1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795031503321

Autore

Hemmert Andrew

Titolo

Sawgrass Sky : Poems / / Andrew Hemmert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Huntsville, Texas : , : Texas Review Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-68003-247-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 pages)

Disciplina

811.6

Soggetti

Coming of age

Families - Florida

Poetry

Florida Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Wildfire -- Father, Son, Ghost -- Adolescence -- Birdhouse -- Weather -- Vessel -- An Orange Grove Full of Bedsheets in November -- Boxcars -- Coyotes -- Smokestacks -- Rats -- On the Disappearance of the Florida Panther -- Highway Devotional with Abandoned Barns -- Spreading Board -- Three -- -Legged Deer -- Corsages -- Elegy with Salt at the Root -- Self-Portrait -- Resonate -- Bright Machines -- Jimmy Buffett -- Carnival Rides -- Baptism -- On Showering -- Junkyard at the Florida -- -Alabama Border -- Christmas Eve -- Runaway -- Sawgrass Sky.

Sommario/riassunto

"Sawgrass Sky is a coming-of-age story, a Floridian memoir-in-verse. Through the speaker's recounting of his adolescence, the collection addresses themes of religious disillusionment, sexual awakening, body image, environmental degradation, suburbia versus the wild, familial history, and the idea of home contextualized by distance. These poems vary in form and style, including long narratives, meditative sequences, prose poems, and short lyrics. The unifying factor is the speaker's focus on the place he comes from, and his struggle to define that heritage in terms psychological, natural, and familial"--



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954514203321

Titolo

Critical transnational feminist praxis / / edited by Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

9781438429397

1438429398

9781441636171

144163617X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, praxis, theory in action

Classificazione

MS 3150

Altri autori (Persone)

NagarRicha

SwarrAmanda Lock

Disciplina

305.4201

Soggetti

Feminism

Social movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cartographies of knowledge and power : transnational feminism as radical praxis / M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Disavowed legacies and honorable thievery : the work of the "transnational" in feminist and LGBTQ studies / Jigna Desai, Danielle Bouchard, and Diane Detournay -- Seeing beyond the state / the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance -- Conflicts and collaborations : building trust in transitional South Africa / Sam Bullington and Amanda Lock Swarr -- Feminist academic and activist praxis in service of the transnational / Karen de Souza and Linda Peake -- Still playing with fire : intersectionality, activism, and NGO-ized feminism / Sangtin Writers (Reena, Richa Nagar, Richa Singh, and Surbala) -- So much to remind us we are dancing on other people's blood : moving towards artistic excellence, moving from silence to speech, moving in water, with Ananya Dance Theatre / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Shannon Gibney -- Remapping the Americas : a transnational engagement with creative tensions of community arts / Deborah Barndt -- Envisioning justice : the politics and possibilities of transnational feminist film / Rachel Silvey.



Sommario/riassunto

Provocative, timely, and global, this volume offers a critical and grounded engagement with transnational feminism through the lens of praxis—the juncture of theory and practice. In so doing, it grapples with questions of power and representation while remaining deeply committed to radical critiques and agendas of transnational and postcolonial feminisms. Long-time activists and well-known scholars speak to a wide range of issues and practices, including women's studies curricula; NGOs; transnational and LGBTQ studies; feminist methodologies; and film. These essays similarly conceptualize ways to more effectively theorize feminist collaborative practices while subverting such rigid, established dichotomies as theory/practice, academic/activist, individual/collaborative, and the global North/South. A number of transnational projects are highlighted: the Guyanese Red Thread collective; the Ananya Dance Theater; the Philippine Women Center of British Columbia; the Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance; the VIVA! Project; and the Indian organization Sangtin. Comprehensive in scope and rigorous in critical scrutiny, these powerful essays set the twenty-first-century agenda for political engagement through feminist scholarship."The mix of styles makes for a lively read that is accessible for its extraordinary candor, its combination of theory with firmly grounded empirical examples, and an unflinching confrontation of pain and conflict. It made me think about entirely new things and about familiar things in new ways and to make connections among them." — Louise Fortmann, University of California BerkeleyAmanda Lock Swarr is Assistant Professor of Women Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author (with Sangtin writers) of Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India.