Yayas Story

Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022617896X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yaya's Story written by Paul Stoller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yaya’s Story is a book about Yaya Harouna, a Songhay trader originally from Niger who found a path to America. It is also a book about Paul Stoller—its author—an American anthropologist who found his own path to Africa. Separated by ethnicity, language, profession, and culture, these two men’s lives couldn’t be more different. But when they were both threatened by a grave illness—cancer—those differences evaporated, and the two were brought to profound existential convergence, a deep camaraderie in the face of the most harrowing of circumstances. Yaya’s Story is that story. Harouna and Stoller would meet in Harlem, at a bustling African market where Harouna built a life as an African art trader and Stoller was conducting research. Moving from Belayara in Niger to Silver Spring, Maryland, and from the Peace Corps to fieldwork to New York, Stoller recounts their separate lives and how the threat posed by cancer brought them a new, profound, and shared sense of meaning. Combining memoir, ethnography, and philosophy through a series of interconnected narratives, he tells a story of remarkable friendship and the quest for well-being. It’s a story of difference and unity, of illness and health, a lyrical reflection on human resiliency and the shoulders we lean on.

Author : Yaya Han
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 145493266X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yaya Han's World of Cosplay written by Yaya Han and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative guide to cosplay written by a legend in the community, and packed with step-by-step advice and fascinating investigations into every aspect of the art. Cosplay—a portmanteau combining "costume" and "play"—has become one of the hottest trends in fandom . . . and Yaya Han is its shining superstar. In this guide to cosplaying, Han narrates her 20-year journey from newbie fan to entrepreneur with a household name in geekdom, revealing her self-taught methods for embodying a character and her experiences in the community. Each chapter is information-packed as she covers everything from the history of cosplay, to using nontraditional materials for costumes, to transforming your hobby into a career—all enhanced with expert advice. Illustrated throughout and easy to use, this practical manual also delights with fascinating stories from the past decades' global cosplay boom. It's the perfect gift for anyone interested in learning (or improving their skills in) the art of cosplay.

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316088412
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ninth Ward (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Title) written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy house like her uptown family or lots of friends like the other kids on her street. But what she does have is Mama Ya-Ya, her fiercely loving caretaker, wise in the ways of the world and able to predict the future. So when Mama Ya-Ya's visions show a powerful hurricane--Katrina--fast approaching, it's up to Lanesha to call upon the hope and strength Mama Ya-Ya has given her to help them both survive the storm. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Boys and Towers Falling, Ninth Ward is a deeply emotional story about transformation and a celebration of resilience, friendship, and family--as only love can define it.

Author : Verlyn Klinkenborg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226443355
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Fine Time written by Verlyn Klinkenborg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swank nightspot serving highballs and French-fried shrimp to a generation of optimistic and prosperous Americans. In the inevitable dimming of the neon sign outside the restaurant, we see both the passing of an old world way of life and the end to the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time."

Author : Rebecca Wells
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060502256
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood written by Rebecca Wells and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends, family, depression.

Author : Nicola I. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926890098
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Day with Yayah written by Nicola I. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire family goes out for a romp in the woods picking mushrooms and herbs. Grandmother passes down her knowledge of plant life.

Author : Aurielle Marie
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988380
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gumbo Ya Ya written by Aurielle Marie and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie’s stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking reimagination of the world, one where no Black gxrl dies “by the barrel of the law” or “for loving another Black gxrl.” Part familial archival, part map of Black resistance, Gumbo Ya Ya catalogs the wide gamut of Black life at its intersections, with punching cultural commentary and a poetic voice that holds tenderness and sharpness in tandem. It asks us to chew upon both the rich meat and the tough gristle, and in doing so we walk away more whole than we began and thoroughly satisfied. Excerpt from “transhistorical for the x in my gxrls” What I mean is, this country is mine if only because from my mouth I spit its loam and unspun a noose. I won’t exploit the only metaphor they gave us willingly, and instead hunt for other vicious things to make a muse. I earned this country. I owe it nothing. With my infinite, infant hand, I manipulated a death sentence into a compound-complex one. from the umbilical, I bled a life worth writing down and in a century’s time, there will be another word created still for the weeping magic of this same story: a Black gxrl’s first breath.

Author : Shoshana Yarin
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662480342
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Story Time With YaYa written by Shoshana Yarin and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of storytelling reveals subtle or blatant truths that can be used as teaching tools for minds young and old. This is a unique collection of stories and poems intended for reading aloud, engaging both the reader and listener in creative imagination. Each story embeds a lesson that will hopefully plant a seed for future cultivation. These are simple enough stories for children often with a surprise ending yet poetic and dramatic enough for a storytelling voice.

Author : Tico Armand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578806075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Yaya written by Tico Armand and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventures of Yaya is a 12 book series written in English and Haitian Creole. The first of the 12 book series focus on Yaya and her family's every Sunday tradition, soup joumou at Nana Pola's backyard. Yaya is set to take us on an expedition unlike anything we have ever experienced embracing history, culture and language.

Author : Violet Favero
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781512133004
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silly Yaya written by Violet Favero and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you call your grandparents? Silly Yaya is a children's picture book written for children who do not call their grandparents the traditional grandma and grandpa. Instead, Silly Yaya tells the story of why "Each one (grandparent) needs their own special name. From family to family, they are not always the same." Explore the book with your child or grandchild to see if the names they call their grandparents are listed in the book. Find the special spot at the end that makes Silly Yaya a Keepsake Book.