The Umbrella Country
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The Umbrella Country
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Author : Bino A. Realuyo
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-02-23
The Umbrella Country written by Bino A. Realuyo and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-23 with Fiction categories.
"Certain things are better kept than said. . . . But certain things you have to find out now. . . ." On the tumultuous streets of Manila, where the earth is as brown as a tamarind leaf and the pungent smells of vinegar and mashed peppers fill the air, where seasons shift between scorching sun and torrential rain, eleven-year-old Gringo strives to make sense of his family and a world that is growing increasingly harsher before his young eyes. There is Gringo's older brother, Pipo, wise beyond his years, a flamboyant, defiant youth and the three-time winner of the sequined Miss Unibers contest; Daddy Groovie, whiling away his days with other hang-about men, out of work and wilting like a guava, clinging to the hope of someday joining his sister in Nuyork; Gringo's mother, Estrella, moving through their ramshackle home, holding her emotions tight as a fist, which she often clenches in anger after curfew covers the neighborhood in a burst of dark; and Ninang Rola, wise godmother of words, who confides in Gringo a shocking secret from the past--and sets the stage for the profound events to come, in which no one will remain untouched by the jagged pieces of a shattered dream. As Gringo learns; shame is passed down through generations, but so is the life-changing power of blood ties and enduring love. In this lush, richly poetic novel of grinding hardship and resilient triumph, of selfless sacrifice and searing revelation, Bino A. Realuyo brings the teeming world of 1970s Manila brilliantly to life. While mapping a young boy's awakening to adulthood in dazzling often unexpected ways, The Umbrella Country subtly works sweet magic.
Umbrella Country
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Author : Bino A. Realuyo
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Umbrella Country written by Bino A. Realuyo and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Fiction categories.
A poor, eleven-year-old boy named Gringo contends with his older brother's transvestism, his father's unemployment, his mother's anger, and his godmother's shame as he dreams of a better world on the streets of Manila in the 1970s
Securitization Of The Umbrella Movement In Hong Kong
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Author : Cora Y.T. Hui
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-05
Securitization Of The Umbrella Movement In Hong Kong written by Cora Y.T. Hui and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-05 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, the city many hoped would help democratize China has instead become a research setting in which to study China’s increasing intolerance of dissent. Since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s treatment of Hong Kong could be divided into three stages: non-intervention, intervention, and securitization. If the July 1 march in 2003 is a watershed that marked Beijing’s change from non-intervention to intervention, this book suggests that the Umbrella Movement in 2014 is another watershed that marked Beijing’s change from intervention to securitization. This book is a theoretically driven case study of the Umbrella Movement, a massive sit-in that paralyzed key business and retail districts for 79 days in Hong Kong in 2014. Many Hongkongers believe that they have the right to a fair election of the chief executive, and Beijing’s insistence on vetting candidates prompted the outbreak of the Umbrella Movement. Drawing insights from the securitization theory and fear appeal literature, the book proposes the framework of “security appeal.” It argues that the outbreak of the Umbrella Movement resulted from a premature use of hard repression, that is, before the government convinced the general public that the Umbrella Movement was a threat. The eventual successful securitization entails a general acceptance of the threatening nature of the Umbrella Movement and agreement with its crackdown. This book concludes that one of the consequences of the securitization of the Umbrella Movement is Beijing’s eventual switch to the policy of “patriotocracy” – a system that allocates power and resources based on one’s professed patriotism – in lieu of One Country, Two Systems. The policy implications and theoretical and methodological contributions of this book will be of interest to scholars and students of security studies; Chinese politics; and various social science disciplines, including political science, psychology, criminology, and sociology.
Country Reports On Human Rights Practices
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Country Reports On Human Rights Practices written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Civil rights categories.
Country Boys And Redneck Women
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Author : Diane Pecknold
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-02-08
Country Boys And Redneck Women written by Diane Pecknold and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-08 with Music categories.
Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist "girl singer" to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current radio playlists can alternate between the reckless masculinity of bro-country and the adolescent girlishness of Taylor Swift. In this follow-up volume to A Boy Named Sue, some of the leading authors in the field of country music studies reexamine the place of gender in country music, considering the ways country artists and listeners have negotiated gender and sexuality through their music and how gender has shaped the way that music is made and heard. In addition to shedding new light on such legends as Wells, Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Charley Pride, it traces more recent shifts in gender politics through the performances of such contemporary luminaries as Swift, Gretchen Wilson, and Blake Shelton. The book also explores the intersections of gender, race, class, and nationality in a host of less expected contexts, including the prisons of WWII-era Texas, where the members of the Goree All-Girl String Band became the unlikeliest of radio stars; the studios and offices of Plantation Records, where Jeannie C. Riley and Linda Martell challenged the social hierarchies of a changing South in the 1960s; and the burgeoning cities of present-day Brazil, where "college country" has become one way of negotiating masculinity in an age of economic and social instability.
The Red Umbrella
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Author : Christina Diaz Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 2010-05-11
The Red Umbrella written by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and has been published by Knopf Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The Red Umbrella is a moving tale of a 14-year-old girl's journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro's revolution. In 1961, two years after the Communist revolution, Lucía Álvarez still leads a carefree life, dreaming of parties and her first crush. But when the soldiers come to her sleepy Cuban town, everything begins to change. Freedoms are stripped away. Neighbors disappear. And soon, Lucía's parents make the heart-wrenching decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own. Suddenly plunked down in Nebraska with well-meaning strangers, Lucía struggles to adapt to a new country, a new language, a new way of life. But what of her old life? Will she ever see her home or her parents again? And if she does, will she still be the same girl? The Red Umbrella is a touching story of country, culture, family, and the true meaning of home. “Captures the fervor, uncertainty and fear of the times. . . . Compelling.” –The Washington Post “Gonzalez deals effectively with separation, culture shock, homesickness, uncertainty and identity as she captures what is also a grand adventure.” –San Francisco Chronicle
Umbrella
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Author : Will Self
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Umbrella written by Will Self and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Fiction categories.
"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."--James Joyce, "Ulysses" 1918 Audrey Death--feminist, socialist and munitions worker at Woolwich Arsenal--falls ill with encephalitis lethargica as the epidemic rages across Europe, killing a third of its victims and condemning a further third to living death. 1971 Under the curious eyes of psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner, assumed mental patient Audrey Death lies supine in bed above a spring grotto that she has made every one of the forty-nine years she has resided in Friern Mental Hospital. 2010 Now retired, Dr. Busner travels waywardly across North London in search of the truth about that tumultuous summer when he awoke the post-encephalitic patients under his care using a new and powerful drug. Weaving together a dense tapestry of consciousness and lived life across an entire century, in his latest and most ambitious novel, Will Self takes up the challenge of Modernism and reveals how it--and it alone--can unravel new and unsettling truths about our world and how it came to be.
The Politics Of The Visible In Asian North American Narratives
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Author : Eleanor Rose Ty
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
The Politics Of The Visible In Asian North American Narratives written by Eleanor Rose Ty and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies how authors and filmmakers meet the gaze of the dominant culture and respond to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies. Ty does not survey Asian Canadian and Asian America literature, but presents readings of selected texts that actively engage with issues of otherness, visibility, and identification. Many of them, she says, are in the process of working out how larger issues of representation, power, and history affect Asian North American subjectivity. Parts of the work have been published previously.
Papua New Guinea Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information And Developments
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Author : IBP, Inc.
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-06-28
Papua New Guinea Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information And Developments written by IBP, Inc. and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Papua New Guinea Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments - Everything you need to know about the country - Geography, history, politics, economy, business, etc.
A Journey From Madras Through The Countries Of Mysore Canara And Malabar
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Author : Francis Hamilton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
A Journey From Madras Through The Countries Of Mysore Canara And Malabar written by Francis Hamilton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with India categories.