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Modeling Minority Women

Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction

by Reshmi J. Hebbar ...

Series series Studies in Asian Americans
This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors. ... Read more

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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing and fiction produced by Asian American and African American women authors.
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Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations

The Films of Gurinder Chadha

by Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Lauren Bettridge, Susan Flynn, Reshmi J. Hebbar, Lara V. Kattekola, Izabella Kimak, Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez, J. Sunita Peacock, Setara Pracha, Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández0, Amardeep Singh1 ...

Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring ... Read more

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Diaspora and Cultural Negotiations: The Films of Gurinder Chadha explores critical and theoretical conceptualizations of identity, globalization, intersectionality, and diaspora, among other topics, in the films of Gurinder Chadha. This book argues that Chadha’s work offers relevant and sensitive portrayals of the members of the diaspora community that make these films of contemporary and enduring
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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing

Beyond Trishanku

by Izabella Kimak, Marina Carter, Sam Naidu, Setara Pracha, Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Vanita Seth, Gurbir Singh Jolly, María Alonso Alonso, María Jesús Cabarcos Traseira, Mitali P. Wong, Reshmi J. Hebbar ...

This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically, ... Read more

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This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically,
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The Souls of Black Folk

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Key themes and ideas presented in "The Souls of Black Folk" include:Double Consciousness: Du Bois introduces the concept of "double consciousness," which refers to the psychological conflict experienced by African Americans due to their identity as both black individuals and American citizens. He discusses how this dual identity shapes their perception of themselves and the world around them.The ... Read more

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Key themes and ideas presented in "The Souls of Black Folk" include:Double Consciousness: Du Bois introduces the concept of "double consciousness," which refers to the psychological conflict experienced by African Americans due to their identity as both black individuals and American citizens. He discusses how this dual identity shapes their perception of themselves and the world around them.The
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The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebookThe Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and transformative speeches and sermons, accessibly available for the first time as an ebook. Here, in Dr. King's own words, are writings that reveal an intellectual struggle ... Read more

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The Portable Malcolm X Reader

A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything

Edited by Manning Marable, Garrett Felber ...

A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including ... Read more

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A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Manning MarableManning Marable's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including
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Wind in a Box

by Terrance Hayes ...

Series series Penguin Poets
The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book AwardWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means ... Read more

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The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book AwardWatch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase. He is very much interested in what it means
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Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival

Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival

by Edited by Mary Terrell Cargill and Jade Quang Huynh ...

On April 30, 1975, the Hanoi government of North Vietnam took control over the South. South Vietnamese, particularly "intellectuals" and those thought to have been associated with the previous regime, underwent terrible punishment, persecution and "re-education." Seeking their freedom, thousands of South Vietnamese took to the sea in rickety boats, often with few supplies, and faced the dangers of ... Read more

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On April 30, 1975, the Hanoi government of North Vietnam took control over the South. South Vietnamese, particularly "intellectuals" and those thought to have been associated with the previous regime, underwent terrible punishment, persecution and "re-education." Seeking their freedom, thousands of South Vietnamese took to the sea in rickety boats, often with few supplies, and faced the dangers of
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One Korea

A Proposal for Peace

by Shepherd Iverson ...

Peaceful Korean reunification would end a growing nuclear threat, ease regional and geopolitical tensions, and bring about significant economic growth and cooperation in resource-rich Northeast Asia. The central assumption of this book is that peace and reunification can be achieved by changing the underlying incentive structure for all North Koreans, and by offering its leaders a safe, honorable ... Read more

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Peaceful Korean reunification would end a growing nuclear threat, ease regional and geopolitical tensions, and bring about significant economic growth and cooperation in resource-rich Northeast Asia. The central assumption of this book is that peace and reunification can be achieved by changing the underlying incentive structure for all North Koreans, and by offering its leaders a safe, honorable
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Victorian Women's Fiction

Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual

by Shirley Foster ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing ... Read more

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Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial ideologies and the often more attractive alternative of single or professional life. In arguing
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Cane Fires

The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

by Gary Okihiro ...

Series series Asian American History & Cultu
Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese ... Read more

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Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese
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Scent of Apples

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by Bienvenido N. Santos ...

Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.Replaces ISBN 9780295956954 ... Read more

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Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the Philippines, Scent of Apples is his only book published in the United States.Replaces ISBN 9780295956954
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