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Scarring the Black Body

Race and Representation in African American Literature

By: Carol E. Henderson

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Scarring the Black Body

Race and Representation in African American Literature

By: Carol E. Henderson

Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. The first part of Scarring the Black Body, "The Call," traces the process by which African bodies were Americanized through the practice of branding. Henderson incorporates various materials -- from advertisements for the return of runaways to slave narratives -- to examine the cultural practice of "writing" the body. She also considers way in which writers and social activists, including Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth, developed a "call" centered on the body's scars to demand that people of African descent be given equal rights and protection under the law.

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200

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University of Missouri Press

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ISBN 10

0826262899

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9780826262899

Culture and Customs of India

By: Carol E. Henderson

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Culture and Customs of India

By: Carol E. Henderson

Provides an overview of the history and culture of India, featuring discussion of the country's land and people, history, religion, world view, arts, food and dress, leisure activities, social customs, and lifestyles.

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246

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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0313305137

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9780313305139

Bess Streeter Aldrich

The Dreams are All Real

By: Carol Miles Petersen

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Bess Streeter Aldrich

The Dreams are All Real

By: Carol Miles Petersen

Beloved by readers for decades, Bess Streeter Aldrich earned a national reputation with a long list of best-selling novels and with stories appearing in major magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's Weekly, Colliers, McCalls, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her most famous novel, A Lantern in Her Hand, has remained a favorite since first published in 1928. Carol Miles Petersen has thoroughly researched Aldrich, consulting Aldrich's family, neighbors, and friends, poring over letters and newspapers, and reading Aldrich's work again and again. In Bess Streeter Aldrich she reveals a woman as strong and substantial as Aldrich's fictional heroines. Born in Iowa in 1881, Bess Streeter grew up and attended college there. After becoming a teacher, she met and fell in love with Charles "Cap" Aldrich, formerly Captain in the U.S. Army. After their marriage in 1907, they moved to Elmwood, Nebraska, where Bess devoted herself to raising children while Cap became a banker. Bess began to write and sell short stories, winning a national award and enjoying the celebrity of a famous author. It appeared that the Aldriches would live happily ever after; however, in 1925, Captain Aldrich suddenly died. The responsibilities of raising the family and managing the bank as a partial owner fell upon Bess. With the stock market crash of 1929, the nation's banking system spun into chaos-more than ever, her family, her bank, and her town depended on Bess. Aldrich's heroism is of the old-fashioned kind, not a moment of glory but a lifetime of effort, not a battle with a foe but a creation of love, humor, and kindness. Her stories were written to remind her readers of the joy of life. Carol Miles Petersenformerly taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is editor of the Collected Short Works of Bess Streeter Aldrich (Nebraska 1995).

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278

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803237006

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9780803237001

Intentional Marketing

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Carol Ottolenghi

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Intentional Marketing

A Practical Guide for Librarians

By: Carol Ottolenghi

User-friendly, cost-conscious, and filled with examples from libraries of all types, Intentional Marketing: A Practical Guide for Librarians helps you maximize the return on your marketing investment (ROMI) by showing ways to combine marketing theory with in-house data, creating a global strategy that will drive all of your library marketing. This book includes: Discussions of marketing theory and how a global approach makes marketing easier, more effective, and less expensive Step-by-step guides to help define what you are marketing, why you are marketing it, and to whom Ways to identify everyone who affects funding, and how to turn them into stakeholders Ways to increase staff and stakeholder buy-in Examples of successful marketing efforts at other libraries Discussions of different marketing tools (print and digital publications, social media, special events, public relations, programming, etc.), their costs, and how to determine which to use Model feedback and assessment forms This book is a reference handbook with examples and step-by-step guides. It is written for library staff members who are currently implementing components of marketing in a piecemeal fashion and need a unifying context to streamline their efforts and improve their effectiveness.

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189

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538108496

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9781538108499

Defend This Old Town

Williamsburg During the Civil War

By: Carol Kettenburg Dubbs

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Defend This Old Town

Williamsburg During the Civil War

By: Carol Kettenburg Dubbs

Defend This Old Town is a riveting war epic of local scale and human dimensions. Taking its title from the cry raised in Williamsburg as the Federal army approached in 1862, Carol Dubbs's narrative sweeps us into the lives of residents of this small historic city from the secession of Virginia in 1861 to Lee's surrender four years later. Williamsburg's Civil War ordeal has never before been told in such depth. Located midway on the only land route between Richmond and the Union-held Fort Monroe, on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg hosted Confederate troops for the first year of war while defensive earthworks were built across the area. After the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862 -- a bloody clash neither side sought but each claimed as victor -- Union forces began an occupation of the town that lasted with only short interruptions until the end of the war. Those residents who had not fled remained to stubbornly defend their homes. Dubbs scripts a compelling chronicle of these events, interweaving quotes from diaries, letters, memoirs, and military memoranda to bring immediacy to her subject. Balancing the grim experiences of combat, shortages, tending the dead and wounded, the college's burning, restive servants, typhoid breakout, and isolation from the rest of the Confederacy are some lighter interludes: the Union marshal who arrived with his saddlebags packed with shoes and dresses to win the good opinion of the town's females; the first taste of freedom for blacks; and the issuance of travel passes -- including one to an especially sharp-tongued matron, with the order never to return. Maps, period photographs, order of battle, and a bibliography complete this substantial, comprehensive, and entertaining work. Defend This Old Town is certain to engage anyone who enjoys good history.

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432

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LSU Press

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0807130176

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9780807130179

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Scarring the Black Body

Scarring the Black Body

Culture and Customs of India

Culture and Customs of India

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Intentional Marketing

Intentional Marketing

Defend This Old Town

Defend This Old Town

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