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Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions

by Robert Allen Warrior

As American Indian literature continues to push the boundaries of creativity, its counterpart in criticism has remained content with the narrowest, most parochial focus. <p><p>"Tribal secrets" lays the groundwork for a new and richer American Indian critical studies. In a comparative interpretation of the works of Vine Deloria, Jr., and John Joseph Mathews, two American Indian intellectuals of this century, Robert Allen Warrior recovers a Native American intellectual tradition with profound implications for contemporary Indian critical thought. Warrior presents a narrative account of the literary productions and political and cultural interactions of American Indian writers of this century. <p><p>This neglected history provides a context for Deloria and Mathews, whose work points away from assimilation and accommodation that was favored by their predecessors. Reading these writers, particularly Mathews' novel "Sundown", Warrior identifies new strategies and categories for making sense of American Indian fiction. <p><p>Throughout, Warrior argues that the contemporary reality of Indian people—including issues of economic class, gender inequality, and sexual orientation—can and should be part of a critical understanding of the past, present, and future of Indian America.

Tribal Television

by Dustin Tahmahkera

Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present. In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre. Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera questions assumptions that Native representations on TV are inherently stereotypical and escapist. From The Andy Griffith Show and F-Troop to The Brady Bunch, King of the Hill, and the Native-produced sitcom, Mixed Blessings, Tahmahkera argues that sitcoms not only represent Native people as objects of humor but also provide a forum for social and political commentary on indigenous-settler relations and competing visions of America. Considering indigenous people as actors, producers, and viewers of sitcoms as well as subjects of comedic portrayals, Tribal Television underscores the complexity of Indian representations, showing that sitcoms are critical contributors to the formation of contemporary indigenous identities and relationships between Native and non-Native people.

The Tribe Of Pyn: Literary Generations In The Postmodern Period

by David Cowart

In The Tribe of Pyn, Cowart offers illuminating readings of several important novelists now at the height of their powers, whose work has received fairly limited scholarly attention thus far. Jonathan Franzen, Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Gloria Naylor, Richard Powers, and a raft of others are examined with lapidary care. Wrestling with the challenges inherent to distinguishing generational character (especially in the postmodern context, which is often marked by its disavowal of ideas of origin, etc. ), Cowart teases out interactions and entanglements that help illuminate the work of the younger writers at the center of this study and also that of the trailblazers on its ragged frontiers. By comparing literary figures born in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and later with those born in the 1920s and 1930s, Cowart seeks to map the changing terrain of contemporary letters. Hardly epigones, he argues, the younger writers add fresh inflections to the grammar of literary postmodernism. Younger writers can continue to "make it new," Cowart establishes, without needing to dismantle the aesthetic they have inherited from a parental generation.

Tribu de lectoras

by Asociación de Librosb4tipos

Ensayos que celebran la memoria y la imaginación Si algo tenemos que agradecer a las redes sociales es que han contribuido a reunir a miles de mujeres apasionadas por la lectura. En México destaca la labor de Librosb4tipos, una asociación integrada por once mujeres mexicanas que se dedican a promover la lectura con una mirada genuina, dejando de lado cualquier pretensión académica. El Maratón Guadalupe Reinas, que ellas organizan, es ya una tradición a la que cada año se suman miles de mujeres mexicanas y latinoamericanas. Este libro te invita a un viaje para conocer a las escritoras que ocuparon un lugar fundamental para que las integrantes de Librosb4tipos se acercaran al maravilloso hábito de la lectura. Prepara lápiz y papel o abre tu cuenta de Goodreads porque seguramente después de leerlo querrás seguir descubriendo más lecturas apasionantes.

The Tribune Saga

by Chicago Tribune Staff Steve Mills Michael Oneal

Real estate tycoon Sam Zell had big ideas for Tribune Co. when he took control of the media conglomerate in late 2007 through an $8.2 billion leveraged buyout. But the iconic company, parent of the Chicago Tribune, filed for bankruptcy less than a year later. This marked the beginning of a four-year odyssey through Chapter 11 reorganization-brought on by falling advertising revenue amid a $13 billion debt burden that the deal created.The company's saga mirrored the U.S. financial crisis, in which speculative risk using exotic investment instruments helped trigger what became known as the Great Recession. When the company finally emerged from court protection at the end of 2012 under new ownership and a newly appointed board of directors, it did so with a diminished value and a tarnished reputation.Chicago Tribune reporters Michael Oneal and Steve Mills rely on thousands of pages of court documents, dozens of interviews, and hours of observation in U.S. bankruptcy court to tell the story of Tribune Co.'s journey through bankruptcy. They place a spotlight on the key decisions and missed opportunities that marked a perilous time in the history of the company, the media industry, and the economy.Their four-part series, repackaged into The Tribune Saga: A Leveraged Buyout, An Insatiable Wall Street and a Bankruptcy Odyssey, serves as a compelling resource for law, business, and journalism students and for anybody interested in how Zell's buyout of Tribune Co. became "a messy product of the unchecked Wall Street deal-making and aggressive financial engineering that soon would threaten the American economy."

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino

Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. <p><p> Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. <P><P><b> A New York Times Bestseller </b>

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle

by Jonathan Crary

Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual cultureTricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary's responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments. These wide-ranging and provocative texts explore the work of painters, performance artists, writers, architects, and photographers, including Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, Ed Ruscha, John Berger, Bridget Riley, J.G. Ballard, Rem Koolhaas, Gretchen Bender, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Virilio, Robert Irwin, and Uta Barth. There are also reflections on filmmakers Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc-Godard, David Cronenberg, and others. The book is enhanced by several expansive essays on the unstable status of television, both amid its beginnings in the 1930s and then during its assimilation into new assemblages and networks in the 1980s and 90s. These assess its many-sided role in the reshaping of subjectivity, temporality, and the operation of power. Like all of Crary's work, his writing here is grounded in the acuteness of his engagement with perceptual artifacts of many kinds and in his nuanced reading of historical processes and their cultural reverberations.

Tricks of the Writer's Trade: And how to teach them to children aged 8-14

by Rick Vanes

What links Cinderella to Harry Potter? What can The Simpsons teach us about character creation? What is the False Horizon moment? What are the two classic openings and five effective endings of a newspaper story? Aimed at primary and early secondary school teachers, Tricks of the Writer’s Trade uses a simple, straightforward and highly-entertaining method to reveal a myriad of writing approaches, from basic story structure through to advanced scriptwriting, and the techniques used by professional writers and journalists. Covering fiction and non-fiction writing, chapters include guidance on: Story structure Creating characters Persuasive writing Informative writing Scriptwriting Writing techniques By following its step-by-step approach and using the resources and materials provided, teachers can engage their pupils, improve their writing skills dramatically – and have fun while they’re doing it. Writing lessons will never be the same again! Tricks of the Writer’s Trade is an invaluable resource for all Primary Teachers, Key Stage Three English teachers and literacy coordinators as well as PGCE students.

Trickster and Hero

by Harold Scheub

The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world’s oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and Heroprovides a comparative look at a rich array of world oral traditions, folktales, mythologies, and literatures—fromThe Odyssey,The Epic of Gilgamesh, andBeowulfto Native American and African tales. Award-winning folklorist Harold Scheub explores the “Trickster moment,” the moment in the story when the tale, the teller, and the listener are transformed: we are both man and woman, god and human, hero and villain. Scheub delves into the importance of trickster mythologies and the shifting relationships between tricksters and heroes. He examines protagonists that figure centrally in a wide range of oral narrative traditions, showing that the true hero is always to some extent a trickster as well. The trickster and hero, Scheub contends, are at the core of storytelling, and all the possibilities of life are there: we are taken apart and rebuilt, dismembered and reborn, defeated and renewed.

The Trickster Figure In American Literature

by Winifred Morgan

This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.

Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production

by Rei Magosaki

Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non–Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the cosmopolitan subject, featuring the writers Sui Sin Far, Jessica Hagedorn, Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, and Min Jin Lee. The newly imagined cosmopolitan subject that emerges from their works dramatically reconfigured Asian American female subjectivity in metropolitan space with a kind of fluidity and ease never before seen. But as Rei Magosaki shows, these narratives also invariably expose the problematic side of this figure, which also serves to perpetuate exploitative structures of Western imperialism and its legacies in late capitalism.Arguing that the actual establishment of such a critical standpoint on imperialism and globalization required the expansive and internationalist vision of editors who supported, cultivated, and promoted these works, Tricksters and Cosmopolitans reveals the negotiations between these authors and their publishers and between the shared investment in both politics and aesthetics that influenced the narrative structure of key works in the Asian American literary canon.

Tricky Spellings in Cartoons for Children: US Edition

by Lidia Stanton

A collection of fun, colorful cartoon mnemonics to help children aged 5-11 recall tricky spellings. It is particularly suited to kids who prefer to learn by seeing and doing, who have tried traditional spelling strategies but with limited success, or who continue to confuse similar sounding and similar looking words. The humor and active learning approach embodied in the book will support children to build associations and effortlessly recognise, learn and recall spelling patterns. An invaluable resource for teachers and parents supporting kids with dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities, ADHD or ASD, this fully illustrated guide is designed to work alongside the school curriculum. This edition contains mnemonics specifically tailored to American English spelling. If the traditional spelling methods aren't working for you, if you prefer to learn by seeing and doing or if you just want to make spelling fun, this book is for you.

The Trident Tragedy

by Robert J. Szilagye Stanley Monroe

AMERICA'S MOST AWESOME NUCLEAR WEAPON-IT RETURNED FROM ITS MAIDEN VOYAGE AS FLAWLESS AS IT HAD LEFT-WITH EVERY MAN ABOARD DEAD.... A HANDPICKED CREW One hundred sixty-one men-proud officers and crew-on the test voyage of a submarine unlike any other in the world. They knew their ship. They knew their duty. But they never suspected their fate. A MYSTERIOUS DISASTER What had happened aboard the U.S.S. Trident? Why had it been found with every man lying dead at his station? Was it a freak accident? Criminal negligence? Or was it sabotage? TWO RELENTLESS INVESTIGATORS One was a female reporter who hated the Navy. The other was a Naval Intelligence officer who mistrusted the press. Separately, they were getting nowhere. Together, they were uncovering just enough to get themselves killed. And should they perish, who would be left to uncover the stunning truth behind ....

Tried and tested: The ultimate guide to teaching primary languages

by Juliet Park Wendy Adeniji

This book provides you with practical, easy-to-implement classroom ideas and strategies for teaching and leading MFL in a primary school and will support you to prepare for MFL Ofsted ‘deep dives’. There are a huge amount of practical ideas provided, from curriculum design, long, medium and short term planning with real examples in French and Spanish, so you can see how it works in practice. Challenge, differentiation and mixed age teaching are covered, as well as motivating and way to teach vocabulary, phonics and grammar. Linked to the 2019 Ofsted inspection framework and in line with the KS2 National Curriculum programme of study, chapters are devoted to memory and cultural capital, as well as innovative strategies to use stories and songs. Readers will learn how to assess using ‘age-related expectations’ and you will be able to access real examples of lesson plans, curriculum planning documents and resources.

Tried and Tested: The ultimate guide to teaching primary languages

by Juliet Park Wendy Adeniji

Supporting you to prepare for Ofsted 'deep dives' into modern foreign languages, Tried and Tested offers practical, easy-to-implement ideas and strategies for teaching and leading MFL in primary school. Wendy Adeniji and Juliet Park provide a huge number of classroom ideas, with real examples in French and Spanish so you can see how they work in practice. Challenge, differentiation and mixed-age teaching are covered, as well as how to motivate children to learn a foreign language and how to teach vocabulary, phonics and grammar. Linked to the 2019 Ofsted inspection framework and in line with the key stage 2 national curriculum programme of study, Tried and Tested explores memory and cultural capital, as well as innovative strategies for using stories and songs. You will learn how to assess progress using age-related expectations and will be provided with access to real examples of lesson plans, curriculum-planning documents and resources.'Whatever your primary language teaching need or question, this is the go-to guide' - Sam Henderson-Tucker

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

by Richard Hugo

"Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world."--James Dickey Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters--a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's sayd, playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

by Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters -- a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems." Anyone, from the beginning poet to the mature writer to the lover of literature, will benefit greatly from Hugo's playful, profound insights and advice concerning the mysteries of literary creation.

Trilingual Education in Hong Kong Primary Schools (Multilingual Education #33)

by Lixun Wang Andy Kirkpatrick

This book focuses on Hong Kong as a multilingual society. It investigates how trilingual education is implemented in Hong Kong primary schools. Based on a large scale survey of 155 Hong Kong schools and in-depth case studies in 3 selected schools, the book gives an overview of trilingual education in Hong Kong primary schools, revealing the views on trilingual education of all stakeholders: school principals, panel chairs, subject teachers, students, and parents. The research findings presented in this book suggest that the implementation of trilingual education varies significantly from school to school, as does the effectiveness of the trilingual education models used. It shows how students’ views towards the use of different media of instruction (MoIs) also vary, and how their mother-tongue backgrounds affect their perceptions. By documenting views, policies and implementation methods, the book provides insight into the practice of trilingual education in Hong Kong and offers suggestions on potentially effective implementation methods.

Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children: Phonological Awareness, Language Acquisition and Literacy Development

by Wei Xiaobao

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development.Focusing on the development of these learners' phonological awareness in Uyghur, Chinese and English, this study explored the influences of Uyghur and Chinese learning on the formation of their English phonological awareness and the roles of different components of phonological awareness in their trilingual literacy development. Based on the characteristics of the phonetic structure in Uyghur, Chinese and English and the development of Uyghur children's phonological awareness in these languages, a Chinese phonetic identification training and Uyghur–Chinese–English comprehensive phonetic training program (including intensive phoneme category contrast training and phonics training) was designed to explore whether such targeted phonetic identification training can effectively improve these children's phonological awareness in Chinese and English and thus further promote their trilingual literacy development.This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in the fields of psycholinguistics, language acquisition and multilingual education.

Trilingual Joyce: The Anna Livia Variations

by Patrick O'Neill

Trilingual Joyce is a detailed comparative study of James Joyce’s personal involvement in both French and Italian translations of the iconic 1928 text Anna Livia Plurabelle, which later became the eighth chapter of Finnegans Wake. Considered to be completely untranslatable at the time of its publication, the translation of Anna Livia Plurabelle represented a fascinating challenge to Joyce, who collaborated in experimental renderings of the text, first into French and later into Italian. Patrick O’Neill’s Trilingual Joyce is the first comparative study of all three of the Anna Livia Plurabelle variations, and fills a long-standing gap in Joyce studies. O’Neill, an Irish-born professor who has written widely on texts in translation, also discusses in detail the avant-guard novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett’s contribution as a young man to the French rendering of Anna Livia Plurabelle.

Trilingual Talk in Sicilian-Australian Migrant Families

by Antonia Rubino

This book explores the linguistic and cultural identities of Sicilians in Australia, through conversations gathered within the family, survey data and interviews. The study is placed in the context of the family migrant experience and the shifting attitudes towards immigrant languages in Australia.

Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

by Anwei Feng Bob Adamson

This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i. e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each region and issues relating to and the effects of the teaching and learning of the minority home language on minority students' acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and English and on their school performance in general. The book also examines the case of Cantonese in Guangdong, where the local Chinese 'dialect' is strong but distant from the mainstream language, Putonghua. It takes a new approach to researching sociolinguistic phenomena, and presents a new methodology that emerged from studies of bi/trilingualism in European societies and was then tailored to the trilingual context in China. The methodology encompasses policy analysis and community language profiles, as well as school-based fieldwork, and provides rich data that facilitate multilevel analysis of policy-in-context.

Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby (The\cambridge Edition Of The Works Of F. Scott Fitzgerald Ser.)

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a familiar musical composition played in a different key and with an alternate bridge passage... There is a tradition in Fitzgerald studies that The Great Gatsby became a masterpiece in revision. This judgment is correct. Fitzgerald improved the novel in galleys; The Great Gatsby is a better novel than Trimalchilo. But Trimalchilo is a remarkable achievement, and different enough from Gatsby to merit consideration on its own. Trimalchilois a direct and straightforward narration of the story of Jay Gatsby, NIck Carraway, Jordan Baker, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, and Myrtle and George Wilson. The handling of plot details is sure-handed; the writing is graceful and confident. Trimalchilowill provide readers with new understanding of F. Scott Fitzgerald's working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius." From the introduction.

Trinity of Passion

by Alan M. Wald

The second of three volumes by Alan Wald that track the political and personal lives of several generations of U.S. left-wing writers, Trinity of Passion carries forward the chronicle launched in Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. In this volume Wald delves into literary, emotional, and ideological trajectories of radical cultural workers in the era when the International Brigades fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and the United States battled in World War II (1941-45). Probing in rich and haunting detail the controversial impact of the Popular Front on literary culture, he explores the ethical and aesthetic challenges that pro-Communist writers faced. Wald presents a cross section of literary talent, from the famous to the forgotten, the major to the minor. The writers examined include Len Zinberg (a.k.a. Ed Lacy), John Oliver Killens, Irwin Shaw, Albert Maltz, Ann Petry, Chester Himes, Henry Roth, Lauren Gilfillan, Ruth McKenney, Morris U. Schappes, and Jo Sinclair. He also uncovers dramatic new information about Arthur Miller's complex commitment to the Left.Confronting heartfelt questions about Jewish masculinity, racism at the core of liberal democracy, the corrosion of utopian dreams, and the thorny interaction between antifascism and Communism, Wald re-creates the intellectual and cultural landscape of a remarkable era.

The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking

by Olivia Laing

In this book, the author takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and alcohol in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. Captivating and highly original, this book strips away the myth of the alcoholic writer to reveal the terrible price creativity can exert.

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