Collisions at the Crossroads

Collisions at the Crossroads

Author: Genevieve Carpio

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0520298837

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There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.


Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa

Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa

Author: H. C. Adams

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-10-04

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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In 'Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa' by H. C. Adams, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through the heart of South Africa. The book, written in a vivid and descriptive style, captures the essence of the African landscape and wildlife, as three young boys navigate through dangerous encounters and narrow escapes. Adams' detailed descriptions immerse readers in the literary context of 19th-century adventure novels, combining elements of coming-of-age stories with the excitement of exploration in a distant land. The fast-paced narrative keeps readers on the edge of their seats as the boys face countless challenges and overcome tremendous odds. H. C. Adams, known for his passion for travel and exploration, draws from his own experiences in South Africa to craft a story that is both entertaining and educational. His deep understanding of the African wilderness shines through in the rich tapestry of sights and sounds he weaves into the narrative, making 'Hair-Breadth Escapes' a compelling and authentic read. I highly recommend 'Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa' to readers who enjoy adventure stories set in exotic locations, as well as those interested in the historical and cultural aspects of South Africa. Adams' immersive storytelling and captivating characters make this book a must-read for fans of classic adventure literature.


Hi Lo to Hollywood

Hi Lo to Hollywood

Author: Max Evans

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780896724044

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From among his numerous publications, award-winning author Max Evans has selected his personal favorites. The more than thirty pieces include short novels, essays, short stories, introductions to other works, and magazine articles spanning several genres and most of his writing career. Through them all runs a common thread: the understanding of and love Evans has for the West and its peoples, and his ability to convey that understanding with humor and compassion. Included works: Short novels Xavier's Folly One Eyed Sky The Wild One Old Bum My Pardner Essays "Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance" "King John" "Long John Dunn" "Dinner with Frank Waters" "Riding the Outside Circle in Hollywood" "Many Deaths, Many Lives" "Song of the West" Short Stories "The Ultimate Giver" "Blizzard" "Don't Kill My Dog" "The Far Cry" "The Wooden Cove" "The Third Grade Reunion" "Sky of Gold" "A Man Who Never Missed" "Big Shad's Bridge" "The Call" Introductions and Forewords "Patricino Barela" "Some Sweet Day" "The Hi Lo Country" "Final Harvest and other Convictions and Opinions" "Rounders 3" Magazine Articles "The Cowboy and the Professor" "A Horse to Brag About" "Showdown at Hollywood Park" "The Wild Bunch" "The World's Strangest Creature" "Super Bull"


Featuring Post-national Spain

Featuring Post-national Spain

Author: Andrés Zamora

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1781383146

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In the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis- -vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in through all possible variations of the road and travel movie genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in Spanish cinema, taken as a collective discourse, which ties together these four cinematic topoi and proposes a nation whose specificity must be precisely its impurity-difference within as essence-a hybrid nation located in temporal and spatial rendezvous of past and present, tradition and novelty, centre and margin, inside and outside, on and beyond.


Q's Historical Legacy - XV - Escapades and Occasional Escapes

Q's Historical Legacy - XV - Escapades and Occasional Escapes

Author: N.P. Cooper

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-10-06

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 0244221677

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Now surpassed in fame as a writer by his daughter's best friend, Daphne du Maurier, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q') was the pre - eminent Cornish writer of Victorian &Edwardian literature and found of the school of English Literature at Cambridge and is of particular interest as many of his tales are based on factual events which have now passed from memory. Q wrote a huge number of apparently fictional tales but many were actually inspired by historical facts. This volume contains three tales involving adventure and romance relating escapades and an occasional lucky escape: - - 'Deadman's Rock? tells of the attempt by a Cornishman and, much later his son, to recover the family's fortunes involving trips to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and back to Cornwall and involves travel to foreign parts, romance, escapades and adventures. - ?The Hotwells Duel? is set in Regency Bath. - ?Rain of dollars? is set during the, Napoleonic, Peninsular Wars which inspired many of Q's adventure stories.


Africa

Africa

Author: Air University (U.S.). Library

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

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Around the Belt

Around the Belt

Author: Patricia Watters

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-06-24

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 1304167585

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I've lived in Oregon for over forty-five years, but if you ask me who I am in my heart, I'd have to say I'm still a southern girl from New Orleans. I guess you never lose those early roots. I also grew up during a time when life was much simpler. No stores were open on Sunday because that was a day for church and family. Christmas meant getting one main toy. I could ride my bicycle safely many blocks from home. A nickel candy bar was five inches long. Movies weren't rated because they were all made for family viewing. And TV was in its infancy so we found other more exciting things to do. Maybe this book will give you a snapshot back in time and a glimpse into the various escapades and misadventures of one little girl growing up in New Orleans in the 1940s and 50s. Fully Indexed.


Southern Frontier Humor

Southern Frontier Humor

Author: Thomas Inge

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2010-05-12

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0826272207

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If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of humor from that region published in fifteen years—and the first fresh selection of sketches and tales to appear in over forty years. Thomas Inge and Ed Piacentino bring their knowledge of and fondness for this genre to a collection that reflects the considerable body of scholarship that has been published on its major figures and the place of the movement in American literary history. They breathe new life into the subject, gathering a new selection of texts and adding Twain—the only major American author to contribute to and emerge from the movement—as well as several recently identified humorists. All of the major writers are represented, from Augustus Baldwin Longstreet to Thomas Bangs Thorpe, as well as a great many lesser-known figures like Hamilton C. Jones, Joseph M. Field, and John S. Robb. The anthology also includes several writers only recently discovered to be a part of the tradition, such as Joseph Gault, Christopher Mason Haile, James Edward Henry, and Marcus Lafayette Byrn, and features authors previously overlooked, such as William Gilmore Simms, Ham Jones, Orlando Benedict Mayer, and Adam Summer. Selections are timely, reflecting recent trends in literary history and criticism sensitive to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity. The editors have also taken pains to seek out first printings to avoid the kinds of textual corruptions that often occur in later versions of these sketches. Southern Frontier Humor offers students and general readers alike a broad perspective and new appreciation of this singular form of writing from the Old South—and provides some chuckles along the way.