Shares the personal stories of the author as a second-generation American Jew in a small Michigan town, relating how she distanced herself from her Jewishness as a child, but searched for her Jewish identity as an adult.
In this second volume of short fiction, the author of A Leak in the Heart presents ten evocative stories of love and loneliness, marriage, misunderstanding, loss, and self-discovery.
It is that quality of being both the ship and the safe harbor that I like in my imaginary women."-Toni Morrison, in discussing JazzToni Morrison's vibrancy and vision, expansive soul, and keen sense of humor pervade this engrossing series of landmark conversations on her works with Professor Emerita Angels Carabi of the University of Barcelona. Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women was also blessed that two more creative powerhouses - contributing editors Jewelle Gomez and Faye Moskowitz - wrote perceptive reviews of two groundbreaking novels by the greatly missed Nobel laureate (Beloved and Jazz). Morrison's wisdom envelops us and today remains more timely than ever."I lived in a mixed neighborhood and I was always amazed at the language that people spoke, regardless of their education. The metaphors were fabulous: They used pictures that would make your mind jump. So it occurred to me that I would use the language and strip it to its gleaming power.... The language of Black people is extraordinary, a truly theatrical language." "When I was writing the book [Beloved], I thought that some parts were going to be too difficult to deal with. But in those moments I kept saying to myself: 'All I have to do is to think about the people who lived there, who lived through it. If they could live it, I could write about it."-Toni Morrison"The ominous presence of Beloved grows like a poisonous flower."-Jewelle Gomez"Sections in Jazz will take your breath away. They sing like a Lester Young solo."-Faye Moskowitz"I would love to see a contemporary novel by a white woman revealing what it was like to be a slaveowner's wife" (re her 1986 discussion of Beloved). "In Song [of Solomon], music takes the shape of a family tree." TM
These are twenty-four autobiographical story-essays, witty, vulnerable, and wise, about growing up part of a puzzled and unassimilated Orthodox Jewish family in a Michigan small-town in the 1930s and '40s and about the wider world of marriage, children, teaching and writing after that rich beginning.
Shares the personal stories of the author as a second-generation American Jew in a small Michigan town, relating how she distanced herself from her Jewishness as a child, but searched for her Jewish identity as an adult.
In Values that Shape the World—Ancient Precepts, Modern Concepts. In her work, Lincoln dissects and intersects millennia of history in the context of the Judeo-Christian principles that have driven and continue to drive the evolution and revolution of today’s highly-volatile world. Lincoln is a writer who views Biblical history through her lens of second generation Holocaust experience.
African American Psychology: From Africa to America, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of the field of African American psychology. Authors Faye Z. Belgrave and Kevin W. Allison skillfully convey the integration of African and American influences on the psychology of African Americans using a consistent theme throughout the text—the idea that understanding the psychology of African Americans is closely linked to understanding what is happening in the institutional systems in the United States. The Fourth Edition reflects notable advances and important developments in the field over the last several years, and includes evidence-based practices for improving the overall well-being of African American communities. New to the Fourth Edition Coverage of current issues affecting African Americans and causing changes in the social-political environment include the Black Lives Matter movement, racial trauma, and more. Content from blogs has been added to chapter-opening cover stories to reflect the more modern ways news and information are obtained. More coverage of literature and research on Blacks throughout the diaspora, especially in Africa, provide historical context and documents heterogeneity among African Americans in the United States. Expanded coverage of topics as a result of recent research includes LGBTQ individuals, African American fathers, colorism, intersectionality, electronic cigarettes, social media, and more.
Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly colonized. This book is a research guide to postcolonial literatures in English, specifically from former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. While this volume focuses exclusively on Anglophone literatures, it does not address those from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand as they have already been covered in previous volumes in the series.
The purpose of this book is to create a neurophysiology-based framework for assessing and improving mental health. It introduces measurable and neurobiologically-informed concepts and language to help professionals and organizations decrease stigma related to mental health and increase awareness of a new paradigm. This new, emerging paradigm moves away from previous language related to mental and psychological health, and moves towards language that focuses on promoting systems resilience and neurological adaptability through measurable neurophysiological mechanisms. It explores human communication patterns through the lens of neurophysiology, systems thinking, the Neurovisceral Integration Model, and attachment frameworks. This book will give people who are in helping professions - coaches, therapists, teachers, first responders - and leaders of all sorts - a new map and vocabulary for understanding mental health in terms of nervous system mechanisms for detecting and creating safety. FEATURES: Provides examples of brain maps (quantitative EEGs) related to issues with Signal Flow Features illustrations of biomechanical principles of nervous system mechanisms for signal transmission and detection A map for using neurophysiology-based language to describe current concepts in psychology, therapy, and mental health.
The Manual shows you how - with the right parenting - to raise an ethical, good-natured, intelligent, empathic, creative, easy-to-love, easy-to-respect, charismatic and high-achieving child. Confronting dangerous and popular myths head on, The Manual also explains where bad behavior comes from and why modern society is overrun with behavioral problems of epidemic proportions.
A user-friendly text, this book explores all the diagnostic challenges pathologists and obstetricians will face. Succinct and accessible, the text includes discussions of lesions associated with maternal thrombophilias, updates in disorders with challenging clinicopathologic features and pathogenesis. The new edition contains updated sections on co
In this second volume of short fiction, the author of A Leak in the Heart presents ten evocative stories of love and loneliness, marriage, misunderstanding, loss, and self-discovery.
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