Old Story Time

Old Story Time
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Publisher : Hodder Education
Total Pages : 121
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ISBN-10 : 9781398319530
ISBN-13 : 1398319538
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Story Time by : Trevor Rhone

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society. Old Story Time is a Caribbean classic, providing brilliantly entertaining theatre about race, identity, malice, and the redeeming power of love. In this enthralling drama, we progress with Len from poor scholarship boy to successful accountant. We see a similar but opposite shift in George, from wealthy, well-connected schoolboy to double-dealing crook. Len's mother Miss Aggy, the girls he first loves, and the woman he eventually marries, many destinies are entwined with Len's. Misunderstandings can be dangerous, and trust and love need some help to win through. With the help of Pa Ben, our far-seeing narrator, can things end well? Trevor Rhone was a leading dramatist in Jamaica. His sparkling and original talent has won acclaim from critics and audiences worldwide. Suitable for readers aged 14 and above.

I Could Talk Old-Story Good

I Could Talk Old-Story Good
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780520338296
ISBN-13 : 0520338294
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis I Could Talk Old-Story Good by : Daniel J. Crowley

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Story Time Behind the Doors

Story Time Behind the Doors
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781491750865
ISBN-13 : 1491750863
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Story Time Behind the Doors by : J. Dobson

BAD MOONHanging on the horizonThe bad moon feels no painAs it pushes the sky its risin'It floods the landscape with stain Their little group huddles beneath itRevenge on their lips fera in their heratsStern warnings of failure pain to inflictThere will be no after once this starts Where does this story endThe bad moon knowsIt waits to rise againThat's where the bad moon goes. - Judith J. ThierStory Time Behind the Doors is rich in good vs. evil; time travel; nursing home life; and the struggles of a feisty, grey-haired author to pen the stories of a small town's misdeeds. A new heroine emerges for grown-up Harry Potter fans." - Denis Gullickson, Author of: The Monfils Conspiracy, Vagabond Halfback and Before They Were Packers

Making West Indian Literature

Making West Indian Literature
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Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Total Pages : 145
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ISBN-10 : 9789766371746
ISBN-13 : 9766371741
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Making West Indian Literature by : Mervyn Morris

"West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively. In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores examples of West Indian creativity shaping a range of responses to experience, which often includes colonial traces. Appreciating various kinds of making and a number of West Indian makers, these engaging essays and interviews display a recurrent interest in the processes of composition. Some of the prices highlight writer-performers who have not often been examined. This very readable book, often personal in tone, makes a distinctive contribution to the knowledge and understanding of West Indian Literature. "

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries

A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 700
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ISBN-10 : 9027234485
ISBN-13 : 9789027234483
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and Dutch-speaking countries by : Albert James Arnold

For the first time the Dutch-speaking regions of the Caribbean and Suriname are brought into fruitful dialogue with another major American literature, that of the anglophone Caribbean. The results are as stimulating as they are unexpected. The editors have coordinated the work of a distinguished international team of specialists. Read separately or as a set of three volumes, the History of Literature in the Caribbean is designed to serve as the primary reference book in this area. The reader can follow the comparative evolution of a literary genre or plot the development of a set of historical problems under the appropriate heading for the English- or Dutch-speaking region. An extensive index to names and dates of authors and significant historical figures completes the volume. The subeditors bring to their respective specialty areas a wealth of Caribbeanist experience. Vera M. Kutzinski is Professor of English, American, and Afro-American Literature at Yale University. Her book Sugar's Secrets: Race and The Erotics of Cuban Nationalism, 1993, treated a crucial subject in the romance of the Caribbean nation. Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger has been very active in Latin American and Caribbean literary criticism for two decades, first at the Free University in Berlin and later at the University of Maryland. The editor of A History of Literature in the Caribbean, A. James Arnold, is Professor of French at the University of Virginia, where he founded the New World Studies graduate program. Over the past twenty years he has been a pioneer in the historical study of the Négritude movement and its successors in the francophone Caribbean.

The Desert is No Lady

The Desert is No Lady
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0816516499
ISBN-13 : 9780816516490
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis The Desert is No Lady by : Vera Norwood

Over the past century, women artists and writers have expressed diverse creative responses to the landscape of the Southwest. The Desert Is No Lady provides a cross-cultureal perspective on women by examining Anglo, Hispanic, and Native American women's artistic expressions and the effect of their art in defining the southwestern landscape. The Desert Is No Lady has been made into a motion picture of the same title by Women Make movies, New York, NY "A beautifully crafted book. . . . Although it varies in intensity, the response of women to the environment is virtually always different from the male frontiersman's view of the land as inanimate, boundless, conquerable and controllable." ÑPolly Wells Kaufman in Women's Review of Books "A powerful masterpiece." ÑEve Gruntfest in The Professional Geographer

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life
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Publisher : HarperCollins Leadership
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781400228416
ISBN-13 : 1400228417
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Choose Your Story, Change Your Life by : Kindra Hall

The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms. Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself—the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of—are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist. Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are. Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, Kindra will help you: Uncover the truth of how you have created the life you have; Challenge everything you think you know about how your life has been built; Uncover the clear steps you can take to create the life you want; Take control of your self-story to become the author of who you are; and Live your life in a way you never have before. This eye-opening, but applicable journey will transform you from a passive listener of these limiting, unconscious thoughts to the definitive author of who you are and everything you want to be. Changing your life is as simple as choosing better stories to tell yourself. If you can change your story, you can change your life.

Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies

Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 174
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ISBN-10 : 0820462225
ISBN-13 : 9780820462226
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies by : Seodial Frank Hubert Deena

"Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies is a pioneer in advancing the difficult but necessary argument of situating and centering Caribbean literature and criticism at the foundation of multicultural and postcolonial studies through an interdisciplinary, international, and intercultural manner, made possible by the author's unique multicultural and transnational interest and experience. Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcoloniai Studies argues that Caribbean criticism - shaped by the region's socio-economic, political, and historical phenomenahas a more complex and significant marriage with postcolonial and multicultural studies than acknowledged by the international community. Caribbean scholars should not only seek to legitimize and publicize the marriage and its depth, but also expand the borders of its scholarship and protest its "disneyfication" and prostitution."--BOOK JACKET.

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance

The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 705
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ISBN-10 : 9780199574193
ISBN-13 : 0199574197
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance by : Dennis Kennedy

An authoritative reference covering primarily actors, playwrights, directors, styles and movements, companies and organizations.

Imperialism and Theatre

Imperialism and Theatre
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9781134844302
ISBN-13 : 1134844301
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Imperialism and Theatre by : J. Ellen Gainor

Imperialism is a transnational and transhistorical phenomenon; it occurs neither in limited areas nor at one specific moment. In cultures from across the world theatrical performance has long been a site for both the representation and support of imperialism, and resistance and rebellion against it. Imperialism and Theatre is a groundbreaking collection which explores the questions of why and how the theatre was selected within imperial cultures for the representation of the concerns of both the colonizers and the colonized. Gathering together fifteen noted scholars and theatre practitioners, this collection spans global and historical boundaries and presents a uniquely comprehensive study of post-colonial drama. The essays engage in current theoretical issues while shifting the focus from the printed text to theatre as a cultural formation and locus of political force. A compelling and extremely timely work, Imperialism and Theatre reveals fascinating new dimensions to the post-colonial debate. Contributors: Nora Alter; Sudipto Chatterjee; Mary Karen Dahl; Alan Filewood; Donald H. Frischmann; Rhonda Garelick; Helen Gilbert; Michael Hays; Loren Kruger; Josephine Lee; Robert Eric Livingston; Julie S. Peters; Michael Quinn; Edward Said; Elaine Savory.