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Sewing Their Stories Telling Their Lives

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Author : Martha J. Manier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-25

Sewing Their Stories Telling Their Lives written by Martha J. Manier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-25 with Art categories.

Embroidered narratives by women living in rural areas, shanty towns, inner cities, and refugee camps dominated markets during the last quarter of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st. Sewing Their Stories, Telling Their Lives traces the beginning of this artistic movement from three independent Chilean sources to other countries on five continents. Moreover, this richly illustrated book's own story defines an art form without academic overlay or political agenda but from the artists' own perspectives, recounted directly in interviews and at sewing tables around the globe. For Martha J. Manier, Ph. D., who taught Spanish and Women's Studies at Humboldt State University, stories have always been a prime interest, from the personal stories of family and friends, to medieval exempla, Spanish and American folktales, and, finally, the microcuento and short stories of contemporary Latin America. Her translations of the latter have appeared in journals, anthologies and bilingual editions. Currently, she is a research associate at the Museum of International Folklore where she also volunteers as a textile cataloger.

Threads Of Life

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Author : Clare Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Sceptre
Release Date : 2019-02-07

Threads Of Life written by Clare Hunter and has been published by Sceptre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story. From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. 'A beautifully considered book... Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results.' TRACY CHEVALIER

Threads Of Life

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Author : Clare Hunter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-02-07

Threads Of Life written by Clare Hunter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.

If Our Lives Be Spared

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Author : Terrance Keenan
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-09

If Our Lives Be Spared written by Terrance Keenan and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-09 with History categories.

Terrance Keenan employs a unique and fresh approach to historical narrative. His prudent use of a rich collection of family documents elevates the genre to new levels of interest, reflection, and scholarship. The result is a remarkably palpable, highly accessible, and intellectually provocative reconstruction of lives lived in epochs past.Spanning a period of eighty years, the book depicts a nineteenth century New York family grappling with shifting mores, civil war, and vast change in technology, transport, culture, education, and even regional landscape. In firsthand, sometimes intimate, accounts these frontier people, business entrepreneurs—men, women and children—tell who they were, where their travels took them, what went on in their hearts and minds, and how they were affected by historical forces greater than themselves. Carefully edited diaries, letters, and journals show how greed and betrayal,trial and triumph, and star-crossed romance informed the emotional and material fortunes of the Collin/Knapp families. Here are true stories of generational conflict human relations and accomplishment shaped by time, place, custom, and kinship. This revealing, vital work will be a fulsome and entertaining experience for the general reader as well as an invaluable asset to students of American cultural history, frontier life and culture, American diaries and letters as literature, modernization, and historiography.

The Whispering Cloth

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Author : Pegi Deitz Shea
language : en
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Release Date : 2020-11-03

The Whispering Cloth written by Pegi Deitz Shea and has been published by Astra Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Juvenile Fiction categories.

Mai spends her days at the Widows' Store, listening to the Hmong women as they stitch and talk, stitch and talk. They are making pa'ndau---brightly colored story cloths--which they sell to the traders from Chiang Khan. Mai wishes she, too, could make one of the beautiful pa'ndau, but what story could she tell? This moving and poignant tale depicts life in a refugee camp in Thailand. Mai lives there with her grandmother, who helps her as she struggles to perfect her stitchery. Only by going back into her own brief and tragic past can she find a story to tell--one of hope and faith in the midst of war and confinement. Anita Riggio has rendered lush and sensitive watercolors that frame the story. You Yang, a Hmong immigrant, has stitched the pa'ndau that tell Mai's tale.

Rhetorics For Community Action

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Author : Phyllis Mentzell Ryder
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2011

Rhetorics For Community Action written by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, offers theory and pedagogy to introduce public writing as a complex political and creative action. To write public texts, we have to invent the public we wish to address. Such invention is a complex task, with many components to consider: exigency that brings people together; a sense of agency and capacity; a sense of how the world is and what it can become. All these components constantly compete against texts that put forward other public ideals_opposing ideas about who really has power and who really can create change. Teachers of public writing must adopt a generous response to those who venture into this arena. Some scholars believe that to prepare students for public life, university classes should partner with grassroots community organizations, rather than nonprofits that serve food or tutor students. They worry that a service-related focus will create more passive citizens who do not rally and resist or grab the attention of government leaders or corporations. With carefully contextualized study of an after-school arts program, an area soup kitchen, and parks organizations, among others, Ryder shows that many so-called 'service' organizations are not passive places at all, and she argues that the main challenge of public work is precisely that it has to take place among all of these compelling definitions of democracy. Ryder proposes teaching public writing by partnering with multiple community nonprofits. She develops a framework to help students analyze how their community partners inspire people to action, and offers a course design that support them as they convey those public ideals in community texts. But composing public texts is only part of the challenge. Traditional newspapers and magazines, through their business models and writing styles, reinforce a dominant role for citizens as thinking and reading, but not necessarily acting. This civic role is also professed in the university, where students are taught writing that extends inquiry. Phyllis Mentzell Ryder's Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics turns to the rhetorical practices of nondominant American communities and counterpublics, whose resistance to 'good' public speech and 'proper' public behavior reveals alternate modes of composing and acting in democracy.

The Sewing Machine

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Author : Natalie Fergie
language : en
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-17

The Sewing Machine written by Natalie Fergie and has been published by Unbound Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-17 with Fiction categories.

Over 100,000 copies sold 'A tapestry of strong characters and accomplished writing' Herald Scotland It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than a hundred years after his grandmother’s sewing machine was made, Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations, one stitch at a time.

Fabulating Beauty

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2005-01-01

Fabulating Beauty written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.

Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.

Teaching To Transcend

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Author : Cheryl L. Sattler
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2000-07-27

Teaching To Transcend written by Cheryl L. Sattler 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 2000-07-27 with Social Science categories.

Teaching to Transcend explores a particular kind of safe space for the education of women: domestic violence shelters. Women in shelters are literally taught concepts from self-worth to financial management, parenting, and feminist values of equality and rights. They also learn more subtly through counseling, interaction, and affirmation of their own stories and survival. The ways in which women in shelters are educated are based upon the concepts of feminist pedagogy, such as intent listening, empowering voice, and radical social action. Teaching to Transcend expands both the concept of feminist spaces and feminist pedagogy and our understanding of the connections between education and politics (particularly the political economy of social knowledge) and non-school-based education spaces.

Re Reading Jose Mart 1853 1895

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Author : Julio Rodriguez-Luis
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1999-06-24

Re Reading Jose Mart 1853 1895 written by Julio Rodriguez-Luis and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

Re-evaluates Jose Marti's contribution to Latin America's literature and political evolution.

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