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Glave Thomas |
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Titolo |
Words to our now [[electronic resource] ] : imagination and dissent / / Thomas Glave |
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Minneapolis, Minn. ; ; London, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Prejudices |
Minorities |
United States Race relations |
United States Social conditions 1980-2020 |
Caribbean Area Social conditions 1945- |
Jamaica Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Baychester: A Memory; Toward a Nobility of the Imagination: Jamaica's Shame (An Open Letter to the People of Jamaica); (Re-)Recalling Essex Hemphill: Words to Our Now; Fire and Ink: Toward a Quest for Language, History, and a Moral Imagination; Whose Caribbean? An Allegory, in Part; These Blocks, Not Square (Five Movements); The Death and Light of Brian Williamson; Regarding Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie, So Long Swept Aside: Why?; Between Jamaica(n) and (North) America(n): Convergent (Divergent) Territories |
On the Difficulty of Confiding, with Complete Love and Trust, in Some Heterosexual ""Friends""Panic, Despair: When the Words Do Not Come (But Then an Unexpected Journey); Regarding a Black Male Monica Lewinsky, Anal Penetration, and Bill Clinton's Sacred White Anus; On the Importance of Returning from Abroad to the United States in a Time of Imperialism and War (A Meditation on Dissent); Autumn's Relentlessness: Crimes against Humanity; Re-membering Steen Fenrich: Not a Candidate for Matthew Shepardhood; Abu Ghraib: Fragments against Forgetting; Again, the Sea; Acknowledgments; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Essays regarding prejudice and inhumanity, by a gay Jamaican American. |
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