Mutinous Women

Author : Joan DeJean
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541600592
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mutinous Women written by Joan DeJean and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the Mississippi. It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export: women. Falsely accused of sex crimes, these women were prisoners, shackled in the ship’s hold. Of the 132 women who were sent this way, only 62 survived. But these women carved out a place for themselves in the colonies that would have been impossible in France, making advantageous marriages and accumulating property. Many were instrumental in the building of New Orleans and in settling Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, and Mississippi. Drawing on an impressive range of sources to restore the voices of these women to the historical record, Mutinous Women introduces us to the Gulf South’s Founding Mothers.

Author : Dr. Amna Shamim
Publisher : Idea Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book GYNOCENTRIC CONTOURS OF THE MALE IMAGINATION: A STUDY OF THE NOVELS OF CHINUA ACHEBE AND NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O written by Dr. Amna Shamim and published by Idea Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is upon the changing perception of women in African society and their portrayal over different periods in the novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o; the writers who intriguingly wrote on the constant changing role of African women in Igbo and Gikuyu clans. The book dicusses the image of African women entrapped in double jeopardy in both traditional and modern Africa. There has been a remarkable transformation in the representation of women from the early novels to the later novels of both the writers that has been studied in this book from close quarters. The approach and technique of the novelists in projecting their female characters has also been analyzed. The novels of both the writers marked a sea change in the thinking and perception of Westerners with reference to Africa and its people. This work is devoted to the exploration of the image of women in the East and West African societies through the selected novels of Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

Author : Jonathan Orr-Stav
Publisher : Energion Publications
ISBN 13 : 0981133819
Total Pages : 2471 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SimHebrew Bible written by Jonathan Orr-Stav and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 2471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SimHebrew Bible makes reading, searching, and learning the Hebrew Bible much easier for non-Hebrew readers. SimHebrew is an exact simulation of the fully spelled Hebrew text of the Bible. Readers of the Latin character set who are not versed in the square text will find both ease and pleasure in learning the Bible in its original tongue without any of the difficulties encountered when facing the traditional right-to-left text. The technique gives a true insight into the linguistic features of the Hebrew – in particular, its economy of language, wordplay, repetition of the same word in different contexts, and above all, the root structure of its words. This Bible also allows easy searching in both Hebrew and English including a full glossary and links to a corresponding online concordance. The combination makes both the Hebrew language and the translation decisions in the English guide fully transparent.

Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813950449
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature written by Katherine Mannheimer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, however—including plays—flourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the way drama was written thereafter? As Katherine Mannheimer demonstrates, the plays of the following decades exhibited a distinct self-consciousness of drama’s status as a singular art form that straddled both page and stage. Scholars have commented on how the ban on live performance changed the way consumers read plays, but no previous book has addressed how this upheaval changed the way dramatists wrote them. In Restoration Drama and the Idea of Literature, Mannheimer argues that Restoration playwrights recognized and exploited the tension between print and performance inherent to all drama. By repeatedly and systematically manipulating this tension, these authors’ works sought to court the reader while at the same time also challenging emergent concepts of "literature" that privileged textuality and print culture over the performing body and the live voice.

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429900628
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fludd written by Hilary Mantel and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action. Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.

Author : I.M. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134406592
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecstatic Religion written by I.M. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Richard Bentley
Publisher : Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN 13 : 1935259229
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greenbeard written by Richard Bentley and published by Exterminating Angel Press. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates vs. Aliens!

Author : Lynn Stephen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292777163
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Social Movements in Latin America written by Lynn Stephen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's grassroots activism in Latin America combines a commitment to basic survival for women and their children with a challenge to women's subordination to men. Women activists insist that issues such as rape, battering, and reproductive control cannot be divorced from women's concerns about housing, food, land, and medical care. This innovative, comparative study explores six cases of women's grassroots activism in Mexico, El Salvador, Brazil, and Chile. Lynn Stephen communicates the ideas, experiences, and perceptions of women who participate in collective action, while she explains the structural conditions and ideological discourses that set the context within which women act and interpret their experiences. She includes revealing interviews with activists, detailed histories of organizations and movements, and a theoretical discussion of gender, collective identity, and feminist anthropology and methods.

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625212
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jackson, Crockett and Houston on the American Frontier written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1813 storming of Fort Mims by Creek Indians brought to light the careers of Andrew Jackson, David Crockett and Sam Houston. All three fought the Creeks and each would have his part to play two decades later when the Alamo was stormed during the fight for Texan independence from Mexico. President Jackson was the first head of state to recognize the fledgling Republic of Texas. Colonel Crockett would be enshrined as a folk hero for his stand at the Alamo. General Houston won Texan independence at San Jacinto in 1836. This book tells the stories of the two landmark battles—at Fort Mims and the Alamo—and the interwoven lives of Jackson, Crockett and Houston, three of the most fascinating men in American history.

Author : London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charter; a Comical Satyr [occasioned by the New Charter of the City of London]. Written by an Unknown Hand written by London and published by . This book was released on 1682 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: