Author: Michael Roberts Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing ISBN: 0981521398 Category : Languages : en Pages : 138
Book Description
No More Poems About The Moon is poetry that asks ugly to step out from behind advertisement, for fear to stop dressing up as salvation, and love to keep doing what it does when it thinks no one is watching. From standing in line at the bank, to getting a haircut, to lying in the grass with your head in a lover's lap, Michael Roberts renders scenes of striking familiarity with an inventiveness that makes the mundane not only new, but ecstatic.
Author: Itohan Osayimwese Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350326186 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond. Largely forgotten for many years, recent intense debates about Africa's cultural heritage in European museums have brought this period of African and German history back into the spotlight. German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies brings much-needed context to these debates, exploring perspectives on the architecture, art, urbanism, and visual culture of German colonialism in Africa, and its legacies in postcolonial and present-day Namibia, Cameroon, and Germany. The first in-depth exploration of the designed and visual aspects of German colonialism, the book presents a series of essays combining formal analyses of painting, photography, performance art, buildings, and space with the discourse analysis approach associated with postcolonial theory. Covering the entire period from the build-up to colonialism in the early-19th century to the present, subjects covered range from late-19th-century German colonial paintings of African landscapes and people to German land appropriation through planning and architectural mechanisms, and from indigenous African responses to colonial architecture, to explorations of the legacies of German colonialism by contemporary artists today. This powerful and revealing collection of essays will encourage new research on this under-explored topic, and demonstrate the importance of historical research to the present, especially with regards to ongoing debates about the presence of material legacies of colonialism in Western culture, museum collections, and immigration policies.
Author: Richard Dahlstrom Publisher: Harvest House Publishers ISBN: 0736922148 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
Invites readers to embrace fresh perspectives on prayer, the Word, solitude, and creation, and continue to sustain their spirituality through hospitality, generosity, service, and obedience to Christ.
Author: John Clanchy Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press ISBN: 9780702235153 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
People searching, people on journeys. A young woman goes in search of the father she's never known. A man travels the vast length of Australia to uncover the secret that has teased and tormented him throughout his adult years. These stories are humorous.
Author: Renzo Baas Publisher: African Books Collective ISBN: 3906927091 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Modern-day Namibian history has largely been shaped by three major eras: German colonial rule, South African apartheid occupation, and the Liberation Struggle. It was, however, not only military conquest that laid the cornerstone for the colony, but also how the colony was imagined, the dream of this colony. As a tool of discursive worldmaking, literature has played a major role in providing a framework in which to dream Namibia, first from outside its borders, and then from within. In Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire, Renzo Baas employs Henri Lefebvres city-countryside dialectic and reworks it in order to uncover how fictional texts played an integral part in the violent acquisition of a foreign territory. Through the production of myths around whiteness, German and South African authors designed a literary space in which control, destruction, and the dehumanisation of African peoples are understood as a natural order, one that is dictated by history and its linear continuation. These European texts are offset by Namibias first novel by an African, offering a counter-narrative to the colonial invention that was (German) South West Africa.
Author: Ryan Winfield Publisher: Birch Paper Press ISBN: 0988348209 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
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"Aubrey Van Houten is a 15-year-old misfit who spends his time reading and dreaming about the good old days above. Believing the planet uninhabitable after a global nuclear war, Aubrey's people live deep underground, begrudgingly working assigned jobs until they can retire at 35 to a virtual reality paradise. Through a series of curious accidents, Aubrey stumbles onto the surface and discovers a real paradise off limits: a pristine planet where humans are hunted and killed by a mysterious Park Service. Now, Aubrey must decide between his only friend, his true love, and his imprisoned people, as he struggles to find the courage to stand up to evil, no matter how pretty its face" -- Amazon.com.
Author: E. F. Knight Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Cruise of the 'Alerte'" (The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad) by E. F. Knight. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Michael Roberts
Author: Itohan Osayimwese
Author: Richard Dahlstrom
Author: John Clanchy
Author: Renzo Baas
Author: Richard Garnett
Author: Richard Garnett
Author: Ryan Winfield
Author: Richard Garnett
Author: E. F. Knight