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Hansebooks Joseph Haydn: 2. Band
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Alpha Edition The Babur-nama in English (Memoirs of Babur):
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Alpha Edition Historical sketches of Monaghan: from the
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Alpha Edition Pioneer history of Orleans County, New York;
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Alpha Edition General Persifor Frazer
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Alpha Edition The letters of William James (Volume I)
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Alpha Edition Latter-Day Saint biographical encyclopedia: a
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Alpha Edition The life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton (Volume
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Alpha Edition Observations On The Popular Antiquities Of Great
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Alpha Edition History Of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut, From
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Alpha Edition Letter Book Of John Watts: Merchant And
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Alpha Edition Letters From John Pintard To His Daughter, Eliza
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Alpha Edition Adrift on an Ice-Pan
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Alpha Edition The Declaration of indulgence, 1672: a study in
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Alpha Edition Historical introductions to the Rolls series
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Independently Published Zeena LaVey - The Fallen Daughter
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Independently Published Confesiones de una policía: Basado en hechos
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Independently Published Biographies of Artists: Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso
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Independently Published Pulling Mussels: The Life and Poetry of Mr
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Iter Press Selected Poetry, Prose, and Translations, with
Book SynopsisBorn to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters’ political-religious circle, maintained friendships with prominent Protestant leaders, and engaged the issues of her day. As a recognized public figure, she took on the roles of reformer, poet, translator, correspondent, spiritual counselor, and political advocate. During her lifetime, she published two books, both of which were reprinted several times. This volume provides a collection of Lock’s works presented in modern spelling, and it includes additional contemporary materials that place her voice in the larger context of the Tudor period, offering insight into the intertwined complexities of political, social, and religious life in sixteenth-century England. Trade Review“Felch’s comprehensive, detailed, and thoughtfully designed edition is everything that Anne Lock deserves, and that scholars could hope for, providing extensive background essays, contextual primary materials, and modernized texts with explanatory notes. . . . The texts and headnotes amount to a detailed history of sixteenth-century English radical Protestantism and a guide to the traces of theological resistance in heavily censored printed texts and fragmentary surviving manuscripts. A valuable addition to studies of early modern women, this work will change how Anne Lock is perceived among scholars and how widely she is read.” -- Mary Trull, St. Olaf CollegeWinner -- SSEMWG 2022 Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly EditionTable of ContentsIllustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Key Religious Terms Introduction Texts and Contextual MaterialsSermons of John Calvin (1560) Anne Lock’s Preface to Sermons of John Calvin (1560) Selections from Anne Lock’s Translation of Sermons of John Calvin (1560) A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner from Sermons of John Calvin (1560) Prefatory Sonnets Psalm Sonnets Andro Kemp’s Musical Setting of the Psalm Sonnets (ca. 1562) Contemporary Versions of Psalm 51 Prose Versions (1530–1560) Poetic Paraphrases (1535–1599) John Knox’s Letters to Anne Lock (1556–1562) Selections from Edward Dering’s Sermons, Letters, and Prayers (1570–1575) Anne Lock Dering’s Latin Poem (1572) John Field’s Dedicatory Letter to Anne Lock Prowse (1583) Of the Marks of the Children of God (1590) Anne Lock Prowse’s Preface to Of the Marks of the Children of God (1590) Selections from Anne Lock Prowse’s Translation of Of the Marks of the Children of God (1590) Anne Lock Prowse’s “The Necessity and Benefit of Affliction” from Of the Marks of the Children of God (1590) Lady Margaret Cunningham’s Letter to Her Husband (1607) Bibliography Index
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Brandeis University Press Yehuda Amichai – The Making of Israel`s National
Book SynopsisYehuda Amichai is one of the twentieth century's (and Israel's) leading poets. In this remarkable book, Nili Scharf Gold offers a profound reinterpretation of Amichai's early works and reconstructs his poetic biography. Her close reading of his oeuvre, untapped notebooks, and a cache of unpublished letters to a woman identified as Ruth Z. that Gold discovered convincingly demonstrates how the poet's German past infused his work, despite his attempts to conceal it as he adopted an Israeli identity.
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Authorhouse Ten Reasons to Live
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Scribe Publishing Co Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen
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Eye Books Mansfield & Me: A Graphic Memoir
Book SynopsisThe acclaimed graphic biography of Katharine MansfieldTrade Review`Absorbing... her watercolour-washed drawings delight us' - Times Literary Supplement, `I was very taken with Mansfield and Me, which puts Sarah Laing's life alongside the life of Katherine Mansfield, using the vocabulary of graphic art to tell the story' - Claire Armitstead, The Guardian, 'Part biography of Katherine Mansfield, part autobiography, and part account of her nagging insecurity about her own abilities' - New Zealand Herald, `A fabulous piece of work, and one that will stick around in Mansfield's oeuvre' - The Reader, `Sometimes poignant, sometimes funny and fresh... always compelling and honest' - Noted, `Not only is the writing captivating, but the imagery to go along with it is stunning' - Tomes with Tea
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Intellect Books Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries
Book SynopsisDeeply influenced by studies of female iconology, the medieval, the subconscious and hybrid bodies, Faith Wilding's art is instantly recognisable. In keeping with Wilding's own artworks, this book is a bricolage: memoirs and watercolours sit alongside critical essays and family photographs to form an overall history of both Wilding's life and works as well as the wider feminist art movement of the 1970s and beyond. This collection spans fifty years of Wilding's artistic production, feminist art pedagogy and participation in, and organising of, feminist art collectives, such as the Feminist Art Program, Womanhouse, Womanspace Gallery and the Woman's Building. Featuring contributions from scholars and artists, including Amelia Jones, the book is the first of its kind to celebrate the career of an artist who helped shape the feminist art of today. Intimate, philosophical and insightful, Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries is a beautiful book intended for artists, scholars and a broader audience.Trade Review'This book is a profound and delightful fusion of the personal and the political. Wilding's unique childhood, her activism and her lovely, poetic but pointed art is investigated through the lens of critical feminism she has helped to construct.' -- Lucy R. Lippard, radical art writer and author'Fearful Symmetries if the first major collection of scholarly and critical essays on feminist artist Faith Wilding, whose pioneering works are exemplary of some of the most exciting developments in contemporary art involving interdisciplinary collaboration and activism over the last five decades. This volume is absolutely essential reading for any serious artist, scholar and student interested in contemporary feminist art engaging its socoipolitical and historical contexts.' -- Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean and Professor at Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan'This is a dazzling book interweaving Faith Wilding's poetic and evocative memories from her childhood in Paraguay onwards with informative essays by diverse authors. The book also offers an incredible collection of Wilding's works, including her legendary performance Waiting.' -- Moira Roth, Art Historian and Professor of Performance Art and Twentieth-Century Art History'Rarely do we have the privilege to enter the world of experiences, feelings, relations that inspire art works, to see the images emerge from the words, to hear different voices reflecting on this process. Faith Wilding’s Fearful Symmetries is an exception. But what is most commendable about this book is the sheer beauty of Wilding’s descriptions of the enchanted world in which she grew up, the magical quality of the paintings included in the book and, equally important, Wilding’s reflections on her striving to create generative, organic life forms beyond the world of the feminine. This is a powerful book to be read, shared and treasured.' -- Silvia Federici, Author of Caliban and the Witch'Fearful Symmetries is an essential and long-overdue contribution to the history of feminist art that comprehensively examines the work of one of the movement's most important figures. This book does justice, finally, to Faith Wilding’s wide-ranging, poetic, and politically-infused work with an intellectual approach and aesthetic sensibility that matches the richness of the artist’s work.' -- Elissa Auther, Windgate Research & Collections Curator, Museum of Arts and Design and the Bard Graduate CentreTable of ContentsFaith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Calling the World Shannon R. Stratton, Coming to Becoming: An Introduction Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Drawing Jenni Sorkin, Drawing through the Feminine Amelia Jones, Faith Wilding and the Enfleshing Painting Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Reading Faith Wilding and Elizabeth Hess, "As Faith Would Say..." Keith Vaughn, Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Born Pagan Irina Aristarkhova, The One Who Waits Mario Ontiveros, Imagining Solidarity Otherwise: Faith Wilding's Strategies for Writing, Making and Collaborating Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: The Blue Flower Daniel Tucker and Faith Wilding, Learning Together Mira Schor and Faith Wilding, The Best and the Worst Faith Wilding, Memoirs Excerpt: Fearful Symmetries Shannon R. Stratton, Anlagen: An Afterword Acknowledgments Faith Wilding: Chronology Contributor Biographies
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter
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Liverpool University Press Vidal and His Family: From Salonica to Paris -
Book SynopsisEdgar Morin, one of France's greatest living intellectuals, tells the story of his father, Vidal Nahoum, but also the story of Sephardic Jews, and of Europe. In this 'holographic history' Vidal's story, and that of his family, carries within it the flowering, decline, and death of Jewish culture in Spain, the passage from Empires to Nation States, the complex relations between Jews and Gentiles, between East and West, and, ultimately, the history of the twentieth century itself. Morin's work ranges from the great sweep of global historical events to the everyday details of individual lives, letters, feelings, reflections, and experiences. Vidal was born in 1894 in the Ottoman Empire's great Macedonian port. His great-grandfather came from Tuscany and spoke Italian. His mother tongue was fifteenth-century Spanish. He learned French and German as a child. When he was an adolescent, he dreamed of living in France; he was deported there as a prisoner, and then liberated by the French Prime Minister. He lived through the Balkan wars, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, and two World Wars. Vidal cannot be isolated from his family. And as Edgar Morin explains, "this book also tells the stories of the men and women in his immediate family When, as his son, I inevitably come into his story... I describe him as objectively as possible. The reverence that inspired me did not call for a work of edification; it implied that I should attempt to write a truthful book. For this reason, the book is not in the least respectful, or at least not in the usual sense of the word. Vidal felt that loving someone meant being able to tease him. The author of these lines, who has inherited something of this trait, does not think it disrespectful to tease or make fun of the people he loves."Table of ContentsPrologue; The Nahum Family; Adolescence; The First World War; Move to Paris, marriage & Birth of a Son; Frenchification: First Phase (1921-1931); Rueil & the Death of Luna; A New Life (1931-1939); The 1939 to 1945 War; After the War (1945-1960); The Nineteen-Sixties; The Nineteen-Seventies; The Last Years; Epilogue.
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Liverpool University Press A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream
Book Synopsis"To this day I am unable to understand how I managed to survive against all odds." So relates the memoir of a young woman, Eva Szek (later Eisenkeit), who survived the Nazi onslaught against Jews in her beloved city of Lublin in Poland, an important centre of Jewish religion and culture. Eva recounts with compelling testimony her fearless fight not to fall into German hands and to save her family. Her experiences under German occupation, her struggle to survive and her subsequent liberation is an historical account of the tragedy of a Jewish community destroyed. The memoir describes Jewish Lublin life before the war, its religious institutions and charities; Polish-Jewish relations; the German bombing and invasion; the Russian escape options; the German occupation and registration of Jews; Eva's escape from the ghetto and two labour camps; her hiding in villages and farms, and complex wartime relations with Poles; her negotiated freedom with Mr. X (a Polish man who hid Jews for money, and cannot be considered a "Righteous"; life in liberated Lublin, including the first Passover celebration; meeting other survivors and trying to make a living; and Eva's postwar move to Lodz and marriage, and then to a Displaced Persons (DP) camp in Germany. As her eighty-fifth birthday approached, Eva asked her daughter Esther to take down her life story "so the whole world will know what the Germans did." A Lublin Survivor: Life is Like a Dream not only provides an extraordinarily complete and descriptive picture of life in pre-war and liberated Lublin but a first-hand account of the obliteration of its Jewish community and one individual's indomitable determination to survive against all odds.
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Curbstone Press,U.S. Rumors and Stones: A Journey
Book Synopsis""In the summer of 1993 I began a self-imposed journey into the blurred space between memory, story, and reality when I rented a car from Warsaw Avis and drove to the village in Poland in which my mother had lived before immigrating to the United States."" So begins Wayne Karlin's Rumors and Stones, the haunting narrative of a writer's journey into his family's past in the small Polish town of Kolno whose 2,000 Jewish inhabitants were machinegunned in ditches in 1941. Karlin explores the tension in the role of the storyteller as a witness and keeper but also as shaper; it is a journey in space that becomes a journey into the past and into the truth that can only be found in the imagination; it is a journey into Karlin's own origins as a veteran of the Vietnam war and as a writer compelled in his work to always come back to that conflict and the net of connections from it he feels like a ""cicatrix just under the skin of the brain.""Trade Review""I think that Wayne Karlin has more of a feel and understanding of the language than most poets I know."" --Lucille Clifton|""The weakest writing about war and atrocities simply reiterates what we already know, but the best of it illuminates what we need to know and how it must be expressed, which is what this book is about. Karlin is one of our finest writers, and Rumos and Stones is the latest evidence of that fact."" --George Evans
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Missouri Historical Society Press Stories from Before: The New Voices of Immigrants
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BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Girl in a Library: On Women Writers and the
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University of Alaska Press Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village
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University of Alaska Press Polar Extremes: The World of Lincoln Ellsworth
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University of Alaska Press Tanana & Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of
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University of Alaska Press With a Dauntless Spirit: Alaska Nursing in
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University of Alaska Press Good Company: A Mining Family in Fairbanks,
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The University of Michigan Press My Life: Living, Loving, and Fighting
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Islandport Press Suddenly, the Cider Didn't Taste So Good:
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Butler Center for Arkansas Studies A Little Rock Boyhood: Growing Up in the Great
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Butler Centre for Arkansas Studies Unvarnished Arkansas: The Naked Truth about Nine
Book SynopsisA man squanders his family fortune until he is penniless, loses every time he runs for public office, and yet is so admired by the people of Arkansas that the General Assembly names a county in his honor. A renowned writer makes her home in the basement of a museum until she is sued by some of the most prominent women of the state regarding the use of the rooms upstairs. A brilliant inventor who nearly built the first airplane is also vilified for his eccentricity and possible madness. Author Steven Teske rummages through Arkansas’s colorful past to find--and "unvarnish"--some of the state’s most controversial and fascinating figures. The nine people featured in this collection are not the most celebrated products of Arkansas. More than half of them were not even born in Arkansas, although all of them lived in Arkansas and contributed to its history and culture. But each of them has achieved a certain stature in local folklore, if not in the story of the state as a whole.
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Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc Affrilachian Tales: Folktales from the
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Lake Forest College I. W. Colburn: Emotion in Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisI. W. Colburn: Emotion in Modern Architecture is the story of an exceptional architect and of more than 100 design projects, some of which seemed outlandish when built, but many of which appear timeless today.
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Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Proudly We Speak Your Name: Forty-Four Years at
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Tupelo Press, Incorporated Legends of the Slow Explosion: Eleven Modern
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University of Nevada Press Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career
Book SynopsisFrom the girl in Red Cloud, who oversaw the construction of a miniature town called Sandy Point in her backyard, to the New Woman on a bicycle, celebrating art and castigating political abuse in Lincoln newspapers, to the aspiring novelist in New York City, committed to creation and career, Daryl W. Palmer's ground-breaking literary biography offers a provocative new look at Willa Cather's evolution as a writer.Willa Cather has long been admired for O Pioneers! (1913), Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918)—the "prairie novels" about the lives of early Nebraska pioneers that launched her career. Thanks in part to these masterpieces, she is often viewed as a representative of pioneer life on the Great Plains, a controversial innovator in American modernism, and a compelling figure in the literary history of LGBTQ America. A century later, scholars acknowledge Cather's place in the canon of American literature and continue to explore her relationship with the West.Drawing on original archival research and paying unprecedented attention to the Cather's early short stories, Palmer demonstrates that the relationship with Nebraska in the years leading up to O Pioneers! is more dynamic than critics and scholars thought. Readers will encounter a surprisingly bold young author whose youth in Nebraska was a kind of laboratory for her future writing career. Becoming Willa Cather changes the way we think about Cather, a brilliant and ambitious author who embraced experimentation in life and art, intent on reimagining the American West.Trade ReviewI cannot think of any Cather volume quite like this one. It is a welcome and innovative contribution to the existing literature. This book will appeal to the broad cross-section of committed lay readers as well as to practicing scholars." - Timothy W. Bintrim, Professor of English, Saint Francis University"Becoming Willa Cather sets out to account for Willa Cather's emergence as a major figure in American writing in the first half of the twentieth century—in recent years it has become clear that she is arguably the preeminent novelist of the 1920s and 1930s, and perhaps the first half of the twentieth century. Only Faulkner contends with her. Throughout, the book demonstrates that the West generally, and Nebraska particularly, was crucial to Cather's emergence as the significant writer she became. Particularly prominent in Becoming Willa Cather are analyses of Cather's early short stories and also some of her poetry, work that has been either unevenly considered (the stories) or almost completely neglected (the poetry) by critics." - Dana Professor of Canadian Studies & English Emeritus, St. Lawrence UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. Red Cloud and the "Real West": Mapping Willa Cather's Territorial Imagination Chapter 2 Writing the West Otherwise: The Short Stories of the First Decade, 1892-1902 Chapter 3. The Road from April Twilights into the Far Country Chapter 4. "a ride through a familiar country": The Different Process of O Pioneers! and the Emergence of Willa Cather Chapter 5. Emergence, Experimentation, and Evolution: The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and the Fiction that Followed Out West A Note on Texts and Abbreviations Works Cited Acknowledgments About the Author
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University of Nevada Press They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans' Story
Book SynopsisWhen Charles Ohiyesa Eastman, a degreed Dakota physician with an East coast university education, met Elaine Goodale, a teacher and supervisor of education among the Sioux, they were about to witness one of the worst massacres in U.S. history: The Wounded Knee Massacre of unarmed Indians participating in a religious ritual. Their bond began there as they witnessed the horror. It carried them across the U.S. advocating for Native Americans and whistleblowing the corruption and racism of the nation's Indian policy. They wrote 22 books while organizing a national organization of and for Indians that paralleled the NAACP. They lobbied Congress, made speeches, wrote articles and protested the steady erosion of Native rights and resources. Their books, excerpted here, make the history of this very bleak time for Americans of color come alive.This book connects the experiences and responses of Indigenous Americans with those of African Americans and white progressives during the period from the Civil War to World War II. Social and political history combine here to paint vivid pictures of this time. Tensions between the Eastmans mirror the dilemmas of gender, cultural pluralism and ethnic differences that Charles and Elaine faced as they worked to make their homeland care about Indian impoverishment. Their story is a national story. It is also intensely personal. It reveals the price American reformers paid for their activism and the cost exacted for American citizenship. Effectively written, this book will keep you reading and thinking about the connections between their time and ours.Table of Contents Preface List of Illustrations PART 1 1 Beginnings 3 2 Retribution 3 Lincoln's ""War of Races"" and Dakota Conscientious Objectors 4 Mis-Trials, Death Camps, Flight, Mass Execution, and Removal 5 Refugees PART 2 6 Sky Farm, Western Massachusetts, and Homesteading in South Dakota 7 Military Pacification, the Churches and Dakota Resistance 8 Reunion 9 The Black Hills and Little Big Horn 10 Parallel Policies: The South and The West 11 Nonviolent Forms of Resistance 12 The Politics of Indian Policy 13 Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee: 1890 PART 3 14 The Consequences of Whistleblowing, a Pan-Indian Identity, and Lobbying Congress 15 ""Scholarship"" and the New Racism 16 Working for Pratt, at Crow Creek, and Writing Endnotes Bibliography About the Author
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University of Nevada Press Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel
Book SynopsisWe are where we've been and what we've read, aren't we? Where else do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? In Fragments of a Mortal Mind, Donald Anderson confronts language and employs language to try to make sense, as we all do, of life.In this contemporary commonplace book, readers are also faced with some of the larger issues of human existence: war, memory, trauma, family, mortality, religion, fear, joy, ugliness, and occasional beauty. At once a memoir, a reading journal, and a nonfiction novel, Fragments of a Mortal Mind is a pertinent and timely conversation. Collage on this scale, charting the interior construction of thought over a lifetime, boggles the mind in its artistry and shows us how stream-of-consciousness and the art of fragmentation have evolved and merged into one another in ways that renew them both.Although this work is comprised of fragments, this is, in fact, long-form thinking a way of thinking and perceiving the world that is desperately needed in our time.
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University of Massachusetts Press In America, I Discovered I Was European
Book SynopsisNatália Correia lived one of the most productive and flamboyant lives in the history of Portuguese culture. In June 1950 -- a month bracketed by Senator Margaret Chase Smith's denunciation of McCarthyism and the outbreak of the Korean conflict -- Correia made her first visit to the United States. Moving from Boston, coastal Maine, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, to New York City and Washington, DC, she mingled with intellectuals and politicians at soirées, visited art museums, frequented nightclubs, spoke on Portuguese-language radio, and met with Luso-Americans and small-town locals. In America, I Discovered I Was European reveals the attractions and contradictions of midcentury America through the experiences, discoveries, perceptive observations, and critical reflections of a lifelong enfant terrible.
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