Infamous Bodies
Infamous Bodies

Author: Samantha Pinto

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1478009284

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The countless retellings and reimaginings of the private and public lives of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta have transformed them into difficult cultural and black feminist icons. In Infamous Bodies, Samantha Pinto explores how histories of these black women and their ongoing fame generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Drawing on a variety of media, cultural, legal, and critical sources, Pinto shows how the narratives surrounding these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century celebrities shape key political concepts such as freedom, consent, contract, citizenship, and sovereignty. Whether analyzing Wheatley's fame in relation to conceptions of race and freedom, notions of consent in Hemings's relationship with Thomas Jefferson, or Baartman's ability to enter into legal contracts, Pinto reveals the centrality of race, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political rights. In so doing, she contends that feminist theories of black women's vulnerable embodiment can be the starting point for future progressive political projects.

Notorious Identity
Notorious Identity

Author: Linda Charnes

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780674627802

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Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, were significant figures before Shakespeare revitalized them on stage. When he did, Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore the emergence of a new kind of fame, "notorious identity".

The Fantastic and Terrible Fame of Classroom 13
The Fantastic and Terrible Fame of Classroom 13

Author: Honest Lee

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0316464597

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As heard by kids everywhere on the Echo Dot Kids Edition, the Classroom 13 books are a hilarious new chapter book series-perfect for reluctant readers and fans of Roald Dahl, Captain Underpants, and Sideways Stories from Wayside School. The Fantastic and Terrible Fame of Classroom 13 is the third title in a series about the students of a very unlucky classroom. The easy-to-read chapters are full of humor, action, secret codes, and fun-and will prompt hours of conversation among friends, families, and classmates. The final chapter encourages young readers to write their own chapter and send it in to the author, Honest Lee. When famous agent Lucy LaRoux drops by Classroom 13, she makes an offer no one can refuse-she makes all of the students FAMOUS. You might think this was sweet, but it was not. It was selfish. (Lucy wants their money.) With great fame comes frightening stage fright, broken bones, rotten reality television, and other awful accidents. As the students of Classroom 13 are about to learn, being famous (or infamous) isn't always fun.

The Criminal Law Magazine
The Criminal Law Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1882

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13:

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Containing original articles on timely topics, full reports of important cases, and a digest of all recent criminal cases, American and English.

η-CRYPTIC
η-CRYPTIC

Author: Andrew Morris

Publisher: XinXii

Published: 2022-03-11

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 3986466762

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Encryption is the bedrock of modern technology and the digital world relies on it. But it is only maths, and maths never stops changing. Lucy has a talent, like her ancestors before, and someone wants to use that. What will they do to get her, and as a child of the new millennium how will she reply? Reality, like truth, is something many demand but few actually want.

Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Author: Viviane Forrester

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-05-19

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0231535120

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Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Virginia Woolf: A Portrait blends recently unearthed documents, key primary sources, and personal interviews with Woolf's relatives and other acquaintances to render in unmatched detail the author's complicated relationship with her husband, Leonard; her father, Leslie Stephen; and her half-sister, Vanessa Bell. Forrester connects these figures to Woolf's mental breakdown while introducing the concept of "Virginia seule," or Virginia alone: an uncommon paragon of female strength and conviction. Forrester's biography inhabits her characters and vivifies their perspective, weaving a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.