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Publisher
Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
Sundquist examines the cultural and social context woven through Ellison's novel, where episodes in the novel are clearly drawn from (or meant to reflect on) historical events or institutions. These selections include speeches, essays, folktales, historical analyses, and other cultural documents that Ellison used in "Invisible Man" to refer to African American events and traditions which shaped his narrator's life.
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan...
Series
Critical responses in arts and letters volume no. 1
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
85246) The blood of Jesus
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Blood of Jesus: Concerns the accidental shooting of a woman and of the faith in Jesus that brings her back. As she lies dying, her soul goes on a symbolic journey in which it rejects Hell for Zion, Satan for God, at the foot of the cross. When she awakens recovered, the choir of sisters and brothers from the church come in to sing and celebrate the miracle. Offers a glimpse into Southern Baptist life from an African-American perspective.
Lying lips:...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Postmodern Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its contribution to racial discourses, while later segments...
Publisher
Image Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
None
Description
A collection of Chaplin's films at Essanay Studios. Shanghaied: Hired to shanghai a crew, Chaplin is himself shanghaied and becomes assistant cook aboard a rolling boat. A Night in the show: Chaplin appears in a dual role as a playboy seated in the orchestra and as an obnoxious workman on a night out seated in the balcony. The latter closes the theater down by turning a fire hose on the fire-eating act. Police: The Tramp released from prison meets...
85253) The Catholic Church
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
85257) Pine Ridge
Publisher
Torch Films
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"Filmed on the Native American reservation of the same name in South Dakota, where Americans with native blood live a life in the middle - and yet outside - of American society, Pine Ridge explores what shapes the lives and dreams of today's Native American youth. Depicted on their own terms during a long warm summer, Lance Red Cloud, Kassel Sky, Cassandra Warrior, her young daughter Diamond Rose, and their friends and families know one thing for...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The transcultural impact of Latin American musical forms in the United States calls for a deeper understanding of the shifting cultural meanings of music. Musical Migrations examines the tensions between the value of Latin popular music as a metaphor for national identity and its transnational meanings as it traverses national borders, geocultural spaces, audiences, and historical periods. The anthology analyzes, among others, the role of popular...
85259) Australia
Series
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1947
Language
English
Description
Scattered references to Aborigines.
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