Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1438448368

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This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides original and insightful readings of six experimental/postmodern African American texts: John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire; Percival Everett's Erasure; Toni Morrison's Jazz; Bonnie Greer's Hanging by Her Teeth; Clarence Major's Reflex and Bone Structure; and Xam Wilson Cartiér's Muse-Echo Blues. Using traditional cultural and western forms, including the blues, jazz, voodoo, virtuality, radical democracy, Jungian/African American Collective Unconscious, Yoruba gods, black folk culture, and black working class culture, Hogue reveals that these authors uncover spaces with different definitions of life that still retain a wildness and have not been completely mapped out and trademarked by normative American culture. Redefining the African American novel and the African American outside the logic, rules, and values of western binary reason, these writers leave open the possibility of psychic liberation of African Americans in the West.


Clarence Major and His Art

Clarence Major and His Art

Author: Bernard W. Bell

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780807848999

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Offers a collection of Clarence Major's poetry, fiction, and art, providing critical interpretations alongside each selection.


Temporomandibular Disorders

Temporomandibular Disorders

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 0309670489

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Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), are a set of more than 30 health disorders associated with both the temporomandibular joints and the muscles and tissues of the jaw. TMDs have a range of causes and often co-occur with a number of overlapping medical conditions, including headaches, fibromyalgia, back pain and irritable bowel syndrome. TMDs can be transient or long-lasting and may be associated with problems that range from an occasional click of the jaw to severe chronic pain involving the entire orofacial region. Everyday activities, including eating and talking, are often difficult for people with TMDs, and many of them suffer with severe chronic pain due to this condition. Common social activities that most people take for granted, such as smiling, laughing, and kissing, can become unbearable. This dysfunction and pain, and its associated suffering, take a terrible toll on affected individuals, their families, and their friends. Individuals with TMDs often feel stigmatized and invalidated in their experiences by their family, friends, and, often, the health care community. Misjudgments and a failure to understand the nature and depths of TMDs can have severe consequences - more pain and more suffering - for individuals, their families and our society. Temporomandibular Disorders: Priorities for Research and Care calls on a number of stakeholders - across medicine, dentistry, and other fields - to improve the health and well-being of individuals with a TMD. This report addresses the current state of knowledge regarding TMD research, education and training, safety and efficacy of clinical treatments of TMDs, and burden and costs associated with TMDs. The recommendations of Temporomandibular Disorders focus on the actions that many organizations and agencies should take to improve TMD research and care and improve the overall health and well-being of individuals with a TMD.


Sports-related Fractures, Dislocations and Trauma

Sports-related Fractures, Dislocations and Trauma

Author: Morteza Khodaee

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-16

Total Pages: 995

ISBN-13: 3030367908

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This exciting, user-friendly text covers everything sports medicine and emergency clinicians need to know when encountering sports-related injuries and trauma, whether on the field or in the office. Divided into eight thematic sections, all aspects of musculoskeletal and other trauma care are described in detail, with each chapter including key points for quick reference. The opening section presents general approaches to sports-related trauma, from initial evaluation and acute management to stabilization, anesthesia and imaging. The different types of fractures and dislocations, as well as musculoskeletal healing complications, are covered in part two. The next three sections then take in-depth looks at bone and joint trauma in the upper extremity, lower extremity and axial skeleton, respectively. Soft tissue and other sports-related trauma comprise parts six and seven - from tendons, ligaments, nerves and more to chest, head and facial injuries. The final and largest section presents sports-specific injuries, covering more than 30 individual and team activities from baseball, basketball and hockey to swimming, sailing and triathalon. Throughout, copious figures, photographs and tables enhance and advance the content for a complete, well-rounded examination of the field. Comprehensive but not complex, Sports-related Fractures, Dislocations and Trauma is a practical, high-yield manual for sports medicine and emergency care specialists, primary care physicians and any other professionals caring for athletes both on the field and in the office.


Postmodernist Fiction

Postmodernist Fiction

Author: Brian McHale

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1134949170

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In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertakes to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompasses forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New Novel, concrete prose and science fiction. Considering a variety of theoretical approaches including those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, and Hrushovski, McHale shows that the common denominator is postmodernist fiction's ability to thrust its own ontological status into the foreground and to raise questions about the world (or worlds) in which we live. Exploiting various theoretical approaches to literary ontology - those of Ingarden, Eco, Dolezel, Pavel, Hrushovski and others - and ranging widely over contemporary world literature, McHale assembles a comprehensive repertoire of postmodernist fiction's strategies of world-making and -unmaking.


A Physiological Handbook for Teachers of Yogasana

A Physiological Handbook for Teachers of Yogasana

Author: Mel Robin

Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 1587360330

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This illustrated handbook attempts to reconcile the quantitative, objective observations of Western Medicine with the qualitative, subjective observations of Eastern Yoga.


Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology, Revised and Expanded

Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology, Revised and Expanded

Author: Mildred Carter

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002-07-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0735203520

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Mildred Carter’s reflexology techniques have helped millions of people all over the world live happy, healthy lives, gloriously free of pain and discomfort. Simple, safe, and effective, her time-tested methods of rubbing, pressing, stroking, and massaging away illness provide blessed relief from dozens of aliments. Now, you too can join over 550,000 readers who have already benefited from Mrs. Carter’s natural way to good health in Healing Yourself with Foot Reflexology. Revised and updated with seven completely new chapters and over 100 illustrations, this easy-to-use guide reveals how you can utilize simple foot reflex massage techniques to achieve quick, natural relief from such common ailments as: · Arthritis · Back pain · Bronchitis · Eye problems · Fatigue · Heart problems · Leg cramps · Menopause problems · Prostate problems · Sciatica · Sore throat · Stress · Ulcers · And many more! Dozens of helpful charts and line drawings pinpoint the strategic reflex points in the foot that connect to the heart, the major organs, the glands, and the nervous system, and show you, step by step, how to employ foot reflexology to both relieve specific illnesses as well as boost your general health and vitality. Read remarkable case histories of men and women who eliminated their pain and suffering with the help of Mrs. Carter’s natural science techniques. As thousands of satisfied people can attest, the powerful healing forces of reflex therapy will put you on the road to renewed health, vigor, and youthfulness!