Sacred Act of Reading. Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature, Paperback - Anne Margaret Castro

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to...

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Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

Reducere. Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to under...

DescriptionGloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejec...

Uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlappi...

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

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This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpre...

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Publisher: Red Wheel/WeiserAuthor(s): Stephanie Rose (Stephanie Rose Bird) BirdNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 22...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour ...

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This is a comprehensive resource for new language teachers and experienced professionals who wish to enhance their knowledge of working with studen...

Being human is a lifelong journey of becoming. This journey defines our humanity, for it is a journey toward our source and our fulfillment, descri...

Reducere. Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descen...

Reducere. Why don't more M tis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact M tis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chanta...

Reducere. The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly...

DescriptionIn this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on...

Through memories, photographs, maps and archives, Coley Talking tells the story of 19th and 20th-century life in one of Reading's poorest communiti...

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Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

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Reducere. A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berr...

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