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Chapters: Roderic Ai Camp, Jonathan Petropoulos, Jamaica Kincaid, Harry V. Jaffa, Diane F. Halpern, Alfred Balitzer, Kenneth P. Miller. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Roderic Ai Camp is an academic specialized in Mexican studies. He is a frequent consultant to international media including the BBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and used to be a contributing editor to Microsoft Encarta. He has briefed several institutions, including the United States House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and at least five U.S. ambassadors to Mexico for the U.S. Department of State. Currently, he is the Philip McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College, in California, United States. Camp graduated with both a bachelor's degree (1963-66) and a master's degree in International Affairs (1966-67) from George Washington University and completed a doctorate degree in Comparative Politics and History at the University of Arizona (1967-70). He tracks his interest in Mexican topics back to his years growing up among Mexican immigrants in Orange, a small citrus farming community outside Los Angeles. He started his academic career at Central College in Iowa and later joined the Department of Political Science at Tulane University in 1991. He has also worked as a visiting scholar at , as a fellow and member of the advisory board of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and as an adjunct fellow of the Mexico Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Over the course of his studies he has received a Fulbright Fellowship on three occasions, two major grants from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25382600 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 6624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Jamaica Kincaid's novels focus on the themes of loss and betrayal, particularly a mother's betrayal of her daughter. This sense of betrayal is underlined by treachery that reflects a constantly changing reality that displaces a paradise of some sort. That paradise is hazy, partly memory and partly a dream, and represents a state of wholeness that is unchangeable and undivisible.

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Title: The rhythm of reality in the works of Jamaica Kincaid.
Author: Diane Simmons
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n3Page: p466(7)

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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on May 1, 2008. The length of the article is 782 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kincaid, Jamaica: Autobiografia de mi madre.
Author: Lucîa Stecher Guzmân
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2008
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 57Issue: 568Page: 63(1)

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Jamaica Kincaid, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 4671 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Chapters: Jean Rhys, Dionne Brand, Karrine Steffans, Marie-Elena John, Jamaica Kincaid, Abiola Abrams, Maryse Condé, Shani Mootoo, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Elizabeth Nunez, Priya Balachandran. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Torontos third Poet Laureate in September 2009. Brand is Caribbean born. Dionne Brand was born in Guayaguayare, a small fishing village in Trinidad and Tobago. Immigrating to Canada in 1970, when she was 17 years old, Brand attended the University of Toronto where she earned a BA in 1975. Brand also holds a MA (1989) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - OISE. Currently Brand teaches at the University of Guelph. Brand frequently explores themes of gender, race, sexuality and feminism in her writing. In Bread Out of Stone, Brand uses personal experiences and strong metaphoric language to expose racism, white male domination, injustices and the moral hypocrisies of Canada with its own assessment as being "not like the United States" As a show of support of women solidarity, Brand has participated in many anthologies and writing opposing the violent killings of Black men and women and specifically pointing out the massacre of fourteen women in Montreal and the racism and inequality experienced by Aboriginal women of Canada, particularly Helen Betty Osbornes death in the Pas. Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Di Brandt. Many scholars have analyzed Dionne Brand's work. In his book Black Like Who?, Rinaldo Walcott includes two essays (A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada and "No Language is Neutral": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=251683 ... Read more

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Kapitel: Vere Cornwall Bird, Allen Stanford, James Carlisle, Jamaica Kincaid, Louise Lake-Tack, George Walter, Novelle Hamilton Richards, Wilfred E. Jacobs, Winston Baldwin Spencer, Lester Bird, Rupert Lake. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Lester Bryant Bird (born February 21, 1938, New York City) was the second Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004 and a well-known athlete. He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) from 1971 to 1993, then became Prime Minister when his father, Vere Bird, the previous Prime Minister, resigned. His government won re-election in 1994 and 1999. The 1999 election win was a controversial one as the elections were deemed "neither free nor fair." An independent report concluded that "If the elections had been free and fair, the opposition UPP conceivably could have won a majority of seats in parliament." In the March 2004 election, the ALP was defeated by the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by Baldwin Spencer. Bird's party lost eight seats, and he himself was defeated by Errol Cort, who became Minister of Finance in the new UPP government. Bird has remained the ALP's political leader following the party's 2004 defeat. He led the party in the March 2009 election; although the ALP lost the election, it gained 3 seats from the UPP and Bird defeated Cort by 96 votes in the St John's Rural East constituency, where he had lost in 2004. "There was a specific philosophical basis on which we levied taxes. We wanted high disposable income for the people and efficient government providing excellent services with minimum taxes. So we carefully created this low tax jurisdiction to keep more money in the hands of people. As a result, there was rapid upward mobility from being an agriculture based people to being a new middle class." Lester Bryant Bird is an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Im cool ...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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The main aim of this book is to investigate andanalyze how diasporic movements and family relationsexert influence on the construction of women'sidentities in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and JamaicaKincaid's Lucy. The author's hypothesis is that inthe selected works we will find two journeys, whichhave both similar and distinct aspects, and beginwith the main characters' desire to escapeoppression. Given these facts, the protagonists gothrough a period of many discoveries aboutthemselves and the societies with which they have todeal, which unfolds into two products: the buildingof Lucy's autonomous hybrid identities in herloneliness in Kincaid's work, and the building ofHelga's hybrid identities overshadowed by religion,patriarchy, and family relations in Larsen's work. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on May 1, 2009. The length of the article is 705 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kincaid, Jamaica: Mi Hermano.
Author: Lucîa Stecher Guzmân
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2009
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 58Issue: 578Page: 63(1)

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 612 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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Jamaica Kincaid is now established as one of the Caribbean's most distinguished literary voices. This study explores recent theories of postcolonial 'life-writing', this study unravels the complex aesthetic and subversive political strategies Kincaid has invented in the past 40 years to continue to write a life. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams (November 12, 1874; March 4, 1922) was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920. In 1918, the New York Dramatic Mirror called Williams "one of the great comedians of the world." Williams was a key figure in the development of African-American entertainment. In an age when racial inequality and stereotyping were an accepted part of life, he became the first black American to take a lead role on the Broadway stage, and did much to push back racial barriers during his career. Fellow vaudevillian W.C. Fields, who appeared in productions with Williams, described him as "the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew." Williams was born in Nassau, Bahamas, and at the age of 10 he was brought to New York City by his parents. From New York City the family moved to Riverside, California, where Williams graduated from Riverside High School. He later went to San Francisco, intending to study to be a civil engineer, but instead joined a minstrel company known as "The Mastoden Minstrels", which played the lumber and mining camps of California. In 1893, in San Francisco he formed the team of Williams and Walker, his partner being equally celebrated straight man George Walker. Williams became one of Vaudeville's top solo artists, but he first gained notice as half of the successful double-act "Williams ... Read more

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Bag-Snagging in the City
The New York in Woody Allen's movies is beautiful but unreal, like a movie star who's never as stunning in real life as on screen. Ian Frazier's New York, on the other hand, is violent and dirty, but real.

These essays are arranged chronologically, from 1975 to 2005. (Oddly, there are no entries from the eighties.) Frazier writes about neighborhoods and bars and shops and characters. There are floods and robberies and murders.

One of my favorite pieces is about a typewriter repair shop that Frazier finds when he needs his manual typewriter repaired. The owner, Mr. Tytell was one of the few typewriter repairmen left as word processors and then computers replaced typewriters. The article was written in 1997 and the 83 year-old owner had just renewed the lease on his shop for another ten years. Since ten years has passed, I was curious if the shop was still in business. A quick search revealed that the shop went out of business in 2001, but the family still has a successful document research service, doing forensic investigations of typewritten papers. No word on whether Frazier still uses a typewriter to write his essays.

There are three pieces about Frazier's obsession with removing plastic bags from trees. This apparently is not a specifically New York obsession since he mentions trips to Los Angeles and Massachusetts and Illinois to remove bags from trees. When he first wrote about bags in trees, it didn't seem completely odd to me that he might remove bags in his own neighborhood. You want your neighborhood to look nice, don't you? But it became more of a sport for him and his buddies. They snagged bags instead of golfing. I suppose the fact that I read three pieces about bag snagging is testimony to Frazier's writing. I sure wouldn't have read three articles about golfing. And it's a lesson for the young writers out there -- if you can't find a quirky character to write about, become one.

GONZO JOURNALISM LIVES!
Hunter Thompson may be gone, but personal journalism is alive and well as evidenced by this superlative collection of quirky,elegant pieces subtitled, "Adventures in the City".If Ian Frazier's book were a mystery, #1 would probably have posted a five-star review the day after it was published in November 2005.Since GONE TO NEW YORK is only a collection of casual essays, it has waited four months for its first customer review.Essays get no respect from Amazon customers -- or from Amazon either, for that matter.Amazon's entry for the book lists Jamaica Kincaid (who wrote the introduction) as the author, rather than Frazier.

Frazier, a displaced Ohioan, makes the reader see New York through his eyes: focusing on peculiar and interesting details that go unnoticed by visitor and native alike.The longest is a 35 page profile of Canal Street (where he lived during its gritty years) and its denizens.In the aftermath of 9-11 he interviews George Willig, who earned brief celebrity-hood in 1977 by climbing one of the twin towers.Frazier reports on the vintage graffiti on desks in the stacks of Butler Library.He writes twice about "Bags in Trees".In the first he simply describes the diversity of plastic bags and other items that adorn trees in Brooklyn.A decade latter he tells how he and a friend became obsessed with removing the arboreal litter and end up inventing and patenting an extension tool for removing it.My favorite in the collection is "Typewriter Man" about Martin Tytell, who still sevices manual typewriters. ... Read more

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