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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Literature, Theory, and Public Life

By: Nicole Simek

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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Literature, Theory, and Public Life

By: Nicole Simek

Through a series of case studies spanning the bounds of literature, photography, essay, and manifesto, this book examines the ways in which literary texts do theoretical, ethical, and political work. Nicole Simek approaches the relationship between literature, theory, and public life through a specific site, the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, and focuses on two mutually elucidating terms: hunger and irony. Reading these concepts together helps elucidate irony’s creative potential and limits. If hunger gives irony purchase by anchoring it in particular historical and material conditions, irony also gives a literature and politics of hunger a means for moving beyond a given situation, for pushing through the inertias of history and culture.

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Springer

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1137558822

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9781137558824

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

By: Nicole Simek

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Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

By: Nicole Simek

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community. In thinking through conceptions of race, ethnicity, and materiality at work within both humanities research and popular culture, Nicole Simek asks how the figure of alchemy – that semi-scientific, semi-mystical search for gold and the elixir of long life – can help scholars address the epistemological and affective investments in blood, bloodlines, and genetics marking both academic and mainstream discourses. To answer this question, Simek examines neo-plantation and Afrofuturist narratives, Afropessimist interventions, museums and public memory projects, and direct-to-consumer genetic testing services in the French Caribbean and the United States. This comparative approach to cultural production helps pinpoint and better understand the intersections and divergences between scholarship trends and troubling features of a broader Zeitgeist.

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217

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501377671

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9781501377679

Eating Well, Reading Well

Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

By: Nicole Simek

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Eating Well, Reading Well

Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

By: Nicole Simek

While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé’s work—history and globalization in La Belle Créole and Moi, Tituba sorcière...noire de Salem, intertextuality and reception in La migration des cœurs and Célanire cou-coupé, trauma and subjectivity in En attendant le bonheur and Desirada, community and ethics in Traversée de la mangrove and Histoire de la femme cannibale—this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Condé engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to read well. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader’s interpretive habits.

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235

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BRILL

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9401205280

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9789401205283

Social Media for Lawyers

The Next Frontier

By: Carolyn Elefant,Nicole Black

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Social Media for Lawyers

The Next Frontier

By: Carolyn Elefant,Nicole Black

Many lawyers view social media as a passing fad, but lawyers who dismiss social media do so at their peril. This cutting-edge guide shows lawyers how to use a practical, goal-centric approach to social media. By enabling lawyers to identify the social media platforms and tools that fit their practice, lawyers can implement them easily, efficiently, and ethically. Written by two lawyers, this book is designed with both the novice and advanced user in mind.

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254

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American Bar Association

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1604429208

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9781604429206

Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

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Inhabited Spaces

Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Place

By: Nicole Guenther Discenza

We tend to think of early medieval people as unsophisticated about geography because their understandings of space and place often differed from ours, yet theirs were no less complex. Anglo-Saxons conceived of themselves as living at the centre of a cosmos that combined order and plenitude, two principles in a constant state of tension. In Inhabited Spaces, Nicole Guenther Discenza examines a variety of Anglo-Latin and Old English texts to shed light on Anglo-Saxon understandings of space. Anglo-Saxon models of the universe featured a spherical earth at the centre of a spherical universe ordered by God. They sought to shape the universe into knowable places, from where the earth stood in the cosmos, to the kingdoms of different peoples, and to the intimacy of the hall. Discenza argues that Anglo-Saxon works both construct orderly place and illuminate the limits of human spatial control.

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277

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University of Toronto Press

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148751154X

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9781487511548

Watermelon and Red Birds

A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

By: Nicole A. Taylor

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Watermelon and Red Birds

A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

By: Nicole A. Taylor

The very first cookbook to celebrate Juneteenth, from food writer and cookbook author Nicole A. Taylor—who draws on her decade of experiences observing the holiday. On June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and issued General Order Number 3, informing the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free. A year later, in 1866, Black Texans congregated with music, dance, and BBQs—Juneteenth celebrations. All-day cook-outs with artful salads, bounteous dessert spreads, and raised glasses of “red drink” are essential to Juneteenth gatherings. In Watermelon and Red Birds, Nicole puts jubilation on the main stage. As a master storyteller and cook, she bridges the traditional African-American table and 21st-century flavors in stories and recipes. Nicole synthesizes all the places we’ve been, all the people we have come from, all the people we have become, and all the culinary ideas we have embraced. Watermelon and Red Birds contains over 75 recipes, including drinks like Afro Egg Cream and Marigold Gin Sour, dishes like Beef Ribs with Fermented Harissa Sauce, Peach Jam and Molasses Glazed Chicken Thighs, Southern-ish Potato Salad and Cantaloupe and Feta Salad, and desserts like Roasted Nectarine Sundae, and Radish and Ginger Pound Cake. Taylor also provides a resource to guide readers to BIPOC-owned hot sauces, jams, spice, and waffle mixes companies and lists fun gadgets to make your Juneteenth special. These recipes and essays will inspire parties to salute one of the most important American holidays, and moments to savor joy all year round.

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288

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Simon and Schuster

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1982176229

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9781982176228

Time For Kids: Bears!

By: Editors of TIME For Kids,Nicole Iorio

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Time For Kids: Bears!

By: Editors of TIME For Kids,Nicole Iorio

See the eight different types of bears, Discover where bears live, Find out what bears like to eat & Learn more than thirty fun facts about these furry mammals Level 1 includes short, simple sentences with familiar words and repetition, large type for reading comprehension, a single striking photograph on every page, and basic information every child should know. Ages 6+

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Harper Collins

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0060781963

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Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Literature, Theory, and Public Life

By: Nicole Simek

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Eating Well, Reading Well

Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

By: Nicole Simek

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Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

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Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

By: Nicole Simek

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Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501377663

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The Darkness She Lived and Escaped

By: Samantha Nicole

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The Darkness She Lived and Escaped

By: Samantha Nicole

Cystal has to go through some tough decisions in her life as she starts a new one with her mother. Crystal has to cope with the fact that her father has ruined a part of her life that she will never get back. Will she be able to go through this? Can she manage to live her life with all this burden she has. Will she forgive her father for the horrible thing he has done? Decisions, decisions...

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Book's by Nicole Simek

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Eating Well, Reading Well

Eating Well, Reading Well

Social Media for Lawyers

Social Media for Lawyers

Inhabited Spaces

Inhabited Spaces

Watermelon and Red Birds

Watermelon and Red Birds

Time For Kids: Bears!

Time For Kids: Bears!

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean

Eating Well, Reading Well

Eating Well, Reading Well

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction

The Darkness She Lived and Escaped

The Darkness She Lived and Escaped

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