Central American Writers of West Indian Origin

Central American Writers of West Indian Origin
Author: Ian Smart
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Three Continents
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This is the first book-length analysis of the emerging literature written in Spanish by contemporary Central Americans whose grandparents came from the largely English-speaking islands of the Caribbean.

Dancing from Past to Present

Dancing from Past to Present
Author: Theresa Jill Buckland
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007-03-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0299218538

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.

I Will Survive

I Will Survive
Author: Gloria Gaynor
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466865954

I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.

Plenilunio

Plenilunio
Author: Rogelio Sinán
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1947
Genre:
ISBN:

The Sound of Exclusion

The Sound of Exclusion
Author: Christopher Chávez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0816542767

In The Sound of Exclusion, Christopher Chávez critically examines National Public Radio's professional norms and practices that situate white listeners at the center while relegating Latinx listeners to the periphery. By interrogating industry practices, we might begin to reimagine NPR as a public good that serves the broad and diverse spectrum of the American public.

Verbal Projections

Verbal Projections
Author: Hero Janßen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110929929

This collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generative research. General questions concern definitions of grammatical categories, classifications of auxiliaries and particles as functional categories, and problems of economy. Lexical matters range from affixation and category change (participles, gerunds) to semantic representations of specific verb classes (possessive, phrasal and intransitive verbs). The syntactic analyses focus on positional arrangements of aspectual and verbal units (V2, Verb Raising). The data are mainly drawn from English; perspectives on other Germanic languages are included.

My Urohs

My Urohs
Author: Emelihter Kihleng
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0979378834

The first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by distinguished Samoan writer and artist Albert Wendt as "refreshingly innovative and compelling, a new way of seeing ourselves in our islands, an important and influential addition to our [Pacific] literature."

Labor and Community

Labor and Community
Author: Gilbert G. Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252063886

The emergence, maturity, and decline of the southern California citrus industry is seen here through the network of citrus worker villages that dotted part of the state's landscape from 1910 to 1960. Labor and Community shows how Mexican immigrants shaped a partially independent existence within a fiercely hierarchical framework of economic and political relationships. González relies on a variety of published sources and interviews with longtime residents to detail the education of village children; the Americanization of village adults; unionization and strikes; and the decline of the citrus picker village and rise of the urban barrio. His insightful study of the rural dimensions of Mexican-American life prior to World War II adds balance to a long-standing urban bias in Chicano historiography.

The Architecture of Language

The Architecture of Language
Author: Nirmalangshu Mukherji
Publisher: OUP India
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006-08-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019568446X

In this book, Noam Chomsky reflects on the history of 'generative enterprise' - his approach to the study of languages that revolutionized our understanding of human languages and other cognitive systems.