On the Edge of the Rift
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContinuation of her "The flame trees of Thika". Tells of her return to Africa from England at end of World War I.
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Historicizing Colonial Nostalgia
Author: P. Lorcin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1137013044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia.
Written by Herself: Volume 2
Author: Jill Ker Conway
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 030779721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Herself, Vol. II represent three generations, four continents, and a range of experience that is equaled only by the diversity with which they transform life into literature. Here are England's Vera Brittain, commemorating the deaths of the men she loved in the carnage of World War I; Emma Mashinini, who endured imprisonment and torture as a labor organizer in South Africa; Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the daughter of Indian aristocracy who became an architect of her country's independence; and Edith Mirante, the wisecracking American whose passion for justice took her to the opium trails of Burma. Collected in this stirring volume, their voices demonstrate the ways in which women strive for power, inclusion, and autonomy-- and never fail to move, inspire, and instruct us. Contributors include: Margery Perham,Isak Dinesen,Shudha Mazumdar,Vivian Gornick, Vera Brittain, Elspeth Huxley, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Angelica Garnett, Emma Mashinini, Meena Alexander, Edith Mirante, Mary Benson, and Ruth First.
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village
Author: Ginger Nolan
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2018-07-10
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 1452957053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan The term “global village”—coined in the 1960s by Marshall McLuhan—has persisted into the twenty-first century as a key trope of techno-humanitarian discourse, casting economic and technical transformations in a utopian light. Against that tendency, this book excavates the violent history, originating with techniques of colonial rule in Africa, that gave rise to the concept of the global village. To some extent, we are all global villagers, but given the imbalances of semiotic power, some belong more thoroughly than others. Reassessing McLuhan’s media theories in light of their entanglement with colonial and neocolonial techniques, Nolan implicates various arch-paradigms of power (including “terra-power”) in the larger prerogative of managing human populations. Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Kenya
Author: Dalvan M. Coger
Publisher: Oxford, England : Clio Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the beginning of the century Kenya was regarded as little more than a corridor to Uganda: since that time, however, it has made a spectacular success of its social and economic development. Indeed, since gaining its independence in 1963, this ethnically divided nation has remained an 'island' of relative political stability amidst its East African neighbours. This fully-revised volume contains substantial literature on the indigenous population, as well as material about the residents and citizens of European and Asian origins.
Their Shining Eldorado
Author: Elspeth Huxley
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravelog information on Australia's cities, territories, industrial and desert lands, peoples and wildlife, from Sydney to the South of Capricorn.
Third World Women's Literatures
Author: Barbara Fister
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-09-14
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0313032777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference volume serves as a companion to Third World women's literatures in English and in English translation by presenting entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. What plays have been written by women in the developing world? What books have been written by Sri Lankan or Brazilian women? Which works address themes of feminism or exile or politics in the Third World? These are the types of questions that can now be answered through Fister's companion to Third World women's literatures in English and English translation. Organized alphabetically, this reference volume presents entries on works, writers, and themes. Entries are chosen to present a balance of well-known writers and emerging ones, contemporary as well as historical writers, and representative selections of genres, literary styles, and themes. By providing information about and leads to works by and about Third World women, an important and largely marginalized literature, Fister has created a unique reference tool that will help teachers, scholars, and librarians, both public and academic, expand their definitions of the literary, making the voices of Third World women available in the same format in which many companions to Western literature do. An important book for all public and college-level libraries.
Something about the Author
Author: Anne Commire
Publisher: Something about the Author
Published: 1990-10
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780810322721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeries covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.
Adult Catalog: Authors
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by Herself: Women's Memoirs from Britain, Africa, Asia, and the United States
Author: Jill K. Conway
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 712
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The bestselling author of The Road from Coorain presents an extraordinarily powerful anthology of the autobiographical writings of 25 women, literary predecessors and contemporaries that include Jane Addams, Zora Neale Hurst, Harriet Jacobs, Ellen Glasgow, Maya Angelou, Sara Josephine Baker, Margaret Mead, Gloria Steinem, and Maxine Hong Kingston."--Provided by publisher.
