Margaret Garner

Margaret Garner PDF Author: La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813938686
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
In January 1856, Margaret Garner—an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation—ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave catchers attempted to capture the fugitives in Cincinnati, Garner cut the throat of her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to prevent her return to slavery. Toni Morrison first imaginatively treated Margaret Garner’s infanticide in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Beloved (1987). In 2004, it became the subject of her libretto Margaret Garner: Opera in Two Acts, a lyrical text designed to be paired with music and sung operatically. Grammy Award–winning composer Richard Danielpour had tapped Morrison to write the libretto for his opera Margaret Garner: A New American Opera, which world premiered in Detroit in 2005. La Vinia Delois Jennings’s edited volume records key events, debates, and critical assessments of Morrison's success with Garner’s story as a libretto. It also includes essays by individuals who played central roles in bringing the opera to the stage and recovering Garner's story. The collection opens with a foreword by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, for whom Danielpour composed the title role. The other contributors range from literary and opera scholars to specialists in American slavery studies and scholars of Toni Morrison's oeuvre. Their essays position her libretto within the African American operatic and libretto tradition, a tradition not fully known to performance scholars and heretofore unexamined.

Love in English

Love in English PDF Author: Maria E. Andreu
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062996533
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
A fresh, joyful YA novel that is layered with themes of immigration, cultural identity, and finding your voice in any language. Sixteen-year-old Ana is a poet and a lover of language. Except that since she moved to New Jersey from Argentina, she can barely find the words to express how she feels. At first Ana just wants to return home. Then she meets Harrison, the very cute, very American boy in her math class, and discovers the universal language of racing hearts. But when she begins to spend time with Neo, the Greek Cypriot boy from ESL, Ana wonders how figuring out what her heart wants can be even more confusing than the grammar they’re both trying to master. After all, the rules of English may be confounding, but there are no rules when it comes to love. With playful and poetic breakouts exploring the idiosyncrasies of the English language, Love in English is witty and effervescent, while telling a beautifully observed story about what it means to become “American.”

Bookends of the Heart

Bookends of the Heart PDF Author: Eliza Ester
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
In the small town of Maplewood Grove, Lila runs Barton and Sinclair’s, a bookstore she started with her late husband, Ben. Still grieving two years after his death, she's comforted by the familiar surroundings of her store. When James, a retired history teacher, moves to Maplewood Grove looking for a quiet place to settle, he's drawn to the bookstore and its owner. As they both prepare for the annual Green Festival, a celebration that meant a lot to Ben, James finds himself increasingly involved in the community—and with Lila. As the festival nears, Lila must decide if she's ready to let someone new into her life, while James looks for a new purpose. "Bookends of the Heart" explores love, loss, and the possibility of second chances in a close-knit community.

Todd the Dreamer

Todd the Dreamer PDF Author:
Publisher: Bonnie Rozanski
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description


Military Power and Popular Protest

Military Power and Popular Protest PDF Author: Katherine T. McCaffrey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813530918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Katherine T. McCaffrey gives a complete analysis of the troubled relationship between the U.S. Navy and island residents. She explores such topics as the history of U.S. naval involvement in Vieques; a grassroots mobilization-led by fishermen-that began in the 1970s; how the navy promised to improve the lives of the island residents-and failed; and the present-day emergence of a revitalized political activism that has effectively challenged naval hegemony.

My Salinger Year

My Salinger Year PDF Author: Joanna Rakoff
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307958019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Precariously balanced between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-paneled office—where Dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze after three-martini lunches—and then goes home to her threadbare Brooklyn apartment and her socialist boyfriend. Rakoff is tasked with processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s form response and impulsively begins writing back. The results are both humorous and moving, as Rakoff, while acting as the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own.

All-round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence, Hudson River, Saratoga, Trenton Falls, Niagara, Toronto [etc.] and Western Tourists' Guide to the West, Embracing Detroit, Chicago, Milwauke, St. Paul, Minneapolis, &c

All-round Route and Panoramic Guide of the St. Lawrence, Hudson River, Saratoga, Trenton Falls, Niagara, Toronto [etc.] and Western Tourists' Guide to the West, Embracing Detroit, Chicago, Milwauke, St. Paul, Minneapolis, &c PDF Author: Canada Railway News Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 496

Book Description


Memories

Memories PDF Author: Peggy Darty
Publisher: Multnomah Books
ISBN: 9781576731710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
In a story of romance and breathtaking suspense, Memories follows the characters from Promises to exotic Mexico. Just when it seems Elizabeth and Michael are back together for keeps, she's the victim of a hit-and-run car accident that leaves her with amnesia and claims the life of a young woman. A worried Michael decides to help Elizabeth retrieve her memories by taking her to Cancun, Mexico, the romantic hideaway where they spent their honeymoon. But the hit-and-run driver, believing Elizabeth can identify him, has followed them-and is waiting for the opportunity to erase Elizabeth's memory permanently.

Dancing with Rose

Dancing with Rose PDF Author: Lauren Kessler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780670038596
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
Documents a journalist's work as a caregiver for Alzheimer's patients after the disease claimed her mother's life, a process during which she came to deeply respect and admire the contributions of a care facility's overworked, underpaid, and humor-possessing employees.

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's PDF Author: Lauren Kessler
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101215461
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
"An excellent book…an emotional and ruminative anchor...She leaves her readers with hope.”-- San Francisco Chronicle One journalist's riveting and surprisingly hopeful in-the-trenches view of Alzheimer's Nearly five million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer's. Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity even before claiming her life. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates wiped blank. Suppose they experience friendship and loss, romance and jealousy, joy and sorrow? To better understand this debilitating condition, Kessler enlists as a bottom-of-the-rung caregiver at an Alzheimer's facility and learns lessons that challenge what we think we know about the disease. A compelling, clear-eyed, and emotionally resonant narrative, Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's offers a new optimistic look at what the disease can teach us and a much-needed tonic for those faced with providing care for someone they love. Previously published as Dancing With Rose.