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Author: Patrick Brantlinger Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801468671 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 276
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Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history.Humanitarians, according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as propagandists for empire such as Charles Wentworth Dilke and James Anthony Froude. Brantlinger analyzes the Irish Famine in the context of ideas and theories about primitive races in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, especially through the influence of the eugenics movement, extinction discourse was ironically applied to "the great white race" in various apocalyptic formulations. With the rise of fascism and Nazism, and with the gradual renewal of aboriginal populations in some parts of the world, by the 1930s the stereotypic idea of "fatal impact" began to unravel, as did also various more general forms of race-based thinking and of social Darwinism.
Author: Jane Clapp Publisher: Skyhorse ISBN: 1631581821 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 122
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There is nothing more disconcerting than someone vanishing into thin air. Unanswered questions abound and the mysteries only tend to grow. The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings attempts to provide clarity and background on several individuals’ unexplained departures. While looking for his mythical Lost City of Z, Percy Fawcett vanished. Amelia Earhart did the same while circling the earth on her historic flight. Much like these two historical figures, there has been a slew of cases that have never been solved—noted author Ambrose Bierce, Czar Alexander I, Judge Joseph Force Crater, famed adventurer Richard Halliburton, and others who never managed to return from their adventures. This book examines and documents each case in extensive detail, in an attempt to bring together some of the loose ends. History.com writer Evan Andrews provides a detailed foreword to add some contemporary insight into the accounts of the vanished in The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings.
Author: Trina Solet Publisher: Trina Solet ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 138
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Adrian still can't get used to being in the ghost hunting business with a hot partner. When the owners of a romantic inn need help with a supernatural problem, Dunn sees no reason why he can't use the opportunity for a getaway in the country with Adrian. But is either of them ready for what they are going to face or for their growing feelings for each other?
Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan Publisher: Cherry Lake ISBN: 1534109560 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Mysterious Vanishings checks out the weirdest vanishings in the world--stories too strange to be made up! The book is written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience with a lower level of complexity for struggling readers. Clear visuals and colorful photographs help with comprehension. Fascinating information and wild facts that will hold the readers' interest are conveyed in considerate text for older readers, allowing for successful mastery of content. A table of contents, glossary, and index all enhance comprehension and vocabulary.
Author: Michael Panckridge Publisher: Bookpod ISBN: 9780994582324 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 226
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Fran's twin sister Carli has vanished. Everyone thinks she's run away. But they don't know what Fran knows. And they don't see what Fran sees... an unscheduled train in the dead of night with a sea of frightened, ghostly faces pressed against the windows of its carriages. Fran soon realises that her sister's life depends on her. But how will she ever find and enter the haunted land of shadows... and if she does, will she return?
Author: Gary Fincke Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 202
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Vanishings is a stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propel us into the life and mind of a literary genius. "Yams were in stories about Africa that I read in Sunday school. Tribes ate them, villagers who still carried spears and stared at missionaries who visited them to explain Jesus. I was out of college before I willingly ate a yam, filling a groove I cut in its skin with butter and brown sugar a minute before I took it from the oven. A few years later, when I had children of my own who complained about yams, wishing for French fries or mashed potatoes with gravy, the milk carton that sat on the table during dinner always featured the face of a missing child. "Have You Seen Me?" its caption read, and those faces reminded me to be thankful even as my children yammered their petty complaints. As the three of them poked at their half-eaten yams, wasting what was left after a half hour of whining, those milk carton faces kept my anger in check." --from the book
Author: Karen Redrobe Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 082238437X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 255
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With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesis in Victorian stage magic through her development in conjunction with photography and film. Beckman reveals how these new visual technologies projected their anxieties about insubstantiality and reproducibility onto the female body, producing an image of "woman" as utterly unstable and constantly prone to disappearance. Drawing on cinema studies and psychoanalysis as well as the histories of magic, spiritualism, and photography, Beckman looks at particular instances of female vanishing at specific historical moments—in Victorian magic’s obsessive manipulation of female and colonized bodies, spiritualist photography’s search to capture traces of ghosts, the comings and goings of bodies in early cinema, and Bette Davis’s multiple roles as a fading female star. As Beckman places the vanishing woman in the context of feminism’s discussion of spectacle and subjectivity, she explores not only the problems, but also the political utility of this obstinate figure who hovers endlessly between visible and invisible worlds. Through her readings, Beckman argues that the visibly vanishing woman repeatedly signals the lurking presence of less immediately perceptible psychic and physical erasures, and she contends that this enigmatic figure, so ubiquitous in late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, provides a new space through which to consider the relationships between visibility, gender, and agency.
Author: Time-Life Books
Author: Time-Life Books
Author: Patrick Brantlinger
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Author: Jane Clapp
Author: Trina Solet
Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan
Author: Michael Panckridge
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins
Author: Gary Fincke
Author: Karen Redrobe