Her Stories
Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590473705 |
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
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Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780590473705 |
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
Author | : Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles |
Publisher | : Arte Publico Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781611923346 |
The writer Jovita González was a long memeber- and ultimately seved as president- of Texas Folklore Society, which strve to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time. Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by González and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as "The Mescal-Drinking Horse"); Tales of Humans ("The Bullet-Swallower"); Tales of Popular Customs ("Shelling Corn by Moonlight); Religious Tales ("The Guadalupana Vine); Tales of Mexican Ancestrors ("Ambriosio the Indian); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure ("The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the authors life and work, analyzing her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.
Author | : Elana Levine |
Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781478008019 |
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered cultural form and a central force in the economic and social influence of network television. Closely observing the production, promotion, reception, and narrative strategies of the soaps, Levine examines two intersecting developments: the role soap operas have played in shaping cultural understandings of gender and the rise and fall of broadcast network television as a culture industry. In so doing, she foregrounds how soap operas have revealed changing conceptions of gender and femininity as imagined by and reflected on the television screen.
Author | : Elana Levine |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-03-06 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1478009063 |
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered cultural form and a central force in the economic and social influence of network television. Closely observing the production, promotion, reception, and narrative strategies of the soaps, Levine examines two intersecting developments: the role soap operas have played in shaping cultural understandings of gender and the rise and fall of broadcast network television as a culture industry. In so doing, she foregrounds how soap operas have revealed changing conceptions of gender and femininity as imagined by and reflected on the television screen.
Author | : Carmen Maria Machado |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555979807 |
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
Author | : Alan Brennert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1992-03-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780812531954 |
Imaginative, magical stories delve into the lives of such characters as an aging hero with the power to remedy the Mideast crisis and a petty thief who steals an ancient Aztec healing stone. Reprint. K. PW.
Author | : Denise Caignon |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : |
Her Wits About Her offers the vibrant, empowering message that women can fight back, and do so effectively. Common media stories often reinforce the myth that women are helpless and should not defend themselves. Yet current research shows that women who resist do get away and often escape injury.
Author | : Lynn Joseph |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395813096 |
On the island of Trinidad, Tantie tells the children six stories, some originating in the countries of West Africa, some in Trinidad, and some in her own imagination.
Author | : Kathleen Cummins |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0231851294 |
From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries’ popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films challenged traditionally male genres like the Western. Instead of reinforcing the myths of nationhood often portrayed in such films—invariably featuring a lone white male hero pitted against the “savage” and “uncivilized” native terrain—these filmmakers constructed counternarratives centering on women and marginalized communities. In place of rugged cowboys violently removing indigenous peoples to make the frontier safe for their virtuous wives and daughters, these filmmakers told the stories of colonial and postcolonial societies from a female and/or subaltern point of view. Herstories on Screen is a transnational study of feature narrative films from Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand/Aotearoa that deconstruct settler-colonial myths. Kathleen Cummins offers in-depth readings of ten works by a diverse range of women filmmakers including Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Merata Mita, Tracey Moffatt, and Anne Wheeler. She reveals how they skillfully deploy genre tropes and popular storytelling conventions in order to critique master narratives of feminine domesticity and purity and depict women and subaltern people performing acts of agency and resistance. Cummins details the ways in which second-wave feminist theory and aesthetics informed these filmmakers’ efforts to debunk idealized Anglo-Saxon femininity and motherhood and lay bare gendered and sexual violence and colonial oppression.
Author | : Virginia Hamilton |
Publisher | : Blue Sky Press (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
19 African american folktales, fairy tales, and true tales, that have been passed down from generation to generation.