
Paper Kingdom And Other Stories written by Celeste Young and has been published by Grosvenor House Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Fiction categories.
Paper Kingdom and Other Stories consists of a novella and three short stories. All are set in Mozambique during the 1950s and 60s, when the country was in the final decades of Portuguese colonialism. Paper Kingdom follows the life of a young Chinese girl, Estrela, from girlhood through to adulthood, her relationship with her siblings and parents, and her growing need to break free from the expectations placed upon her. The novella ends with her reconciled to the new Mozambique emerging from the effects of colonial rule. Paper Kingdom is followed by three stories, each of which, focuses on the attempts of Chinese women and girls to kick against the restrictions of traditional patriarchy and family pressures requiring them to conform. Some of them are stuck in abusive relationships, often stemming from arranged marriages, and seek to find paths to freedom in desperate, and often misguided ways. The contradictions of colonialism, and these characters' interaction with the colonial regime, form a backdrop to the stories: the Chinese in colonial Africa, like other Asian groups, were a buffer between the European ruling minority, and the Black African majority. Their relationship with both colonizer and colonized is hinted at through episodes of racial prejudice and hostility of which they are both victims and perpetrators, thus contradicting the colonial power's rhetoric of racial integration and inclusivity. But the emphasis in all these tales is on the inner lives and memories of these diasporic Chinese families, and the community to which they belonged. Within this community, traditional Chinese beliefs and superstitions are maintained, occasionally adapting to and interacting with local African belief systems, thus providing the poetic underlay of the stories, with elements of magical realism. The collection also shows that this community is riven by family animosities and jealousy, social difference, all of which threaten its coherence as its very future in Mozambique is placed in doubt with the end of Portuguese rule.
The Paper Kingdom
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Author : Helena Ku Rhee
language : en
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2020-02-18
The Paper Kingdom written by Helena Ku Rhee and has been published by Random House Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
An office at night is reimagined as a fantastical kingdom of paper complete with friendly dragons in this own voices picture book. When the babysitter is unable to come, Daniel is woken out of bed and joins his parents as they head downtown for their jobs as nighttime office cleaners. But the story is about more than brooms, mops, and vacuums. Mama and Papa turn the deserted office building into a magnificent kingdom filled with paper. Then they weave a fantasy of dragons and kings to further engage their reluctant companion--and even encourage him to one day be the king of a paper kingdom. The Paper Kingdom expresses the joy and spirit of a loving family who turn a routine and ordinary experience into something much grander. Magical art by Pascal Campion shows both the real world and the fantasy through the eyes of the young narrator.
Napoleon S Paper Kingdom
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Author : Sam A. Mustafa
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-09-05
Napoleon S Paper Kingdom written by Sam A. Mustafa and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with History categories.
Placing the creation of Westphalia within the context of the larger German story of the Napoleonic Wars, this groundbreaking book offers the only complete history of Napoleon’s grand experiment to construct a model state in Germany. In 1807, in the wake of two years of victories over the Austrians, Prussians, and Russians, Napoleon redrew the map of central Europe by fashioning a new German state. Dubbing it the Kingdom of Westphalia, he appointed his 23-year-old brother Jerome as its king. Sam A. Mustafa shows how Westphalia became a proving ground for the allegedly liberating and modern concepts of the French Revolution, brought by foreign conquest and enforced by a powerful new centralized state. Over the next six years, the inhabitants of this region experienced fundamental and often jarring changes in almost every aspect of their lives. They witnessed a profound clash of French and German culture, as well as new ideas about law, nationality, and politics. And yet, for all of its promise on paper, Westphalia ended up despised by most of its people, who cheered at its collapse and in many cases helped to bring it down. What went wrong with this early example of what we would today call “nation building” and how did Germans react to the changes? Napoleon’s Paper Kingdom is the first book in the English language to provide a comprehensive investigation of this fascinating chapter of the Napoleonic Wars.
Kirigami Paper Kingdom
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Author : Karol Krčmár
language : en
Publisher: Kotzig Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Kirigami Paper Kingdom written by Karol Krčmár and has been published by Kotzig Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Creative activities and seat work categories.
While origami is the process of folding paper into representational shapes, kirigami takes it a step further by using scissors to add details. By following the simple instructions and detailed illustrations, children can transform plain paper into original, 3-D projects of all kinds -- dragons, castles, helicopters, ladders, masks, cards, and more. The difficulty of design increases through the book so that any creative enthusiast will grow in technique, with dynamic sunflower pop-ups just a few folds away.
In The Kingdom Of Kerry And Other Stories
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Author : Bithia Mary Croker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
In The Kingdom Of Kerry And Other Stories written by Bithia Mary Croker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with English fiction categories.
The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories
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Author : Ken Liu
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-03-08
The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories written by Ken Liu and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-08 with Fiction categories.
Presents the author's selection of his best short stories, as well as a new piece, in a collection that includes "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," "Mono No Aware" and "The Waves."
Summaries Of Tariff Information
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Author : United States. Tariff Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Summaries Of Tariff Information written by United States. Tariff Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Commercial products categories.
The Woman S Kingdom
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Author : Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
The Woman S Kingdom written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with categories.
Dear Science And Other Stories
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Author : Katherine McKittrick
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-14
Dear Science And Other Stories written by Katherine McKittrick 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 2020-12-14 with Social Science categories.
In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.
Bad Brows
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Author : Jason Carter Eaton
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2020-03-24
Bad Brows written by Jason Carter Eaton and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-24 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Hilarity ensues when a boy’s eyebrows go rogue in this riotous picture book from the bestselling author of How to Train a Train One morning, Bernard wakes up to find that his eyebrows have gone rogue. They’re sabotaging Picture Day, taunting his teacher, and growing, growing, growing out of control! All attempts to wrangle these bad brows just seem to make them angrier and more furrow-cious. Why are Bernard’s eyebrows behaving so badly? And what do they want? From Mike Petrik and bestselling author Jason Carter Eaton comes a hilarious romp about everything your face can—and does!—express.