![]() ![]() ![]() Her contributions include work at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, the Rosa Parks Museum and Google’s Arts & Culture series. This book lifts and centers the voices of black women,” she said.Pellum specializes in the history of women’s images and southern culture. ![]() “So often, public discourse about black beauty is narrated by persons without an intimacy or expertise in the culture. She said their personal stories not only illustrated their unique definitions of beauty, but also served to explain the political identities contestants created for themselves in the quests for their crowns. “I wrote the book to capture that experience and address the politics of beauty within our own culture.” Kimberly Brown Pellum served as the model for the new Rosa Parks monument in Montgomery, Alabama.The allure of pageants, Pellum said, often masked the social and political challenges experienced by contestants. “My mother and grandmother took me to parades to see Miss Alabama State and Miss Tuskegee University…I loved the glamour,” Pellum said. The book explores the glamorous history of African American beauty queens by using the stories of former contestants to address colorism and racism still prevalent in the industry. Florida A&M University professor and former Miss FAMU Kimberly Brown Pellum, Ph.D., recently released her book, Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South (History Press, 2020). ![]()
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Young Una's search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet she'll never get over. This week we’re featuring Poguemahone: a wild, free-verse monologue, steeped in music and folklore, crammed with characters, both real and imagined. Exile from Ireland and immigrant life in England. ![]() Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic free-verse monologue tells their family story. A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It took me a while to land on con women, but once I thought of it, and realized that they’d hadn’t been written about in any comprehensive, female-specific way, well, let’s just say I sent my agent the world’s fastest email, basically screaming, This is what I want to do! Their stories are just so twisty and compelling, I think any writer couldn’t help but be drawn to them. So I was thinking about other sorts of crime, and some of the most colorful ones-lady pirates, for example-had already been written about, so I kept searching. ![]() ![]() Tori: I had finished a book all about female serial killers (which we’ll get to in the next question) and I still felt a pull towards writing about female criminals, but to be frank, I couldn’t deal with any more serial killers for the time being. What first drew you to their stories? What made you want to sit down and write about them? NS: In Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of Feminine Persuasion, you spotlight notorious female con-artists from across the world. ![]() ![]() The book explores the betrayal of the Nehruvian idea of India and democracy by Indira Gandhi and analyses the political and cultural amnesia among the general populace in the decades following the Emergency. The author reads works by Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sahgal and Rohinton Mistry in conjunction with government white papers, political speeches, memoirs, biographies and history. ![]() It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of democracy. Ralph Crane, Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It persuaded me to rethink some of my ideas about a group of novels I thought I knew well. THE EMERGENCY AND THE INDIAN ENGLISH NOVEL Raita Merivirta’s The Emergency and the Indian English Novel is a significant contribution to the study of Indian English fiction. ![]() ![]() Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Midnight’s Children: preserving memories for “the amnesiac nation” 3 Safeguarding democracy in The Great Indian Novel 4 Family ties: nepotism and corruption in Rich Like Us 5 The Repressive State Apparatus in Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index Citation preview ![]() |