Self Portrait With Ghosts Of The Diaspora
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Self Portrait With Ghosts Of The Diaspora
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Author : Meghan Sterling
language : en
Publisher: Small Harbor Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-11
Self Portrait With Ghosts Of The Diaspora written by Meghan Sterling and has been published by Small Harbor Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-11 with categories.
How do we honor our dead and remember where we come from? Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora is a memorial and a map, a pile of stones on the graves of Meghan Sterling's Jewish ancestors. A testament to what is said and what is unsaid, these poems are woven with bits of stories she overheard or invented as a child. Self-Portrait with Ghosts of the Diaspora braids poems detailing Sterling's life in modern-day America as a secular Jew raising her daughter, named after her beloved grandmother, with poems of her great-grandparents' and grandparents' experiences navigating a new country after fleeing wars across the ocean. In this collection, Sterling offers a glimpse into a fading history.
The Wonder Of Small Things
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Author : James Crews
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-09-26
The Wonder Of Small Things written by James Crews and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-26 with Poetry categories.
The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life. James Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness, presents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. As Crews writes in the introduction: "[A] deep love for the world is present in every one of the poems gathered in this book. Wonder calls us back to the curiosity we are each born with, and it makes us want to move closer to what sparks our attention. Wonder opens our senses and helps us stay in touch with a humbling sense of our own human smallness in the face of unexpected beauty and the delicious mysteries of life on this planet." The anthology features a foreword by Nikita Gill and a carefully curated selection of poems from a diverse range of authors, including Native American poets Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Kimberly Blaeser, and Joseph Bruchac, and BIPOC writers Ross Gay, Julia Alvarez, and Toi Derricotte. Crews features new poems from popular writers such as Natalie Goldberg, Mark Nepo, Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab Nye, Jane Hirshfield, and Jacqueline Suskin, along with selections from emerging poets. Readers are guided in exploring the meaning and essence of the poems through a series of reflective pauses scattered through the pages and reading group questions in the back. This anthology offers the perfect intersection for the growing number of readers interested in mindful living and bringing poetry into their everyday lives.
Duvalier S Ghosts
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Author : Jana Evans Braziel
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2017-05-24
Duvalier S Ghosts written by Jana Evans Braziel and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Urgently pursues those nameless ghosts of Haitians lost in the liminal space of the Black Atlantic."--New West Indian Guide "Foregrounds the experiences of refugees (particularly those refused asylum and detained in camps), the political mobilization of the diaspora in the United States, the ramifications of the policies and adjustment programmes imposed on Haiti by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and USAID."--Bulletin of Latin American Research "Theoretically sound and well researched. Braziel has written a compelling book on the literatures of post-Duvalier Haiti."--Millery Polyne, New York University "A very original study, a tour-de-force that crisscrosses the disciplinary boundaries typically separating the social sciences and the humanities. It is richly researched, beautifully written, and will surely attract much critical attention and praise."--Valerie Kaussen, University of Missouri From a position of urgent political engagement, this provocative book offers novel and compelling interpretations of several well-known Haitian-born authors, particularly regarding U.S. intervention in their homeland. Drawing on the diasporic cultural texts of several authors, such as Edwidge Danticat and Dany Laferrière, Jana Evans Braziel examines how writers participate in transnational movements for global social justice. In their fictional works they discuss the United States’ many interventionist methods in Haiti, including surveillance, foreign aid, and military assistance. Through their work, they reveal that the majority of Haitians do not welcome these intrusions and actively criticize U.S. treatment of Haitians in both countries. Braziel encourages us to analyze the instability and violence of small nations like Haiti within the larger frame of international financial and military institutions and forms of imperialism. She forcefully argues that by reading these works as anti-imperialist, much can be learned about why Haitians and Haitian exiles often have negative perceptions of the U.S.
Queer Roots For The Diaspora
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Author : Jarrod Hayes
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Queer Roots For The Diaspora written by Jarrod Hayes and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity
View From A Borrowed Field
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Author : Meghan Sterling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-03-08
View From A Borrowed Field written by Meghan Sterling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with categories.
View from a Borrowed Field by Meghan Sterling is a deeply vulnerable, intimate, dazzling collection of poems about what it means to be human when you are also a mother, when "the soft back / [is] nearly broken by love" and you "[l]ive each day silent as a pearl being made in the oyster's belly."
Diaspora And Visual Culture
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Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2000
Diaspora And Visual Culture written by Nicholas Mirzoeff and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with African diaspora categories.
In examining the visual culture of the "classic" African and Jewish diasporas, contributors address different aspects of the multiple viewpoints inherent in diasporic cultures.
Men Women And Ghosts
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Author : Debora Greger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-09-30
Men Women And Ghosts written by Debora Greger and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-30 with Poetry categories.
New from Debora Greger—"a special poet in every sense" (Poetry) In her eighth book of poetry, Debora Greger travels not just the present but the past, looking for some strange place to call home. She takes a taxi to Stonehenge. She writes letters to Li Po and Tu Fu, Shakespeare and Jane Austen, always seeking out the beast that is man and the beast that is woman. She explores both the remoteness of the past (those radioactive fifties that were her childhood), and the weight of it—or, better, the responsibility of it. These modern traveler's tales—musing, insistent, marvelous—place one woman's collection of pasts into a world inhabited by Horace, Chekhov, the bank vault of England, and the giant octopus of Puget Sound.
Comfort The Mourners
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Author : Meghan Sterling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-06-13
Comfort The Mourners written by Meghan Sterling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with categories.
Toni Morrison And The Queer Pleasure Of Ghosts
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Author : Juda Bennett
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-11-13
Toni Morrison And The Queer Pleasure Of Ghosts written by Juda Bennett and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Toni Morrison and the Queer Pleasure of Ghosts radically intervenes in one of the most established and sacred topics in Toni Morrison scholarship, love. Moving beyond Morrison's representation of ghosts as the forgotten or occluded past, Juda Bennett uncovers how Morrison imagines the spectral sphere as always already queer, a provocation and challenge to heteronormativity—with the ghost appearing as an active participant in disruptions of compulsory heterosexuality, as a figure embodying closet desires, or as a disembodied emanation that counterpoints homophobia. From The Bluest Eye to Home, Morrison's novels have included many queer ghosts that challenge our most cherished conceptions of love and speak to cultural anxieties about black sexualities, gay marriage, AIDS, lesbian visibility, and transgender identities. Not surprisingly, the scene-stealing ghost Beloved appears at the very heart of this book, but Bennett cautions against interpretative stasis, inviting readers to break free of the stranglehold Beloved has had on imaginations, so as not to miss the full force of Morrison's lifelong project to queer love.
Haints
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Author : Arthur F. Redding
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Haints written by Arthur F. Redding and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with Fiction categories.
"In Haints, Arthur Redding examines the work of contemporary American authors who draw on the gothic tradition in their fiction, not as frivolous or supernatural entertainments, but to explore and memorialize the ghosts of their heritage. Ghosts, Redding argues, serve as lasting witnesses to the legacies of slaves and indigenous peoples whose stories were lost in the remembrance or mistranslation of history. No matter how much Americans willingly or unwillingly repress the true history of their ancestry, their ghosts remain unburied and restless. Such authors as Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko deploy the ghost as a means of reconciling their own violently repressed heritage with their identity as modern Americans. And just as our ancestors were haunted by ghosts of the past, today we are haunted by ghosts of contemporary crises: urban violence, racial hatred, and even terrorism. In other cases that Redding studies--such as James Baldwin's The Evidence of Things Not Seen and Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child--writers address similar crises to challenge traditional American claims of innocence and justice. Finally, Redding argues that ghosts emphasize a growing worry about a larger impending crisis: the apocalypse. Yet the despair the apocalypse inspires is vital to providing the grounds for new solutions to modern issues. In the end, the armies of the dispossessed enlist the forces of the spirit world to create a better future--by ensuring that mistakes of the past are not repeated, that Americans do not deny their heritage, and that accountability exists for any given crisis."--book jacket.