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Sanctificum

By: Christopher Abani

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This is Abani's fifth collection of poetry. Utilizing religious ritual, the Nigerian Igbo language, and reggae rhythms, Abani creates a post-racial, liturgical love song that covers the globe from Abuja to Los Angeles and explores the charged intersections of atrocity and love, politics and religion, loss and renewal.

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Copper Canyon Press

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1556593163

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9781556593161

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Memories and Futures Past

By: Christopher E. W. Ouma

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Memories and Futures Past

By: Christopher E. W. Ouma

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.

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Springer Nature

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3030362566

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9783030362560

Forgotten Armies

The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

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Forgotten Armies

The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of groundbreaking battles and guerrilla campaigns creates a panoramic view of British Asia as it was ravaged by warfare, nationalist insurgency, disease, and famine. It breathes life into the armies of soldiers, civilians, laborers, businessmen, comfort women, doctors, and nurses who confronted the daily brutalities of a combat zone which extended from metropolitan cities to remote jungles, from tropical plantations to the Himalayas. Drawing upon a vast range of Indian, Burmese, Chinese, and Malay as well as British, American, and Japanese voices, the authors make vivid one of the central dramas of the twentieth century: the birth of modern south and southeast Asia and the death of British rule.

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Harvard University Press

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067401748X

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9780674017481

Race and the Senses

The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment

By: Sachi Sekimoto,Christopher Brown

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Race and the Senses

The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment

By: Sachi Sekimoto,Christopher Brown

In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in racialized realities, they argue that race is not simply marked on our bodies, but rather felt and registered through our senses. They illuminate the sensorial landscape of racialized world by combining the scholarship in sensory studies, phenomenology, and intercultural communication. Each chapter elaborates on the felt bodily sensations of race, racism, and racialization that illuminate how somatic labor plays a significant role in the construction of racialized relations of sensing. Their thought-provoking theorizing about the relationship between race and the senses include race as a sensory assemblage, the phenomenology of the racialized face and tongue, kinesthetic feelings of blackness, as well as the possibility of cross-racial empathy. Race is not merely socially constructed, but multisensorially assembled, engaged, and experienced. Grounded in the authors’ experiences, one as a Japanese woman living in the USA, and the other as an African American man from Chicago, Race and the Senses is a book about how we feel the racialized world into being.

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Routledge

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1000182304

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9781000182309

Biomechanics of Sport

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

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Biomechanics of Sport

By: Christopher L. Vaughan

This informative text features current and thorough reviews of the biomechanics of sport for improved performance, etiology, and pre-vention of injuries. Winter sports and aquatics are covered, with an emphasis on developing training programs for ski-jumping, alpine, and cross country skiing. Other sports featured include modeling perspectives in speed skating, swimming, and the mechanics of rowing and sculling. Track-and-field athletics, ball games, weight lifting, and training are examined in terms of per-formance, safety, and re-search methodology. Sports scientists and sports medicine specialists will find this book invaluable.

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CRC Press

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1000141934

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9781000141931

Conscripts of Migration

Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas

By: Christopher Ian Foster

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Conscripts of Migration

Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas

By: Christopher Ian Foster

In Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas, author Christopher Ian Foster analyzes increasingly urgent questions regarding crises of global immigration by redefining migration in terms of conscription and by studying contemporary literature. Reporting on immigration, whether liberal or conservative, popular or scholarly, leaves out the history in which the Global North helped create outward migration in the Global South. From histories of racial capitalism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and imperialism to contemporary neoliberal globalization and the resurgence of xenophobic nationalism, countries in the Global North continue to devastate and destabilize the Global South. Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, in different ways, police the effects of their own global policies at their borders. Foster provides a substantial study of a new body of contemporary African diasporic literature called migritude literature. Migritude indicates the work and ideas of a disparate yet distinct group of younger African authors born after independence in the 1960s. Most often migritude authors have lived both in and outside Africa and narrate the experiences of migration under the pressures of globalization. They also emphasize that immigration itself and stereotypes of the immigrant are entangled with the history of colonialism. Authors like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, Cristina Ali Farah, and others confront critical issues of migrancy, diaspora, departure, return, racism, identity, gender, sexuality, and postcoloniality.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496824237

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9781496824233

A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land

A Case Study of Ohaozara in Ebonyi State

By: Agwu Christopher Agwu

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A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land

A Case Study of Ohaozara in Ebonyi State

By: Agwu Christopher Agwu

This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications. It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and other creatures from the sources of lifeSupreme Beingto the least inanimate object. The moral standard set by Agwu to its worshippers has been a masterpiece incentive and also a source of inspiration to ordinary mortals who watch with admiration the special Agwu elect.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490706275

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A Spirit of Dialogue

Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-die, in African American Literature

By: Christopher N. Okonkwo

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A Spirit of Dialogue

Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-die, in African American Literature

By: Christopher N. Okonkwo

A groundbreaking study, A Spirit of Dialogue examines through extensive, interdisciplinary research, theory, and close reading the intricate reconstructions, extensions, and resonances of the West African myth of spirit children, the "Born-to-Die," in contemporary African American neo-slave narratives. Arguing that the myth, called "Ogbañje" in Igbo language and "àbíkú" in Yoruba, has had over thirty years of uncharted presence in African American literature, Okonkwo advances a compelling case absent in extant scholarship. He traces Ogbañje/the Born-to-Die's appearance in African American texts to a convergence of factors. They include but are not limited to: the impact of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart; the 1960s emergence of the contemporary neo-slave narrative; the 1960s and 1970s black consciousness/Black Power movement and the cultural agenda, gendered politics, and centripetal philosophy of the Black Arts movement's nationalist aesthetic; African American identity questions of the post-civil rights and the multicultural eras; and the thematic shifts, as well as the African diaspora orientation of African American fiction of the post-nationalist aesthetic period. A Spirit of Dialogue focuses on the sometimes neglected and understudied works of four canonical African American writers: Octavia E. Butler's Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind, Tananarive Due's The Between, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, and Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved. Okonkwo demonstrates persuasively how the mythic spirit child informs the content and form of these novels, offering Butler, Due, Wideman, and Morrison a non-occidental "code" by which to engage collectively with the various issues integral to the history experience of African-descended people. The paradigm functions, then, as the nexus of a life-affirmative dialogue among the six novels, as well as between them and other works of African religious and literary imagination, particularly Things Fall Apart and Ben Okri's The Famished Road.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572336153

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Memories and Futures Past

By: Christopher E. W. Ouma

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Memories and Futures Past

By: Christopher E. W. Ouma

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Illumination

Joy in the Soul

By: Christopher Alan Anderson

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Illumination

Joy in the Soul

By: Christopher Alan Anderson

Have you ever felt joy--in your soul? In this article, the author addresses the origin of joy, how joy itself is encoded in the light, and how each one of us can feel this joy when we understand the procreant balance that comprises the nature of light. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic tradition, that vein of spiritual creativity of the philosopher and poet. His quest has been to define and express an eternal romantic reality from which a man and a woman could together stand in their difference and create a living universe of procreative love. Mr. Anderson began these writings in 1971. The first writings were published in 1985. On a personal note, when Mr. Anderson was asked to describe the writings and what he felt their message was he responded, "Spiritual procreation. Mankind has yet to distinguish the two sexes on the spiritual level. In this failure lies the root of our problems and why we cannot yet touch the eternal together. The message of man and woman balance brings each of us together in love with our eternal other half right now." Keywords: Man and Woman Balance, Relationships, Procreation, Spirituality, Love, Metaphysics, Eternal, Creation, Sexuality, & Soul.

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1622871324

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Lt. John Brooks, Jr

A Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie

By: Christopher S. Baldwin

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Lt. John Brooks, Jr

A Hero of the Battle of Lake Erie

By: Christopher S. Baldwin

First Lieutenant Marine John Brooks, Jr. was the only US commissioned officer killed in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie, yet he has been all but forgotten in the annals of American history. Brooks graduated from Harvard Medical School and then served as an officer in the US Marines from 1807-1813. He was the third son of Col. John Brooks Sr., a Revolutionary War hero and the two term 11th Governor of Massachusetts. John Brooks Jr. spent 6 of his military years commanding the Marine Guards onboard the (1807) USS Wasp, USS Congress, USS Essex, and USS Constitution and was chosen for a secret mission by President James Madison before serving Oliver Hazard Perry onboard the USS Lawrence in The Battle of Lake Erie. In the Battle of Lake Erie, his duty was to recruit and train Marines for the entire fleet. He was killed early in the battle by a cannonball that struck him in the thigh/hip that took away his hip joint. Being mortally wounded, he survived for only about 2 hours and died 20 minutes before the battle was won. In that 2 hours of agony, he focused his concerns on Captain Oliver Perry and the rest of the Lawrence crew; not himself. Although he was a senior officer on the ship and entitled to the surgeon's care ahead of the crew's, Brooks refused care. This freed surgeon, Usher Parsons, to attend the heavily wounded 104 man crew consisting of Narragansett Indians, whites and blacks of lesser ranks, volunteers, slaves and children. The United States Navy named a 1919 destroyer the USS John Brooks in his honor. The Story of Lt. Brooks has never been written, and I hope you will learn of and appreciate his service to our country"--Back cover.

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0578221470

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Sanctificum

Sanctificum

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Forgotten Armies

Forgotten Armies

Race and the Senses

Race and the Senses

Biomechanics of Sport

Biomechanics of Sport

Conscripts of Migration

Conscripts of Migration

A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land

A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land

A Spirit of Dialogue

A Spirit of Dialogue

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Illumination

Illumination

Lt. John Brooks, Jr

Lt. John Brooks, Jr

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