The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "Strong, Manly Voice" (Collected Black Writings)

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Widely considered the first African-American novelist, William Wells Brown's (ca. 1814-1884) 1853 novel, Clotel, or the President's Daughter, chronicled the fate of the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his black housekeeper. Yet, in his own day, Brown was perhaps more important as a rousing
orator, scholar, and cultural critic. He escaped from slavery in 1834 and worked on Lake Erie steamboats in Buffalo, New York, helping slaves escape into Canada and lecturing for the New York Anti-Slavery Society. After moving to Boston in 1847, he began writing his autobiography, The Narrative of
William W. Brown. By 1850, the book had appeared in four American and five British editions and rivaled the popularity of Frederick Douglass's Narrative written two years earlier. Throughout the late 1840s and 50s, Brown continued to lecture to further the antislavery cause and wrote prolifically.
In addition to Clotel, he published the first drama written by an African American and the first military history of African Americans.

In his writings and speeches, William Wells Brown deliberately resists the tone of heroic resistance and eloquent outrage set by Frederick Douglass. Brown's rhetorical strategy involved telling stories of individuals and individual encounters in which the art of simple understatement and guileless
self-presentation prevailed over cant, bullying, and hypocrisy. Brown's often humorous and deceptively artless tone appealed to politically active women who were claiming the moral high ground not only on questions of abolition but also on temperance and women's rights. Unlike Douglass, whose
literary output can be described as a long conversation with the founding fathers and literary lions about freedom, liberty, and what it means to be an American, Brown emphasized-- with humor and a cosmopolitan gentility-- the concerns of middle class family life: education, parenting, and the
damage that slavery was doing to American society.

This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will introduce readers to Brown's lesser-known, but no less powerful works, placed in the context of the era's debates on slavery, gender, morality, and the discursive limits put on anti-slavery advocacy. The collection presents Brown's
anti-slavery works and the contemporary response to them in light of Brown's own attention to the role of women writers and political advocates in this period. Garrett's and Robbins's introduction to these texts emphasizes Brown's awareness and even use of women's voices in political discourse as a
way of distinguishing himself from other black male voices of the time. The selection of texts also demonstrates Brown's willingness to use and recycle any texts at hand-- including his own-- in order to appeal to his immediate audience or readership. While making Brown's more obviously political
work available to a wider audience, the book reclaims Brown as an important black influence in the American nineteenth century.

Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America's Military Family

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In Their Own Words
A deeply serious portrayal of the human side of war
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Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America's Military Family
Frank Schaeffer
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ASIN: 078671462X

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Frank Schaeffer draws on his relationships with America’s military families to gather a timely and powerful collection of writing from the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like Keeping Faith and Faith of Our Sons, Voices from the Front bridges the divide between those who are in, or who have family members in the military, and the rest of us who can take that service for granted. It is a book about the intimately emotional and human side of military service. While Faith of Our Sons reflected this war through the homefront struggles of a quietly courageous community of families, Voices From the Front takes us directly to the often invisible front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan: from first deployment to patrols to combat to field hospitals and, in some cases, homecoming. As Schaeffer has written of a group he has come to think of—politics apart—as the next greatest generation, “We need to know the men and women in combat better and to understand what they are going through.” Powerful, moving and undeniable, Voices from the Front tells the story of this war in the voices of the Americans who are living—and dying—in it every day.

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In Their Own Words.......2006-05-22

I read this book while my son was serving his first tour in Iraq. He didn't write me any letters although we communicated via IM regularly, but mostly about what was going on back here. So reading these letters in the book, some funny, some serious, some sad, gave me some valuable insight into what he might be dealing with. These are real letters written by real people, and I would sometimes have to put the book aside for awhile and take a deep breath. But mostly I couldn't put the book down at all as I wanted to read more. Some wondered at how I could read such a book while my son was over there, but as his mother, I would have gladly traded places with him so why not learn everything I can about the war he is fighting? Kudos to Frank Schaeffer (and John) for providing us with this type of information.

A deeply serious portrayal of the human side of war.......2004-12-13

Compiled and edited by Frank Schaeffer, Voices From The Front: Letters Home From America's Military Family is an anthology of letters from American soliders, sailors, airmen, and Marines currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. A deeply serious portrayal of the human side of war, including many missives written under stressful or harrowing circumstances, Voices from the Front is an outspoken collection of those who lay their lives on the line for the sake of their country, in their own words. Highly recommended and timely reading, Voices From The Front is a welcome contribution to Military Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

All Americans Must Read.......2004-10-19

Although I am halfway through, I couldn't wait to post. This is a must read for all Americans especially those who do not truly understand the sacrifice the military makes for our country. The book is powerful, awesome and emotionally overwhelming. My father, my husband and his father and grandfather served in the US military. This book has brought me even greater understanding and appreciation for the job our armed forces do and I am forever grateful for the freedom and security they provide. God bless and keep them.

Thank you to Frank Schaeffer for this important work.

Every American Should Read This Book.......2004-10-05

Voices From the Front is an excellent book to give insight to those who aren't involved in the military and give support to those who are. My husband is in the Air Force and actually has some of his letters published in the book. Three months after his tour in Korea he got sent to Iraq and will be there until January. Though is was difficult to read some of the letters in the book it was also encouraging to know that I am not alone in this situation. I am proud that my husband is serving his country even if it means we have to be apart. I wish that every American would read this book to help them remember that our freedom and the freedom of others comes with a price. Thank you Frank Schaeffer for all your hard work and giving voices to our military men and women and their families.

My Discovery of America (Hesperus Modern Voices)

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My Discovery of America (Hesperus Modern Voices)
Vladimir Mayakovsky
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In My Discovery of America, now in its first English translation, the leading poet of Revolutionary Russia offers a fascinating account of his travels in the U.S. Touring America, by way of an enforced sojourn in Mexico, Russian poet and indefatigable traveler Vladimir Mayakovsky was able to observe firsthand what he considered to be the model for Soviet development. Although ideologically at odds with much of American culture, and taking every opportunity to propound his own political beliefs en route, he delighted in the creativity and advancement he saw, believing it to be the future for mankind. His impressions, presented here in full for the first time in English, form an inspired collection of sketches, thoughts, jottings, and poems. Vladimir Mayakovsky was the foremost poet of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and one of the founders of Russia’s Futurism movement.

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Too bad he was a Commie.......2007-07-09

Anything Mayakovsky had written, drawn, or scripted is in my book fantastic. I even got the last poem he had ever written tattooed down my arm.

Brilliant read

The Irish Voice in America : Irish-American Fiction from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

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The Irish Voice in America : Irish-American Fiction from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Charles Fanning
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Other Voices, Other Vistas:: China, India, Japan, and Latin America

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Around the world in 25 stories
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Other Voices, Other Vistas:: China, India, Japan, and Latin America
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ASIN: 0451528409
Release Date: 2002-06-04

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This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by: Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding Ling * Wang Meng * Chen Rong * Lu Wenfu * Anita Desai * Mahasweta Devi * Ruth Prawer Jhabvala * R. K. Narayan * Khushwant Singh * Kobo Abe * Sawako Ariyoshi * Yasunari Kawabata * Yukio Mishima * Yuko Tsushima * Jorge Luis Borges * Carlos Fuentes * Luisa Valenzuela * Nadine Gordimer * Isabel Allende

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Many Cultures, One Humanity.......2007-08-29

The more you read about other cultures, the more you realize how similar we are beneath the surface. "Other Voices, Other Vistas" is a collection of stories that celebrates our differences while bringing us closer together. Some of the more insightful and poignant stories include:
India: "The Interview" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
India: "A Horse and Two Goats" by R.K. Narayan
Africa: "The Collector of Treasures" by Bessie Head
Africa: "Who Will Stop the Dark?" by Charles Mungoshi
Latin America: "Book of Sand" by Jorge Luis Borges
China: "Sketches from the 'Cattle Shed'" by Ding Ling
China: "Kite Streamers" by Wang Meng
China: "Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter" by Chen Rong
But my absolute favorite story in the entire collection is, without a doubt (drum roll, please):
Japan: "The Magic Chalk" by Kobo Abe.
For my money, "The Magic Chalk" is worth the price of the book. It is a witty, magical tale invoking the apocalyptic outlook of a post Hiroshima/Nagasaki Japan. Should be required reading.

Great Travel Book.......2007-08-22

I picked up this collection for a trip. It was a great collection to sit on the beach with. Each story is different and exciting. It's also nice to explore different cultures and think about your next great trip!

Worthwhile.......2007-03-24

This book was published in 1992 and contains 25 short stories, five each from Sub-Saharan Africa, China, India, Japan and Latin America. Most of the works were written or published in the 1970s and 80s, except the stories for Japan, all but one of which came out originally in the 1950s and 60s.

The stories were chosen to showcase major writers from these regions who published after World War II, and whose work was already available in English translation. The compiler was attracted, firstly, to stories that provided insight into the values, pressures, behavior and conflicts of people from other cultures. ("What does it feel like to grow up in Beijing, Bombay, or Buenos Aires? Increasingly, we have become fascinated by the details of daily existence in other cultures and curious about the lives of those whose circumstances and pressures seem so different from our own.") And secondly, to works that transcended individual situations and locations to touch on the shared human condition.

Themes in the stories included relationships between family members, men and women, different social or racial groups in a particular society, and artists and society, and the struggle to find a job or overcome poverty, civil strife, repression or imprisonment. The stories from China showed the impact of the Cultural Revolution: three of them contained main characters either banished to the countryside or imprisoned because of it.

Each region was represented by just five stories, and the quality overall seemed fairly high, even though it was difficult to get more than a glimpse of "what it feels like" in each place. Works that succeeded particularly in communicating atmosphere were, in my opinion, "Civil Peace" by Achebe, about a family struggling to survive the aftermath of civil war; "Africa Emergent" by Gordimer, about the relations between a black artist and a white architect during the time of apartheid and the resulting psychological tensions; "The Destination," by Wang Anyi, about a man returning to Shanghai after years of internal exile; and "The Man from a Peddlers' Family" by Lu Wenfu, about a political cadre's acquaintance with a peddler over many years, through the political shifts in their society, conveyed particularly well in their remarks to each other.

Others included a tale by Kushwant Singh about an Indian civil servant who's been so Anglicized he can no longer follow his society's customs; "Papito's Story" by Luisa Valenzuela, in which a neighbor observes passively an incident during the period of military rule in Argentina; Sawako Ariyoshi's "The Tomoshibi," about the inhabitants of a cozy little bar in a Tokyo backstreet; and Yuko Tsushima's "The Silent Traders," about a woman's memories of a particular neighborhood at various stages of her life. The stories set in Japan, though, felt a generation or two out of date at the least.

It's too bad that a multicultural anthology such as this one, published more than a year after the Gulf War, omitted the Arab world. Major Arab writers whose works were available in English translation before this book was published included 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Alifa Rifaat, Ghassan Kanafani, Zakaria Tamer and Mohamed Choukri. I also wondered why Japan was included instead, since it should've already been comparatively familiar to Americans as a fully industrialized U.S. ally.

The book provided useful lists of fiction anthologies for each region and informed biographies for each author. Although it's a minor point, in the table of contents in the China section the five authors aren't alphabetized correctly (the first author's surname is Wang, not Anyi, for example), and their stories should've been reordered.

Readers who enjoyed this book might also enjoy Global Cultures: A Transnational Short Fiction Reader, a multicultural anthology of some 60 short stories that was published in 1994.

Around the world in 25 stories.......2003-02-18

"Other Voices, Other Vistas," edited by Barbara H. Solomon, is a wonderful anthology of stories. The selections in the book are grouped by geographic region into 5 sections, each containing 5 stories. The regions represented are Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America. In her introduction, Solomon notes that all of the stories are written by major authors who had published fiction after World War II.

The group of 25 authors is full of noteworthy names: Chinua Achebe, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Jorge Luis Borges, and more. The themes in the anthology include love, marriage, parenthood, oppressive governments, art, religion, economic struggle, ideological conflict, and cultural dislocation. The modes range from fantasy to stark reality--there is violence and serenity, beauty and grotesqueness, sorrow and humor.

I especially loved the Chinese stories, which give a vivid portrayal of life under the Communist regime--it's like a real life dystopia. Other strong selections include Yukio Mishima's "Acts of Worship," about a professor's pilgrimage; Isabel Allende's "Clarisa," a colorful character study; and R.K. Narayan's "A Horse and Two Goats," a story of cross-cultural miscommunication. Overall, I would recommend this book both as a classroom text and for individual reading. Recommended companion text: "Caribbean New Wave," a short story anthology edited by Stewart Brown.

Wonderful collection for all, who like reading short stories.......2000-05-11

This is a pocket-size book, that contains short stories from the best international authors. Each story is a good one. Each one is different from the next. So, this book is good not only for college classes, but anyone who enjoys reading short stories from Asian, Latin, and African authors.

Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle

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Great Classroom Aid

Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle
Norman H. Finkelstein
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Great Classroom Aid.......1999-10-07

I used this in my junior high school class on Social Studies, and the kids were all impressed on how two very different ethnic groups worked together during a difficult but important chapter of American social history. I recommend this to all teachers!

Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice

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We Need Uppity Women
Elder and knowledge keeper for American Indian studies
Why I Can't Read This Book
grand collection of essays from a great writer!

Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
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This provocative collection of essays reveals the passionate voice of a Native American feminist intellectual. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a poet and literary scholar, grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people: who is telling their stories, where does cultural authority lie, and most important, how is it possible to develop an authentic tribal literary voice within the academic community? In the title essay, Why I Cant Read Wallace Stegner, Cook-Lynn objects to Stegners portrayal of the American West in his fiction, contending that no other author has been more successful in serving the interests of the nations fantasy about itself. When Stegner writes that Western history sort of stopped at 1890, and when he claims the American West as his native land, Cook-Lynn argues, he negates the whole past, present, and future of the native peoples of the continent. Her other essays include discussion of such Native American writers as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear, and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia; the risks to American Indian women in current law practices; the future of Indian Nationalism; and the defense of the land. Cook-Lynn emphasizes that her essays move beyond the narrowly autobiographical, not just about gender and power, not just focused on multiculturalism and diversity, but are about intellectual and political issues that engage readers and writers in Native American studies. Studying the Indian, Cook-Lynn reminds us, is not just an academic exercise but a matter of survival for the lifeways of tribal peoples. Her goal in these essays is to open conversations that can make tribal life and academic life more responsive to one another.

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We Need Uppity Women.......2007-04-03

Yes, she's angry, I won't deny that, but what a balm to my soul to hear her words spoken! I am an intellectual Native American woman living in an America that is still living in state of denial and self-congratulation! Like others I enjoy and am encouraged by voices that bridge the gap between groups. But to live with the constant contradictions between what America thinks it is and what it does is something that turns like a screw on my soul every day of my life. Cook-Lynn makes me go "right on!" "Yeah!" Yeah, she's angry like Malcolm X was angry, but she's right.

Elder and knowledge keeper for American Indian studies.......2003-09-16

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn with Vine Deloria, Jr., and Beatrice Medicine are among the Northern Plains Elders of the American Indian studies movement in the academy today. This important first collection of Cook-Lynn's essays should (I think will, as well as already does) appeal to Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students and our allies hungry for tribal voices among the chorus of anti-Indian "common sense" in this country's non-Native universities and colleges. Unfortunately, those readers intellectually debilitated by subscribing to the tenants of white supremacy will MIS-read Cook-Lynn's enabling and powerful tribal voice as "racist" or "anti-white person." This is not the case. Rather, what Cook-Lynn offers is a re-centering, a re-valuing, and a re-claiming of knowledge about the land and about Indigenous Peoples from writers like Wallace Stegner. Despite his many talents, Stegner failed to comprehend that the tribal nations of North America have sophisticated intellectual disciplines. Mentally undermined by the hegemony (or "common sense") of raced-white supremacy and colonial self-assurances, Stegner failed to see. Outside of Stegner's limited and limiting vision, indigenous intellectual disciplines are integrated into and constitutive of tribal cultures. They are as responsible as anything for tribal persistence--something certainly see-able. Cook-Lynn understands this; this social fact merits her respect and admiration. Indigenous intellectual disciplines would seem to deserve the respect of others too, but the colonial practice of raced-white supremacy long has been to ignore--or, worse, trivialize--these intellectual disciplines as well as the peoples who are their knowledge keepers. Cook-Lynn meaningfully contributes to the possibility for changing this unfortunate condition. It remains to be seen if a certain variety of reader can suspend the outrageous notion that to focus on the problem of racism and its cousin colonization is itself a racist act. Unfortunately for others dedicated to the idea of addressing the trauma of colonization, countless readers will find joy both in reading Wallace Stegner and witnessing racial injury. For everyone else, there is Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and the political common sense of anti-white supremacy, anti-racism.

Why I Can't Read This Book.......2002-02-24

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, while admirable in her passion and energy, should be ignored and left unread for her unbending, close-minded, self-pitying, small, and miserable book Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays. She clearly has no understanding of Stegner's work. She also apparently refuses to try to appreciate the work of anyone with the slightest disagreement with her worldview, which is narrow and mean-spirited at best. She assaults Michael Dorris for speaking lowly of an alcoholic woman who caused the mental retardation of her child by her carelessness. She thinks this is a bad choice on Dorris' part because the woman was a Native American. Does she believe that Native Americans are somehow above criticism? What race can claim such moral perfection and not seem like small-minded racists? Every member of every race is responsible for his/her actions, and if Ms. Cook-Lynn had read more of Stegner's work before she blindly bashed it, she would understand that deeper human truth, which is obvious to any real thinker.

I am annoyed to even have to mention such basic beliefs. There is no reason to believe that a group of people is better than another group, or that only members of that group have a right to write histories about the group. Ms. Cook-Lynn has some ideas about white history that she freely spouts, and I believe in my heart of hearts that it is her right to write alternate interpretations of the past (though she seems to just be rewording long-tired versions of history).

Only by hearing what other groups have to say about us can we grow by seeing ourselves with new perspective. Ms. Cook-Lynn hasn't even read Stegner--she refuses to hear anything but her own shrill, childish voice. I for one look forward to reading critical analyses of society, history, and literature by African Americans, Native Americans, German Americans, Frenchmen, Poles, Australians, etc. This is what led me to read Ms. Cook-Lynn's book. However, I was met with a fierce small-mindedness that enraged rather than enlightened.

Ignore this book. It is not worth the paper it was printed on. So long as these sorts of ideas are propagated, humankind will never end its struggles with racism and hatred.

grand collection of essays from a great writer!.......2000-06-09

this is such a wonderful book to read, it's truly beyond words!

Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor & Drama 1908-1947 (Naxos Audio)

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Voices of Black America: Historical Recordings of Speeches, Poetry, Humor & Drama 1908-1947 (Naxos Audio)

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How the Loon Lost Her Voice
Anne Cameron
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The famous northwest coast Indian myth, sometimes called "Raven Steals the Light" telling how Loon, Raven, and all the animals rallied to retrieve the daylight from behind its wall of ice after it was stolen by evil spirits. Amusingly retold for ages six to adult by the well-known Canadian poet and novelist.

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Counterbalance to Pandora's box.......2000-05-08

It is my view that folktales - tales of such quality that people kept the story alive for centuries - are excellent literature for people of any age. Anne Cameron aims her retellings of Northwest Native tales at a young audience but all of us can enjoy all of them.

In this tale, Spider Woman saves the earth from the birds of torment - Spider Woman uses a spider web and a tall tree to hold the earth in place - and to put most birds of torment into their proper place on the other side of the sky blanket.

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Fantastic.......2002-01-16

Hard book to review, just read it! One of the best I've read, a Texan's Updike? No, better than Updike. His down and out characters are so real that I wonder if he didn't take case histories!

An unexpected pleasure, well-written and sharply observed.......1998-12-06

About a third of the these stories are set in the late forties (the first begins on VJ Day 1945) and fifties, while the rest are contemporary. Each Voice of America is male, often middle-aged, often eccentric, dystfunctional or, in a couple of cases, downright creepy. They generally exist at the margins of what passes for the American dream, a world of trailer parks, door to door salespeople, and road wanderers. DeMarinis is certainly not in the business of either transformation or redemption for these people and places. Still, through his eye for telling detail -- one character dreams of "places so familiar and yet so utterly lost that he would wake up with tears on his face, even though the places he dreamed about were nowhere he'd ever been" -- and true talk dialogue, more often than not these stories break through irony and malaise to hope. Among the best: "Paraiso: An Elegy," "Wilderness," the strange encounter of "Infidelity," and "The Voice of America." But my personal favorite is "Her Alabaster Skin," in which a romance novelist writing under the pseudonym Veronica Lamonica meets the woman hired to be Veronica at book store signings. All in all, an excellent read.

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