Author: Michele Praeger
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: caribbean, imaginary
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0803237391
ISBN-13: 9780803237391
The Imaginary is everywhere in representations of the Caribbean Islands and their people and has been ever since their “discoverers” dreamt themselves arriving, triumphant, in the Indies. This book poses a provocative question: When the Imaginary occupies the place of the Real, as in Caribbean culture and European projections of that culture, how does the Real position itself? Michèle Praeger seeks an answer by bringing the Caribbean discourses of French traditional criticism and American social sciences, particularly history and psychoanalysis, into conversation with the imaginings of th
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Publisher: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Keywords: polis, imaginary
Published: 2005
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8773043109
ISBN-13: 9788773043103
Author: Anjali Banerjee
Publisher: Pocket
Keywords: men, imaginary
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-10-11
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416509437
ISBN-13: 9781416509431
It seemed like a good idea at the time.Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the bachelor from hell at her sister’s wedding in India, Lina panics and blurts out, "I’m engaged!" Because what’s the harm in a little lie?Who’s sari now?Lina scrambles to find a real fiancé because Auntie Kiki will be coming to America soon to approve the match. But date after disastrous date gets her no closer t
Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: magnitude, imaginary
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1985-10-28
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0156441802
ISBN-13: 9780156441803
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," and analyzing computer-generated literature through the science of "bitistics." "Lem, a science fiction Bach, plays in this book a googleplex of variations on his basic themes" (New York Times Book Review). Translated by Marc E. Heine. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: life, imaginary
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1996-05-28
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0679767932
ISBN-13: 9780679767930
Exiled from imperial Rome to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, Ovid, the irreverent Roman poet, encounters a feral child, who teaches him the language of nature. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.
Author: Moliere
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service
Keywords: sganarelle, cuckold, imaginary
Published: 1993-10
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822213311
ISBN-13: 9780822213314
Author: Andrew Larsen
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Keywords: garden, imaginary
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1554532795
ISBN-13: 9781554532797
