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Bluebird, Bluebird

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 292

Au bord du bayou Attoyac, le corps d’un homme noir, venu de Chicago, est retrouvé. Cause présumée de la mort: noyade après un passage à tabac. Motif de l’agression selon les autorités locales: le vol. Mais pourquoi alors a-t-on retrouvé son portefeuille sur lui? Et pourquoi deux jours plus tard, au bord du même bayou, et juste derrière le café de Geneva Sweet, le cadavre d’une fille blanche est-il découvert? Dans ce Texas où Noirs et Blancs ne fréquentent pas les mêmes bars et où les suprémacistes blancs font recette, le Ranger noir Darren Mathews n’est pas particulièrement le bienvenu. Surtout quand il décide d’interférer dans l’enquête du shérif local. Darren ne connaît que trop bien ce coin de terre, et, malgré son attachement indéfectible à ce pays, il sait qu’il lui faudra mener seul sa quête pour la vérité et la justice. Un suspense aux accents de blues, doublé d’une réflexion toute en nuances sur les racines, les tensions raciales et les discriminations au sein même des communautés.

Pleasantville

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 383

Houston, Texas, 1996. Les élections municipales approchent, qui voient s’affronter Sandy Wolcott et Axel Hathorne, l’ancien chef de la police. Pour la première fois, un Afro-Américain est sur le point de l’emporter, grâce au soutien massif des habitants de Pleasantville, bastion de la classe moyenne noire. Alors que la campagne bat son plein, une femme disparaît. S’agit-il d’un crime de rôdeur ? D’une manipulation ? L’avocat Jay Porter mène l’enquête et fait de troublantes découvertes...

Marée noire

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 433

Dans la lignée de Dennis Lehane et George Pelecanos, une nouvelle voix de la littérature américaine se fait entendre : pour son premier roman, Attica Locke a écrit un thriller brillant, que les lecteurs ne sont pas près d’oublier. Jay Porter est loin d’être l’avocat qu’il aurait voulu devenir. Son client le plus prometteur est une prostituée de bas étage, et son cabinet se trouve dans un petit centre commercial minable. Mais cela fait longtemps qu’il a enterré son rêve américain et mis soigneusement de côté sa facette la plus sombre : les armes, l’enquête du FBI, le procès qui a bien failli le détruire. Houston, Texas, 1981. C’est dans cette ville que Jay pense pouvoir reprendre de zéro. Jusqu’au soir où il sauve une femme de la noyade – et ouvre la boîte de Pandore. Les secrets que cache cette femme vont en effet mêler Jay, malgré lui, à une enquête criminelle qui mettra en péril sa carrière d’avocat, sa famille, sa vie même. Mais avant d’éclaircir un mystère dont les ramifications remontent jusqu’aux plus hautes sphères du pouvoir économique local, Jay devra affronter les démons de son passé. Une écriture intelligente qui...

Telegraph Avenue

Auteure: Michael Chabon

Nombre de pages: 423

Calé sur le tempo funky des classiques du soul-jazz, rythmé par un style pyrotechnique éblouissant, Telegraph Avenue est le grand roman de la Californie moderne. Magistralement orchestrées, les aventures jazz, funk, blues et soul des habitants de Telegraph Avenue forment l'épopée réjouissante, unique en son genre, d'un demi-siècle de l'histoire californienne. Sur Telegraph Avenue, à Oakland, Californie, subsiste un petit paradis des vinyles de collection, Brokeland. Refuge de toute une faune d'habitués et de cinglés de rythmes afro-américains, il est tenu par Archy Stallings et Nat Jaffe, deux amis de longue date. Mais le projet d'implantation d'un gigantesque magasin de disques menace son existence. Et les imbroglios commencent, avec leur effet domino. Car c'est bien plus que la disparition de Brokeland qui est en jeu. C'est une histoire d'amitiés, de fidélité au passé et d'identité culturelle pour laquelle se mobilisent, s'opposent ou s'allient les voyous et les musiciens du quartier, les hommes de la municipalité, mais aussi les femmes de Nat et d'Archy, deux ados fans de Tarantino, une vieille star de la blaxploitation et une aïeule chinoise ceinture noire...

La revue Portrait, le monde en têtes numéro 5

Auteure: Judith Perrignon , Julie Bonnie , Pauline Guena , Gloria Steinem

Nombre de pages: 127

Construire son identité au XXIème siècle est un défi, que l’on soit amérindien, femme, noir ou même un Blanc aisé dans ce monde qui n’a rien de tranquille. Ce nouveau numéro part à la rencontre d’écrivains de grand talent, engagés, positionnés à contre-courant d’une société de consommation qui pousse au lissage et aux inégalités, notamment en détournant la mondialisation et l’ultra-connexion de ses capacités à créer des conditions de vie meilleures. Rebelles, c’est ainsi que nous avons qualifié ces hommes et ces femmes écrivains drôles, et pour certains électriques. Gyasi Ross, Une identité enracinée par Judith Perrignon David Treuer, Cheval de Troie, par Pauline Guéna Rachel Kushner, Le cas étrange de par Julie Bonnie Attica Locke, entretien par Rachèle Bevilacqua Quand les hommes parlent aux femmes de Gloria Steinem Sam Lipsyte, L’humour face au néant, par Nathalie Bru Meg Wolitzer, This is your life par Clementine Gallot Carnet de bord d'Alice d’Orgeval Portfolio de Paolo Bevilacqua Les photos des portraiturés sont signées Patrick Messina. La photo d'Attica Locke par Mel Melcon, Los Angeles Times

Will

Auteure: Will Smith

Nombre de pages: 493

L'une des plus grandes stars de notre époque se révèle pour la première fois dans un livre courageux et inspirant de ses débuts à son incroyable succès qu'il lui a fallu faire rimer avec bonheur et relations humaines. Will raconte l'un des parcours les plus exceptionnels du monde de la musique et du cinéma. Enfant des quartiers de Philadelphie, Will Smith est devenu l'un des plus grands rappeurs de sa génération, puis l'une des plus célèbres personnalités de l'histoire du cinéma. Il pensait tout avoir : un succès incomparable et une famille au firmament du monde du divertissement. Mais ses proches étaient loin de partager sa vision des choses : eux se sentaient pris au piège du star-system, un travail à plein temps pour lequel ils n'avaient jamais signé. Ce récit est le fruit d'une longue traversée vers la (re)connaissance de soi, une exploration des pouvoirs sans pareil de la volonté : de tout ce qu'elle peut vous apporter et vous aider à vous défaire. Écrit avec l'aide de Mark Manson, auteur du bestseller mondial L'art subtil de s'en foutre, Will nous apprend à maîtriser nos émotions pour nous améliorer, et nous prouve que tout le monde peut y...

Un feu d'origine inconnu

Auteure: Daniel Woodrell

Nombre de pages: 135

Missouri, 1929. Un soir d'été, les habitants de West Table se rendent joyeux au bal du village. Mais la salle prend feu avant d'exploser, laissant de nombreux morts et beaucoup de questions. Inspiré d'un drame qui toucha la famille de Daniel Woodrell, ce roman saisissant mène l'enquête et brosse le portrait intime et terrible d'une petite communauté, ses relations viciées, ses hypocrisies et ses secrets.

Conseils de lecture pour âmes égarées

Auteure: Sara Nisha Adams

Nombre de pages: 403

À 17 ans, Aleisha travaille dans la petite bibliothèque de son quartier : un job d’été tranquille qui lui permet de reprendre son souffle loin de sa mère bipolaire. Elle, qui ne lit que très peu, s’y ennuie terriblement jusqu’au jour où elle découvre une mystérieuse liste de lecture en rangeant un exemplaire de Ne tirez pas sur l’oiseau moqueur. Intriguée, elle décide de se plonger dans tous les ouvrages de la liste pour pouvoir conseiller les usagers de la bibliothèque, dont un vieil homme isolé à la recherche des livres grâce auxquels il réussira à se rapprocher de sa petite-fille. Le début d’une émouvante histoire d’amitié intergénérationnelle construite sur le pouvoir thérapeutique et fédérateur de la littérature... Autrice et éditrice, Sara Nisha Adams est née de parents indiens et anglais et a passé la majorité de son enfance à Wembley, dans la banlieue de Londres. Son premier roman, Conseils de lecture pour âmes égarées est en partie inspirée de sa relation avec son grand-père, construite autour de leur passion commune pour la lecture.

Lignes de fuite

Auteure: John Harvey

Nombre de pages: 308

Karen Shields, jeune inspectrice d'origine jamaïcaine, est chef de l'équipe des homicides à la police métropolitaine de Londres. Elle enquête sur la mort d'un jeune Moldave retrouvé sous la glace d'un étang gelé à Hampstead Heath. Pendant ce temps, Cordon, inspecteur placardisé dans une petite ville de Cornouailles, recherche une jeune femme disparue, qu'il a connue 15 ans plus tôt alors qu'elle était une adolescente paumée, tombée dans la drogue et la prostitution. Les deux enquêtes vont trouver un fil commun...

The Crossroads of Crime Writing

Auteure: Meghan P. Nolan , Rebecca Martin

Nombre de pages: 164

This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. Drawing upon the insights and expertise of an international array of scholars, the chapters within explore the interplay of the literary, historical, social, and cultural in various modes of crime writing from the 1890s to as recent as 2017. They examine unseen structures and uncertain spaces, and simultaneously provide new insights into the works of iconic authors, such as Christie, and iconic fictional figures, like Holmes, as well as underexplored subjects, including Ukrainian detective fiction of the Soviet period and crime writing by a Bengali police detective at the turn of the twentieth century. The breadth of coverage—of both time and place—is an indicator of a text in which seasoned readers, advanced students, and academics will find new perspectives on crime writing employing theories of cultural memory and deep mapping.

Investigating Death in Paradise

Auteure: Robin Andersen

Nombre de pages: 247

First televised in 2011, Death in Paradise remains one of the most popular shows in the U.K. The detective series is frequently ignored, panned or belittled by television critics, but viewers disagree. Bringing in more than eight million viewers a season, it is accessible in more than 235 global territories. This first book-length assessment of Death in Paradise offers a fresh take on the popular BBC drama. The book positions the show within broader contexts that illustrate its origins and timeless appeal, from the first conceptualizations of "paradise" in ancient cultures to the creation of the classic detective story in the 1920s. The detective inspectors on Death in Paradise come from a long line of fictional eccentrics who excel at finding quirky clues, seeing surprising connections and employing help from other officials and agencies. Through exploration of these narrative elements and more, the author reveals deeper themes of justice, inclusion and environmentalism.

Un Dernier été

Auteure: Elin Hilderbrand

Nombre de pages: 381

La reine du roman d'été revient avec une histoire lumineuse sous le soleil éclatant de Nantucket. Sur l'île de Nantucket, l'été s'annonce plein de promesses. Willa jubile : elle est à nouveau enceinte, après trois fausses couches. Sa petite sœur Carson, elle, ne pense qu'à faire la fête au Chicken Box. Quant à leur frère, Leo, il est tiraillé entre sa petite amie et son désir de liberté. Bientôt, ils pourront reprendre leurs traditions estivales, déjeuner en famille au Yacht Club, choisir une glace chez Cône... Et célébrer la sortie du nouveau roman de leur mère, la célèbre Vivian Howe ! Tout bascule quand Vivi est renversée par une voiture. De là où elle est, Vivi observe avec fierté ses trois enfants tracer leur chemin vers l'âge adulte, guidés par son amour infini.

Money shot

Auteure: Christa Faust , Christophe Cuq

Nombre de pages: 266

Je m'appelle Gina Moretti, mais vous me connaissez probablement mieux sous le nom d'Angel Dare. Vous en faites pas, je n'en parlerai à personne. J'ai tourné mon premier film X à l'âge de vingt ans, même si à l'époque, j'avais menti devant la caméra et prétendu en avoir dix-huit. Mais contrairement à bon nombre de filles avec lesquelles j'ai bossé, j'ai été assez maligne pour raccrocher. Le problème, c'est qu'à l'instar d'un catcheur ou d'un voleur de bijoux, je me suis laissé tenter par un retour. Je n'avais aucune idée que j'allais finir coincée dans un coffre de bagnole.

Black Water Rising

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 448

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family and even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past. A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.

La traduction, deuxième édition

Auteure: Kerry Lappin-fortin

Nombre de pages: 262

Cette deuxième édition augmentée de La traduction : un pont de départ propose une introduction intéressante et vivante à la traduction anglais-français et français-anglais. Organisée en trois parties, elle présente les notions de base linguistiques pertinentes, les procédés, les types et les défis de la traduction et un chapitre sur les différences structurelles des deux langues. Les mises à jour de cette édition comprennent des informations supplémentaires sur des sujets liés aux sociolectes, aux sous-titres et au langage inclusif. Dans ce manuel « hybride », le contenu théorique s’accompagne d’exercices pratiques à la fois utiles et divertissants, dont du nouveau matériel secondaire. Destiné principalement aux étudiants universitaires de niveau intermédiaire-avancé en français langue seconde, il convient bien à un premier ou à un deuxième cours de traduction, voire à un cours de stylistique comparée.

Teaching 21st Century Genres

Auteure: Katy Shaw

Nombre de pages: 202

This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture. The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date, analyses key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century genres through a close reading of key examples, along with a broader critical overview at the beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments, contexts and themes. As a result of this contextual, text-orientated approach, the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the specifics of new genres and authors, and will contribute to a wider understanding of developments in post-millennial fictions.

Geographies of Displacement/s

Auteure: Kendra Strauss

Nombre de pages: 398

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns of shifting, dislocation, or putting out of place; substitutions of one idea for another or the unconscious transfer of intense feelings or emotions; activities occurring outside their normal context; and replacements of one thing by another. The COVID-19 pandemic, declared by the World Health Organization in 2020, produced new displacements and intensified existing patterns of displacement and dispossession. At the same time, socionatural displacements - floods, fires, droughts, hurricanes, sea-level rise, species loss, and dislocation - were the backdrop to the displaced and deferred hopes of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The chapters in this volume contend with how we as geographers conceptualize and theorize displacements; the range of sites, spaces, processes, affects, scales, and actors we study with to understand them; and what is at stake politically in how we research displacements. It is also a pandemic archive of academic labor, in which we find traces of displacements within and beyond the academic...

Class and Culture in Crime Fiction

Auteure: Julie H. Kim

Nombre de pages: 239

The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics. The ten new essays herein raise broad and complicated questions about the role of class and culture in transatlantic crime fiction beyond the Golden Age: How is "class" understood in detective fiction, other than as a socioeconomic marker? Can we distinguish between major British and American class concerns as they relate to crime? How politically informed is popular detective fiction in responding to economic crises in Scotland, Ireland, England and the United States? When issues of race and gender intersect with concerns of class and culture, does the crime writer privilege one or another factor? Do values and preoccupations of a primarily middle-class readership get reflected in popular detective fiction?

Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

Auteure: C. Lloyd

Nombre de pages: 313

This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.

Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism

Auteure: Arin Keeble

Nombre de pages: 314

Examining novels by celebrated authors, some neglected and some brand new texts, Arin Keeble offers a detailed analysis of the ways novels from around the world have represented terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Over five chapters, he uncovers a movement away from event-based narratives toward depictions of terrorism as a violent symptom or feature of twenty-first century world-systems and neoliberalism. Beginning with the early literary response to 9/11 and the 9/11 novel genre, the book moves through more recent depictions of the endless 'war on terror', state terror, white nationalist terror and historical narratives of terror that resonate in the current political climate. In doing so, it examines the changing ways literature has sought to make sense of both the reasons why terrorism occurs and the effects it has on victims, survivors and international and intercultural relations.

Au paradis je demeure

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 281

Le lac Caddo, une immense étendue d’eau verdâtre aux confins du Texas et de la Louisiane, où les silhouettes décharnées des cyprès se perdent dans la brume. Quand le soir tombe, mieux vaut ne pas y naviguer seul, sous peine de ne plus retrouver son chemin dans les innombrables bayous et de «passer une nuit au motel Caddo», comme disent les anciens. C’est d’ailleurs parce qu’un enfant a disparu sur ce lac que Darren Mathews, Ranger noir du Texas, débarque à Hopetown, un lieu reculé habité par une communauté disparate. Quand il découvre que des Blancs pauvres et racistes dans des caravanes de fortune partagent cette terre avec quelques Indiens Caddos et un vieux Noir descendant d’un groupe d’esclaves affranchis, il comprend que l’affaire ne sera pas banale. D’autant que le père de l’enfant disparu, un suprémaciste dont la mère est la plus grande fortune du comté, purge une peine de prison pour un meurtre raciste... Un roman fort qui nous plonge dans l’Amérique de Trump et le Sud profond, où des laissés-pour-compte sont prêts à toutes les violences pour survivre.

Living Oil

Auteure: Stephanie Lemenager

Nombre de pages: 290

Drawing on novels, film, and photographs, Living Oil offers a literary and cultural history of modern environmentalism and petroleum in America.

Snapshots

Auteure: Dinah Lenney

Nombre de pages: 169

If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire? What stories would they tell and would they be joyful or sad, elegant or savage? Snapshots features 36 such meditations from a diverse group of writers, each of whom draws on a photograph from their personal archive to inspire a short essay. Intimate and powerful, these reflections exhibit a range of sensibilities and experiences, offering unique insight into the lives and interests of both established and emerging authors. Expressing a dynamic array of styles, relationships, landscapes, and preoccupations, Snapshots is an album for our life and times. The book includes pieces from the writers below: - Emilie Pascale Beck - Suzanne Berne - Aimee Bender - Sven Birkerts - Kate Carroll De Gutes - Stuart Dybek - Alex Espinoza - Lynell George - Amy Gerstler - Tod Goldberg - Hannah Howard - Vanessa Hua - Pico Iyer - Wayne Koestenbaum - Major Jackson - Leslie Jamison - Dinah Lenney - Alex Marzano-Lesnevich - Aimee Liu - Sonja Livingston - Attica Locke - Dinty W. Moore - Mara Naselli - Naomi Shihab Nye - Ivy Pochoda - Adriana E. Ramirez - Sejal Shah - Brandon Shimoda - Jessica Silvester - Aisha Sabatini Sloan...

That We May Be One

Auteure: Gary B. Agee

Nombre de pages: 157

Transcending divisions and healing the broken Body of Christ. Disunity is a reality within churches today. Left unaddressed, political disagreements and racial inequities can fester into misunderstanding, resentment, and anger. But often the act of addressing this discord prompts further animosity, widening fissures into gaping fault lines between fellow members of the same community. Gary Agee, a pastor well-versed in leading diverse congregations, reflects here on the roots of division within the church and the virtues and practices that can promote the restoration of unity. With disarming honesty and humility, Agee offers sage advice gleaned from Scripture and years of practical experience to show how we might fulfill Jesus’s prayer on behalf of the church: “That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. . . . That they may be one as we are one.” At the end of each chapter, Agee includes exercises, discussion questions, and suggested practices, providing a concrete path to unity through dialogue and action.

The Reading List

Auteure: Sara Nisha Adams

Nombre de pages: 410

*Discover the magic of The Twilight Garden, the brand new novel from Sara Nisha Adams – available to buy now* *A finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction, discover this year’s most uplifting and heart-warming debut*

Heaven, My Home

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 259

In this "captivating" crime novel (People), Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missing child -- but it's the boy's family of white supremacists who are his real target. 9-year-old Levi King knew he should have left for home sooner; now he's alone in the darkness of vast Caddo Lake, in a boat whose motor just died. A sudden noise distracts him - and all goes dark. Darren Mathews is trying to emerge from another kind of darkness; after the events of his previous investigation, his marriage is in a precarious state of re-building, and his career and reputation lie in the hands of his mother, who's never exactly had his best interests at heart. Now she holds the key to his freedom, and she's not above a little maternal blackmail to press her advantage. An unlikely possibility of rescue arrives in the form of a case down Highway 59, in a small lakeside town where the local economy thrives on nostalgia for ante-bellum Texas - and some of the era's racial attitudes still thrive as well. Levi's disappearance has links to Darren's last case, and to a wealthy businesswoman, the boy's grandmother, who seems more concerned about the fate of her business than that of her...

Bluebird, Bluebird

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 306

WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 'Thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'An expertly plotted triple whodunit' - SUNDAY TIMES Southern fables usually go the other way around. A white woman is killed or harmed in some way, real or imagined, and then, like the moon follows the sun, a black man ends up dead. But when it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules - a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger working the backwoods towns of Highway 59, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about his home state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. So when allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he is drawn to a case in the small town of Lark, where two dead bodies washed up in the bayou. First a black lawyer from Chicago and then, three days later, a local white woman, and it's stirred up a hornet's nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes - and save himself in the process - before Lark's long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. 'A winning literary thriller' - MAIL ON SUNDAY 'America's...

Pleasantville

Auteure: Attica Locke

Nombre de pages: 429

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016, THE TIMES 10 Best Thrillers of 2010s It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a growing black middle class in 1949. Axel Hathorne, former chief of police and the son of Pleasantville's founding father, was all set to become Houston's first black mayor. But his lead is slipping thanks to a late entrant into the race -- Sandy Wolcott, a defence attorney riding high on the success of a high-profile murder trial. And then, just as the competition intensifies, a girl goes missing, apparently while canvassing for Axel. And when her body is found, Axel's nephew is charged with her murder. Sam is determined that Jay Porter defends his grandson. And even though Jay is tired of wading through other people's problems, he suddenly finds himself trying his first murder case, a trial that threatens to blow the entire community wide open, and reveal the lengths that those with power are willing...

After Katrina

Auteure: Anna Hartnell

Nombre de pages: 290

Through the lens provided by the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, After Katrina argues that the city of New Orleans emerges as a key site for exploring competing narratives of US decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Deploying an interdisciplinary approach to explore cultural representations of the post-storm city, Anna Hartnell suggests that New Orleans has been reimagined as a laboratory for a racialized neoliberalism, and as such might be seen as a terminus of the American dream. This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality of life but to the possibility of life in coastal communities across America and the world. And yet After Katrina also suggests that New Orleans culture offers a way of thinking about the United States in terms that transcend the binary of national renewal or declension. The post-Hurricane city thus emerges as a flashpoint for reflecting on the contemporary United States.

Teaching Narrative

Auteure: Richard Jacobs

Nombre de pages: 220

Narrative is everywhere and has unique powers: to enchant and inspire, to make sense of our lives and ourselves and to afford us an enriched understanding of alternative worlds and lives and of better futures – though narrative also has the potential to coerce and oppress. Narrative is at the centre at all stages of the English curriculum and has been the subject of a burgeoning critical industry. This timely volume addresses the many ways in which recent thinking has informed the teaching of narrative in university classrooms in the UK and the USA. Distinguished teachers from both countries range widely across narrative topics and genres, including the opportunities opened up by new technologies, and chapters articulate students’ own individual and collaborative experiences in the teaching/learning process. The result is a volume that explores the pleasurable challenges of working with students to help them appreciate and assess the power that narrative exerts, to become reflectivecritics of its inner workings as well as exponents of narrative themselves.

The Colonialism of Human Rights

Auteure: Colin Samson

Nombre de pages: 264

Do so-called universal human rights apply to indigenous, formerly enslaved and colonized peoples? This trenchant book brings human rights into conversation with the histories and afterlives of Western colonialism and slavery. Colin Samson examines the paradox that the nations that credit themselves with formulating universal human rights were colonial powers, settler colonists and sponsors of enslavement. Samson points out that many liberal theorists supported colonialism and slavery, and how this illiberalism plays out today in selective, often racist processes of recognition and enforcement of human rights. To reveal the continuities between colonial histories and contemporary events, Samson connects British, French and American colonial theories and practice to the notion of non-universal human rights. Vivid illustrations and case studies of racial exceptions to human rights are drawn from the afterlives of the enslaved and colonized, as well as recent events such as American police killings of black people, the treatment of Algerian harkis in France, the Windrush scandal in Britain and the militarized suppression of the Standing Rock Water Protectors movement. Advocating for...

African American Literature

Auteure: Hans Ostrom , J. David Macey Jr.

Nombre de pages: 569

This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.

Joyful, Delicious, Vegan

Auteure: Sherra Aguirre

Nombre de pages: 190

We can all learn how to enjoy good health naturally at any age—and it starts in our kitchens by changing how we eat. In Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease, Sherra Aguirre equips readers with the simplest, most effective way to prevent or reverse heart disease, our number one killer here in the US—especially for African American women, who are on the front lines of the fight against heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses. In this empowering guide to healthy eating, Aguirre shares her own story of reversing hypertension and other heart disease symptoms, despite a long family history; she presents current knowledge about the effectiveness of a plant-based diet in reversing disease; and she offers up recommendations from two world-renowned cardiologists who have demonstrated results with patients for many years. Joyful, Delicious, Vegan: Life Without Heart Disease guides readers in building a simple food plan around their particular needs with delicious anti-inflammatory foods and provides support for developing the habit of mindful eating. Aguirre explores ways in which choosing a vegan diet and eating consciously are compassionate acts that can...

The Philosophy of Fiction

Auteure: Patrik Engisch , Julia Langkau

Nombre de pages: 283

This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription that we engage imaginatively with its content. The contributors address the fundamental questions of how we can define fiction, and especially whether we can define fiction in terms of imagination. The second part focuses on a distinct but related question: can we point to some distinctive experiential features of our engagement with fiction? In the third part, the focus lies on the cognitive value of fiction and on the role that imagination plays in that respect. The chapters in this part discuss the cognitive value of fiction with respect to issues such as the training of the faculty of imagination, phenomenal experience, empathy, and the emotions. The Philosophy of Fiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and literary studies. Chapter 13 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the ...

In the Place of Justice

Auteure: Wilbert Rideau

Nombre de pages: 529

In 1961, young, black, eighth-grade dropout Wilbert Rideau despaired of his small-town future in the segregated deep south of America. He set out to rob the local bank and after a bungled robbery he killed the bank teller, a fifty-year-old white female. He was arrested and gave a full confession. When we meet Rideau he has just been sentenced to death row, from where he embarks on an extraordinary journey. He is imprisoned at Angola, the most violent prison in America, where brutality, sexual slavery and local politics confine prisoners in ways that bars alone cannot. Yet Rideau breaks through all this and finds hope and meaning, becoming editor of the prison magazine, going on to win national journalism awards. Full of gritty realism and potent in its evocation of a life condemned, Rideau goes far beyond the traditional prison memoir and reveals an emotionally wrought and magical conclusion to his forty-four years in prison.

Lucky

Auteure: Joe Ide

Nombre de pages: 291

Pendant dix ans, depuis ce jour où son frère a été tué en pleine rue par un inconnu, Isaiah Quintabe, dit IQ, a éprouvé une colère sourde, qui grondait en lui et l’empêchait de dormir. Aujourd’hui encore, alors que ses talents de privé lui valent le respect de tout son quartier — East Long Beach, à Los Angeles —, cette tragédie continue de le hanter. Un matin, l’ancienne fiancée de son frère lui demande de l’aide : à Las Vegas, deux de ses amis sont à la merci de mafieux chinois et d’un terrifiant usurier. Si Isaiah ne parvient pas à les localiser, ils seront assassinés. Avec l’aide de son compagnon Dodson, il se lance dans cette enquête, sans soupçonner qu’au bout de ce chemin se trouve le tueur qui lui échappe depuis si longtemps...

Unmasked

Auteure: L. Brent Bozell Iii , Tim Graham

Nombre de pages: 208

Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, bestselling author, publisher and activist, L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today. As Founder and President of the Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America, and is uniquely positioned to offer this blazing critique of bias of all types in the national media and how it damages American democracy. By analyzing the coverage of the rise of Donald Trump and his presidency, Bozell explains all the different types of bias that can occur and exposes the insidious effects. ENEMIES LIST will also examine the campaigns for the 2018 midterms – and the results – which will provide the most comprehensive, detailed, and explosive analysis to date of how the media stokes divisiveness in American politics.

Nobody Should Know

Auteure: Sonia Eska

Nombre de pages: 474

Elle a une enquête à mener. Il est là pour tout compromettre. Nora Jean, journaliste d’investigation pour un grand magazine new-yorkais, se voit confier une mission qui pourrait enfin faire décoller sa carrière : elle a été tirée au sort pour interviewer Dawn, la fille d’un puissant magnat de l’industrie, accusée du meurtre de son propre père. Alors que Nora Jean plonge dans les méandres de cette affaire sensationnelle, elle voit débarquer chez elle Deamon, le meilleur ami de son frère, qu’elle n’a pas revu depuis des années. D’un caractère ombrageux, il est indomptable, irrévérencieux, mais surtout il n’est pas revenu par hasard. Il a un secret inavoué, un agenda caché qui pourrait nuire à l’enquête de Nora Jean. Entre la pression de découvrir la vérité sur Dawn et les manipulations de Deamon pour l’en empêcher, la jeune femme se retrouve prise dans un jeu dangereux. Déterminée à démêler les fils de cette affaire complexe avant qu’il ne soit trop tard, Nora Jean va devoir décider à qui elle fait confiance. Mais son jugement pourrait bien être troublé par la présence de Deamon. Et peut-être pas que son jugement... Nobody...

Noir in the North

Auteure: Stacy Gillis , Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir

Nombre de pages: 439

What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades. But what are the parameters of this genre, both historically and geographically? What is noirish and what is northern about Nordic noir? The foreword and coda in this volume, by two internationally-bestselling writers of crime fiction in the north, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Gunnar Staalesen, speak to the social contract undertaken by writers of noir, while the interview with the renowned crime writer Val McDermid adds nuance to our understanding of what it is to write noir in the North. Divided into four sections – Gender and Sexuality, Space and Place, Politics and Crime, and Genre and Genealogy – Noir in the North challenges the traditional critical histories of noir by investigating how it functions transnationally beyond the geographical borders of Scandinavia. The essays in this book deepen our critical understanding of noir more generally by demonstrating, for example, Nordic noir's connection to fin-de-siècle literatures and to mid-century interior design, and by investigating the function of the state in crime fiction.

Darktown

Auteure: Thomas Mullen

Nombre de pages: 379

Situé à Atlanta en 1948, Darktown est le premier opus d’une saga criminelle complexe et fascinante qui explore les tensions radicales au début du mouvement des droits civiques, dans la lignée de Dennis Lehane et Walter Mosley.