Dancing After Hours

Dancing After Hours
Author: Andre Dubus
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307801918

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen stories, Dubus depicts ordinary men and women confronting injury and loneliness, the lack of love and the terror of actually having it. Out of his characters' struggles and small failures--and their unexpected moments of redemption--Dubus creates fiction that bears comparison to the short story's greatest creators--Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor.

Dancing from the Heart

Dancing from the Heart
Author: Kalissa Alexeyeff
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0824832442

Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization’s impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production. Central to the study is a rich and textured ethnographic account of contemporary Cook Islands dance practice. Based on fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and archival research, it offers an engrossing analysis of how Cook Islands social life is generated through expressive practices. Dance is explored in a variety of settings, including beauty pageants, tourist venues, nightclubs and community celebrations at home and within Cook Islands communities abroad. Contemporary Cook Islands dance practices are also shaped by competing ideas about the past. Debates about precolonial traditions, missionization, and colonialism pervade discussions about dance and expressive culture. Alexeyeff shows how the politics of tradition reflect the competing moral, political, personal, and economic practices of postcolonial Cook Islanders. Throughout the work the stories and voices of individuals are brought to the fore. Their views are juxtaposed with scholarship on tradition, modernity, and social dynamics. Engaging and accessible, Dancing from the Heart illuminates specific and intimate aspects of Cook Islands social life while, at the same time, addressing fundamental questions within anthropology and indigenous, performance, and postcolonial studies.

24 Hours

24 Hours
Author: Greg Iles
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2001-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780451203595

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles takes readers on a daringly executed roller-coaster ride as a family under attack takes justice into their own hands. It begins on a perfect night, with a perfect family about to be trapped in a perfect crime... Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a five-year-old daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath who may be a genius. A man who has never been caught and whose victims have never talked to the police. A man whose life's work strikes at the heart of every family's unspoken fear: the unstoppable kidnapping. But this time he's picked the wrong family to terrorize. Because Will and Karen Jennings aren't going to watch helplessly as he victimizes them. They aren't going to let him get away with it. They're going to fight back...

After Hours

After Hours
Author: Keyona D. Thomas
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 226
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 0359326390

Afterhours

Afterhours
Author: E. Beth Allan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-08-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304308251

Taking place over 28 nights in June 2003, Afterhours is a slice-of-life look at eight people who get involved with a hot new nightclub - for eight different reasons... A prominent property developer has bankrolled his first club, keen to try his hand at a different game. A renegade DJ lands the manager's spot. An ex-model has dropped out of the scene but gets persuaded to work the door. A lawyer who moonlights as a bouncer comes knocking when his old club is shut down. A burnt out DJ ditches New York for a Friday night residency. An odd kid with a useless family gets his start as a busboy. A meatpacker's wife will do anything to make ends meet. And a sexy student thinks it's all about her.

After Hours at the Almost Home

After Hours at the Almost Home
Author: Tara Yellen
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932961488

Restaurant workers at a neighborhood bar and grill on the busiest night of the year continue to mix it up long after hours and well beyond what's good for them, risking hearts and hopes--and the life of a tender young girl.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Encyclopedia of the American Novel
Author: Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 3854
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 143814069X

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Ishtyle

Ishtyle
Author: Kareem Khubchandani
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 047205421X

Ishtyle follows queer South Asian men across borders into gay neighborhoods, nightclubs, bars, and house parties in Bangalore and Chicago. Bringing the cultural practices they are most familiar with into these spaces, these men accent the aesthetics of nightlife cultures through performance. Kareem Khubchandani develops the notion of “ishtyle” to name this accented style, while also showing how brown bodies inadvertently become accents themselves, ornamental inclusions in the racialized grammar of desire. Ishtyle allows us to reimagine a global class perpetually represented as docile and desexualized workers caught in the web of global capitalism. The book highlights a different kind of labor, the embodied work these men do to feel queer and sexy together. Engaging major themes in queer studies, Khubchandani explains how his interlocutors’ performances stage relationships between: colonial law and public sexuality; film divas and queer fans; and race, caste, and desire. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the unlikely site of nightlife can be a productive venue for the study of global politics and its institutional hierarchies.

Digest

Digest
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1070
Release: 1923
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture

The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture
Author: Alfred Bendixen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317190718

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction’s inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.