The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Title | The Unnatural and Accidental Women PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Clements |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Surrealist dramatization of a notorious case involving mysterious deaths on Vancouver's Skid Row. Cast of 11 women and 2 men.
Burning Vision
Title | Burning Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Clements |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Miners, people of Hiroshima, and others labour under the false sun of uranium. Cast of 5 women and 12 men.
Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America
Title | Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America PDF eBook |
Author | Deena Rymhs |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2018-12-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0429620357 |
Roads, Mobility, and Violence in Indigenous Literature and Art from North America explores mobility, spatialized violence, and geographies of activism in a diverse archive of literary and visual art by Indigenous authors and artists. Building on Raymond Williams’s observation that "traffic is not only a technique; it is a form of consciousness and a form of social relations," this book pulls into focus racial, sexual, and environmental violence localized around roads. Reading this archive of texts next to lived struggles over spatial justice, Rymhs argues that roads are spaces of complex signification. For many Indigenous communities, the road has not often been so open. Recent Indigenous writing and visual art explores this tension between mobility and confinement. Drawing primarily on the work of Marie Clements, Tomson Highway, Marilyn Dumont, Leanne Simpson, Richard Van Camp, Kent Monkman, and Louise Erdrich, this volume examines histories of uprooting and violence associated with roads. Along with exploring these fraught histories of mobility, this book emphasizes various ways in which Indigenous communities have transformed roads into sites of political resistance and social memory.
The Girls Who Went Away
Title | The Girls Who Went Away PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Fessler |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2007-06-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0143038974 |
The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. “It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” —The Washington Post “A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.
The Accidental Empire
Title | The Accidental Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Gershom Gorenberg |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 2007-03-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466800542 |
The untold story, based on groundbreaking original research, of the actions and inactions that created the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories After Israeli troops defeated the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in June 1967, the Jewish state seemed to have reached the pinnacle of success. But far from being a happy ending, the Six-Day War proved to be the opening act of a complex political drama, in which the central issue became: Should Jews build settlements in the territories taken in that war? The Accidental Empire is Gershom Gorenberg's masterful and gripping account of the strange birth of the settler movement, which was the child of both Labor Party socialism and religious extremism. It is a dramatic story featuring the giants of Israeli history—Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Levi Eshkol, Yigal Allon—as well as more contemporary figures like Ariel Sharon, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres. Gorenberg also shows how the Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations turned a blind eye to what was happening in the territories, and reveals their strategic reasons for doing so. Drawing on newly opened archives and extensive interviews, Gorenberg reconstructs what the top officials knew and when they knew it, while weaving in the dramatic first-person accounts of the settlers themselves. Fast-moving and penetrating, The Accidental Empire casts the entire enterprise in a new and controversial light, calling into question much of what we think we know about this issue that continues to haunt the Middle East.
Copper Thunderbird
Title | Copper Thunderbird PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Clements |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
A multilayered drama based on the persona of famed Ojibwa artist Norval Morrisseau. Cast of 5 women and 4 men.
Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots
Title | Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots PDF eBook |
Author | Monique Mojica |
Publisher | Canadian Scholars’ Press |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780889611658 |
"An angry, humorous and loving search for the truth behind the myth and legend of the 'Indian princess.' With her powerful words, Monique Mojica lays bare the hearts and minds of Pocahontas, Malinche, Sacajawea and the uncounted native women who first met and fought the European invasion of our lands. Moving across and through time, Mojica engages our imagination, our spirit, and invites us to witness this time-travel of exploding illusions and delusions, to the triumph and honesty of survival"-Beth Brant-- Back cover.