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Languages : en
Pages : 992
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Bazaar Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household
Author: History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category : Enslaved persons
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Examines the economy and it's impact of slavery on the coast land slave states pre-Civil War.
Willa Cather
Author: James WoodressPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Drawing on letters, interviews, speeches, and reminiscences, looks at the life and career of the American novelist.
Aaron Douglas
Author: Amy Helene KirschkePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878058006
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The only book about the premier visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance
Designs on the Past
Author: Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748675655
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
History of McLean County, Illinois
Author: Jacob Louis HasbrouckPublisher:
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Category : McLean County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Thebarton
Author: Pauline PaynePublisher:
ISBN: 9780646301570
Category : Thebarton (S. Aust.)
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
From its beginning to the death of President Swain, 1789-1868
Author: Kemp Plummer BattleUnder the Sky of My Africa
Author: Catharine Theimer NepomnyashchyPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810119714
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage Roughly in the year 1705, a young African boy, acquired from the seraglio of the Turkish sultan, was transported to Russia as a gift to Peter the Great. This child, later known as Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was to become Peter's godson and to live to a ripe old age, having attained the rank of general and the status of Russian nobility. More important, he was to become the great-grandfather of Russia's greatest national poet, Alexander Pushkin. It is the contention of the editors of this book, borne out by the essays in the collection, that Pushkin's African ancestry has played the role of a "wild card" of sorts as a formative element in Russian cultural mythology; and that the ways in which Gannibal's legacy has been included in or excluded from Pushkin's biography over the last two hundred years can serve as a shifting marker of Russia's self-definition. The first single volume in English on this rich topic, Under the Sky of My Africa addresses the wide variety of interests implicated in the question of Pushkin's blackness-race studies, politics, American studies, music, mythopoetic criticism, mainstream Pushkin studies. In essays that are by turns biographical, iconographical, cultural, and sociological in focus, the authors-representing a broad range of disciplines and perspectives-take us from the complex attitudes toward race in Russia during Pushkin's era to the surge of racism in late Soviet and post-Soviet contemporary Russia. In sum, Under the Sky of My Africa provides a wealth of basic material on the subject as well as a series of provocative readings and interpretations that will influence future considerations of Pushkin and race in Russian culture.