Resultados para "Box" en Arte y literatura

Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates Jr's legendary Harvard course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, these writers used words to create a liveable world – a “home” – for Black people destined to live in a bitterly racist society.

50 kurze Biografien berühmter Personen der Literaturgeschichte sind in dieser Hörbuch Box versammelt! In jeweils ca. 5 Minuten erfahren die Hörer das Wichtigste über Schriftsteller wie Thomas Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Edgar Allan Poe, Bertolt Brecht, Heinrich Böll, Kurt Tucholsky, Astrid Lindgren, Paulo Coelho, Agatha Christie, Stefan Zweig, Erich Kästner, Philip Roth, den Brüdern Grimm und viele mehr! Unterhaltung und Bildung in einem!

Have you ever felt boxed in by the limitations of your own life choices or other people's labels? In unboxing Blu, author and humorist Blu Wyatt takes us on a hilarious wild ride through her life and the many boxes she's found herself in--either by her own choices or other people's less-than-positive expectations. Through fourteen head injuries, a bipolar diagnosis, suicide attempts, and a daddy who said she'd never amount to anything, Blu Wyatt's story shouldn't have ended well--but it did, and she'll keep you laughing through it all!

En la novela Adiós a los padres, Héctor Aguilar Camín narra la historia de su familia, marcada por la ausencia de su padre. Para decir la verdad - ésa que está más allá de los datos - el escritor sabía que sólo podía recurrir a la literatura. En este volumen de relatos replica la misma maniobra, pero llevándola al extremo: los quince cuentos de Historias conversadas pueden leerse como la autobiografía de un personaje de ficción que en cada capítulo se inventara, o se robara, una vida distinta.

'More than just a memoir. A manifesto for a whole way of thinking' Daily Mail 'An idiosyncratic and gripping memoir about his life and the indomitable career of the Cube' Observer 'The rise and enduring power of the world's most popular puzzle toy . . . Cubed is less a memoir than a chronicle of...