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Lucia
'Lucia: The Girl who Danced in Shadows' is a novel based on historical fact. It is set in Northampton Asylum in England from 1951 to 1983 where Lucia Joyce (daughter of James Joyce) and Violet Gibson (the woman who shot Mussolini) spent the latter years of their lives It is a story of an incredible love. It is a story of injustice. It is a story of the fine line between sanity and madness, but most of all, it is a story of the power of friendship and creativity, of the joy of music and dance and art, and of Lucia and Violet's plight, having relinquished their bodies to hold on to their souls.
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address questions of gender in a sustained and systematic manner that is also sensitive to cultural and historical differences in both raw material and fictional reworking. It develops a critical lens through which to approach biofictions as ‘fictions of gender’, drawing on theories of biofiction and historical fiction, life-writing studies, feminist criticism, queer feminist readings, postcolonial studies, feminist art history, and trans studies. ...
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Adaptation and Beyond
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences
Parallel Worlds
When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown. Their union took place in a world of refinement and privilege, but both William and Ida had mixed-race backgrounds, and their country therefore placed severe restrictions on their lives because at that time, "one drop of colored blood" classified anyone as a Negro. This "stain" of melanin pushed the couple's achievements to the margins of American society. Nonetheless, as William followed a career in the foreign service, Ida (whose grandfather was ...
The Girl with the Monkey on Her Shoulder
"Ribbon around a Bomb" - that is how the French surrealist writer and critic Andre Breton described the Mexican artist and cult figure Frida Kahlo. The novel "The Girl with the Monkey on her Shoulder' is a modern day version of Kahlo's explosive llife. Set in Dublin in Ireland, the story unfolds over a three year period from 1984 until 1987 and tells of the surreal love triangle of artist Lena, her artist husband., Declan and dead art icon Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954). This is the story of obsession: obsession with the past and the volatile passion of love and art, and tells of how that ribbon around the bomb unwound.
The Veiled Garvey
In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (1895-1973). Born in Jamaica, Amy Jacques moved in 1917 to Harlem, where she became involved in the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the largest Pan-African organization of its time. She served as the private secretary of UNIA leader Marcus Garvey; in 1922, they married. Soon after, she began to give speeches and to publish editorials urging black women to participate in the Pan-African movement and addressing issues that affected people of African descent across the globe. After her husband's death...
In Black and White
This publication is a "guide to printed information about Black people."--Introd.
Sylvia
'-Everything comes together in unity in a specific moment in time enclosed in timeless eternity.' Sylvia Plath "I'm going to The Lighthouse": In a cold and planetary time between death and afterlife Sylvia Plath, talks to the moon. What does she find out? And who is the moon: is he her father, Otto Plath, is he Auriela Plath, her mother, is he her husband, Ted Hughes, or is she, the eternal Narcissus, just talking to herself?
The Routledge History of Irish America
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s ...
