White Flights

White Flights

Author: Jess Row

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1555978819

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A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties “white flight”—the movement of white Americans into segregated communities, whether in suburbs or newly gentrified downtowns—to white writers setting their stories in isolated or emotionally insulated landscapes, from the mountains of Idaho in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping to the claustrophobic households in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. Row uses brilliant close readings of work from well-known writers such as Don DeLillo, Annie Dillard, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace to examine the ways these and other writers have sought imaginative space for themselves at the expense of engaging with race. White Flights aims to move fiction to a more inclusive place, and Row looks beyond criticism to consider writing as a reparative act. What would it mean, he asks, if writers used fiction “to approach each other again”? Row turns to the work of James Baldwin, Dorothy Allison, and James Alan McPherson to discuss interracial love in fiction, while also examining his own family heritage as a way to interrogate his position. A moving and provocative book that includes music, film, and literature in its arguments, White Flights is an essential work of cultural and literary criticism.


Black Flight

Black Flight

Author: Roger A. Forsyth

Publisher: Allcourt Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780971541412

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Exciting biography of West Indian born physician/aviator who experienced danger in order to open aviation to young blacks. Appeals to all ethnic groups by analyzing the factors that lead one person to act while others talk. Book incorporates universal factors such as genealogy, history and Travel. Tuskegee airmen owe their location choice of chief instructor to his efforts.


Flights of Fantasy

Flights of Fantasy

Author: Mercedes Lackey

Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780886778637

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A bestselling author and licensed wild bird rehabilitator has brought together original stories about fantastic flying creatures by such acclaimed writers as Mike Resnick, Diana Paxson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and S.M. Sirling. Lackey also includes her never-before-published novella.


Flights

Flights

Author: Olga Tokarczuk

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0525534199

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." — Washington Post From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going? we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.


Book of Flight

Book of Flight

Author: Judith E. Rinard

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554072927

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A guide to the world of flight documents the milestones in aviation history that changed the world, from the development of ballooning to the mission to Mars.


People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales

Author: Virginia Hamilton

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.


Creative Haven Butterflies Flights of Fancy Coloring Book

Creative Haven Butterflies Flights of Fancy Coloring Book

Author: Marjorie Sarnat

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0486845419

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Graceful winged creatures from every corner of the globe — including Africa, Asia, and North and South America — flutter across the pages of this breathtaking coloring book. Rendered in a wide range of glorious and imaginative styles, from Art Nouveau to psychedelic, 31 stunning butterfly designs are enriched with decorative floral arrangements that showcase Marjorie Sarnat's signature style. Pages are printed on one side only and perforated for easy removal. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Butterflies Flights of Fancy and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.


Stars in the Sky

Stars in the Sky

Author: Casey Grant

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781600475450

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"In all of the stories about aviation and its history, the stories of the first African American stewardesses have been left untold and unknown. We first took to the skies when flying was glamorous and exclusive, when little girls dreamt of being stewardesses, models, or movie stars. We rubbed elbows with the elite and traveled the world when few others could. We flew as pioneers in a global society long before the times of the Internet and globalizaiton. We also kept our heads high, facing down racial prejudice and discrimination. We lived as stars of the sky. I was one of the first African American stewardesses for Delta Air Lines, and I worked alongside other pioneers for almost thrity-five years as co-adventureres and friends. This book tells my story and theirs."--Author's notes.