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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Susana M. Morris
A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an apt metaphor for the best and worst of humanity—our innovation and ingenuity, our naked greed and ambition, our propensity for violence and hierarchy. Her fiction charts the rise and fall of the American project—the nation’s transformation from a provincial backwater to a capitalist juggernaut—made possible by chattel slavery—to a bloated imperialist superpower on the verge of implosion. In this outstanding work, Susana M. Morris places Butler’s story firmly within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her life: the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, women’s liberation, queer rights, Reaganomics. Morris reveals how these influences profoundly impacted Butler’s personal and intellectual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing. Her cautionary tales warn us about succumbing to fascism, gender-based violence, and climate chaos while offering alternate paradigms to religion, family, and understanding our relationships to ourselves. Butler envisioned futures with Black women at the center, raising our awareness of how those who are often dismissed have the knowledge to shift the landscape of our world. But her characters are no magical martyrs, they are tough, flawed, intelligent, and complicated, a reflection of Butler’s stories. Morris explains what drove Butler: She wrote because she felt she must. “Who was I anyway? Why should anyone pay attention to what I had to say? Did I have anything to say? I was writing science fiction and fantasy, for God’s sake. At that time nearly all professional science-fiction writers were white men. As much as I loved science fiction and fantasy, what was I doing? Well, whatever it was, I couldn’t stop. Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It’s about not being able to stop at all.”
The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks.The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.
The ""black family"" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks.The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.
The Built Environment of Cold War Era Servicewomen (ERDC/CERL M-06-2)
U S Army Corps of Engineers; Dawn A Morrison; Susan I Enscore
Military Bookshop
2012
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The Built Environment of Cold War Era Servicewomen (Erdc/Cerl M-06-2)
U S Army Corps of Engineers; Dawn A Morrison; Susan I Enscore
Military Bookshop
2006
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Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
Susana M. Muñoz
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
2015
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The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they «come out» from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as «undocumented and unafraid».
Identity, Social Activism, and the Pursuit of Higher Education
Susana M. Muñoz
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
2015
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The topic of immigration has become increasingly volatile in U.S. society, and undocumented college students play a central role in mobilizing and politicizing a critical mass of activists to push forth a pro-immigration agenda, in particular the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. The DREAM Act is the only federal legislation that would grant conditional citizenship and some financial aid assistance to undocumented students who have completed two years of college or enlist in military service. Since the DREAM Act failed to pass, undocumented students have moved from peaceful marches to acts of civil disobedience, seeking to disrupt the public discourse that positions undocumented students as living in the shadows of our system. Undocumented college students have created public forums in which they «come out» from these invisible images and pronounce themselves as «undocumented and unafraid».
What is Youth?: A Fool's Guide to Staying Young in 5 Easy Steps
Susana M. McGuire Jewell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Goodness, Grace & Great Thoughts on Fire: How to embrace 7 billion shades of you
Susana M. Silverhoj
Ean 9788797044612
2019
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Desde hace tiempo se dice que Nietzsche no ser a propiamente un fil sofo, sino un poeta, pero a la hora de examinar sus textos, los investigadores se olvidan de ello y ofrecen explicaciones sistem ticas y definitivas cuando este pensamiento exige otra modalidad de an lisis. El presente ensayo, publicado en primera edici n en 1994, quiere ser fiel al esp ritu nietzscheano, que ama la contradicci n, el juego y la risa. Propone estrategias formales y estil sticas para aumentar ese esp ritu l dico y burl n, y en vez de escribir el ensayo desde una voz nica, lo hace desde varias. De esta manera refuerza esa idea de polifon a que Nietzsche formul con la frase: "La verdad es mujer". El ensayo aborda desde una rica y variada bbibliograf a la voluntad de poder, el superhombre, el nihilismo, el eterno retorno de lo mismo, la guerra de los sexos, la verdad perspectivesca, sin olvidar el car cter po tico de estas enunciaciones, que no admiten ser reducidas a un lenguaje regido por la l gica tradicional. Las formulaciones nietzscheanas exigen una lectura abierta, tentativa, experimental, que despliegue el mayor n mero de significados po ticos y sugerencias conceptuales.
Duerme bebé cómodo y seguro
John Hutton; Leah Busch; Susana M. Haywood; Margarita Fernández-Ardois
Blue Manatee Press
2015
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Tummy full, story read. Yawn, stretch, time for bed. Now one more kiss and one more hug, I drift to sleep, safe and snug. A classic bedtime ritual experienced through a baby's eyes, this book conveys safe sleep practices in a gentle, rhythmic way. A perfect gift for new families, it was created for Charlie's Kids Foundation, whose mission is educating families about SIDS prevention.
Relatos Eroticos Volumen 2 La orgia
Luis Martinez T; Susana Escarabajal M
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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Advances in Nanostructured Cellulose-based Biomaterials
Neftali L V Carreño; Ananda M Barbosa; Bruno S. Noremberg; Mabel M. S. Salas; Susana C M Fernandes; Jalel Labidi
Springer International Publishing AG
2017
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This book provides an overview of the advances on nanostructured celullose from different obtaining forms: natural plants and bacterial microorganisms. It gives the reader an introduction of cellulose focusing in nanosize particles, its potential applications and future perspectives. The potential use of cellulose in the biomedical field is highlighted.