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UNINA9910450129303321 |
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Houze David <1965-> |
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Twilight people [[electronic resource] ] : one man's journey to find his roots / / David Houze |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
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0-520-93174-2 |
1-282-35764-6 |
9786612357640 |
1-59875-947-7 |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies Twilight people |
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African Americans |
African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century |
Apartheid - South Africa |
Brothers and sisters |
Electronic books. |
Southern States Race relations |
South Africa Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Twilight People -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- 1. From Down South to Down South -- 2. Into the Breach -- 3. Truth and Reconciliation -- Epilogue -- Postscript -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from |
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the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi-and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story-steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents-of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives. |
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UNINA9910146178603321 |
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Autore |
Di Cesare Donatella |
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Ermeneutica della finitezza / / Donatella Di Cesare [[electronic resource]] |
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Milano, : Guerini studio, 2004 |
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[1. ed.] |
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1 online resource (189 p. ) |
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Collected writings, mostly already publ., some now in Italian transl. |
D. Di Cesare, professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910863146203321 |
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Autore |
Adamik Verena |
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In Search of the Utopian States of America : Intentional Communities in Novels of the Long Nineteenth Century / / by Verena Adamik |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (XIII, 248 p.) |
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Palgrave Studies in Utopianism, , 2946-448X |
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United States - History |
Intellectual life - History |
Civilization - History |
America - Literatures |
US History |
Intellectual History |
Cultural History |
North American Literature |
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1. ‘An Achieved Utopia’: Introduction -- 2. ‘Notoriously a Tricky Term’: A Short History of the Term Utopia -- 3. ‘Idle Speculation’ and Utopian Practice: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793) -- 4. ‘Between Fiction and Reality’: The Utopian Past in The Blithedale Romance (1852) -- 5. ‘A Great Republic of Equals’: Postbellum Utopia in Marie Howland’s Papa’s Own Girl (1874) -- 6. ‘Shrouded in an American Flag’: Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899) -- 7. ‘A Bold Regeneration’: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) -- 8. ‘Like so Many Sparks from a Comet’: Utopian Visions and Their National Trajectory. |
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This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland’s Papas Own Girl |
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(1874), Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA’s utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives. |
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