Disturbers of the Peace
Title | Disturbers of the Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Baker Josephs |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013-10-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813935075 |
Exploring the prevalence of madness in Caribbean texts written in English in the mid-twentieth century, Kelly Baker Josephs focuses on celebrated writers such as Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul, and Derek Walcott as well as on understudied writers such as Sylvia Wynter and Erna Brodber. Because mad figures appear frequently in Caribbean literature from French, Spanish, and English traditions—in roles ranging from bit parts to first-person narrators—the author regards madness as a part of the West Indian literary aesthetic. The relatively condensed decolonization of the anglophone islands during the 1960s and 1970s, she argues, makes literature written in English during this time especially rich for an examination of the function of madness in literary critiques of colonialism and in the Caribbean project of nation-making. In drawing connections between madness and literature, gender, and religion, this book speaks not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to colonial and postcolonial literature in general. The volume closes with a study of twenty-first-century literature of the Caribbean diaspora, demonstrating that Caribbean writers still turn to representations of madness to depict their changing worlds.
Disturber of the Peace
Title | Disturber of the Peace PDF eBook |
Author | William Manchester |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780870235443 |
A Disturber of the Peace
Title | A Disturber of the Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Amos Augustus Phelps |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | |
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Disturber of the Peace
Title | Disturber of the Peace PDF eBook |
Author | William Manchester |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1962 |
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These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace
Title | These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan McConville |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780812218596 |
Jason Robert Brown's contemporary musical is honest and intimate, with an exuberantly romantic score. It takes a bold look at one young couple's hope that love can endure the test of time.
Disturber of the Peace ; the Life of H. L. Mencken, by William Manchester. With an Introduction by Gerald W. Johnson
Title | Disturber of the Peace ; the Life of H. L. Mencken, by William Manchester. With an Introduction by Gerald W. Johnson PDF eBook |
Author | William Manchester |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1951 |
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ISBN |
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin
Title | The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin PDF eBook |
Author | Leonid Solovʹev |
Publisher | Translit Publishing |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2010-01-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0981269516 |
Returning to Bukhara after a prolonged exile, Hodja Nasreddin finds his family gone, his home destroyed, and his city in the grasp of corrupt and greedy rulers who have brought pain and suffering upon the common folk. But Hodja Nasreddin is not one to bow to oppression or abandon the downtrodden. Though he is armed only with his quick wits and his donkey, all the swords, walls, and dungeons in the land cannot stop him! Leaning on his own experiences and travels during the first half of the 20th century, Leonid Solovyov weaves the many stories and anecdotes about Hodja Nasreddin - a legendary folk character in the Middle East and Central Asia - into a masterful tale brimming with passionate love for life, liberty, and happiness.