Author: Elkanah Settle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Pastor Fido; or, The Faithful Shepherd. A pastoral [in five acts, in verse. Altered from Sir R. Fanshaw's translation of Guarini]. By E. Settle
Shame on Me
Author: Tessa McWatt
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0735277443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0735277443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
FINALIST FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NON-FICTION Interrogating our ideas of race through the lens of her own multi-racial identity, critically acclaimed novelist Tessa McWatt turns her eye on herself, her body and this world in a powerful new work of non-fiction. Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us. Her grandmother's family fled southern China for British Guiana after her great uncle was shot in his own dentist's chair during the First Sino-Japanese War. McWatt is made of this woman and more: those who arrived in British Guiana from India as indentured labour and those who were brought from Africa as cargo to work on the sugar plantations; colonists and those whom colonialism displaced. How do you tick a box on a census form or job application when your ancestry is Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese? How do you finally answer a question first posed to you in grade school: "What are you?" And where do you find a sense of belonging in a supposedly "post-racial" world where shadism, fear of blackness, identity politics and call-out culture vie with each other noisily, relentlessly and still lethally? Shame on Me is a personal and powerful exploration of history and identity, colour and desire from a writer who, having been plagued with confusion about her race all her life, has at last found kinship and solidarity in story.
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Pastor Fido: Or, The Faithful Shepherd
Pastor Fido, Or, The Faithful Shepherd
Pastor fido
The Faithful Shepherd,
The Faithful Shepherd,
Author: Battista Guarini
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description