1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008997800403321

Titolo

Landscape design

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Institute of Landscape Architects

ISSN

0020-2908

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817623303321

Autore

Moore Geneva Cobb

Titolo

Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-61117-749-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 pages)

Classificazione

LIT004040SOC031000

Disciplina

811.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Andrew Billingsley -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction : signs of regeneration in African American women's literature -- part one. Slavery and abolitionism, freedom and Jim Crow America -- 1. Phillis Wheatley's seminaked body as symbol and metaphor -- 2. Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl : a Freudian reading of neurotic and sexed bodies -- 3. The maternal ideal : the journals of Charlotte Forten Grimk{acute}e -- 4. Antiblack aesthetics : Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jim Crow America -- part two. A conflation of history, past and present --



5. Maternal imprinting : Paule Marshall and the mother-daughter dyad -- 6. The phallic maternal : Alice Walker's novels of archetypal symbolism -- 7. Bodily evidence : Toni Morrison's demonic parody of racism and slavery -- Afterword.

Sommario/riassunto

Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley to the postmodern work of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Through their characters Moore shows how these writers re-create the identity of black women and challenge existing rules shaping their subordinate status and behavior. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and other social science theory, Moore examines the maternal iconography and counter-hegemonic narratives by which these writers responded to oppressive conventions of race, gender, and authority. Moore grounds her account in studies of Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Forten Grimk{acute}e, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston. All these authors, she contends, wrote against invisibility and powerlessness by developing and cultivating a personal voice and an individual story of vulnerability, nurturing capacity, and agency that confounded prevailing notions of race and gender and called into question moral reform. In these nine writers' construction of feminine images--real and symbolic--Moore finds a shared sense of the historically significant role of black women in the liberation struggle during slavery, the Jim Crow period, and beyond.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965965103321

Autore

Kador John

Titolo

Effective apology : mending fences, building bridges, and restoring trust / / John Kador

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2009

ISBN

9786612300622

9781282300620

1282300628

9781605091396

1605091391

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

A BK business book

Disciplina

659.2

Soggetti

Corporate image

Apologizing

Corporations - Public relations

Business communication

Crisis management

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 (p. 243-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The age of apology -- Why we apologize and what it accomplishes -- Recognition -- Responsibility -- Remorse -- Restitution -- Repetition -- When, where, and how to apologize -- How to accept (and reject) an apology -- Apology and forgiveness -- Obstacles to wholehearted apology -- The best apology possible : ten apology do's and don'ts -- Talking about apology : frequently asked questions -- What can I do now? Five apology practices.

Sommario/riassunto

From JetBlue to Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards to Pete Rose, at some point everyone needs to know how to make an effective apology.  This is a survival guide for all of us who find a need to apologize in our business or professional work, either for ourselves or for our organizations.  It guides the reader through all aspects of making effective apologies in all situations.