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Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell
Defoe And The Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype In A New Voyage Round The World, Kathryn Rummell
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’O., John C. Hawley
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O., John C. Hawley
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of the third of his father's four wives; he had twenty-seven siblings. The family lived in Kamiriithu Village, twelve miles northeast of Nairobi, Kenya. His father, Thiong'o wa Nducu, was a peasant farmer dispossessed by the British Imperial Land Act of 1915 and therefore forced to become a squatter on property meted out to one of the few native Africans who had profited from the act. His father's condition was similar to that of most of the Kikuyu with whom Ngũgĩ grew up.
Making Disciples Of All Nations, John C. Hawley
Making Disciples Of All Nations, John C. Hawley
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The whole problem is this: how to utter God in a practice of faith where I must decide what I wish to do with the woman or man I find in my path-make of him or her a human being with a right to life or a slave for life.-Jean-Marc Ela (139) Perhaps there is such a thing as seduction. Conversion. Perhaps cultures absorb one another. If it is true that the Franciscan padre forced the Eucharist down the Indian's throat, maybe she forgot to close her mouth. Maybe she swallowed the Franciscan priest. After all, the churches of Latin …
The Assignment, Kevin Clark
Weir(D) Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock And The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey
Weir(D) Australia: Picnic At Hanging Rock And The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey
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Patriarchal Mediations Of Carrie: The Book, The Movie, And The Musical, Douglas Keesey
Patriarchal Mediations Of Carrie: The Book, The Movie, And The Musical, Douglas Keesey
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Passing And The Modern Persona In Kipling's Ethnographer Fiction, John S. Mcbratney
Passing And The Modern Persona In Kipling's Ethnographer Fiction, John S. Mcbratney
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Freya Stark, John C. Hawley
Freya Stark, John C. Hawley
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Freya Madeline Stark lived for a century, and into that one hundred years she packed a life of extraordinary daring and ingenuity. "Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself," she wrote in Baghdad Sketches ( enlarged edition, 193 7); "I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates." Such a motto defines not only her approach to the world but also the character of the woman herself. She had no duplicate. The writings that resulted from her constant travels …