wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
ISBN: 9780813925103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to independence from Great Britain. But as she tells it in her captivating new memoir, Orr did not grow up as a stranger abroad; she was a girl at home--only half American, the other half Nigerian. When she was sent alone to the United States for high school, she didn't realize how much leaving Africa would cost her. It was only in her forties, in the crisis of kidney failure, that she began to recover her African life. In writing Gods of Noonday... The daughter of medical missionaries, Elaine Neil Orr was born in Nigeria in 1954, in the midst of the national movement that would lead to indepen... |
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81,97 zł |
A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa
ISBN: 9780425261309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A "lush, evocative, breathtaking"* debut novel from Elaine Neil Orr, "reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's magnum opus, The Poisonwood Bible, with elements of Joseph Conrad and Louise Erdrich."*
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. When Emma Davis reads the words of Isaiah 6:8 in her room at a Georgia women's college, she understands her true calling: to become a missionary. It is a leap of faith that sweeps her away to Africa in an odyssey of personal discovery, tremendous... A "lush, evocative, breathtaking"* debut novel from Elaine Neil Orr, "reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's magnum opus, The Poisonwood Bible,...
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95,17 zł |
Subject to Negotiation: Reading Feminist Criticism and American Women's Fictions
ISBN: 9780813917153 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Subject to Negotiation, Elaine Neil Orr proposes negotiation as both a state of consciousness and a significant movement for women writers as well as feminist critics. Challenging the -subversive- model of feminist criticism, she argues for the importance of negotiation for feminist practice within a plurality of critical positions and identities. Without claiming the final word- indeed calling for more words on the subject- Orr sketches an empirical method for a negotiating feminist critcism and then in successive chapters demonstrates the method at work. In Subject to Negotiation, Elaine Neil Orr proposes negotiation as both a state of consciousness and a significant movement for women writers as we... |
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278,84 zł |
Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision
ISBN: 9781604734126 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary criticism but to interpret the subjects that inspire and disclose Olsen's spiritual vision. In Tell me a Riddle, Yonnondio, and, TIllie Olsen presents a world troubled by the problems of sex, race, and class and inhabited by people who are broken, silenced, defeated. Yet her artistic vision of this tragic world reveals Olsen's resounding affirmation of life. Orr's study shows Olsen's work... This intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objec... |
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157,71 zł |
The Messiah and the Jews: Three Thousand Years of Tradition, Belief and Hope
ISBN: 9781683364047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Explores an astonishing range of primary and secondary sources about this 3000-year-old tradition, explaining these teachings' significance for Jews of the past-and infusing them with new meaning for the modern reader, both Jewish and non-Jewish.
Explores an astonishing range of primary and secondary sources about this 3000-year-old tradition, explaining these teachings' significance for Jews o...
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121,09 zł |
Thirty Years of Rain
ISBN: 9781326753429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An anthology of short stories and poetry celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. Featuring Fergus Bannon, TJ Berg, Ruth EJ Booth, Jim Campbell, Eliza Chan, Michael Cobley, Elsie WK Donald, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Stewart Horn, Matthew Horsley, Ian Hunter, Cameron Johnston, Kenneth Kelly, William King, Duncan Lunan, Brian M Milton, Michael Mooney, Peter Morrison, TW Moses, Richard Mosses, Anya Penfold, Phil Raines, Jim Steel, Heather Valentine, Louise Welsh and Neil Williamson.
An anthology of short stories and poetry celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. Featuring Fergus Bannon, TJ Berg, Ru...
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73,26 zł |
Writing Out of Limbo: International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids
ISBN: 9781443833608 / Twarda / 2011 / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education and missions communities. They are called Third Culture Kids or Global Nomads, and the many benefits of their lifestyle – expanded worldview, multiplicity of languages, tolerance for difference – are often mitigated by recurring losses – of relationships, of stability, of permanent roots. They are part of an accelerating demographic that is only recently coming into visibility.
In this groundbreaking collection, writers from around the... Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education an...
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260,30 zł |