nebraska okt 1997 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When he opposes French colonialism in his native Africa, regal Behanzin is exiled to the far-off island of Martinique. In the course of her novel, renowned author Maryse Conde tells the story of Behanzin's scattered offspring and their lives in the Caribbean and the United States. She skillfully intertwines themes of exile, lost origins, and hope--with Africa hovering in the background. 204 pp.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For 20 years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. In THE UNDERWORLD SEWER, originally published in 1909, Washburn minces no words in exposing the conditions that perpetuate prostitution. With this knowing social history and commentary on human nature, Josie Washburn gives voice to the victims--mainly the women who sold their bodies. 368 pp.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reflecting no misty-eyed nostalgia, Frank Wilkeson's memoir of the Civil War is 'unlike most others by Civil War veterans, who tended to romanticize and sometimes to glorify their experiences, thus distorting the experiences they went through. . . . His emphasis on the seamy, unheroic, horrific side of war is a healthy corrective to romanticism'.--James M. McPherson, from his Introduction. 264 pp.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A palimpsest is 'a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible'. Originally published in France in 1982, Gerard Genette's PALIMPSESTS examines the manifold relationships a text may have with prior texts on the same document.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. This book questions whether 'the non-essentializing discourse of postmodernism [can] ever enable a genuine 'working through' to an understanding of the horror of the Holocaust'.