Author: Becky Mushko
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741416654
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312649622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland Below, who is stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.

Author: Rex Bowman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625843488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Many of the highlanders in Virginias western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty, and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Colorful characters abound, from folks in Independence who have a decades-old tradition of racing outhouses, to the brawlers in St. Paul who once gave the town a reputation for world-class wickedness, to the purveyors of Roanokes Texas Tavern who have never in seventy years put ketchup on their hamburgers. Blue Ridge Chronicles is a delightful look at how the lively have lived in Southwest Virginias backcountry.

Author: Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611923346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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The writer Jovita González was a long memeber- and ultimately seved as president- of Texas Folklore Society, which strve to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time. Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by González and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as "The Mescal-Drinking Horse"); Tales of Humans ("The Bullet-Swallower"); Tales of Popular Customs ("Shelling Corn by Moonlight); Religious Tales ("The Guadalupana Vine); Tales of Mexican Ancestrors ("Ambriosio the Indian); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure ("The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the authors life and work, analyzing her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.

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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835248518
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Aimable Twagilimana
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317732324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.

Author: Chicago Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Author: Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In Bad Company, and other stories" by Rolf Boldrewood. 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: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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"The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories" by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson is a collection of tales that take readers into the Creole culture that thrived in New Orleans. This volume contains: The Goodness of Saint Rocque, Tony's Wife, The Fisherman of Pass Christian, M'sieu Fortier's Violin, By the Bayou St. John, When the Bayou Overflows, Mr. Baptiste, A Carnival Jangle, Little Miss Sophie, Sister Josepha, The Praline Woman, Odalie, La Juanita, and Titee.

Author: Michael C. Dawson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691212988
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. Michael Dawson demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics. Why have African Americans remained so united in most of their political attitudes? To account for this phenomenon, Dawson develops a new theory of group interests that emphasizes perceptions of "linked fates" and black economic subordination.