The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

Author: Catherynne M. Valente

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0312649622

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After returning to Fairyland, September discovers that her stolen shadow has become the Hollow Queen, the new ruler of Fairyland Below, who is stealing the magic and shadows from Fairyland folk and refusing to give them back.


Blue Ridge Chronicles

Blue Ridge Chronicles

Author: Rex Bowman

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-04-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1625843488

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Many of the highlanders in Virginias western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty, and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Colorful characters abound, from folks in Independence who have a decades-old tradition of racing outhouses, to the brawlers in St. Paul who once gave the town a reputation for world-class wickedness, to the purveyors of Roanokes Texas Tavern who have never in seventy years put ketchup on their hamburgers. Blue Ridge Chronicles is a delightful look at how the lively have lived in Southwest Virginias backcountry.


The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul and Other Stories

Author: Jovita Gonzàlez Mireles

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781611923346

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The writer Jovita González was a long memeber- and ultimately seved as president- of Texas Folklore Society, which strve to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time. Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by González and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as "The Mescal-Drinking Horse"); Tales of Humans ("The Bullet-Swallower"); Tales of Popular Customs ("Shelling Corn by Moonlight); Religious Tales ("The Guadalupana Vine); Tales of Mexican Ancestrors ("Ambriosio the Indian); and Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasure ("The Woman Who Lost Her Soul"). Reyna also provides a helpful introduction that succinctly surveys the authors life and work, analyzing her writings within their historical and cultural contexts.


Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition

Author: Aimable Twagilimana

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1317732324

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This book examines the ways in which race and gender have shaped and continue to inform African American literature. African American texts create a black literary and cultural identity interpreting and recording the survival of their cultures shattered by years of slavery. Black women writers, who have to deal with both racism and sexism, use additional strategies to undo this double reduction. They strive to invent a new language to talk about their experience and their lives as black and as women. After a typology of the African American text, the book proposes a reading of major African American writers including Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.


In Bad Company, and other stories

In Bad Company, and other stories

Author: Rolf Boldrewood

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "In Bad Company, and other stories" by Rolf Boldrewood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.


The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Author: Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13:

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"The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories" by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson is a collection of tales that take readers into the Creole culture that thrived in New Orleans. This volume contains: The Goodness of Saint Rocque, Tony's Wife, The Fisherman of Pass Christian, M'sieu Fortier's Violin, By the Bayou St. John, When the Bayou Overflows, Mr. Baptiste, A Carnival Jangle, Little Miss Sophie, Sister Josepha, The Praline Woman, Odalie, La Juanita, and Titee.


Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance

Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance

Author: P. Outka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0230614493

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Drawing on theories of sublimity, trauma, and ecocriticism, this book examines how the often sharp division between European American and African American experiences of the natural world developed in American culture and history, and how those natural experiences, in turn, shaped the construction of race.