![]() ![]() ![]() Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” connects Hurston’s work more firmly to the cultural and religious flows of the African diaspora and to the literary practice by twentieth-century American writers of subscripting in their fictional texts symbols and beliefs drawn from West and Central African religions. Much in the way that Voudoun and its North American derivative Voodoo are syncretic religions, Hurston’s fiction enacts a syncretic, performative practice of reference, freely drawing upon Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Haitian Voudoun mythologies for its political, aesthetic, and philosophical underpinnings. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel. ![]() In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Denys finch hatton out of africa![]() ![]() Cole was very well connected in Kenya, being the brother-in-law of The 3rd Baron Delamere, the effective leader of the White settlers in the country. ![]() Berkeley Cole (1882-1925), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, born into a prominent Ulster family, who had also settled in the colony. ![]() In Kenya, Finch Hatton was a close friend of The Hon. He turned over the investment to a partner and spent his time hunting. In 1910, after a trip to South Africa, he traveled to British East Africa and bought some land on the western side of the Great Rift Valley near what is now Eldoret. At Eton, he was Captain of the cricket Eleven, Keeper of the Field and the Wall (two major sports played at Eton), President of the Prefects Society called Pop, and Secretary of the Music Society. He was educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford. In the book, his name is hyphenated: "Finch-Hatton".Įarly life … Finch Hatton was the second son and third child of The 13th Earl of Winchilsea, by his wife, the former Anne "Nan" Codrington, daughter of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Codrington. Denys George Finch Hatton (24 April 1887 – ) was an aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen Blixen (also known by her pen name as Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments This poison heart series![]() ![]() ![]() With a smart, determined protagonist, ties to Greek mythology, and magic that permeates our real world, This Poison Heart has a lot of potential, and I can see why Goodreads users are loving it. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family. ![]() until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. There is more to Bri’s sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined–it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri’s unique family lineage. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. When Briseis’s aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Minion vampire huntress![]() ![]() Damali soon discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire she has ever met, and this seductive beast is coming for her next. These bodies have been mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. No neat puncture marks in the neck to show where the life's blood has been sucked from the body. These killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Strange attacks have also erupted within the club drug-trafficking network and drawn the attention of the police. ![]() But Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires have been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons-predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Spin by Robert Charles Wilson![]() Wilson also uses the flashbacks to explain how and why the “spin membrane” was put around the earth. Through the liberal use of flashbacks, it becomes apparent why Tyler is sick and how he fell ill. The primary character in the book is Tyler Dupree, who, when the book opens, is struggling through some sort of illness which Wilson chooses not to explain. On the surface, this seems like a story line that would be hard to develop, but Wilson does a great job of stretching your imagination to grasp the ramifications of a universe that ages faster than earth as well the possibilities it presents. The earth has been placed in a “spin membrane” which slows time down for the inhabitants of earth while the universe continues to age naturally. The premise behind Spin is very intriguing. ![]() Spin was published in 2005 and is the opening of a three part book series that includes Axis and Vortex. For my next dive into science fiction, I chose to read Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The proposition by judith ivory![]() ![]() Story can be a safe way to explore terrifying ideas about society and people. In Where Dreams Begin, Zachary Bronson is a hero that follows the Beast archetype, and Jen saw it in the scene where Holly first enters his house. ![]() Tl dr: archetypes are about character,while retellings are about plot. Yes, yes, the English Teacher memes are so funny. JK Rowling is a problem, and it’s changed the way many Harry Potter fans think about her books. Kate’s 2020 book, Love Lettering, is an Overdrive read. ![]() Kate released Love at First this week, which is an homage to Romeo and Juliet. Texas and the rest of America got hit with some espically bad winter weather this February. She was with us for the Best Friend’s Sibling Interstitial, Kresley’s The Player, the Sickbed Scenes Interstitial, Derek Craven Day 2021, and today’s interstitial on Romance Retellings. Welcome Kate Clayborn, our first five-timer. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Edward 11 marlowe![]() ![]() Opposition mounts as the nobles gather together with the Archbishop and discuss Edward’s behavior. Nevertheless, he keeps Gaveston by his side and even strips the Bishop of Coventry, who’d been responsible for Gaveston’s exile, of his property and tokens of office. ![]() The nobles threaten Edward that he cannot have his minion here, and Edward is astonished at their audacity. Edward cares not, and happily welcomes Gaveston home. In particular, Mortimer (Junior) and the Earl of Lancaster mount an offense, taking their complaints to the king. ![]() This does not make the nobles of the court happy, as they see Gaveston as basely born and their own influence suffering in light of his. Edward II has just become king after the death of his father, and he immediately summons his exiled favorite, Piers Gaveston, to the court. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by celebrated author Virginia Hamilton, this is the story of M.C. What is the book MC Higgins the Great about? ![]() C’s great-grandmother, who escaped from slavery and came to settle there. The mountain is called Sarah’s Mountain after M. Higgins is a thirteen-year-old boy who lives with his family on the slope of a mountain near the Ohio River. It is set in the Appalachian Mountains on Sarah’s Mountain, a fictional mountain in Kentucky, near the Ohio River, that is being encroached upon by a mining company. Higgins is a bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) that covers three eventful days in the life of teenager Mayo Cornelius Higgins. What is the setting of MC Higgins the Great? ![]() 5 Where does the Virginia Hamilton conference take place?.4 What kind of books did Virginia Hamilton write?.1 What is the setting of MC Higgins the Great?. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Books like room on the broom![]() Except for my one gripe: American publishers have translated this book for an American audience, so ‘plait’ has been replaced with ‘braid’. Jen’s review Mummy tried to take a photo of me reading Room on the Broom but ha! As if I’d be interested in a book when I can see her phone.įrom the creators of The Gruffalo, this is another delightful story that has great illustrations that are charming in their details and wonderful rhyme and rhythm that makes it great for reading aloud. Just know that this is a great book with good pictures, good rhymes, and good adventures. How she is saved is the mystery of this book so I won’t tell you the ending in case you don’t like spoilers. And then the broom breaks and she’s almost eaten by a ferocious fire-breathing DRAGON! It’s so exciting. ![]() There’s a witch on a broomstick and she keeps dropping things but they’re found by a bunch of animals like a dog and a bird and a frog. ![]() ![]() This is a great book with animals AND magic AND danger! How great is that! It rhymes too. ![]() ![]() One day, when Albert was sick in bed, his father brought him a compass - a small round case with a magnetic needle inside. ![]() His parents worried that there might be something wrong, but loved him unconditionally. Instead, he “just looked around with his big curious eyes,” wondering about the world. The story begins with Albert’s birth - a beautiful but odd baby boy who turns one and doesn’t say a word, turns two, then three, and nary a word. This charming picture-book tells the tale of how an unusual and awkward child blossomed into becoming “the quintessential modern genius” by the sheer virtue of his unrelenting curiosity. ![]() ![]() Written by Jennifer Berne and illustrated by none other than Vladimir Radunsky - the same magnificent talent who brought young Mark Twain’s irreverent Advice to Little Girls back to life in 2013, which topped the list of the year’s best children’s books and was among the year’s best books overall. Thompson, Richard Feynman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Steve Jobs, I was instantly taken with On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein ( public library). Given my soft spot for picture-book and graphic-novel accounts of famous lives, including Charles Darwin, Julia Child, Hunter S. ![]() |