Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness and clarify identity and subjectivity.
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual and conducive for healing and clarifying Africana diasporic consciousness.
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph provides the fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women's writing. Eavan Boland's achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the ......
While eating is a universal experience, for Singaporeans it carries strong national connotations. The popular Singaporean-English phrase "Die die must try" is not so much hyperbole as it is a reflection of the lengths that Singaporeans will go to find great dishes.
In Eating Her Curries and Kway: A Cultural History of Food in ......
This book tells the story of Liu's life under Mao and her subsequent struggle to achieve a better life in America. It sheds light on the monumental changes Chinese society experienced in the last century.
Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession
This book examines the life and career of librarian, educator and activist E.J Josey. During Josey's professional life, which spanned fifty-five years, he worked as a librarian (1953-1966), an administrator of library services (1966-1986), and as a professor of library science (1986-1995).
Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion
Explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of todays black political agenda
Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion
Explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of today's black political agenda
An Introduction to African American Religious History
This book provides an overview of African American religious history from the African traditional religions, slavery, the development of black churches, new black religious movements, and the Civil Rights movement to the emergence of black megachurches. It also examines issues and challenges facing the study of African American religion today.
