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| Author | : Sherman Alexie |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480457221 |
The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy who learns to value his own life by appreciating the deaths of others. Perceptions change, too, as “Another Proclamation” casts a shadow over Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and “Invisible Dog on a Leash” limns the heartbreak of shattered childhood illusions. And nostalgia for antiquated technology is tenderly rendered in “Ode to Mix Tapes” and “Ode for Pay Phones.” With his versatile voice, Alexie explores love, betrayal, fatherhood, alcoholism, and art in this spirited, soulful, and endlessly entertaining collection, transcending genre boundaries to create something truly unique. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
| Author | : William K. Powers |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Indian dance |
| ISBN | : 9780816511709 |
Eleven essays on shared characteristics of traditional dances and music used in modern day Pow Wows.
| Author | : Brad D. Lookingbill |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806137391 |
War Dance at Fort Marion tells the powerful story of Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, and Arapaho chiefs and warriors detained as prisoners of war by the U.S. Army. Held from 1875 until 1878 at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, they participated in an educational experiment, initiated by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, as an alternative to standard imprisonment. This book, the first complete account of a unique cohort of Native peoples, brings their collective story to life and pays tribute to their individual talents and achievements. Throughout their incarceration, the Plains Indian leaders followed Pratt’s rules and met his educational demands even as they remained true to their own identities. Their actions spoke volumes about the sophistication of their cultural traditions, as they continued to practice Native dances and ceremonies and also illustrated their history and experiences in the now-famous ledger drawing books. Brad D. Lookingbill’s War Dance at Fort Marion draws on numerous primary documents, especially Native American accounts, to reconstruct the war prisoners’ story. The author shows that what began as Pratt’s effort to end the Indians’ resistance to their imposed exile transformed into a new vision to mold them into model citizens in mainstream American society, though this came at the cost of intense personal suffering and loss for the Indians.
| Author | : Michael S. Neiberg |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2011-04-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674049543 |
By training his eye on the ways that people outside the halls of power reacted to the rapid onset and escalation of the fighting in 1914, Neiberg dispels the notion that Europeans were rabid nationalists intent on mass slaughter. He reveals instead a complex set of allegiances that cut across national boundaries.
| Author | : Victoria Phillips |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0190610360 |
""I am not a propagandist," declared the matriarch of American modern dance Martha Graham while on her State Department funded-tour in 1955. Graham's claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to over twenty-seven countries in Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, the Near and Far East, and Russia representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H.W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field, she was titled "The Picasso of modern dance," and "Forever Modern" in later years, Graham proclaimed, "I am not a modernist." During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of "the heart and soul of mankind," suited political needs abroad. In addition, she declared, "I am not a feminist," yet she intersected with politically powerful women from Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower's Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Betty Ford, and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters on the frontier and biblical characters to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham explained, "I am not a missionary." Her work promoted the United States as modern, culturally sophisticated, racially and culturally integrated. To her abstract and mythic works, she added the trope of the American frontier. With her tours and Cold War modernism, Graham demonstrates the power of the individual, immigrants, republicanism, and, ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with cultural diplomacy with the unfettered language of movement and dance"--
| Author | : Michaela DePrince |
| Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 0385755112 |
"The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"--
| Author | : Evadne Kelly |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2019-07-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0299322009 |
Meke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated history of colonialism, racism, censorship, and religious conflict, meke remained a vital part of artistic expression and culture. Evadne Kelly performs close readings of the dance in relation to an evolving landscape, following the postcolonial reclamation that provided dancers with political agency and a strong sense of community that connected and fractured Fijians worldwide. Through extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork in both Fiji and Canada, Kelly offers key insights into an underrepresented dance form, region, and culture. Her perceptive analysis of meke will be of interest in dance studies, postcolonial and Indigenous studies, anthropology and performance ethnography, and Pacific Island studies.
| Author | : Jason Stearns |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2012-03-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1610391594 |
A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo, with first-hand accounts of the continent's worst conflict in modern times. At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died. In Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, renowned political activist and researcher Jason K. Stearns has written a compelling and deeply-reported narrative of how Congo became a failed state that collapsed into a war of retaliatory massacres. Stearns brilliantly describes the key perpetrators, many of whom he met personally, and highlights the nature of the political system that brought these people to power, as well as the moral decisions with which the war confronted them. Now updated with a new introduction, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters tells the full story of Africa's Great War.
| Author | : George Catlin |
| Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2014-03-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781497934269 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.
| Author | : Ken Clift |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
| ISBN | : |
The 2/3 Australian Infantry Battalion, 16 Brigade, 6th Division fought in North Africa, Greece, Syria, on the Kokoda Trail and for the liberation of Australian New Guinea.
