Author: Ana ClavelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Shipwrecked Body
Author: Ana ClavelThe Shipwrecked mariner
Author: Shipwrecked
Author: Regina KrahlPublisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588343057
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Part adventure story, part maritime archaeological expedition, part historical look into ninth-century Chinese economy, culture, and trade, Shipwrecked is a fascinating journey back in time. Twelve centuries ago, a merchant ship—an Arab dhow—foundered on a reef just off the coast of Belitung, a small island in the Java Sea. The cargo was a remarkable assemblage of lead ingots, bronze mirrors, spice-filled jars, intricately worked vessels of silver and gold, and more than 60,000 glazed bowls, ewers, and other ceramics. The ship remained buried at sea for more than a millennium, its contents protected from erosion by their packing and the conditions of the silty sea floor. Shipwrecked explores this precious cargo and the story of the men who sailed it, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs and essays by international experts in Arab ship-building methods, pan-Asian maritime trade, ceramics, precious metalwork, and more.
Forms of Dictatorship
Author: Jennifer Harford VargasPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190642866
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o fiction, which the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os' central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how Latina/o writers with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authoritarianism. The novels collectively generate what Harford Vargas terms a "Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary" that positions authoritarianism on a continuum of domination alongside imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberalism, and border militarization. Focusing on novels by writers such as Junot Díaz, Héctor Tobar, Cristina García, Salvador Plascencia, and Francisco Goldman, the book reveals how Latina/o dictatorship novels foreground more ubiquitous modes of oppression to indict Latin American dictatorships, U.S. imperialism, and structural discrimination in the U.S., as well as repressive hierarchies of power in general. Harford Vargas simultaneously utilizes formalist analysis to investigate how Latina/o writers mobilize the genre of the novel and formal techniques such as footnotes, focalization, emplotment, and metafiction to depict dictatorial structures and relations. In building on narrative theories of character, plot, temporality, and perspective, Harford Vargas explores how the Latina/o dictatorship novel stages power dynamics. Forms of Dictatorship thus queries the relationship between different forms of power and the power of narrative form --- that is, between various instantiations of repressive power structures and the ways in which different narrative structures can reproduce and resist repressive power.
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Author: New JerseyCompiled Statutes of New Jersey: Clams and oysters Interstate Park
Author: New JerseyCompiled Statutes of New Jersey: Abatement - Civil service
Author: New JerseyAbatement-Civil service
Author: New JerseyThe Shipwrecked Orphans
Author: John IrelandPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
'The Shipwrecked Orphans' is a non-fiction book written by John Ireland, who shared his experiences accidentally getting moored in a deserted island following a shipwreck. This book details his harrowing tale, alongside William Doyley's, and their subsequent ordeals on this remote island, located in the South Seas. A true story of survival against all odds, this is the account of their journey on the doomed ship Charles Eaton and the struggles they faced in their fight for survival.
Please God Send Me a Wreck
Author: Brad DuncanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 149392642X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as shipwreck saviours and salvors.