Author: V.S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, men, mimic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-08-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375707174
ISBN-13: 9780375707179
A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial mans experience in a postcolonial world.Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from bec
Author: D. M. R. Bentley
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Pre
Keywords: canada, poems, accounts, fires, mimic
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773512004
ISBN-13: 9780773512009
In this survey and analysis of long poems written about Canada between 1690 and 1900, D.M.R. Bentley establishes literary contexts for a greatly neglected period of Canadian literature. He also provides critical discussions of the poems, addresses larger questions of tradition and intertextuality, and demonstrates the existence of a continuity in Canadian writing from the colonial to the post-colonial period. Bentley includes 18 long poems by writers with first-hand experience of Canada, including Henry Kelsey, Thomas Cary, John Strachan, Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, John Richardson, Joseph
Author: Thia Luby
Publisher: Clear Light Books
Keywords: amp, plants, animals, objects, mimic, exercises, yoga, games, children, book
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 1998-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1574160036
ISBN-13: 9781574160031
A unique and original new program of yoga especially designed to appeal to children, this book presents six complete, entertaining yoga workouts for children ages three to 12. The exercises and games are based on imitation of animals, natural forms, and interesting manmade objects chosen because of their natural appeal to a child’s imagination.
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