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Autumn Years

Taking the Contemplative Path

By: Robert Harlen King,Elizabeth M. King

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Autumn Years

Taking the Contemplative Path

By: Robert Harlen King,Elizabeth M. King

In this beginner's guide to contemplation, the Kings describe the practice as part of a strategy of successful aging. Includes reader-friendly information on sitting meditation, centering prayer, walking meditation, and loving-kindness meditation.

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A&C Black

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082641639X

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9780826416391

Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh

Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization

By: Robert Harlen King

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Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh

Engaged Spirituality in an Age of Globalization

By: Robert Harlen King

The book concludes by showing how the influence of Merton and Nhat Hanh is reflected in the work of contemporaries such as Thomas Keating, David Steindl-Rast, A. T. Ariyaratne, and Joanna Macy."--BOOK JACKET.

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228

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A&C Black

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0826413404

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9780826413406

The Invention of Native American Literature

By: Robert Dale Parker

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The Invention of Native American Literature

By: Robert Dale Parker

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy.

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261

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Cornell University Press

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1501724665

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9781501724664

Who Speaks for the Negro?

By: Robert Penn Warren

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Who Speaks for the Negro?

By: Robert Penn Warren

First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists, and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Malcom X, and James Baldwin. Sections from the transcripts of these interviews are combined with the author’s reflections on the interviewees and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole to create a powerful oral history of this all-important struggle. A new introduction by David W. Blight places Warren’s book in historical perspective. " In this new edition introduced by the eminent historian David Blight, Who Speaks for the Negro? reveals a provocative admixture of history's variance. Warren's book is a burden of the past from which we cannot escape. It summons us to awaken a more vital national heartbeat of reparations for an American dilemma."—Houston Baker, Vanderbilt University

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489

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Yale University Press

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0300211945

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9780300211948

United States

Re-Viewing American Multicultural Literature

By: A. Robert Lee

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Re-Viewing American Multicultural Literature

By: A. Robert Lee

Aquest estudi analitza un ordre literari canviant: Amèrica com unitat i diversitat, com un ens nacional i transnacional. Els escrits crítics literaris reunits aquí ofereixen una sèrie de perspectives que tracen gran part de la geografia cultural en joc: la narrativa, l'autobiografia, el teatre, etc. Es presenten també un conjunt d'assajos i ressenyes que, amb diverses direccions d'enfocament, posen atenció als fonaments previs a Colón, a una antologia canònica nord-americana de poesia i al que s'ha omès; la narrativa llatina i als principals dramaturgs antics. Inclou entrevistes a creatius i acadèmics com Gerald Vizenor, Frank Chin, Louis Owens, John Cawelti i Rex Burns. La secció de ressenyes final ofereix una sèrie de monografies de rellevant erudició multicultural així com contribucions a l'emergent i ampli mural d'anàlisi.

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331

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Universitat de València

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8437084032

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9788437084039

Multicultural American Literature

Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions

By: A. Robert Lee

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Multicultural American Literature

Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions

By: A. Robert Lee

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320

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1578066441

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9781578066445

Up from History

The Life of Booker T. Washington

By: Robert Jefferson Norrell,Robert J. Norrell

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Up from History

The Life of Booker T. Washington

By: Robert Jefferson Norrell,Robert J. Norrell

Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic way to integrate blacks into American life during his time, WashingtonÕs strategy has been disparaged since the 1960s. The first full-length biography of Booker T. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. Norrell details the positive power of WashingtonÕs vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. Indeed, his ideas have since inspired peoples across the Third World that there are many ways to struggle for equality and justice. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.

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523

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Harvard University Press

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0674060377

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9780674060371

Gothic to Multicultural

Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction

By: A. Robert Lee

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Gothic to Multicultural

Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction

By: A. Robert Lee

Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction, twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Cooper’s The Spy, Antarctica as world-genesis in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the link of “The Custom House” and main text in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, reflexive codings in Melville’s Moby-Dick and The Confidence-Man, Henry James’ Hawthorne as self-mirroring biography, and Stephen Crane’s working of his Civil War episode in The Red Badge of Courage. Two composite lineages address apocalypse in African American fiction and landscape in women’s authorship from Sarah Orne Jewett to Leslie Marmon Silko. There follow culture and anarchy in Henry James’ The Princess Casamassima, text-into-film in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence, modernist stylings in Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway, and roman noir in Cornell Woolrich. The collection then turns to the limitations of protest categorization for Richard Wright and Chester Himes, autofiction in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and the novel of ideas in Robert Penn Warren’s late fiction. Three closing essays take up multicultural genealogy, Harlem, then the Black South, in African American fiction, and the reclamation of voice in Native American fiction.

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543

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BRILL

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9401206600

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9789401206600

Book's by Robert Harlen King

Autumn Years

Autumn Years

Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh

The Invention of Native American Literature

The Invention of Native American Literature

Who Speaks for the Negro?

Who Speaks for the Negro?

United States

United States

Multicultural American Literature

Multicultural American Literature

Up from History

Up from History

Gothic to Multicultural

Gothic to Multicultural

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