Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, Lalami Laila

Автор: Lalami Laila
Название: The Other Americans
ISBN: 0525436030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780525436034
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: ***2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST***
***FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE***

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor's Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant--at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant living in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efra n, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and an Iraq War veteran; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.

As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion, and class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.

Автор: Lalami Laila
Название: The Moor`s Account
ISBN: 0804170622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804170628
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 10390.00 T
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Описание: **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST**
**NOMINATED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE**
**WINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD**

A New York Times Notable Book
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year
An NPR Great Read of 2014
A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year

In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas with his master, Dorantes, as part of a danger-laden expedition to Florida. Within a year, Estebanico is one of only four crew members to survive.

As he journeys across America with his Spanish companions, the Old World roles of slave and master fall away, and Estebanico remakes himself as an equal, a healer, and a remarkable storyteller. His tale illuminates the ways in which our narratives can transmigrate into history--and how storytelling can offer a chance at redemption and survival.

Автор: Supersummary
Название: Study Guide: The Moor`s Account by Laila Lalami (SuperSummary)
ISBN: 1695473264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781695473263
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13730.00 T
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Описание: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 72-page guide for "The Moor's Account" by Laila Lalami includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 25 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Power of Names and The Power of Storytelling and Oral Histories.

Автор: Haidarali Laila
Название: Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
ISBN: 1479802085 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479802081
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 33440.00 T
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Описание: Examines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.

Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American women and expressions of race, class, and status. Brown Beauty considers how the media created a beauty ideal for these women, emphasizing different representations and expressions of brown skin.

Haidarali contends that the idea of brown as a "respectable shade" was carefully constructed through print and visual media in the interwar era. Throughout this period, brownness of skin came to be idealized as the real, representational, and respectable complexion of African American middle class women. Shades of brown became channels that facilitated discussions of race, class, and gender in a way that would develop lasting cultural effects for an ever-modernizing world.

Building on an impressive range of visual and media sources--from newspapers, journals, magazines, and newsletters to commercial advertising--Haidarali locates a complex, and sometimes contradictory, set of cultural values at the core of representations of women, envisioned as "brown-skin." She explores how brownness affected socially-mobile New Negro women in the urban environment during the interwar years, showing how the majority of messages on brownness were directed at an aspirant middle-class. By tracing brown's changing meanings across this period, and showing how a visual language of brown grew into a dynamic racial shorthand used to denote modern African American womanhood, Brown Beauty demonstrates the myriad values and judgments, compromises and contradictions involved in the social evaluation of women. This book is an eye-opening account of the intense dynamics between racial identity and the influence mass media has on what, and who we consider beautiful.

Автор: Ali Laila
Название: Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit and Personal Power
ISBN: 0692868534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692868539
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13790.00 T
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Автор: Laila Parsons
Название: Commander, The
ISBN: 0374537089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374537081
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Цена: 12260.00 T
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Описание: Fawzi alQawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 19141948. Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman army, he fought the British in World War I and won an Iron Cross. In the 1920s, he mastered the arts of insurgency and helped lead a massive uprising against the French authorities in Syria. A decade later, he reappeared in Palestine, where he helped direct the Arab revolt of 1936. When an effort to overthrow the British rulers of Iraq failed, he moved to Germany, where

Автор: Ashrafun, Laila (shahjalal University Of Science And Technology, Bangladesh)
Название: Women and domestic violence in bangladesh
ISBN: 0815367767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815367765
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 148010.00 T
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Описание: This book is a study about domestic violence against women in Bangladeshi society. It delineates, in particular, why and how some women become the victims of domestic violence in the changing socio-economic setting of Bangladesh. The author explores the multiple contexts in which domestic violence occurs.

Автор: Khalil Laila, Khalil Roya
Название: Culinary Journey Through Silk Road: Taste of Afghanistan
ISBN: 1483462439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781483462431
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 46390.00 T
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Автор: Lalami Laila
Название: Other Americans
ISBN: 1526606704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526606709
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 20930.00 T
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Автор: Macnaghten William Hay
Название: The Alif Laila - Vol. IV
ISBN: 1535075678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781535075671
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 47010.00 T
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Автор: Lalami, Laila
Название: The Other Americans
ISBN: 1524747149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781524747145
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 15910.00 T
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Описание: From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after her life in the old country; Efra n, an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, an old friend of Nora's and a veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his family; and the murdered man himself.

As the characters--deeply divided by race, religion or class--tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss's family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, is born.

Автор: Supersummary
Название: Study Guide: Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami (SuperSummary)
ISBN: 1694711765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781694711762
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 13730.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 73-page guide for "Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits" by Laila Lalami includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 2 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Hope and the Immigrant Experience and The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Decision-Making.