Author: Iya Ifalola Aboyade Omobola
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557755395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Venetria K. Patton
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 143844737X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Explores black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison’s Beloved,Tananarive Due’s The Between, and Julie Dash’s film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as “natally dead” has impacted African American women writers’ emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.

Author: Benjamin Hoffmann
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1835533485
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Located some 600 miles from the coast of India, Sentinel Island is the home of the last people entirely cut off from the modern world, the Sentinelese. No one knows where they come from, what language they speak, their beliefs. Only one thing is certain: for centuries they have violently rejected outsiders who set foot on their island, including Venetian travellers, British colonists, shipwrecked Chinese, Malaysian poachers, European monarchs, or American missionaries. Sentinel Island tells the story of this people and of Krish and Markus, two friends who have little in common other than their fascination with this forbidden island. One is an anthropologist of Indian origin in a badly fraught marriage to an American woman; the other an unmarried New York editor, heir to an enormous fortune built in the art market. Swept up in a grand adventure, Sentinel Island is the story of peoples in far-flung places, friendship, class relations, contemporary America, the gradual unravelling of an interracial marriage—and the story of globalization and those who attempt to escape it.

Author: Iya Ifalola Omobola
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557755336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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""You can't simply read ""She Threw A Stone Tomorrow,"" child, you got to ingest it. If you are fortunate enough to free your mind, you will find yourself ... looking for the true meaning of your own existence. You will question the essence of life, of love, and your quest for spiritual enlightenment in the age of cyber morality gone wrong. This is not some far out there in the cosmos lecture on science versus theology. These are Ifa principles, this is Odu, this is Ancestor-wit, this is AfriKan third eye intellectualism. This is a novel light-years ahead of its time. It is ingeniously wicked and yet it speaks to who we Displaced AfriKans are this very second-children ducking and dodging industrialized plantations. Maybe, just maybe after reading Oloyabi and Malcolm's vision quest we can fine tune our psyches and salvage what's left of our pre-soaked brains and perhaps then we can consensually decide to either burn the plantation to the ground or ..."" - Olorisha Aboyade Bomani

Author: Ralph Reynaud
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532017189
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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This Book of Poetic Verse spans some thirty (30) odd years of writing which is presented here as excepts from two (2) as yet unpublished works by this writer Unleash a CeaseFire Peace and Abiding within the Oneness of the One along with additional sections of verse. This Volume portrays the heartache and heartbreak of gun violence, pinpoints and analyzes the causative factors involved and proposes possible solutions. It challenges America to make word and deed one in reference to equality and equal justice under the law with all deliberate speed its Creed to heed. It gives an African-American perspective or world view of events across the years. It looks within the Spirit-Soul and Heart Beat of life for lifes existential vital answers about itself-for lifes sake! This Book of Verse is a treatise confronting the agony and challenge of gun violence in America specifically in the Black Community; the realities of inequality and injustice in racial America; and life as a spiritual journey with its existential ponderings and quest which is in its raw essence-a dare to be and a wonder unfolding to do and to see. The reader is invited to experience, to feel, to understand and to know through this poetic verse the vitality of Being, the value of the unfolding of Ones True-Self, the Unity of Community and the price of equality & justice in a truly egalitarian and democratic America!

Author: Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307559467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the river of one family's history, carving a course across two centuries and three continents, from ancient Africa into today's America. Here, through the lives of Mother Africa's many daughters, we come to understand the real meaning of roots: the captive Proud Mary, who has been savagely punished for refusing to relinquish her child to slavery; Earlene, who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan; Big Momma, a modern-day matriarch who can make a woman of a girl; proud and sassy Cinnamon Brown, whose wild abandon hides a bitter loss; and smart, ambitious Alma, who is torn between the love of a man and the song of her soul. In The River Where Blood Is Born, the seen and unseen worlds are seamlessly joined--the spirit realms where the great river goddess and ancestor mothers watch over the lives of their descendants, both the living and those not yet born. Stringing beads of destiny, they work to lead one daughter back to her source. But what must Alma sacrifice to honor the River Mother's call?

Author: Unathi Ndlelantle Ngada
Publisher: Kindle Direct Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Sulenkama, a drought-stricken village in the Eastern Cape, is on the brink of a permanent collapse. Five years later, poverty and neglect continue to become a way of life, but a new threat emerges – a flesh-eating parasite carried by contaminated water. Fear grips the village as the parasite spreads rapidly, claiming the lives of many. A young doctor finds himself on the front lines of this terrifying outbreak. Witnessing the devastating effects of the parasite firsthand, he becomes determined to fight for his community. But the fight is far from easy. The government seems apathetic, resources are scarce, and the villagers themselves are divided by fear. As the parasite rapidly spreads, the Premier is forced to place the province in a 21-day quarantine. The Health Department and the World Health Organisation send in their best team of doctors to find a way to treat this parasite, now mutated. As Sulenkama battles the deadly parasite, it also confronts the ghosts of its past and fights for a brighter future

Author: Cathie Carmichael
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108672167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 889

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This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivotal moments and turning points in the history of identity politics during the age of globalization, from 1500 through to the twentieth century. This overview is truly global, covering countries in East and South Asia as well as Europe and the Americas.

Author: Brij V. Lal
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824897161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have made fundamental contributions to the field of Pacific history, enduring in their impact, and the identity of the discipline is now firmly established. This volume is not so much about their individual research but, rather, their improbable journeys into Pacific history—why and how they came to it in the first place. Almost without exception, they did not choose Pacific history but rather stumbled into the field through serendipity. They came from forays into African, Indian, East Asian, French, British imperial, and other fields, and were enticed into Pacific history through chance or the efforts of kindly mentors. All this is evident in the values and understandings they bring to the subject. The one commonality that binds them is a love of the islands that have been the center of their lifetime work. Many distinguished Pacific historians of the last four to five decades are represented in this collection. Serendipity presents fourteen autobiographical chapters in which the contributors trace their paths as Pacific historians. They offer their sources of inspiration, supporters, and publications that shaped them as historians. With a significant focus on the importance of teaching and mentoring that they both received and provided, their writing not only illuminates their lives, but the state of Pacific history as an academic field. The experiences of the contributors are moving, replete with sorrows and regrets, as well as of achievements and satisfactions. Part of these careers were spent working in areas other than scholarship, such as high school teaching, consultancies, volunteering, teaching English as a second language, or doing menial jobs just to keep going. Serendipity is a pathbreaking form of historiography and essential to the Pacific history field.

Author: Leigh Ann Henion
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1643756192
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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From a New York Times bestselling nature writer comes a celebration of what goes on outside in the dark, from blooming moon gardens to nocturnal salamanders, from glowing foxfire and synchronous fireflies that blink in unison like an orchestra of light. In this glorious celebration of the night, New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit. Because no matter where we live, we are surrounded by animals that rise with the moon, and blooms that reveal themselves as light fades. Henion explores her home region of Appalachia, where she attends a synchronous firefly event in Tennessee, a bat outing in Alabama, and a moth festival in Ohio. In North Carolina, she finds forests alight with bioluminescent mushrooms, neighborhood trees full of screech owls, and valleys teeming with migratory salamanders. Along the way, Henion encounters naturalists, biologists, primitive-skills experts, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to cultivating relationships with darkness. Every page of this lyrical book feels like an opportunity to ask: How did I not know about this before? For example, we learn that it can take hours, not minutes, for human eyes to reach full night vision capacity. And that there are thousands of firefly species on earth, many with flash patterns as unique as fingerprints. In an age of increasing artificial light, Night Magic focuses on the amazing biodiversity that still surrounds us after sunset. We do not need to stargaze into the distant cosmos or dive into the depths of oceans to find awe in the dark. There are dazzling wonders in our own backyards. And readers of World of Wonders, Entangled Life, and The Hidden Life of Trees will discover joy in Night Magic.