Aimone joseph (34 Ergebnisse)
Sprache: Englisch
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Sprache: Englisch
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Zustand: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped… with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. covers have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear.
Straight with a Twist Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
Thomas, Calvin (Editor)/ Aimone, Joseph O. (Editor)/ Macgillivray, Catherine A. F. (Editor)
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Straight with a Twist | Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
Aimone, Joseph O.; MacGillivray, Catherine A. F.; Thomas, Calvin {editor}
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 2000
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. - 227 mm. Trade paperback. Illustrated. Monochrome photographs. Pp. 290. Very sparse underlining in faint pencil. Mild wear to cover including rippling of laminate along length of spine with minimal peeling of laminate at crown. Overall, VGC.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi, 2022
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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon)
Carel de Haseth; Olga E. Rojer and Joseph O. Aimone [trans.]
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Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. New York: Peter Lang, [2012]. First Dual-Language Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued; viii,120pp. Tiny bit of shelf wear to corners and spine ends, else a Fine example. Issued as Postcolonial Studies 17. Bilingual edition of…this 1988 novella, first published in the Creole language Papiamentu, a fictionalized recounting of the events of the 1795 slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Curacao.
Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean : Diana Lebacs' the Longest Month
Lebacs, Diana; Rojer, Olga E. (TRN); Aimone, Joseph O. (TRN)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, viii + 120 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume presents a critical, side-by-side English and Papiamentu edition of a landmark novella from Curaç…ao. The narrative offers a fictionalized psychological exploration of the relationship between a historical plantation owner and Tula, the leader of the island's pivotal 1795 uprising. Accompanying scholarly essays frame the work as a key "founding fiction," a text that grapples with the legacy of bondage to construct a modern, independent Antillean identity.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. This satirical novel is set in the heady atmosphere of carnival on the tropical Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, where the contradictions of postcolonial existence come to a boil that is furious, often bitingly funny, and sometimes almost intolerably tragic. And through it all, the story manages by way…of a genuinely African derived rhythm to offer a message of hope. The heroine of the novel is Bir, a woman in her late sixties, the mama grandi with her ancient wisdom, a solid root of the community, dispensing medicinal herbs, advice, and motherly love. The flavor of the island is unmistakable: it is an authentic Curaçaoan story by noted Curaçaoan author Diana Lebacs. Not only is it Curaçaoan in its subject matter but in the way the story is told. It is serious but full of humor, from gentle irony to slapstick, with a lot of social satire in between. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Diana Lebacs' The Longest Month (De Langste Maand), originally written in Dutch, is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, women's writing, and for readers of fiction in general.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Cola Debrot's «My Black Sister» and Boeli van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth are two pivotal works from the early period of postcolonial Dutch-language fiction from the Dutch Caribbean. Each portrays different aspects of the predicament of postcolonia…l identity, gender, race, and politics in the vein best known as «tropic existentialism». Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.
Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean : Diana Lebacs' the Longest Month
Lebacs, Diana; Rojer, Olga E. (TRN); Aimone, Joseph O. (TRN)
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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean : Diana Lebacs' the Longest Month
Lebacs, Diana; Rojer, Olga E. (TRN); Aimone, Joseph O. (TRN)
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Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean : Diana Lebacs' the Longest Month
Lebacs, Diana; Rojer, Olga E. (TRN); Aimone, Joseph O. (TRN)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of dramatic…monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean | Carel de Haseth's "Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon)" - A Dual-Language Edition - Translated and with an Introduction by Olga E. Rojer and Joseph O. Aimone | Joseph O. Aimone (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 80 S. | Englisch | 2011 | Peter Lang | EAN 9781433116056 | Ve…rantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean | Cola Debrot's 'My Black Sister' and Boeli van Leeuwen's "A Stranger on Earth" | Joseph O. Aimone (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007 | Peter Lang | EAN 9780820488196 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, 10178 Berlin, r[dot…]boehm-korff[at]peterlang[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating ser…ies of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general. 80 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Carel de Haseth's novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series of…dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth's Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general. 130 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Cola Debrot's«My Black Sister»and Boeli van Leeuwen'sA Stranger on Earthare two pivotal works from the early period of postcolonial Dutch-language fiction from the Dutch Caribbean. Each portrays different aspects of the predicament of pos…tcolonial identity, gender, race, and politics in the vein best known as «tropic existentialism».Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbeanis suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 170 pp. Englisch.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Carel de Haseth¿s novella Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon), written in the Creole language Papiamentu, dramatizes the August 17, 1795 slave revolt on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. The story is told through an alternating series…of dramatic monologues by two key characters: Luis, a slave, and a leader of the revolt; and Shon Welmu, his childhood friend and white heir to the slave plantation. The exposition begins shortly after the revolt has been crushed, as Luis awaits his brutal execution, and it ends with his preemptive suicide. The theme is the acceptance of the inevitablity of emancipation.Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Carel de Haseth¿s Slave and Master (Katibu di Shon) is suitable for courses on Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature, and will be of great interest to readers of fiction in general.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This satirical novel is set in the heady atmosphere of carnival on the tropical Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, where the contradictions of postcolonial existence come to a boil that is furious, often bitingly funny, and sometimes almost…intolerably tragic. And through it all, the story manages by way of a genuinely African derived rhythm to offer a message of hope. The heroine of the novel is Bir, a woman in her late sixties, the mama grandi with her ancient wisdom, a solid root of the community, dispensing medicinal herbs, advice, and motherly love. The flavor of the island is unmistakable: it is an authentic Curaçaoan story by noted Curaçaoan author Diana Lebacs. Not only is it Curaçaoan in its subject matter but in the way the story is told. It is serious but full of humor, from gentle irony to slapstick, with a lot of social satire in between. Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Diana Lebacs' The Longest Month (De Langste Maand), originally written in Dutch, is suitable for courses on Caribbean and postcolonial literature, women's writing, and for readers of fiction in general. 144 pp. Englisch.
