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Georgia Bible Records
"Contains an itemized list of the births, marriages, and deaths found in approximately 1,000 family Bibles ... The collection spans a period stretching from the early 1700s to the 1900s."--Note to the Reader.
Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolomé de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic.
What Goes Around Comes Around
We all have them in our families. Some are worst than others. Fayetta Peters has inherited her brother's children on default. Father is dead and mother is forever in a mental institution. Problem is, Fayetta has fallen for her oldest nephew, JJ, and is determined to seduce him into her bed. She's got a plan, and if all else fails, she's got an ace in the bush. She pulls out all stops and flourishes for a while, but the dirt she dishes out sometimes comes back to haunt her, even down to the niece she boards out for monetary gain, and that niece, Elizabeth, is the one who is most like her Aunt Faye. Elizabeth Peters is a thirty-year old wrapped up in a sixteen-year-old body. She has designs on...
The Rights War in Literature and Culture
Rights War tracks how the human rights framework is weaponized against the oppressed, and it makes the case for the central place of literature in understanding this seizure of narrative control. While literary humanitarianism depoliticizes suffering and positions the reader as a savior to traumatized Others, Rights War shows how contemporary fiction by women of color and queer writers across the African diaspora engage innovative narrative paradigms to address structural inequities. It analyzes strategies set out in this literature for disarming savior victimism, which it identifies as a pernicious cultural phenomenon in which the powerful proclaim themselves saviors to and victims of those they marginalize. As the disassociation of national rights from international human rights and the disconnection of civil and political rights from social and economic rights provoke a contest of victimhood, this book offers a renewed argument for the indivisibility of rights and the social justice function of literature.
Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives
In Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives, Ademola Adesola examines the dominant factors that writers privilege in their portrayals of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa. In his textual-interpretive analyses of selected novels in the African child soldier genre, Adesola contends that critical discussions of African child soldier literature have depended on the interpretive frameworks supplied by Western humanitarian discourses which oversimplify and de-historicize experiences of war in Africa. The author argues that such reductive decontextualization of war realities serve to champion a narrow vision of war in African contexts centered on a moral and humanit...
The Pembridge Bride
Royce Westmoreland, the Earl of Pembridge, rescues lovely Fiona Danbury from her overturned coach, inadvertently thrusting her into a world far different from the normally calm, ordered life of a vicar's daughter. Fiona is hardly prepared for the glittering hustle and bustle of London, nor for her helpless attraction to the handsome earl. While Fiona struggles to adapt to her new life, a disgruntled nobleman suddenly kidnaps her, holding Fiona prisoner in the bowels of an ancient castle. Within the keep lies a secret, a treasure beyond compare for those bold enough to reach into the past and claim the wealth of the ages. Come and be swept away in this compelling tale of glamour and sacrifice, friendship, treachery and love.
Ancestors of Cynthia Williams
The Williams, Tower, Gregory and Martin families lived in Indiana and Kentucky, but their origins were a long way away in England, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy. The Tower family can be traced back from Wales to the daughter, Antonia, of Julius Caesar in Rome, Italy. The Stewart family can be traced back to the Kings and Queens of Scotland and Europe; to the Merovingian Dynasty. Enjoy the journey as you follow the family from colonial America to their beginnings in Europe. Many served in the Civil War and the Revolutionary War of the Americas. They were farmers, preachers, teachers, and politicians. Each made their mark on the new nation of the United States.
