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Author: Sygurd Wiśniowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
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"Novels hitherto published in [this series] have all been long out of print. Some were never widely read, even when first published. All, however, have had a reputation among students of New Zealand literature. "Tikera" has not. It was published as long ago as 1877, but virtually no New Zealander has read it. It is not mentioned in any history of New Zealand literature. Although it is the best New Zealand novel of its period, it had no influence on the development of writing in this country. Why? Because "Tikera" was written, and published, in Polish. This is the first translation into English. A Polish novel about New Zealand might have been a mere curiosity. Tkera is much more. Through the candid eyes of a young Polish seaman we see the country at the time of the Anglo-Maori Wars. We see the dingy waterfront pubs in the old-looking young town of Auckland, life in a Maori village which was debating whether to join the war, a New Plymouth dividing its attention between military campaigns and dubious commercial speculation, the unlovely attitudes of settlers towards the Maoris, and especially towards Maori women. Although Wisniowski was in New Zealand in the 1860s, he did not visit the war districts. This part of his novel is imaginary. But he knew his Anglo-Saxon colonists and draws an often irreverent view of their society." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Sygurd Wiśniowski Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
"Novels hitherto published in [this series] have all been long out of print. Some were never widely read, even when first published. All, however, have had a reputation among students of New Zealand literature. "Tikera" has not. It was published as long ago as 1877, but virtually no New Zealander has read it. It is not mentioned in any history of New Zealand literature. Although it is the best New Zealand novel of its period, it had no influence on the development of writing in this country. Why? Because "Tikera" was written, and published, in Polish. This is the first translation into English. A Polish novel about New Zealand might have been a mere curiosity. Tkera is much more. Through the candid eyes of a young Polish seaman we see the country at the time of the Anglo-Maori Wars. We see the dingy waterfront pubs in the old-looking young town of Auckland, life in a Maori village which was debating whether to join the war, a New Plymouth dividing its attention between military campaigns and dubious commercial speculation, the unlovely attitudes of settlers towards the Maoris, and especially towards Maori women. Although Wisniowski was in New Zealand in the 1860s, he did not visit the war districts. This part of his novel is imaginary. But he knew his Anglo-Saxon colonists and draws an often irreverent view of their society." -- Inside front cover.
Author: Alice Feeney Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250266114 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 309
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Feeney lives up to her reputation as the “queen of the twist”...This page-turner will keep you guessing.” —Real Simple Think you know the person you married? Think again... Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife. Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after. Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget. Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
Author: Raymond Patton Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350498653 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 281
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Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global imperial hierarchy. Leveraging this vantage point, they claimed the unique ability to represent the South to the West, constructing a Polish national identity in conversation with both imperial and anti-imperial currents, and influencing international discourse on colonialism and its legacy. Written at the nexus of historical and literary studies of imperial and colonial discourse, Patton centres Poland and Eastern Europe in debates that have frequently excluded these perspectives. Showing how these Polish writers attempted to portray anticolonial solidarity with non-European victims of colonialism, yet also employed European colonial tropes, each writer demonstrated a distinctive ability to identify the tensions and flaws of imperialism, whilst simultaneously reconciling those tensions to themselves as 'exceptional Europeans', innocent of colonialism, by alternating between metropolitan and peripheral perspectives. In doing so, they informed transnational discourses and policies on colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War and beyond.
Author: John Kaye Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN: 0802192068 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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From the acclaimed author of Stars Screaming, “a fine new novel . . . [that] pulls some of the dregs of Manson’s dark legacy into the light” (The Oregonian). It’s 1986. Devastated by the death of his fiancée, private eye Gene Burk becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery from his days with the LAPD: the death of up-and-coming rockabilly star Bobby Fuller. While attempting to reconstruct the circumstances that led to Fuller’s demise, Gene is unexpectedly contacted by a woman from his fiancée’s hometown, a survivor of the Manson Family who needs his help to escape her past. As Gene travels back in history to the moment Manson partied alongside Bobby Fuller and the Beach Boys, he lays bare Los Angeles in the sixties, its relative innocence and its seedy underbelly, and uncovers how those currents have shaped not just history but his own life and those of the people he loves. “Masterfully creating and sustaining a palpable, pure, elegiac paean to lost hopes and dreams, Kaye seems to suggest that the human impulse toward yearning and hopefulness can exist unmarred by and side by side with rampant corruption and pure evil” (Booklist, starred review). “A looming thundercloud of a book; it begins in a Southern California that seems permanently infused with sunshine and ends in one that has been forever submerged beneath the dark surf of a noirish nightmare.” —The New York Times Book Review “A great baggy monster of a book, shifting shape, made up of tales of murder, desertion and love, as full of life as the city it describes.” —The Washington Post
Author: Seymour Menton Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292763824 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 365
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Recipient of the Hubert Herring Memorial Award from the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies for the best unpublished manuscript of 1973, Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution is an in-depth study of works by Cubans, Cuban exiles, and other Latin American writers. Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution. Menton establishes four periods—1959–1960, 1961–1965,1966–1970, and 1971– 1973—that reflect the changing policies of the revolutionary government toward the arts. Using these periods as a chronological guideline, he defines four distinct literary generations, records the facts about their works, establishes coordinates, and formulates a system of literary and historical classification. He then makes an aesthetic analysis of the best of Cuban fiction, emphasizing the novels of major writers, including Alejo Carpentier's El siglo de las luces, and José Lezama Lima's Paradiso. He also discusses the works of a large number of lesser-known writers, which must be considered in arriving at an accurate historical tableau. Menton's exploration of the short story combines a thematic and stylistic analysis of nineteen anthologies with a close study of six authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Calvert Casey, Humberto Arenal, Antonio Benítez, Jesús Díaz Rodríguez, and Norberto Fuentes. Several chapters are devoted to the increasing number of novels and short stories written by Cuban exiles as well as to the eighteen novels and one short story written about the Revolution by non-Cubans, such as Julio Cortázar, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Luisa Josefina Hernández, and Pedro Juan Soto. In studying literary works to reveal the intrinsic consciousness of a historical period, Menton presents not only his own views but also those of Cuban literary critics. In addition, he clarifies the various changes in the official attitude toward literature and the arts in Cuba, using the revolutionary processes of several other countries as comparative examples.
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