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| Author | : Adebayo C. Akomolafe |
| Publisher | : Academy |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2017-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780982532768 |
This superb book will be a landmark in African studies because the scholars who have undertaken the task of telling their own social sciences, humanities, and literary narratives have displayed a sharp and penetrating engagement with history, politics and culture in such a powerful manner that one cannot read these chapters without claiming them to be the gold standard in contemporary thinking.AARON SMITH, TEMPLE UNIVERSITYWe Will Tell Our Own Story is instructive to scholars and general readers as a method of confronting the manifold problems of misinterpretation and false presentations about African people. I find this work to be extraordinary in conception and execution.SWAHILI SMT, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, BRAZILWe Will Tell Our Own Story joins a growing number of Afrocentric books that are already revolutionizing the way Africans view themselves and their academies. The creation of a cadre of scholars devoted to truth, rigor, ancestrality, and values is a mark of a mature civilization; these authors are the necessary foundation for further growth.
| Author | : Thomas King |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 0887846963 |
Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.
| Author | : Vivian Gornick |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2002-10-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1466819014 |
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one's own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell? That is the question The Situation and the Story asks--and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras. This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid intelligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of nonfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
| Author | : Louie Stowell |
| Publisher | : Usborne Books |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Authorship |
| ISBN | : 9780794530198 |
Have you ever wanted to write a story, but wondered where to start? The Write Your Own Story Book is here to help. It's full of inspiring ideas for all kinds of different stories, with space of you to write them in and writing tips to help you on your way.
| Author | : Khaya Dlanga |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan South africa |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2016-02-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1770104720 |
From rural roots to social media sensation: Khaya Dlanga's inspiring journey In To Quote Myself, Khaya Dlanga, one of South Africa's most influential social media personalities, shares entertaining and moving stories from his remarkable life. From his humble beginnings in rural Transkei to his rise as a prominent figure in advertising and comedy, Dlanga's journey is one of perseverance and wit. With candor and humor, he recounts his experiences at school, his time studying advertising, and his stint as a stand-up comedian. Dlanga also fearlessly delves into his political views and the challenges he faced, including a period of homelessness, on his path to becoming one of South Africa's most influential marketers. Throughout To Quote Myself, readers are treated to a dose of the truly weird and wonderful that is routinely a part of Dlanga's life, making for a memoir that is as insightful as it is entertaining.
| Author | : Franklin Roosevelt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2017-09-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351503952 |
This volume is in many ways Roosevelt's political autobiography. It permits Roosevelt, in his own words, to tell what he intended to do and what he tried to do as a political leader. It differs sharply from a memoir in that it explains why Roosevelt acted without offering justification or explanation. Donald Day chooses passages that reveal all Roosevelt's dimensions - his humor, personal magnetism, and his insights into the outlook of the American people.Each document reveals a stage in Roosevelt's thinking and at the same time provides the flavor of his personality. The chapters trace his development as a social and political thinker, and also as a unique personality. This unique autobiography begins on ""a very hot Saturday morning in 1910 at the policeman's picnic in Fairview when ‘I started to make the acquaintance of that part of Dutchess County that lays outside of the town of Hyde Park. …On that joyous occasion of clams and sauerkraut and real beer I made my first speech, and I have been apologizing for it ever since.""The book carries the reader through the highlights of Roosevelt's American domestic policies, foreign dangers, and his personal reflections on the best course of action in each moment of his presidency. The book ends with the last words Roosevelt ever wrote, when he was working on an address to have been delivered on Jefferson Day: ""The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."" The day was April 12, 1945, the day of his death. The book remains timely and moving.
| Author | : John P. Roche PHD |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2011-10-31 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1462049494 |
Are you unhappy with yourself? Is your relationship not as satisfying as youd like? Do you repeat the same negative patterns over and over againonly to feel discouraged, stuck, anxious, or depressed? Write Your Own Story can help you take charge of your life and interrupt these negative patterns. Drawing on research and over forty combined years of experience as therapists specializing in relationship issues, licensed marriage and family therapists John P. Roche, PhD, and Kathleen J. Roche, MS, provide information and insight that will give you the tools youll need to be a happier individual and improve your relationships. To write your own story, you need to be a healthy, independent adult in charge of yourself, making the choices you want to make. Write Your Own Story shows you how you can turn your life around. In section one, the Roches discuss the thirty characteristics they have found to be associated with individuals who are psychologically and emotionally healthy. Section two explores the dynamics of selecting a partner who is emotionally and psychologically fit. This section also discusses a number of danger signals or red flags that indicate a difficult partner and trouble ahead. Finally, section three presents what needs to be done to keep each self healthy and the relationship functioning at a high level over time. Today is the day you can begin to write your own story.
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| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 1932 |
| Genre | : African Americans |
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| Author | : Selina Bunbury |
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| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1856 |
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| Author | : Iowa State Horticultural Society |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1891 |
| Genre | : Fruit-culture |
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