Captives and Castaways
Author | : Winifred Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Children's stories, New Zealand |
ISBN | : 9780705508513 |
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Author | : Winifred Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Children's stories, New Zealand |
ISBN | : 9780705508513 |
Author | : Brian Keene |
Publisher | : Deadite Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781936383931 |
When a group of people come to a lush, deserted island to compete on a popular reality TV show, they soon discover that they are being eliminated from the game permanently and violently when they fall victim to the monstrous half-human creatures that live in the jungle.
Author | : William Wymark Jacobs |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780469965942 |
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Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Following the clues found in a bottle cast into the ocean, Lord and Lady Genarvan set off for South America and Australia in their ship Duncan to search for the shipwrecked Captain Grant. Their eventful and perilous journey gives Verne the opportunity to describe a variety of exotic places. Originally titled Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (“The Children of Captain Grant”), the story has inspired several movie adaptations. Ayrton, one of the characters, reappears in The Mysterious Island.
Author | : Anna Brickhouse |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199729727 |
The Unsettlement of America explores the career and legacy of Don Luis de Velasco, an early modern indigenous translator of the sixteenth-century Atlantic world who traveled far and wide and experienced nearly a decade of Western civilization before acting decisively against European settlement. The book attends specifically to the interpretive and knowledge-producing roles played by Don Luis as a translator acting not only in Native-European contact zones but in a complex arena of inter-indigenous transmission of information about the hemisphere. The book argues for the conceptual and literary significance of unsettlement, a term enlisted here both in its literal sense as the thwarting or destroying of settlement and as a heuristic for understanding a wide range of texts related to settler colonialism, including those that recount the story of Don Luis as it is told and retold in a wide array of diplomatic, religious, historical, epistolary, and literary writings from the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Tracing accounts of this elusive and complex unfounding father from the colonial era as they unfolds across the centuries, The Unsettlement of America addresses the problems of translation at the heart of his story and speculates on the implications of the broader, transhistorical afterlife of Don Luis for the present and future of hemispheric American studies.
Author | : Edward E. Leslie |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780395911501 |
Explores the lives of survivors who were shipwrecked, banished, or abandoned during the past several centuries.
Author | : Mary Louise Pratt |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1478022906 |
In Planetary Longings eminent cultural theorist Mary Louise Pratt posits that the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first mark a turning point in the human and planetary condition. Examining the forces of modernity, neoliberalism, coloniality, and indigeneity in their pre- and postmillennial forms, Pratt reflects on the crisis of futurity that accompanies the millennial turn in relation to environmental disaster and to the new forms of thinking it has catalyzed. She turns to 1990s Latin American vernacular culture, literary fiction, and social movements, which simultaneously registered neoliberalism’s devastating effects and pursued alternate ways of knowing and living. Tracing the workings of colonialism alongside the history of anticolonial struggles and Indigenous mobilizations in the Americas, Pratt analyzes indigeneity both as a key index of coloniality, neoliberal extraction, and ecological destruction, and as a source for alternative modes of thought and being. Ultimately, Pratt demonstrates that the changes on either side of the millennium have catalyzed new forms of world-making and knowledge-making in the face of an unknowable and catastrophic future.
Author | : James Clifford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520057296 |
"Humanists and social scientists alike will profit from reflection on the efforts of the contributors to reimagine anthropology in terms, not only of methodology, but also of politics, ethics, and historical relevance. Every discipline in the human and social sciences could use such a book."--Hayden White, author of Metahistory
Author | : Lisa Voigt |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838780 |
Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity--one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience. Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic.
Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2022-07-05T04:31:30Z |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Following the clues found in a bottle cast into the ocean, Lord and Lady Genarvan set off for South America and Australia in their ship Duncan to search for the shipwrecked Captain Grant. Their eventful and perilous journey gives Verne the opportunity to describe a variety of exotic places. Originally titled Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (“The Children of Captain Grant”), the story has inspired several movie adaptations. Ayrton, one of the characters, reappears in The Mysterious Island. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.