![]() Polk uncovered documents like the will of his ancestors’ slave owner – who granted freedom to Polk’s great, great, great grandmother Sarah Polk and her children upon his death. Not only did it spark a cultural revolution – with people purchasing Roots memorabilia, and even naming children after characters in the film - but it also spurred an interest in genealogy, especially among African Americans including Jordan and Polk wanting to dig into their own African ancestry. This year, as part of Roots’ 40th anniversary, the History Channel is airing a 4-part re-make of Roots.Īfrican American Historian Kellie Carter Jackson recently shared a lecture at the Delaware Historical Society called Reconsidering Roots, also the title of a book she’ll be releasing in April.įor this month’s History Matters, produced in conjunction with the Delaware Historical Society, we offer pieces of that lecture along commentary from local genealogy researchers Shamele Jordan and Erwin Polk about the impact of Roots in 1977, and how it’s still relevant today. Roots was – and still is – about identity for many African Americans. It went on to become the most-watched series in TV history – with people across the country and around the world cancelling meetings and prior engagements to watch the story of Kunta Kinte from the comfort of their homes. On the night of January 23rd, 1977 – and for eight consecutive nights after – a TV mini-series based on the number 1 selling African American novel of all time – Roots – aired on ABC. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He refused to go through with a prior agreement and risked his own safety instead of Ian. There’s no denying that he was used, but at the same time, the Earl treated him like a treasured pet. The Earl won’t directly admit or deny the accusations made against him.Īfter Ian learns something from an unexpected source, doubt and guilt fuel him. ![]() If the Earl won’t do anything to help himself, what can Ian do? He can’t fight, he’s not rich, and he has no connections. Ian knows he should simply walk away and leave everything behind. Overview: “I learned a long time ago that I can’t fully trust anyone,” Earl Larsen said quietly. Secrets II: A Novella of Alternate Earth by Julie Mannino ![]() ![]() ![]() A young truck driver, Hoshino, is drawn into Nakata’s journey and helps him. His search for one cat leads him to encounter great evil and sets him on a path to set the universe, which has gotten off track, back the way it should be. Now an old man, Nakata supplements his disability income by finding local families’ lost pets. In exchange for his memory and intellect, the accident left him with the ability to talk to cats. As a result of his accident, he has no memories of the past or ability to form memories in the present. The victim of a bizarre childhood accident that forever changed him, Nakata navigates the world in a simple-minded, organic fashion. As the novel progresses, Nakata’s life story and his separate journey to Takamatsu become entwined with Kafka’s. ![]() A young woman whom he meets on the bus to Takamatsu, Sakura the hairdresser, may be his sister.Įach chapter narrated by Kafka alternates with a chapter about a mysterious older man named Nakata. The enigmatic director of the library, Miss Saeki, may be his mother. ![]() Kafka takes refuge in a small private library outside Takamatsu, where he meets an understanding, supportive and intelligent transgender young gay man named Oshima. ![]() ![]() Angst, agony & anger vented through words took shape of poems and prose that she kept well hidden in her drawers until much later.ĭeeba’s 3 books have already been published internationally in the last 8 years. This partition from her parents was a gift of Iranian revolution. A few of her poems have been translated into other l Deeba Salim Irfan has been writing since childhood, ever since she had to leave her parents who were in Iran, to live with her grand parents back in India. Next, a collection of poetry was published in 2016, CHARCOAL BLUSH and was a finalist at the Book Excellence Awards in Canada. The translation in Urdu followed and so did the nomination for an award by Urdu Press Club. Her first novel, URMA, was published in 2012. ![]() Deeba’s 3 books have already been published internationally in the last 8 years. Angst, agony & anger vented through words took shape of poems and prose that she kept well hidden in her drawers until much later. ![]() Deeba Salim Irfan has been writing since childhood, ever since she had to leave her parents who were in Iran, to live with her grand parents back in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() In public, the author, who’s also my friend from some years of working together on various projects, is a model of self-restraint. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure she can either, as they accrue, and if the media’s voracity overwhelms her, she’s not likely to admit it. I can’t count the number of interviews she’s given-in print, online, on TV-as part of The Testaments tour. Her latest novel, The Testaments, the long-hoped-for sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, is already in its third printing in only weeks after its release. These have been translated into more than 25 languages The Handmaid’s Tale has sold over eight million copies and counting the Hulu television series based on her 1985 novel has won fourteen Emmy’s and is in its third season. When Margaret Atwood is discussed these days, numbers necessarily lead the way in, to underscore and give full accounting to the Atwood phenomenon: She’s written more than 50 books. ![]() ![]() “Doorways,” for example, presents entries into other worlds, in a florid (and lurid) passage from the play Paradise Street and a chilling snippet from the novel The Great and Secret Show (1990). “Private Legends,” Barker’s detailed introduction, offers interesting revelations about pivotal moments in his youth that influenced his development as writer, painter, and filmmaker it also firmly distances the author from the realistic tradition and sturdily defends what he rather grandly calls “the fantastique.” The book is arranged in 13 sections representing favorite themes. ![]() ![]() ![]() A mega-anthology of (mostly) excerpts from novels and plays by the popular and critically acclaimed horror writer whose increasingly ambitious work keeps pushing against genre boundaries. ![]() ![]() The matter-of-fact tone of the humor effectively keeps the laughs from undermining the scary story elements. The worldbuilding’s a dream: The magical rules are revealed clearly and concisely when relevant, and the quirky alternate setting maintains internal consistency and is frequently revealed in pithy, hilarious ways. Ness must then figure out the secrets people are willing to kill her to keep hidden. With her position already in jeopardy, she ends up accidentally sucked into a targeted conspiracy that throws her together with a living Nightmare. To avoid becoming homeless, she works for the Friends of the Restful Soul, though she’s always messing up due to her lack of piety and extreme fear trauma responses to Nightmares. ![]() Ness came to Newham after her older sister turned into a giant spider and ate their father. In the fictional city of Newham, bribes, shootouts, and corruption are widespread, and the water supply is laced with a drug that keeps people from dreaming so that they don’t wake up transformed into the worst thing they can imagine. ![]() A girl who escapes being collateral damage in an attack must face her overwhelming fears. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the novel, Orwell describes the various physical and mental subjugation of native people as well as the established institutions that propagated the suppression of the poor, brown people that inhabit the Indian subcontinent. Burmese Days exposes the racist and classist attitudes that wealthy, white elites maintained that attempted to prop up the rapidly depleting British rule in modern day Myanmar. In the novel, the protagonist Flory - An Englishman residing in British Burma, speaks in place of Orwell, voicing his admiration for the native Burmese and their culture, while condemning the very system that allows him to prosper. Orwell witnessed the cruelty of the British Raj firsthand during his tenure in the Indian Imperial Police only seven years prior. ![]() Orwell’s first novel Burmese Days sharply criticizes England’s role in Burma as part of the British Raj - a period of time that directly affected him. Whilst Conrad merely questioned the morality of conquest, George Orwell outright condemns British imperialism, and the inhuman subjugation of native peoples that dovetail it. ![]() Nearly thirty-five years after Joseph Conrad called into question the nature of Western imperialism in his novella Heart of Darkness, the English empire became subject to critique for its ambitions of colonialism by its own authors. Critiques of Colonialism - George Orwell’s Criticisms of the British Raj in Burmese Days ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is divided into three main parts, of two chapters each. ![]() ![]() The people were saying no two were e'er wed But one had a sorrow that never was said. The main focus of the novel is the young narrator's gradual uncovering of a family secret and the effect of this knowledge on him, and on members of his family. Despite the surrounding events, the narrator's tone never slips into complete despair, but maintains a sense of hope and humour throughout. While the narrator is surrounded with violence, chaos, and sectarian division, Derry serves as the place where he grows up, both physically and mentally. The setting mirrors mid-twentieth century Derry leading into the Troubles. This novel-in-stories is about both the boy's coming of age and the Troubles of Northern Ireland, from the partition of the island in the early 1920s until July 1971, just after the violent Battle of the Bogside took place in Derry. The story is told from the point of view of an unnamed young Irish Catholic boy living in a poor area of Derry. It has been translated into 20 languages. The book won the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and the 1996 South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature, is a New York Times Notable Book, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Irish Literature Prize in 1997, besides being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1996. The novel is set in Derry, Northern Ireland and extends from February 1945 through July 1971. ![]() Reading in the Dark is a novel written by Seamus Deane in 1996. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because someone is keeping one last secret-a truth that could change everything. ![]() ![]() But with the appearance of long-lost family members and an arsonist setting the town ablaze, it's time to confront the fact that what brought them together years ago might be what ultimately tears them apart. In a town full of weekenders, they all know what it's like to be dead enders, fated to stay trapped in a tourist destination for the rest of their lives. 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