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Seeking roots of discrimination
Seeking roots of discrimination ab 12.99 € als epub eBook: A comparative examination of Langston Hughes's and Richard Wright's essays and newspaper columns of social protest. 1. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks,- Shop: hugendubel
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A Raisin in the Sun
"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.- Shop: buecher
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
"The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness." -Roy DeCarava The Sweet Flypaper of Life is a "poem" about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes's heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families in struggle, children yet flourishing. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her learned and worldly eyes, expressed here through Hughes's poetic prose. As she states, "I done got my feet caught in the sweet flypaper of life and I'll be dogged if I want to get loose." DeCarava's photographs lay open a world of sense and feeling that begins with his perception and vision. The ruminations go beyond the limit of simple observation and contend with deeper meanings to reveal these individuals as subjects worthy of art. While Hughes states "We've had so many books about how bad life is, maybe it's time to have one showing how good it is," the photographs bring us back to this lively dialogue and a complex reality, to a resolution that stands with the optimism of the photographic medium and the certainty of DeCarava's artistic moment. In 1952 DeCarava became the first African American photographer to win a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. The one-year grant enabled DeCarava to focus full time on the photography he had been creating since the mid-1940s and to complete a project that would eventually result in The Sweet Flypaper of Life, a moving, photo-poetic work in the urban setting of Harlem. DeCarava compiled a set of images from which Hughes chose 141 and adeptly supplied a fictive narration, reflecting on life in that city-within-a-city. First published in 1955, the book, widely considered a classic of photographic visual literature, was reprinted by public demand several times. This fourth printing, the Heritage Edition, is the first authorized English-language edition since 1983 and includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava tracing the history and ongoing importance of this book.- Shop: buecher
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Horizons
A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative.We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a uniquely European endeavour.Copernicus relied on mathematical techniques borrowed from Arabic and Persian texts. When Newton set out the laws of motion, he relied on astronomical observations made in India and Africa. When Darwin was writing On the Origin of Species, he consulted a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopaedia. And when Einstein was studying quantum mechanics, he was inspired by the young Bengali physicist, Satyendra Nath Bose.Horizons pushes the history of science beyond Europe, exploring the ways in which scientists from Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific fit into this global story. Scientists today are quick to recognise the international nature of their work. In this ambitious and revisionist history, James Poskett reveals that this tradition goes back much further than we think.Perfect reading for fans of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads and Bettany Hughes's Istanbul.- Shop: buecher
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Seeking roots of discrimination
Seeking roots of discrimination ab 14.99 € als Taschenbuch: A comparative examination of Langston Hughes's and Richard Wright's essays and newspaper columns of social protest. 2. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Seeking roots of discrimination
Seeking roots of discrimination - A comparative examination of Langston Hughes's and Richard Wright's essays and newspaper columns of social protest. 1. Auflage: ab 12.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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My Dear Boy
My Dear Boy - Carrie Hughes's Letters to Langston Hughes 1926-1938: ab 39.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire
Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire - Made in Mexborough: ab 96.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children
The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes's Writing for Children - Correcting Culture's Error: ab 38.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Dead Weight
January, 2011, marks the release of Jon Hughes's third album in almost as many years. 'Dead Weight' is an album that focusses on the theme of murder in conjunction with the theme of information, particularly the changing ways in which people interface with old and modern sources of information, and the possible consequences of these changes. Like his previous album, 'Voices From a Broken Window', Hughes employs many of his production quirks, which have become a signature of his style (a few isolated plucks here, a paradoxically contemplative whistle there). However, 'Dead Weight' shows a departure from the protracted, often raucous productions that made up his previous release, favouring warm string sounds and spare compositions. Hughes has played live both in Ireland and the US, with notable performances such as sharing a stage with Damien Jurado, She Keeps Bees, and the legendary singer-songwriter, Buddy Mondlock. For bookings or more information please contact jon[at]jonhughes.org.- Shop: odax
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