Indigo Or Mapping The Waters

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigo, Or, Mapping the Waters written by Marina Warner and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel inspired by Shakespeare's T̀he tempest', exploring the colonial history of the West Indies.

Author : Julie Sanders
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058165
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novel Shakespeares written by Julie Sanders and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much recent contemporary fiction by women has appropriated and adapted themes and plot structures found in Shakespearean drama. This is an innovative study of these texts. It considers novels by authors set in locations covering the globe.

Author : Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909210
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire Islands written by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre’s appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of—and perhaps feel better about—imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect enabled the expansion and maintenance of European empire. Empire Islands asks why so many colonial authors chose islands as the setting for their stories of imperial adventure and why so many postcolonial writers “write back” to those island castaway narratives. Drawing on insightful readings of works from Thomas More’s Utopia to Caribbean novels like George Lamming’s Water with Berries, from canonical works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Tempest to the lesser-known A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel by Ralph Morris, Weaver-Hightower examines themes of cannibalism, piracy, monstrosity, imperial aggression, and the concept of going native. Ending with analysis of contemporary film and the role of the United States in global neoimperialism, Weaver-Hightower exposes how island narratives continue not only to describe but to justify colonialism. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is assistant professor of English and postcolonial studies at the University of North Dakota.

Author : James A. Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857070312
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indigo King written by James A. Owen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, discover a plea for help on an ancient medieval parchment. It seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! But when they rush to warn him, they find that Hugo has already been abducted by fierce creatures called the Un-Men, who have mistaken him for the third Caretaker, Charles. And in that moment, the world begins to change… The Frontier which separates our world from the Archipelago of Dreams has fallen. Dark and terrible beasts roam throughout England. No one can be summoned from the Archipelago. And worse, their mentor and ally Bert seems to have forgotten them entirely! The only hope of restoring order from the chaos lies on a forgotten island - where a time travel device left by Jules Verne must be used to race through history itself - from the Bronze Age, to the fall of Troy and the founding of the Silver Throne. And in that single night, John and Jack discover that the only way to save their friend and stop the chaos destroying the world is to solve a two-thousand year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?

Author : Susan Cerulean
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820357383
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird written by Susan Cerulean and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.

Author : Nathan K. Hensley
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823282139
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecological Form written by Nathan K. Hensley and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological Form brings together leading voices in nineteenth-century ecocriticism to suture the lingering divide between postcolonial and ecocritical approaches. Together, these essays show how Victorian thinkers used aesthetic form to engage problems of system, interconnection, and dispossession that remain our own. The authors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate “natural” questions with sociopolitical ones; and underscore the category of form as a means for generating environmental—and therefore political—knowledge. Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book’s most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.

Author : Tal M. Klein
Publisher : Inkshares
ISBN 13 : 1942645589
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Punch Escrow written by Tal M. Klein and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he’s accidentally duplicated while teleporting, Joel Byram must outrun the most powerful corporation on the planet and find a way back to his wife in a world that now has two of him. Dubbed the “next Ready, Player One,” by former Warner Brothers President Greg Silverman, and now in film development at Lionsgate.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099154518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indigo written by Marina Warner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wayne D. Dosick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781588720887
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritually Healing the Indigo Children (and Adult Indigos, Too!) written by Wayne D. Dosick and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Can Have Trouble "Fitting In" and "getting along," and often "act out" their pain in personally and socially harmful behaviors. Quite often, they are labeled ADD, ADHD, or ODD and when all else fails are medicated with prescription drugs. But they are also incredibly wise, precocious, intuitive, creative, and energetic, magnificent Beings who carry with them deep eternal remembering and hold a vision of joyful, harmonious perfection for themselves and for our world. Yet so many Indigos are pained by the great gap between their perfect knowing and this wildly imperfect world they experience. So, they seem "uneasy in their skins," uncomfortable in their lives, unhappy being here on Earth, and often they are in deep emotional anguish.

Author : Mark W. Hauser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748737
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Water in Dominica written by Mark W. Hauser and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s Island,” was rich in biodiversity and seemingly abundant water, but in the eighteenth century a brief, failed attempt by colonial administrators to replace cultivation of varied plant species with sugarcane caused widespread ecological and social disruption. Illustrating how deeply intertwined plantation slavery was with the environmental devastation it caused, Mapping Water in Dominica situates the social lives of eighteenth-century enslaved laborers in the natural history of two Dominican enclaves. Mark Hauser draws on archaeological and archival history from Dominica to reconstruct the changing ways that enslaved people interacted with water and exposes crucial pieces of Dominica’s colonial history that have been omitted from official documents. The archaeological record—which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water—reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. Plantation monoculture, which depended on both slavery and an abundant supply of water, worked through the environment to create predicaments around scarcity, mobility, and belonging whose resolution was a matter of life and death. In following the vestiges of these struggles, this investigation documents a valuable example of an environmental challenge centered around insufficient water. Mapping Water in Dominica is available in an open access edition through the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Northwestern University Libraries.