Two powerful brothers, separated at birth, find each other after being tortured and turned into vampire killing machines by sinister forces for use as weapons of Dark Ages warfare. They were fierce when starved and then unleashed into battle and slaughtered an astonishing many. But while being immortal, they were not immune to manipulation, lies, betrayal, or their own growing desires for truth and morality in a brutal world. Upon further transformation into creatures even more powerful than all the vampire elders, they struggle in their quest to maintain peaceful lives across history, from Medieval times to Nazi Berlin and present day USA, searching for answers to existence. Neither one wanted to be monsters, but was there a way to use their powers for good?
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier—the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other’s texts—continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western “mythic” tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon’s analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future.
Wren Kergatha defeats Hecate and reclaims her family only to face new challenges. The Kriar have infiltrated Starholme. Then her mentor in G'yaki combat, Vera, suffers a breakdown. As if that's not enough, her grandmother Idun the pantheon lady wants to start a god war. While Wren embraces her Aesir heritage, becoming a general like her mother and grandmother, she fights a ground war in the quest to locate Vera's G'yaki clan. Only then will decades-old wounds heal. Alas, being far stronger and accompanied by an army of allies doesn't stop Wren's enemies from causing trouble. The only way to set matters right with Vera, herself and her family is to battle dragons, gods, and even a rogue member of the firsts.
This compelling book argues that American patriotism is a civil religion of blood sacrifice, which periodically kills its children to keep the group together. The flag is the sacred object of this religion; its sacrificial imperative is a secret which the group keeps from itself to survive. Expanding Durkheim's theory of the totem taboo as the organizing principle of enduring groups, Carolyn Marvin uncovers the system of sacrifice and regeneration which constitutes American nationalism, shows why historical instances of these rituals succeed or fail in unifying the group, and explains how mass media are essential to the process. American culture is depicted as ritually structured by a fertile center and sacrificial borders of death. Violence plays a key part in its identity. In essence, nationalism is neither quaint historical residue nor atavistic extremism, but a living tradition which defines American life.
This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a carefully negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes. The author shows how these basic ideas can be found in the ritualized and institutional aspects of the Yafar's social life, as well as their mythology. Rich in detail and insight, this book fully documents the Yafar's complex ritual involving a symbolic exchange with the spirit world, a secret cult, and curing rites presided over by hereditary religious officials. The author's analysis of Yafar ideologies reveals that sexual reproduction is the key to their society and the model for continuity and regeneration prescribed by nature.
The fourth book in Tracy Cooper-Posey's vampire menage urban fantasy romance series. To save their world, vampires and humans must fight together…against the deadliest enemy ever unleashed. Nial, leader of the vampires, assembles his loyal followers yet again—and this time they must not fail. For the mythic Blood Stone has been broken and doomsday evil unleashed upon the world of humans in the form of The Others. To save the innocents, Nial and his kind must lift a centuries’ old veil of secrecy, revealing who they truly are. This has never gone well in the past—will it be different this time? Maybe, if three unlikely heroes can be convinced to join the fight. When an action movie star, a deaf empath and an ex-soldier join forces, the action explodes—both on the battle front and in the bedroom. Patrick Sauvage, Hollywood A-list actor, ‘comes out’ as a vampire. Good thing he’s learned a few extra skills as an action star—because he needs a new career. What actress wants to star opposite a guy who gives new meaning to the term ‘drop dead gorgeous’? Dominic Castellano lost his hearing in a freak accident—and everything he loved along with it. But he has other talents to wield in the coming war—he can now sense what others can’t. And his charisma casts a spell on both Patrick and the third member of their triad. Blythe Murray, LA single mom and ex-soldier, would rather forget her military service—but she’ll resurrect it when The Others invade their city. She’ll give her all to fight evil, and protect her children. But no human woman can withstand the powerful and instant bond between her, Patrick and Dominic. The world is at war, the future uncertain, the enemy nearly unstoppable—so why fight the best thing they’ve ever found? The three can only hope it will be enough to carry them through the devastation to come. READER ADVISORY: Contains frequent, explicit, heart-stopping MMF sex between two sexy alpha heroes and their feisty heroine, including ménage and anal. Also contains some violence, but no actual vampires were harmed in the making of this novel. __ This book is part of the Blood Stone Series 1.0: Blood Knot (#1 Amazon Best Seller, Fantasy Romance) 1.5: Amor Meus (Blood Drops Collection)* 2.0: Blood Stone 3.0: Blood Unleashed 4.0: Blood Revealed 5.0: Blood Ascendant 6.0: Flesh + Blood (Series Boxed Set) [*Blood Drops are short and novella length stories featuring the characters and situations in the Blood Stone series. Droplet sized morsels for your reading pleasure.] __ Praise for Blood Revealed: The threat of the Others was practically tangible…she did a really good job of creating a scary ass monster. Oh my when Tracy Cooper-Posey goes for it she goes all in. This is intense. Blood Revealed continues the tradition of suspense, love, wonderfully beautiful ménage scenes, and character development that makes you wish you knew these people in person instead of them only being in a book. As always a seatbelt is required for a story from Tracy!! bisexual menage, collection, vampire romance, historical romance, jewel thief, menage a trois romance m f m m, menage romance MFM with MM, mmf romance, mmf romance novels, mmf series, mmf threesome romance, novella romance, paranormal menage, paranormal menage romance series for adults, romance vampire, sexy romance, suspense romance, urban fantasy, urban fantasy menage, urban fantasy romance, vampire menage, vampire menage romance series, vampire menage urban fantasy romance, vampire romance, vampire romance erotic, vampire romance for adults, vampire romance menage,
Blood, in Gil AnidjarÕs argument, maps the singular history of Christianity. A category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining, Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought, from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. The prevalence of blood in the social, juridical, and political organization of the modern West signals that we do not live in a secular age into which religion could return. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and theology, and kinship and race. It demonstrates that what we think of as modern is in fact imbued with Christianity. Christianity, Blood fiercely argues, must be reconsidered beyond the boundaries of religion alone.
This volume gathers together sixteen seminal articles, all written by leading scholars, which articulate and effectuate the influence of Derrida's scholarship on the field of law. The articles included in this collection are underpinned by the authors' shared belief that the intellectual challenges posed by Derrida's work to legal scholarship are as challenging as they are pressing and as profound as they are inescapable. In addition to a thorough introduction addressing salient aspects of Jacques Derrida's engagement with law, this book comes with an extensive bibliography of sources in English. This provides the reader with a carefully selected list of more than one hundred texts, all of which serve as introductory pathways to Derrida's philosophy and in particular to the interaction between Derrida and law. A fine reminder of the trans-disciplinary influence of Jacques Derrida's thought, this landmark collection is destined to generate substantial interest in philosophy departments and law schools alike.
