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Author | : Dymphna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781954779075 |
Lonely without ever being alone, Trixie resents her life in the small Colorado town of Wicker Soul. Most of all, she wishes that she didn't have to depend on the father figure who brought her there, Mr. Jim. Though she is dearly cared for by the select few in town not intimidated by her sharp tongue, blasphemously wild nature, or suspicious parentage, Trixie longs for a life uninhabited by expectations from man or God-something unattainable for an orphaned female in the nineteenth-century West. Fueled by her relentless runaway spirit, Trixie escapes her small town to the northern spring where she feels most free any chance she gets. It is there, in her sacred spot, the beginning of one fateful summer, she encounters someone who will change her forever. Romantic, ethereal...and heart-breaking, witness Trixie fight not only for her independence, but the mortality of her very soul.
Author | : Alex Haley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Miranda Asebedo |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062747096 |
Morgan Matson meets Maggie Stiefvater in a story that will make you believe in friendship, miracles, and maybe even magic. Cottonwood Hollow, Kansas, is a strange place. For the past century, every girl has been born with a special talent, like the ability to Fix any object, Heal any wound, or Find what is missing. To best friends Rome, Lux, and Mercy, their abilities often feel more like a curse. Rome may be able to Fix anything she touches, but that won’t help her mom pay rent. Lux’s ability to attract any man with a smile has always meant danger. And although Mercy can make Enough of whatever is needed, even that won’t help when her friendship with Rome and Lux is tested. Follow three best friends in this enchanting debut novel as they discover that friendship is stronger than curses, that trust is worth the risk, and sometimes, what you’ve been looking for has been under your feet the whole time.
Author | : Alex Haley |
Publisher | : Pan |
Total Pages | : 915 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780330333078 |
Farverig og dramatisk slægtsskildring fra 1800-tallets USA. Queen er Alex Haleys farmor, datter af en velhavende sydstatsgodsejer og en sort slavepige, og kernen i romanen er hendes tunge skæbne som plantagebarn mellem to verdener
Author | : Erica Ball |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820350834 |
These essays--from scholars in history, sociology, film, and media studies--interrogate Roots, assessing the ways that the book and its dramatization recast representations of slavery, labor, and the black family; reflected on the promise of freedom and civil rights; and engaged discourses of race, gender, violence, and power.
Author | : Richard Newton |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781781795484 |
Identifying Roots presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots, examining the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history. More than an investigation into Alex Haley's legacy, Identifying Roots unearths the politics of beginnings and belongings. While we all come from somewhere, this book examines the terms on which our roots can work as a tradition to embrace rather than a past to leave behind. And it investigates why some of the texts we read also seem to read us back.Identifying Roots invites readers to reimagine the way we tell stories. A provocative study that draws upon Black studies, the history of religions, and anthropology, this book underscores the social drama and dynamics that define our scriptures. Nimbly moving between the stories of Alex Haley, his characters, and the world that received them, Newton reminds us that our roots are stories of consequence.
Author | : Simone Weil |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000082792 |
Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.
Author | : Bernardine Evaristo |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781594488634 |
In an alternate world in which Africans enslaved Europeans, Doris, an Englishwoman, is captured and taken to the New World, where the hardships she endures as a slave are offset by dreams of escape and home.
Author | : Matthew F. Delmont |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520291328 |
When Alex HaleyÕs book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nationÕs history. With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has again entered the national conversation. In Making ÒRoots,Ó Matthew F. Delmont looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley, Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte, uncovering how HaleyÕs original, modest book proposal developed into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.
Author | : Michele Elizabeth Lee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2017-12-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692857878 |
"Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing" is an engaging study of the traditional healing arts that have sustained African Americans across the Atlantic ocean for four centuries down through today. Complete with photographs and illustrations, a medicines, remedies, and hoodoo section, interviews and stories.