Bungalow Modernity
Bungalow Modernity

Author: Mary Lou Emery

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 147664070X

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Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

Billy's Bungalow
Billy's Bungalow

Author: Eleanor Maud Crane

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781357628116

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Billy's Bungalow
Billy's Bungalow

Author: Eleanor Maud Crane

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9781331056232

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Excerpt from Billy's Bungalow: A Comedy in Three Acts and One Scene Act I. - In the course of which the audience becomes acquainted with the members of the house-party forming at the Bungalow. The Colonel is treated to a shower-bath. The arrival of the uninvited guest. Dorothy announces her engagement. "How figures can lie." The Bungalow is christened. Act. II. - The next morning. The discovery of the departure of the servants with the only boat. Gordon decides to get breakfast. Francis decides to milk the cow. The Colonel makes coffee. Teddy makes an omelette. Kitty makes trouble. Miss Cauldwell makes herself scarce. The landing of the fish. Act. III. - The end of the week. Kitty makes a kite. The Sound Steamer passes by. The stolen dinner. "He needed strength." The Hon. Francis in a new light. "How do you kill a cow?" A fishing-smack. England, the United States, and "Billy's Bungalow." Billy Middleton. Act I. - White flannels. Act II. - Blue outing-shirt, serge trousers, tan shoes. Act III. - Light summer suit. Peggy. Act I. - Pretty summer afternoon dress. Act II. - White muslin gown very simply made. Act III. - Semi-evening gown. Col. Varker. Act I. - Grey suit, hat, gloves. Act II. - Kliaki uniform or hunting costume. Act III. - White ducks. Miss Cauldwell. Act I. - Travelling-gown, hat, gloves, veil, small hand-bag, lorgnette. Act II. - Simple morning-dress. Act III. - Dressy afternoon costume. Dorothy French. Act. - I Pretty travelling-dress, hat, gloves, veil, umbrella. Act II. - Attractive morning-dress or shirt-waist suit. Act III. - Dainty afternoon costume. Kitty Campbell. Act I. - Travelling-suit, hat, gloves. Act II. Girlish morning dress or sailor costume. Act III. - Pretty afternoon dress. Theodore Thurston. Acts I. and II. - Blue serge suit, straw hat, grip. Act. III. - Long ulster or light overcoat. White flannels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Cobweb Walking
Cobweb Walking

Author: Sara Banerji

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1448208327

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As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things. The humming of the Silence is her secret, even from her beloved father, as is the day that she walks along a cobweb. But with adolescence comes a loss of childhood innocence and the intrusion into her perfect world of an unwanted stepmother and baby sister. These loud and chaotic presences, together with an act, as she perceives it, of unwarranted violence by her father, have a traumatic effect on Morgan. Sent by her father to get help-for the family has been trapped in a fall-out shelter for days-Morgan, a dwarf, goes instead on an odyssey into the unknown, seemingly hostile, world outside her home. Mourning the disappearance of magic from her life and realising for the first time that she is physically deformed, Morgan learns that only through love can she regain her empathy with the Silence and the ability to transcend the boundaries that enclose other people. In this, her first novel published in 1986, Sara Banerji has created a work of startling originality and beauty. Full of vivid images, Cobweb Walking is a perceptive story about shattered childhood dreams and the painful awakening to self-awareness.

In the Country
In the Country

Author: Mia Alvar

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0385352840

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In these nine globe-trotting tales, Mia Alvar gives voice to the women and men of the Philippines and its diaspora. From teachers to housemaids, from mothers to sons, Alvar’s stories explore the universal experiences of loss, displacement, and the longing to connect across borders both real and imagined. In the Country speaks to the heart of everyone who has ever searched for a place to call home—and marks the arrival of a formidable new voice in literature.