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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796028503321

Autore

Lowe John Wharton

Titolo

Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / / John Wharton Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

979-88-908430-1-2

979-88-908430-2-9

1-4696-2621-7

1-4696-2805-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

New Directions in Southern Studies

Disciplina

810.9/975

Soggetti

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

Caribbean literature - History and criticism

Caribbean Area In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crossing the Caribbean: southerners write the Mexican American War -- Liberating fictions: the Caribbean imaginary in the novels of Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Martin Delany -- Unleashing the loas: the literary legacy of the Haitian revolution in the United States South and the Caribbean -- Constance Fenimore Woolson and Lafcadio Hearn: extending the boundaries of the transnational South -- A proper order of attention: McKay and Hurston honor the hardy peasant -- Palette of fire: the aesthetics of propaganda in Black boy and The castle of my skin -- Southern ajiaco: Miami and the generation of Cuban American writing.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focusing on the states of the Deep South in relation with Mexico and island nations such as Haiti and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of Southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a fluid and dynamic framework within which to consider literary history, genre, and aesthetics."--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163365903321

Autore

Talib Khaled

Titolo

Smokescreen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Khaled Talib

ISBN

988-12195-3-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Soggetti

Spy stories

Espionage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve -- once and for all -- the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make a major concession as part of the peace treaty. In Singapore, Jethro Westrope, a magazine journalist, stumbles onto the scene of a murder: the beautiful Niki Kishwani directs him, in her last breath, to a digital recorder, evidence that puts Jethro's life in serious danger. And, much worse, he is framed for Niki's murder. Jethro sets out to find Niki's killer and is drawn into a web of deception and intrigue involving officials from the Singaporean, Israeli, and American governments, each with a complex, competing, and potentially deadly agenda. Against this pulse-pounding backdrop, Jethro races to find answers and save himself --yet nothing is as it seems. He finds himself at the center of a political plot so diabolical and sweeping in its world implications that he is stunned to discover tomorrow's news headlines today. He is being set up not only as a murderer but as an assassin, and something much larger than his own fate is in his hands.