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Author | : Maria Rice Bellamy |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813937973 |
Tracing the development of a new genre in contemporary American literature that was engendered in the civil rights, feminist, and ethnic empowerment struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, Bridges to Memory shows how these movements authorized African American and ethnic American women writers to reimagine the traumatic histories that form their ancestral inheritance and define their contemporary identities. Drawing on the concept of postmemory—a paradigm developed to describe the relationship that children of Holocaust survivors have to their parents' traumatic experiences—Maria Bellamy examines narrative representations of this inherited form of trauma in the work of contemporary African American and ethnic American women writers. Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata, Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, and Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, Bellamy shows how cultural context determines the ways in which traumatic history is remembered and transmitted to future generations. Taken together, these narratives of postmemory manifest the haunting presence of the past in the present and constitute an archive of textual witness and global relevance that builds cross-cultural understanding and ethical engagement with the suffering of others.
Author | : Timuel D. Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marva McClean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2007-06-01 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9780979834103 |
Author | : Cassandra Lane |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2021-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1952177936 |
"In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors’ story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women’s storytelling leaps forward within these pages—into fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory." —Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie Davis When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town. We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.
Author | : Timuel D. Black |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In the second volume of Bridges of Memory, historian Timuel D. Black Jr. continues his conversations with African-Americans who migrated to Chicago from the South in search of economic, social, and cultural opportunities. With his trademark gift for interviewing, Black--himself the son of first-generation migrants to Chicago--guides these individual discussions with ease, resulting in first-person narratives that are informative and entertaining.
Author | : Dominika Laster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Experimental theater |
ISBN | : 9780857423177 |
One of Polish theater's great innovators is Jerzy Grotowski, well known for his lifelong research on the work of the self with and through the other. Taking various forms and undergoing multiple transformations, this single underlying proposition propelled Grotowski's career. In Grotowski's Bridge Made of Memory, Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowski's work such as body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, verticality, and transmission, arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate blurring of the boundaries of the self and other. This comprehensive study traces key thematic threads across all phases of Grotowski's research, examining lesser-known aspects of his praxis such as performance compositions structured around African and Afro-Caribbean traditional songs and ritual movement, as well as textual material from the Christian Gnostic tradition. As an active process of research and questioning conducted through the "body-being" of the performer, the Grotowski work is a practical realization of the often highly theoretical and abstract discussions of one of the field's main preoccupations: embodied practice as a way of knowing.
Author | : Ron Klinger |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2002-09-01 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780304364763 |
Better Bridge with a Better Memory 'goes beyond ... wide-ranging advice ... and investigates one specific technique in detail. The method demonstrated is mnemonics, and the author shows how that approach, already widely in use in naming agreements and providing clues to their details, can be applied to every phase of the game. As is often the case in Klinger productions, many examples used to demonstrate the case at hand have unrelated interesting points, and the discussions thus provide a welcome variety of topics.' - The Bridge World.
Author | : Ron Klinger |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780304361168 |
Many bridge errors arise from a poor memory, and those who learn to improve their memories will automatically improve their games. This book covers beginner, intermediate, and advanced players; rather than just a course of memory lessons, it helps one learn and remember what is important to bridge players.
Author | : Ron Klinger |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Games |
ISBN | : 9780304368174 |
This new Fast Fact Finder provides memory-aids for use in bidding and play. It also gives the key numerical Rules which guide players in specific bidding and play situations, an example being the Rule of Eleven used in card play after an opening lead. This Flipper has a very wide appeal and should have a considerable continuing sale to bridge players.
Author | : Gayl Jones |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1987-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0807096989 |
Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.