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Author : Clare B. Dunkle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,47 MB
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805081091
After the mostly human Emily rejects the elvish Seylin's marriage proposal, both undertake separate quests to learn about their true natures and discover a royal elf and orphaned goblin to bring to the goblin kingdom.
Author : Susana M. Morris
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813935512
The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks. The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.
Author : Paul John Frandsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8763507781
For both ancient Egypt and Iran, as a cultural feature, incestuous relationships are usually dismissed on the grounds that they are only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as representatives for the divine on earth, or that the evidence for such relationships are unreliable. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. This work examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings, and between a parent and child, in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. The book restricts its examination to incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth arguments against the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.
Author : Marie Lecrivain
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781495105524
Author : Alfred Henry Huth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385255120
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Douglas W. Mock
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780674012851
Mock tells readers what scientists have discovered about the disturbing side of family conflice in the natural world. He offers a rare perspective on the family as testing ground for the evolutionary limits of selfishness.
Author : Ceridwen Dovey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101202734
Rarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two prestigious awards, this tale centers around a military coup in an unnamed country, with characters who have no names or any identifying physical characteristics. Known simply as the ex-President's chef, barber, and portrait painter, these three men perform their mundane tasks and appear unaware of the atrocities of their employer's regime. But when the President is deposed, the trio are revealed as less than innocent. A deeply chilling yet sensual novel, Blood Kin illustrates Lord Acton's famous quip, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely," and marks the beginning of an illustrious literary career.
Author : Alfred Henry Huth
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Consanguinity
ISBN :
Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822373785
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.
Author : Miljenko Jergovic
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1939810523
Kin is a dazzling family epic from one of Croatia's most prized writers. In this sprawling narrative which spans the entire twentieth century, Miljenko Jergović peers into the dusty corners of his family's past, illuminating them with a tender, poetic precision. Ordinary, forgotten objects - a grandfather's beekeeping journals, a rusty benzene lighter, an army issued raincoat - become the lenses through which Jergović investigates the joys and sorrows of a family living through a century of war. The work is ultimately an ode to Yugoslavia - Jergović sees his country through the devastation of the First World War, the Second, the Cold, then the Bosnian war of the 90s; through its changing street names and borders, shifting seasons, through its social rituals at graveyards, operas, weddings, markets - rendering it all in loving, vivid detail. A portrait of an era.