Dance On The Volcano
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Author | : Marie Vieux-Chauvet |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0914671588 |
Dance on the Volcano tells the story of two sisters growing up during the Haitian Revolution in a culture that swings heavily between decadence and poverty, sensuality and depravity. One sister, because of her singing ability, is able to enter into the white colonial society otherwise generally off limits to people of color. Closely examining a society sagging under the white supremacy of the French colonist rulers, Dance on the Volcano is one of only novels to closely depict the seeds and fruition of the Haitian Revolution, tracking an elaborate hierarchy of skin color and class through the experiences of two young women. It is a story about hatred and fear, love and loss, and the complex tensions between colonizer and colonized, masterfully translated by Kaiama L. Glover.
Author | : Thomas W. Kniesche |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781879751712 |
Author | : Hélène Neveu Kringelbach |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857455761 |
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Wendy Orr |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018-06-27 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1760636479 |
I wonder if the first day of Learning is always like this - do the girls on the hill always feel the ground tremble under their feet? Leira is about to start her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home - and her family - in pieces. And the goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption throws the entire world into darkness. After the resulting tsunami, society descends into chaos; the status and privilege of being noble-born reduced to nothing. With her injured mother and elderly nurse, Leira has only the strength and resourcefulness within herself to find safety. A thrilling Bronze Age survival story from the acclaimed author of Dragonfly Song.
Author | : Malcolm Lowry |
Publisher | : New Amer Library |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451132130 |
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have driven their relationship to the brink of collapse. She is determined to rescue Firmin and their failing marriage, but her mission is further complicated by the presence of Hugh, the consul's half brother, and Jacques, a childhood friend. The events of this one significant day unfold against an unforgettable backdrop of a Mexico at once magical and diabolical. Under the Volcano remains one of literature's most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition, and a brilliant portrayal of one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
Author | : Rosemary Hecht-Fiedler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Julia Cook |
Publisher | : National Center for Youth Issues |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1937870820 |
Teaching children how to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting. Louis always interrupts! All of his thoughts are very important to him, and when he has something to say, his words rumble and grumble in his tummy, they wiggle and jiggle on his tongue and then they push on his teeth, right before he ERUPTS (or interrupts). His mouth is a volcano! But when others begin to interrupt Louis, he learns how to respectfully wait for his turn to talk. My Mouth Is A Volcano takes an empathetic approach to the habit of interrupting and teaches children a witty technique to help them manage their rambunctious thoughts and words. Told from Louis' perspective, this story provides parents, teachers, and counselors with an entertaining way to teach children the value of respecting others by listening and waiting for their turn to speak.
Author | : Gary Kissick |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2012-01-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448135400 |
'Her name was Felicia, a name Cullen liked. He wondered as he sipped his beer, what ancestral dance had produced such impish racoon eyes -eyes she was fond of hiding behind oversized sunglasses that only served to emphasise her nose, a perfect minature. And what, he wondered, might be the genealogy of that wickedly sullen mouth?' Cullen Kinnell, precariously employed by a small Catholic college in Honolulu, commits a fatal error. He falls for one of his students -Felicia Mattos. Cullen Kinnell is an intelligent man and old enough to know better than to play with fire. Gary Kissick's witty and richly expressive first novel explores how unsuitable love can cause an eruption of conflicting emotions, from which no one emerges unscathed.
Author | : Dougal Jerram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Volcanoes |
ISBN | : 9780992868932 |