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Nicola Barker

Critical Essays

By: Nicola Barker,Ben Masters,Daniel Marc Janes,Len Platt,Ginette Carpenter,Beccy Kennedy,Christopher Vardy,Huw Marsh,Alice Bennett,Eleanor Byrne

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Nicola Barker

Critical Essays

By: Nicola Barker,Ben Masters,Daniel Marc Janes,Len Platt,Ginette Carpenter,Beccy Kennedy,Christopher Vardy,Huw Marsh,Alice Bennett,Eleanor Byrne

Nicola Barker's exuberant novels here receive the scholarly attention they deserve in a collection of essays which moves chronologically through her oeuvre. The chapters are broad-ranging, placing Barker's work in its contemporary context and collectively making a convincing case for her importance as one of our most inventive novelists. Contents Foreword Nicola Barker The Barkeresque Mode: An Introduction Berthold Schoene Indie Style: Reversed Forecast and a Turn-of-the-Century Aesthetic Ben Masters 'Temporary People': Wide Open as an Island Narrative Daniel Marc Janes 'You grew up in this shithole, then?': Literary Geographics and the Thames Gateway Series Len Platt 'The Pair of Opposites Paradox': Ambivalence, Destabilization and Resistance in Five Miles from Outer Hope Ginette Carpenter 'Woah there a moment. Time out!': Slowing Down in Clear: A Transparent Novel Beccy Kennedy Beneath the Thin Veneer of the Modern: Medievalism in Darkmans Christopher Vardy Burley Cross Postbox Theft as Comedy Huw Marsh 'Tuning into My "Awareness Continuum"': Optimized Attention in The Yips Alice Bennett Exuberant Narration as Metaphysical Currency in In the Approaches Berthold Schoene The Pursuit of Happiness in H(A)PPY, or What a Difference an (A) Makes Eleanor Byrne Notes on Contributors Index

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174

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Gylphi Limited

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1780240945

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9781780240947

A Raven's Calling

Ghosts from the fortress of Louisbourg

By: Ginette Therrien

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A Raven's Calling

Ghosts from the fortress of Louisbourg

By: Ginette Therrien

This story begins in the small village of Louisbourg, Nova-Scotia and finds its way to the village of Perce, Quebec, where Celine brings the truth to light. We have a man, Tomas, found dead, washed up on a lonely beach and a woman, Celine, who comes from afar to begin a new life miles away in the historical village of Louisbourg. What do these two lives have in common? When Celine leaves her life of over fifty years in Ontario, to start a new chapter for herself she finds the truth about Tomas and how and why he was found, dead, on a beach many miles away from Louisbourg where he worked as a night watchman at the fortress of Louisbourg. Celine, his replacement, finishes what Tomas had begun until his mysterious death. Now the truth is in the hands of two countries. What will come from this new truth? Will history be rewritten? Was a life given up for love or truth?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398490474

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9781398490475

"Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

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"Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

The book is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Jamaica), Europe (France and England) and Africa (Burkina Faso, South Africa, Botswana and Senegal). The objective of this study is to capture a realistic view of the literature of the African diaspora as it pertains to biracial and multiracial people. For example, the expression “Toubab La!” as used in the title, is from the Wolof ethnic group in Senegal, West Africa. It means “This is a white person” or “This is a black person who looks or acts white.” It is used as a metaphor to illustrate multiethnic people’s plight in many areas of the African diaspora and how it has evolved. The analysis addresses the different ways multiracial characters look at the world and how the world looks at them. These characters experience historical, economic, sociological and emotional realities in various environments from either white or black people. Their lineage as both white and black determines a new self, making them constantly search for their identity. Each section of the manuscript provides an in-depth analysis of specific authors’ novels that is a window into their true experiences. The first section is a study of mixed race characters in three acclaimed contemporary novels from the United States. James McBride’s The Color of Water (1996), Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998) and Rebecca Walker’s Black White and Jewish (2001) reveal the conflicting dynamics of being biracial in today’s American society. The second section is an examination of mixed-race characters in the following French Caribbean novels: Mayotte Capécia’s I Am a Martinican Woman (1948), Michèle Lacrosil’s Cajou (1961) and Ravines du Devant-Jour (1993) by Raphaël Confiant. Section three is about their literary representations in Derek Walcott’s What the Twilight Says (1970), Another life (1973), Dream on Monkey Mountain (1967) and Michelle Cliff’s Abeng (1995) from the British Caribbean islands. Section four is an in-depth analysis of their plight in novels written by contemporary mulatto writers from Europe such as Marie N’Diaye’s Among Family (1997), Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara (1997). Finally, the last section of the book is a study of novels from West African and South African writers. The analysis of Monique Ilboudo’s Le Mal de Peau (2001), Bessie Head’s A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings (1990) and Abdoulaye Sadji’s Nini, Mulâtresse du Sénégal (1947) concludes this literary journey that takes the readers through several continents at different points in time. Overall, this comprehensive study of mixed-race characters in the literature of the African diaspora reveals not only the old but also the new ways they decline, contest and refuse racial clichés. Likewise, the book unveils how these characters resist, create, reappropriate and revise fixed forms of identity in the African diaspora of the 20th and 21st century. Most importantly, it is also an examination of how the authors themselves deal with the complex reality of a multiracial identity.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443810711

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9781443810715

The Truth Is in the Words

By: Ginette Therrien

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The Truth Is in the Words

By: Ginette Therrien

The Truth Is in the Words/span/em holds within its pages two novellas, Noula's Prayer & The House That Called Me Home. The House that Called Me Home begins with a dream, a haunting dream that comes true in steps to reveal the power of prayer, the patience of love and the healing from life controlling shame. It's a story that touches your heart and maybe even your own story. It shows you that you're never too old to find out that you have been loved all along. That is what Celine finds out when her dreams come to an end in reality. Noula's Prayer takes you on a journey through many lives which all end up in the same church. When God asks Noula for one prayer and one prayer only, she searches her heart and examines her life, she then seeks guidance in God's Word. Noula finally prays her one prayer. Will God answer..?

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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9798889107408

Wisdom of the Psyche

Depth Psychology after Neuroscience

By: Ginette Paris

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Wisdom of the Psyche

Depth Psychology after Neuroscience

By: Ginette Paris

In the quest for identity and healing, what belongs to the humanities and what to clinical psychology? Ginette Paris uses cogent and passionate argument as well as stories from patients to teach us to accept that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. This is very hard to accept which is why, so often, the body has the painful and dispiriting job of showing us what our psyche refuses to see. In jargon-free language, the author describes her own story of taking a turn downwards and inwards in the search for a metaphorical personal 'death'. If this kind of mortality is not attended to, then more literal bodily ailments and actual death itself can result. Paris engages with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. At present, she demonstrates, what is happening is damaging to both science and imagination.

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Routledge

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1317723821

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9781317723820

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"Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

The Truth Is in the Words

The Truth Is in the Words

Wisdom of the Psyche

Wisdom of the Psyche

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