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Author | : Emily Clark |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013-04-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469607530 |
Download The Strange History of the American Quadroon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "quadroon," she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical imagination by the linked sins of slavery and interracial sex. However, as Emily Clark shows, the rich archives of New Orleans tell a different story. Free women of color with ancestral roots in New Orleans were as likely to marry in the 1820s as white women. And marriage, not concubinage, was the basis of their family structure. In The Strange History of the American Quadroon, Clark investigates how the narrative of the erotic colored mistress became an elaborate literary and commercial trope, persisting as a symbol that long outlived the political and cultural purposes for which it had been created. Untangling myth and memory, she presents a dramatically new and nuanced understanding of the myths and realities of New Orleans's free women of color.
Author | : Jerry Coleman |
Publisher | : Whitechapel Productions |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Download Strange Highways Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Editors of Portable Press |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2023-06-20 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1667201158 |
Download Strange USA Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Strangeness abounds in every corner of the United States—read all about it in this entertaining compendium of real-life stories! Americans may think of themselves as the most normal people in the world, but that assumption will be turned on its head when you dig into the contents of Strange USA. From political scandals and dumb crooks to oddball roadside attractions and the history of Florida Man, the country is teeming with weirdness in all 50 states. Dozens of the most amusing and entertaining articles from previous Bathroom Readers about the strange goings-on in the land of the free and the home of the brave—plus 40 new pages—will keep you turning the pages for hours.
Author | : John Hafnor |
Publisher | : John Hafnor |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780964817555 |
Download Strange But True, America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
Author | : Patricia Hermes |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780439368988 |
Download Our Strange New Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.
Author | : Carolyn Eastman |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2020-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469660520 |
Download The Strange Genius of Mr. O Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he had become a bona fide celebrity known simply as Mr. O, counting the nation's leading politicians and intellectuals among his admirers. And then, like so many meteoric American luminaries afterward, he fell from grace. The Strange Genius of Mr. O is at once the biography of a remarkable performer--a gaunt Scottish orator who appeared in a toga--and a story of the United States during the founding era. Ogilvie's career featured many of the hallmarks of celebrity we recognize from later eras: glamorous friends, eccentric clothing, scandalous religious views, narcissism, and even an alarming drug habit. Yet he captivated audiences with his eloquence and inaugurated a golden age of American oratory. Examining his roller-coaster career and the Americans who admired (or hated) him, this fascinating book renders a vivid portrait of the United States in the midst of invention.
Author | : Gavin Jones |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1999-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520921191 |
Download Strange Talk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness in American vernacular were undercut by fears that dialect was a force of cultural dissolution with the power to contaminate the dominant language. In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected "cult of the vernacular" in little-known regionalists such as George Washington Cable, in the canonical work of Mark Twain, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Stephen Crane, and in the ethnic writing of Abraham Cahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar. He reveals the origins of a trend that deepened in subsequent literature: the use of minority dialect to formulate a political response to racial oppression, and to enrich diverse depictions of a multicultural nation.
Author | : Eric Grzymkowski |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1440536201 |
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of All Things Weird Sure, you probably know that George Washington was our first president and that Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America in 1492, but did you know that there are more plastic flamingos in the United States than there are real ones and that Disneyland employees were not permitted to wear their own underwear while dressing in character until 2001? Behind the portrait of America that history classes, news reports, and boring documentaries have painted lies a strange and perplexing country that you couldn't imagine even in your wildest dreams. Featuring 1,001 shocking facts, this book reveals all the secrets and weirdness that you never knew about the United States. From the thirty-two(!) bathrooms in the White House to the fact that a single U.S.–made hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows, these wacky tidbits will guarantee that you'll never look at this nation the same way again!
Author | : Henry Spicer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Apparitions |
ISBN | : |
Download Strange Things Among Us Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Caja Munch |
Publisher | : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A young bride, Caja Munch accompanied her husband, Johan Storm Munch, from Norway to Wisconsin where he had received his first call to become pastor of several newly organized Norwegian Lutheran congregations. Her letters to her parents, written during a four-year period, 1855-59, and Pastor Munch's An American Adventure, an excerpt from his "Vita Mea," written fifty years after the visit to America, provide, with an uncanny timelessness and a distinct and charming literary style, perspectives on the immigrant in rural America which will be of considerable interest to general readers as well as historians and sociologists.