Condemned to Devil's Island
Author | : Blair Niles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Devil's Island (French Guiana) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Blair Niles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Devil's Island (French Guiana) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Blair Niler |
Publisher | : Signet |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780451045362 |
Author | : R. Belbenoit |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 587278113X |
Illustration by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo.
Author | : Blair Niles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Exiles |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Blair Niles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : French Guiana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henri Charrière |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2012-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007383126 |
A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s
Author | : Randall J. Stephens |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0674919726 |
When rock ’n’ roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music’s demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was “ever working in the world for evil.” Yet by the early 2000s Christian rock had become a billion-dollar industry. The Devil’s Music tells the story of this transformation. Rock’s origins lie in part with the energetic Southern Pentecostal churches where Elvis, Little Richard, James Brown, and other pioneers of the genre worshipped as children. Randall J. Stephens shows that the music, styles, and ideas of tongue-speaking churches powerfully influenced these early performers. As rock ’n’ roll’s popularity grew, white preachers tried to distance their flock from this “blasphemous jungle music,” with little success. By the 1960s, Christian leaders feared the Beatles really were more popular than Jesus, as John Lennon claimed. Stephens argues that in the early days of rock ’n’ roll, faith served as a vehicle for whites’ racial fears. A decade later, evangelical Christians were at odds with the counterculture and the antiwar movement. By associating the music of blacks and hippies with godlessness, believers used their faith to justify racism and conservative politics. But in a reversal of strategy in the early 1970s, the same evangelicals embraced Christian rock as a way to express Jesus’s message within their own religious community and project it into a secular world. In Stephens’s compelling narrative, the result was a powerful fusion of conservatism and popular culture whose effects are still felt today.
Author | : Stephen A. Toth |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803244495 |
A multilayered social and cultural analysis that focuses upon the will of civil society and the will of those who actually lived and worked in the bagne, or penal colony.
Author | : Jean Genet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : 9780571340835 |
Jean Genet, French playwright, novelist and poet, turned the experiences in his life amongst pimps, whores, thugs and other fellow social outcasts into a poetic literature, with an honesty and explicitness unprecedented at the time. Widely considered an outstanding and unique figure in French literature, Genet wrote five novels between 1942 and 1947, now being republished by Faber & Faber in beautiful new paperback editions. The Thief's Journal is perhaps Jean Genet's most authentically autobiographical novel; an account of his impoverished travels across 1930s Europe. The narrator is guilty of vagrancy, petty theft and prostitution, but his writing transforms such degradations into an inverted moral code, where criminality and delinquency become heroic. With a holy trinity of his own making - homosexuality, theft and betrayal - in The Thief's Journal Genet produced a startlingly powerful novel without precedent. Includes a new introduction by Ahdaf Soueif.
Author | : Alexander Miles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |