Living with Stories
Title | Living with Stories PDF eBook |
Author | William Schneider |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.
Living Stories of the Cherokee
Title | Living Stories of the Cherokee PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara R. Duncan |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780807847190 |
Traditional and modern stories by the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina reflect the tribe's religious beliefs and values, observations of animals and nature, and knowledge of history.
Living the Narrative Life
Title | Living the Narrative Life PDF eBook |
Author | Gian S. Pagnucci |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Education |
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The author demonstrates how narrative inquiry and analysis are valid and important parts of the English discipline, too much so to be lost to academic politicking.
Living on the Borderlines
Title | Living on the Borderlines PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Michal |
Publisher | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2019-02-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1936932474 |
“Michal’s debut is thoughtful and generous, capturing the fraught experience of being Native American in the modern U.S.” —Publishers Weekly Both on and off the rez, characters contend with identity as contemporary Haudenosaunee peoples; the stories “cross bloodlines, heart lines, and cultural lines, powerfully charting what it is to be human in a world that works to divide us” (Susan Power, author of Sacred Wilderness). In Living on the Borderlines, intergenerational memory and trauma slip into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother’s silences, a man contemplates what it means to preserve tradition in the wake of the “disappearing Indian” myth, and an older woman challenges her town’s prejudice while uniting an unlikely family. With these stories, debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Indigenous. “A beautiful window into understanding Indigenous worldviews . . . This book is an unapologetic contemporary perspective of the truth of healing through Indigenous storytelling.” —Sarah Eagle Heart, CEO of Native Americans in Philanthropy “Enlightening and thought-provoking, Michal’s stories are a pleasure to read and absorb.” —Booklist “Melissa Michal writes . . . with a power that will make you want to read and reread these stories.” —Brooklyn Rail “A hauntingly beautiful collection of stories of contemporary women and girls who live in the spaces between the reservations and traditional Indigenous territories and rural and urban communities . . . a stunning achievement.” —Nikki Dragone, visiting assistant professor of Native American studies, Dickinson College
Living with Voices
Title | Living with Voices PDF eBook |
Author | M. A. J. Romme |
Publisher | Gwasg y Bwthyn |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781906254223 |
Provides the evidence to show it's possible to overcome problems with hearing voices and take back control of one's life.
Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Title | Fifty Famous Stories Retold PDF eBook |
Author | James Baldwin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | History |
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Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin, first published in 1896, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Title | Stories of Your Life and Others PDF eBook |
Author | Ted Chiang |
Publisher | Knopf |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2010-10-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1931520895 |
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival