wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo
ISBN: 9780814762271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices--is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the... Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices--is one of the most significant phenomena in C... |
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363,09 zł |
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo
ISBN: 9780814762288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices--is one of the most significant phenomena in Caribbean religious history. Brought together in the crucible of the sugar plantation, Caribbean peoples drew on the variants of Christianity brought by European colonizers, as well as on African religious and healing traditions and the remnants of Amerindian practices, to fashion new systems of belief. Creole Religions of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions that have developed in the... Creolization--the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to form new beliefs and practices--is one of the most significant phenomena in C... |
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119,25 zł |
Caribbean Women Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313283420 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, annotated bibliography of works by and about Caribbean women novelists from 1950 to the present covers novelists from all Caribbean islands and Surinam writing in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, and their dialects. Entries on some 150 individual writers are organized alphabetically and comprise a biographical sketch, data on novels with plot synopses, a listing of other known publications in all genres, as well as annotated criticism and reviews. Included are translations, interviews, recorded materials, and broadcast literature. Sources range from publications of... This comprehensive, annotated bibliography of works by and about Caribbean women novelists from 1950 to the present covers novelists from all Carib... |
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327,60 zł |
Literature of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780313328459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. The literature of the Caribbean reflects the social, political, and cultural concerns of the region and is a valuable tool for learning about the area and its people. This book includes chapters on roughly a dozen contemporary Caribbean writers. Along with plot summaries, these sections discuss major themes and give close attention to how Caribbean culture figures in the writer's texts. To help students conduct further research, each chapter cites works for further reading.
The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. The literature of the Caribbean reflects the social, politic... |
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256,62 zł |
Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion
ISBN: 9780313302954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother, and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, touch on the universal theme of coming-of-age and the female adolescent's need to sever her ties to her mother. This angst is couched in the social landscape of post-colonial Antigua, a small Caribbean island whose legacy of racism affects Kincaid's protagonists. Her fiction rewrites... With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three a... |
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240,24 zł |
The Orchid House
ISBN: 9780813523323 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in 1954, The Orchid House, Phyllis Shand Allfrey's only published novel, is a classic of Caribbean literature. In this markedly autobiographical story of the three daughters of a once-powerful but now impoverished white family, Allfrey interweaves her family's history with the history of her home island of Dominica in the twentieth century. The novel is written in a sensuous style and the story remarkably told through the eyes of Lally, the black nurse of the three sisters. Often praised for the clearsightedness of its analysis of the Dominican historical process, The Orchid...
First published in 1954, The Orchid House, Phyllis Shand Allfrey's only published novel, is a classic of Caribbean literature. In this markedly autobi...
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160,80 zł |