Автор: Hilgers Lauren Название: Patriot Number One: A Chinese Rebel Comes to America ISBN: 0451496140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451496140 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9810.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY New York Times Critics - Wall Street Journal - Kirkus Reviews Christian Science Monitor - San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography AwardThe deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar--pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had to start from scratch. In Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing's Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward. With a novelist's eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country--and the stubborn allure of the American dream.
Автор: Hilger Stephanie M. Название: Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution ISBN: 1611495318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611495317 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 59130.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Gender and Genre explores the ways in which German women writers used literature, in the sense of belles lettres, to comment on the French Revolution and its aftermath. By doing so, these authors adapted major literary genres and questioned these genres` representation of women in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary sphere.
Автор: Hilger Peter Название: War Torn ISBN: 0989169448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989169448 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20620.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hilger Michael Название: Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present ISBN: 1442240016 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442240018 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 153470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Since the early days of the silent era, Native Americans have been captured on film, often in unflattering ways. Over the decades, some filmmakers have tried to portray the Native American on screen with more balanced interpretations-to varying degrees of success. More recent films such as The New World, Flags of Our Fathers, and Frozen River have offered depictions of both historical and contemporary Native Americans, providing viewers with a range of representations. In Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present, Michael Hilger surveys more than a century of cinema. Drawing upon his previous work, From Savage to Nobleman, Hilger presents a thorough revision of the earlier volume. The introductory material has not only been revised with updated information and examples but also adds discussions of representative films produced since the mid-1990s. Now organized alphabetically, the entries on individual films cover all relevant works made over the past century, and each entry contains much more information than those in the earlier book. Details include -film summary -nation represented -image portrayal -production details -DVD availability Many of the entries also contain comments from film critics to indicate how the movies were regarded at the time of their theatrical release. Supplemented by appendixes of image portrayals, representations of nations, and a list of made-for-television movies, this volume offers readers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of hundreds of films in which Native American characters have appeared on the big screen. As such, Native Americans in the Movies will appeal not only to scholars of media, ethnic studies, and history but also to anyone interested in the portrayal of Native Americans in cinema.
Автор: Hilger Stephanie Название: Gender and Genre: German Women Write the French Revolution ISBN: 1611495296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611495294 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 160930.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the political events in their country, but they were not the only ones to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more palpable across the border, German authors pondered their implications in newspapers, political pamphlets, and historiographical treatises. German women also participated in these debates, but they often embedded their political commentary in literary texts because they were discouraged, and sometimes even barred, from publishing in explicitly political and public venues. As such, literature, in the sense of belles lettres, had a compensatory function for women: it allowed them to engage in political discussion without explicitly encroaching on certain domains that were perceived as a male preserve. As women writers explored the uses of literature for political commentary they adapted major literary genres in order to consolidate their position in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary sphere. Those genres included domestic fiction, the historical novel, historical tragedy, autobiography, the Robinsonade, and the Bildungsroman. Women writers challenged the images of women traditionally portrayed in these genres: dutiful daughter, submissive wife, caring mother, tantalizing mistress, angelic figure, and passive victim. Gender and Genre discusses six women writers who replaced these traditional female types with women warriors and emigrants as protagonists in texts published between 1795 and 1821: Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouqu , Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von La Roche, and Henriette Fr lich. These authors' protagonists question traditional images of passive femininity, yet their battered bodies also depict the precarious position of women in general, and women writers in particular, during this period. Because women writers were attacked by their male counterparts who attempted to halt their foray into the literary marketplace, these texts are as much about power dynamics in the German literary establishment as they are about French politics.
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