Midnight Nation

Author : J. Michael Straczynski
Publisher : Top Cow Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781582402727
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Nation written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Top Cow Productions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A police officer in limbo goes on a cross-country search for his soul, but encounters some mighty obstacles along the way.

Author : Neil ten Kortenaar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773526153
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" written by Neil ten Kortenaar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil ten Kortenaar examines the key critical concepts associated with contemporary postcolonial theory, including hybridity, mimicry, national allegory, and cosmopolitanism, through a close reading of Salman Rushdie'sMidnight's Children. He offers successive readings of Rushdie's novel - first as an allegory of history, then as a Bildungsroman and psychological study of the burgeoning of a national consciousness, and, finally, as a representation of the nation.He shows that the hybridity of Rushdie's fictional India is not created by different elements combining to form a single whole but rather by the relations among the elements: Rushdie's India is more self-conscious than are communal identities based on langua it is haunted by a dark twin called Pakistan; it is a nation in the way England is a nation, but is imagined against Engl it mistrusts the openness of Tagore's Hindu India; and it is at once cosmopolitan and a particular subjective location. The citizen in turn is imagined in terms of the nation. Saleem Sinai's heroic identification of himself with the state is beaten out of him until at the end he sees himself as the Common Man at the mercy of the state.Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Childrenexplains the many historical and cultural references in a book that makes many demands on non-Indian readers and will be of interest to all who teach postcolonial and postmodern literature and to their students, graduate and undergraduate. Moreover, as an original argument about how nation-states are imagined and how national consciousness is formed in the citizen, it will be of interest to scholars in the area of cultural studies and postcolonial theory, whether in history, literature, cultural studies, or South Asian studies.

Author : J. Michael Straczynski
Publisher : Top Cow Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781582402727
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Nation written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Top Cow Productions. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A police officer in limbo goes on a cross-country search for his soul, but encounters some mighty obstacles along the way.

Author : Neil ten Kortenaar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571507
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" written by Neil ten Kortenaar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many non-Indian readers find the historical and cultural references in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children demanding. In his close reading of the novel, Neil ten Kortenaar offers post-colonial literary strategies for understanding Midnight's Children that also challenge some of the prevailing interpretations of the novel. Using hybridity, mimicry, national allegory, and cosmopolitanism, all key critical concepts of postcolonial theory, ten Kortenaar reads Midnight's Children as an allegory of history, as a Bildungsroman and psychological study of a burgeoning national consciousness, and as a representation of the nation. He shows that the hybridity of Rushdie's fictional India is not created by different elements forming a whole but by the relationship among them. Self, Nation, Text in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children also makes an original argument about how nation-states are imagined and how national consciousness is formed in the citizen. The protagonist, Saleem Sinai, heroically identifies himself with the state, but this identification is beaten out of him until, in the end, he sees himself as the Common Man at the mercy of the state. Ten Kortenaar reveals Rushdie's India to be more self-conscious than many communal identities based on language: it is an India haunted by a dark twin called Pakistan; a nation in the way England is a nation but imagined against England. Mistrusting the openness of Tagore's Hindu India, it is both cosmopolitan and a specific subjective location.

Author : Peter Storey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725293560
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protest at Midnight written by Peter Storey and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Let me say to President Botha: apartheid is doomed! It has been condemned in the councils of God, rejected by every nation on the planet and is no longer believed in by the people who gave it birth. Apartheid is the god that has failed . . . let not one more sacred life be offered on its blood-stained altar.” This is what Bishop Peter Storey preached in 1986 in the darkest hours of black suffering in a South Africa torn apart by racial oppression. Join him as a youthful chaplain to Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, defying armed police entering his pulpit, heading the SA Council of Churches with Bishop Desmond Tutu, leading 25,000 marchers against Johannesburg’s secret police headquarters, and confronting Winnie Mandela’s wrongs. Storey’s ministry was shaped by one simple question: “What does it mean to obey Jesus in apartheid South Africa?” This book tells of his answer and challenges the silence of American churches in the face of nationalism, systemic racism, and right-wing populism in the USA.

Author : J. Michael Straczynski
Publisher : Panini S.p.A.
ISBN 13 : 8891208183
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Nation Omnibus written by J. Michael Straczynski and published by Panini S.p.A.. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Il capolavoro di J. Michael Straczynski e Gary Frank in un'edizione ricca di contenuti speciali. Oltre ai dodici numeri della maxiserie, questo eBook presenta lo speciale 1/2, un’inedita postfazione del famoso scrittore e studi per la realizzazione delle tavole. L'edizione definitiva della storia di David Grey, poliziotto che dopo un incontro con alcune misteriose creature si trova in sospeso tra la vita e la morte. Accompagnato dall’enigmatica Laurel, comincerà un viaggio attraverso gli Stati Uniti per capire cosa gli è successo e cercare di recuperare l’anima.

Author : Reena Mitra
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126906888
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children written by Reena Mitra and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salman Rushdie S Midnight S Children, Ever Since Its Publication In 1980, Has Been Considered An Ingenious Piece Of Literary Art And A Trendsetter In The Field Of Indian Fiction In English. The Stupendous Success Of This Novel Broke All Previous Records And Rushdie Was Hailed As One Who Engendered A Whole New Generation Of Fiction Writers That Embraced Magical Realism As A Mode For The Depiction Of History. The Variant Mode Of The Portrayal Of Historical Reality That Rushdie Adopts In Midnight S Children Is Characteristically His Own And His Fantasizing Of Facts In This Novel Inspired A Host Of Other Writers To Offer, In Their Respective Works, Their Own Blends Of Fact And Fiction.Midnight S Children Is A Multi-Faceted Novel Which Lends Itself To Analysis From Various Angles And Perspectives. Be It From The Point Of View Of Structure Or Content, The Work Yields A Richness That Has Been Variously Explored By The Scholars Who Have Contributed To This Anthology Of Essays On It.

Author : Pradip Kumar Dey
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126909131
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children written by Pradip Kumar Dey and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Salman Rushdie Life, Works and Achievements 2. A Detailed Chapterwise Critical Analysis 3. Major Themes and Issues 4. Art of Characterization 5. Major Characters 6. Minor Characters 7. Narrative Techniques 8. Style, Trope and Symbol 9. Critical Reception of Midnight's Children 10. Some Model Questions Select Bibliography Index

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429996986
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Midnight Rising written by Tony Horwitz and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Library Journal Top Ten Best Books of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Bestselling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland, joined by his teenage daughter, three of his sons, and a guerrilla band that included former slaves and a dashing spy. On October 17, the raiders seized Harpers Ferry, stunning the nation and prompting a counterattack led by Robert E. Lee. After Brown's capture, his defiant eloquence galvanized the North and appalled the South, which considered Brown a terrorist. The raid also helped elect Abraham Lincoln, who later began to fulfill Brown's dream with the Emancipation Proclamation, a measure he called "a John Brown raid, on a gigantic scale." Tony Horwitz's riveting book travels antebellum America to deliver both a taut historical drama and a telling portrait of a nation divided—a time that still resonates in ours.

Author : M. L. Buchman
Publisher : Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1637210418
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Over at Midnight written by M. L. Buchman and published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They both came from the streets, now they must save a nation. “Best 5 romance of 2013!” – Eloisa James, Barnes & Noble Her father said Lola LaRue would grow up to be a stripper and a whore. Instead she became a top helicopter pilot for the Army’s secret Night Stalker regiment. Tim Maloney ran from his family to work in a chop shop, parting out stolen cars. Both their lives changed the day the planes flew into the World Trade Center. Little did they know that they’d have to come together to save their country from the next great attack. “Buchman proves his military romance prowess.” – RT Book Reviews “Buchman takes the military romance to a new standard of excellence.” – Booklist [Can be read stand-alone or in series. A complete happy-ever-after with no cliffhangers. Originally published in 2013. Re-edited 2021 for improved reader experience but still the same great story.] Buy now to join the military romance adventure.