Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden

Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9780813948782
ISBN-13 : 0813948789
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden by : Carlyn Ena Ferrari

Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on nature as apolitical and deracinated. Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden corrects that misconception, showing how Spencer used the natural world in innovative ways to express her Black womanhood, feminist politics, spirituality, and singular worldview. Employing ecopoetics as an analytical frame, Carlyn Ferrari recenters Spencer’s archive of ephemeral writings to cut to the core of her artistic ethos. Drawing primarily on unpublished, undated poetry and prose, this book represents a long overdue reassessment of an underappreciated literary figure. Not only does it resituate Spencer in the pantheon of American women of letters, but it uses her environmental credo to analyze works by Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dionne Brand, positioning ecocritical readings as a new site of analysis of Black women’s writings.

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781000999914
ISBN-13 : 1000999912
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens by : Victoria E. Pagán

Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. Throughout the book, each chapter centers the act of collaboration, from garden clubs of the early twentieth century as powerful models of women’s leadership, to the more intimate partnerships between family members, to the delicate relationship between artist and subject. Women emerge in every chapter, whether as gardeners, designers, owners, writers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, or subjects, but the contributors to this dynamic collection unseat common assumptions about the role of women in gardens to make manifest the significant ways in which women write themselves into the accounts of garden design, practice, and history. The book reveals the power of gardens to shape human existence, even as humans shape gardens and their representations in a variety of media, including brilliantly illuminated manuscripts, intricately carved architectural spaces, wall paintings, black and white photographs, and wood cuts. Ultimately, the volume reveals that gardens are best apprehended when understood as products of collaboration. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of gardens and culture, ancient Rome, art history, British literature, medieval France, film studies, women’s studies, photography, African American Studies, and landscape architecture.

Earth on Her Hands

Earth on Her Hands
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Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89017970799
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Earth on Her Hands by : Starr Ockenga

Eighteen masters of American gardening open the gates to their beloved gardens--and to their more than 1,000 collective years of horticultural passion, wisdom, and knowledge--in this exquisitely photographed gift book for every gardener to treasure. 250 color photos.

Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden

Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0813948770
ISBN-13 : 9780813948775
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden by : Carlyn Ena Ferrari

Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on nature as apolitical and deracinated. Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden corrects that misconception, showing how Spencer used the natural world in innovative ways to express her Black womanhood, feminist politics, spirituality, and singular worldview. Employing ecopoetics as an analytical frame, Carlyn Ferrari recenters Spencer's archive of ephemeral writings to cut to the core of her artistic ethos. Drawing primarily on unpublished, undated poetry and prose, this book represents a long overdue reassessment of an underappreciated literary figure. Not only does it resituate Spencer in the pantheon of American women of letters, but it uses her environmental credo to analyze works by Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dionne Brand, positioning ecocritical readings as a new site of analysis of Black women's writings.

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 331
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781009204156
ISBN-13 : 1009204157
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature by : Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

"This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives"--

Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and her German Garden
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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Total Pages : 98
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ISBN-10 : 9788726552881
ISBN-13 : 8726552884
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth and her German Garden by : Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" was first published in 1898. It was instantly popular and has gone through numerous reprints ever since. This story is the main character Elizabeth’s diary, where she relates stories from her life, as she learns to tend to her garden. Whilst the novel has a strongly autobiographical tone, it is also very humorous and satirical, due to Elizabeth’s frequent mistakes and her idiosyncratic outlook on life. She comments on the beauty of nature and shares her view on society, looking down on the frivolous fashions of her time and writing "I believe all needlework and dressmaking is of the devil, designed to keep women from study." The book is the first in a series about the same character. Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941), née Mary Annette Beauchamp, was a British novelist. Born in Australia, her family returned to England when she was three years old; and she was Katherine Mansfield’s cousin. She was first married to a Prussian aristocrat, the Graf von Arnim-Schlagenthin, and later to the philosopher Bertrand Russel’s older brother, Frank, whom she left a year later. She then had an affair with the publisher Alexander Reeves, a man thirty years her junior, and with H.G. Wells. Von Arnim moved a lot, living alternatively in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, before dying of influenza in South Carolina during the Second War. Elizabeth von Arnim was an active member of the European literary scene, and entertained many of her contemporaries in her Chalet Soleil in Switzerland. She even hired E. M. Forster and Hugh Walpole as tutors for her five children. She is famous for her half-autobiographical, satirical novel "Elizabeth and her German Garden" (1898), as well as for "Vera" (1921), and "The Enchanted April" (1922).

We Are a Garden

We Are a Garden
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Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages : 41
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ISBN-10 : 9780593123133
ISBN-13 : 0593123131
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis We Are a Garden by : Lisa Westberg Peters

This lyrical and extremely timely picture book illuminates the many different migrants who have made their homes in North America through the centuries. Long ago a strong wind blew. It blew people, like seeds, to a new land. The wind blew in a girl and her clan, where herds of mammoths still wandered the frozen tundra. It later blew a boy and his family across frigid waters, and they spread across the new land. Over time, the wind continued to disperse newcomers from all directions. It blew in men who hoped to find gold, and slave ships, and immigrant families. And so it continued, for generations and generations. Here is a moving and tender picture book that beautifully examines centuries of North American history and its people.

The Paper Garden

The Paper Garden
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 416
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781608195237
ISBN-13 : 1608195236
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Paper Garden by : Molly Peacock

Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.

A Tent of Grace

A Tent of Grace
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B301202
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis A Tent of Grace by : Adelina Cohnfeldt Lust