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Author: Diana Leon-Boys Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 197883019X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 126
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In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases out moments of complex negotiations by Disney, producers, and audiences as they navigate Elena’s circulation. Case studies highlight how a flexible Latinidad is deployed through corporate materials, social media pages, theme park experiences, and the television series to create a princess who is both marginal to Disney’s normative vision of princesshood and central to Disney’s claims of diversification. This multi-layered analysis of Disney’s mediated Latina girlhood interrogates the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and a global conglomerate that stands in for the U.S. on the global stage.
Author: Diana Leon-Boys Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 197883019X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 126
Book Description
In the summer of 2016, Disney introduced its first Latina princess, Elena of Avalor. Princesa of the Periphery explores this Disney property using multiple case studies to understand its approach to girlhood and Latinidad. Following the circuit of culture model, author Diana Leon-Boys teases out moments of complex negotiations by Disney, producers, and audiences as they navigate Elena’s circulation. Case studies highlight how a flexible Latinidad is deployed through corporate materials, social media pages, theme park experiences, and the television series to create a princess who is both marginal to Disney’s normative vision of princesshood and central to Disney’s claims of diversification. This multi-layered analysis of Disney’s mediated Latina girlhood interrogates the complex relationship between the U.S.’s largest ethnic minority and a global conglomerate that stands in for the U.S. on the global stage.
Author: Thomas H. Cook Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 145322811X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 391
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DIVDIVA brother recalls the magnificent life of his sister, the greatest writer of her age/divDIV /divDIVA launch party is underway for a hotly anticipated biography, the life story of Elena Franklin. As a young woman, Elena was one of the most promising literary talents of the 1920s, and over the years her legend grew. Her biographer, Martha Farrell, has combed through all the evidence of Elena’s genius and passion, from her early years in New York to her expatriate life in Paris. The result is a monumental work – but among the party’s crowd is the man who knows the book is an empty shell./divDIV /divDIVOnly William, Elena’s brother, knew the truth about the famed author. Martha’s flawed biography spurs his memory, and he recalls how the temperamental baby grew into a legend. He knew Elena’s hidden pain, shared their family secrets, and draws his own portrait of the troubled soul that lay behind her artistic gifts./div/div
Author: Dolores Attias Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1479783889 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 250
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Dolores Attias was born in Cuba and moved to the USA the year Castro took over. She moved to Florida where she learned English while writing her first book, Maite. She is an outstanding Spanish teacher and taught that language at Clearwater High School and at St. Jerome Catholic School. In 2006 she published DANCING WITH ALZHEIMER’S, a memoir about her experiences with Mrs. Bromley, an eccentric British dancer. She loves classic movies and owns a considerable collection. She lives with her family in Burnsville, Minnesota. Maria Elena, a young woman coming of age in an abusive home in Cuba, dreams of emancipation. She sees marrying Rodolfo, several years her senior, as her only means of escape from her unhappy home. Rodolfo wants a young moldable wife to fulfill his needs and please his mother with a grandchild. He lures Elena into beginning their married life in the border house owned by his controlling mother. Reluctantly Elena accepts, only to be caught in the claws of a macho husband and a web of lies. Under pressure Elena is unable to conceive. Her life becomes unbearable, so she flees to New York. In that uninhibited land she learn English, pursues her independence, and frees herself completely. When true love finds her at last, under dubious circumstances, she finds herself torn between loyalty and happiness.
Author: Jaimie Leigh McGovern Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 136599709X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 290
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Resulting from a near drowning incident as a child, Bellamy Lawrence lives with the effects of a traumatic brain injury, including profound hearing loss. Ostracized by her family, Bellamy expects to spend her adult life alone, illustrating children's books in the solace of her Rittenhouse Square apartment with her service dog Otis. But a spilled cup of coffee, and a chance meeting with local radio host Sofia Reyes turns every expectation Bellamy had for her life upside down, as she finds herself thrust into a whirlwind romance she never believed possible.
Author: Alice Corr Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192598503 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 336
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This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with i) vocatives, interjections, and particles; and ii) illocutionary complementizers, items that look like subordinators but behave differently. Alice Corr argues that the behaviour of these conversation-oriented items provides insight into how language-as-grammar builds the universe of discourse. The approach identifies the underlying unity in how different Ibero-Romance languages, alongside their Romance cousins and Latin ancestors, use grammar to refer - i.e. to connect our inner world to the one outside - and the empirical arguments are underpinned by the philosophical position that the configurational architecture of grammar also configures the architecture of the mind. The book thus builds on existing work on the syntax of discourse not only by contributing new empirical and theoretical insights, but also by pursuing explanatory adequacy via a so-called 'un-Cartesian' grammar of reference. In so doing, it formalizes the intuition that language users do things not with words, but with grammar. Drawing on a wealth of naturalistic data from social media and online corpora, augmented by elicited introspective judgements, The Grammar of the Utterance offers new insights into the colloquial grammar and morphosyntactic variation of (Ibero-)Romance, and showcases the utility of comparative work on this language family in advancing our empirical and conceptual understanding of the organization of grammar.
Author: Carly Phillips Publisher: CP Publishing ISBN: 1942288441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 256
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She doesn't trust him. Zoe Costas is a security specialist. Her rather dubious family runs an Atlantic City spa that’s just this side of legit. When charming Ryan Baldwin shows up claiming to be related to Sam, the girl Zoe’s family is about to adopt, Zoe isn’t inclined to trust his handsome face. But he’s here to stay. Ryan’s search for his missing sister has led him to news of her death, and to a niece he’s never met. He’s from the famously rich and snooty Boston Baldwins — nothing like Zoe’s eccentric family from Jersey. But someone else has also tracked Sam down — someone who never wanted his niece to be found. Ryan is determined to protect Sam and find out what really happened to his sister. And Zoe is just the woman to help him do it. Neither expects they might find love in the process. *Previously titled Summer Lovin’ REISSUE
Author: Lyana Jo Publisher: Abbott Press ISBN: 145820829X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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Gabriela Whitley's life as a college senior is both ordinary and enviable. Blessed with beauty, brains, good friends, and a handsome, athletic boyfriend who adores her, Gabriela is looking toward a future filled with success and happiness. She has no idea that she is being watched by someone who longs for her-that is, until she hears a strange, distinctively seductive voice in her head one evening while searching the local bookstore for another great book about vampires. She is terrified and runs into the night, but finds herself inexplicably drawn to the handsome and mysterious stranger, whose name is Maddox. Unable to resist the lure of Maddox and his world of vampires, Gabriela learns that he knows even more about her than she knows herself, such as her true past and the circumstances around her mother's death years earlier. She discovers that she is no ordinary young woman but heir to the throne in a place that she thought existed only in dreams. But danger lurks there, too. For instance, Maddox tells her of his sister, Madison-but who is Madison really, and how far will she go to get what she wants? As more and more is revealed, Gabriela is torn between fulfilling her destiny and returning to her perfect life, which is spiraling out of control. In a story both romantic and unnerving, every choice has consequences-and no one is immune to temptation.
Author: MIKAEL AHMADOV Publisher: MIKAEL AHMADOV ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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From the opulent heights of Baku, in North Azerbaijan, Russia, Mikael Ahmadov's family once reigned as oil barons, their wealth flowing from lucrative exports to destinations like Tbilisi, Georgia. However, in 1934, the Red Communist Army's seizure of their assets plunged them into exile in Iran, where their fortune dwindled. Yet from these depths, Mikael rose. With resilience born of adversity, he pursued education and found his calling at the Merchant Marine Academy. Six years aboard freighters honed his skills until Amoco Oil Co. recognized his talent, appointing him captain of a super crude oil tanker. In 1976, seeking new horizons, Mikael, with his wife and four children, embarked on a journey to the United States. There, he reinvented himself in the realm of real estate, leveraging his expertise gained in the oil industry and entrepreneurial spirit to carve a path to success. This is the remarkable odyssey of Mikael Ahmadov—a saga of resilience, reinvention, and triumph against the odds.
Author: Diana Leon-Boys
Author: Tom Rogers
Author: Diana Leon-Boys
Author: Thomas H. Cook
Author: Dolores Attias
Author: Elizabeth Tan
Author: Jaimie Leigh McGovern
Author: Alice Corr
Author: Carly Phillips
Author: Lyana Jo
Author: MIKAEL AHMADOV