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Chevaux et autres doutes
by Mois BenarrochNé en 1959 à Tétouan au Maroc, entre Tanger et Gibraltar, Benarroch émigre avec ses parents, à l'âge de treize ans, en Israël et vit depuis lors à Jérusalem. Il écrit ses premiers poèmes à quinze ans, en anglais, puis en hébreu et finalement dans sa langue maternelle, l'espagnol. Ses poèmes ont été publiés dans des centaines de magazines, dans le monde entier. Dans ce premier recueil, Mois Benarroch aborde des thèmes aussi divers que l'immigration, la discrimination, le sionisme, Israël, l'amour, la famille, la poésie et Bukowski. Benarroch, lauréat du Prix de Poésie Yehuda Amichai 2012, est considéré comme l'un des poètes majeurs contemporains en Israël. Ses poèmes ont été traduits dans une douzaine de langues. Mois Benarroch est aussi l'auteur de Aux Portes de Tanger, Les Litanies de l'Emigré, Muriel, L'Expulsé et Lucena, parmi d'autres oeuvres.
Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage (Routledge World Languages)
by Avelino Corral EstebanCheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences. Based on fieldwork conducted on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, this book, which seeks to address descriptive and theoretical issues involving complex sentences, has three major aims: i) to present a morpho-syntactic, semantic, and discourse-pragmatic description of complex sentences in Cheyenne; ii) to investigate the relationship between the semantic and syntactic dimensions of complex sentences; and iii) to contribute to the research, preservation, and revitalization of this ancestral language spoken in the United States of America. This book will be informative for scholars interested in language typology, comparative linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and language documentation, as well as those interested in Cheyenne learning and teaching.
Chez Nous: Branché Sur Le Monde Francophone
by Albert Valdman Cathy Pons Mary Ellen ScullenChez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone offers a flexible, dynamic approach to elementary French that engages students by bringing the French language and the culture of French-speaking people to life. Authors Mary Ellen Scullen, Cathy Pons, and Albert Valdman help students achieve grammatical and communicative competence through pertinent, well-sequenced themes, carefully designed presentations of important structures, and a wealth of opportunities for meaningful student practice. The 5th Edition offers significantly updated content, including coverage of contemporary topics about which students will be excited to converse, as well as a modern, engaging design.
Chhattisgarh Bharati class 8 - SCERT Raipur - Chhattisgarh Board: छत्तीसगढ़ भारती ८वीं कक्षा - एस.सी.ई.आर.टी. रायपुर - छत्तीसगढ़
by Raipur C. G. Rajya Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishadछत्तीसगढ़ राज्य शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद् की नई किताब बनाने का उद्देश्य बच्चों को स्वतंत्र और जिज्ञासु पाठक बनाना है। परिषद् की पुस्तकों ने यह भी रेखांकित किया है कि भाषा सीखने-सिखाने का दायित्व सिर्फ भाषा की पुस्तक का ही नहीं है वरन् अन्य विषयों की भी इसमें भूमिका है। कक्षा 8वीं में अध्ययनरत् विद्यार्थियों के लिए इस पुस्तक को विषय 'हिन्दी - छत्तीसगढ़ भारती' में सहायक पुस्तक के रूप में स्वीकृत किया गया है, इससे बच्चों में पठन, वाचन, तर्क एवं चिंतन क्षमता विकसित होगी। सामाजिक अध्ययन, विज्ञान व गणित की पुस्तकों को पढ़कर समझने के प्रयास से, स्वतंत्र व समृद्ध पाठक बनाना संभव होता है। पाठ्यपुस्तकों के अलावा विद्वानों द्वारा रचित साहित्य, अन्य प्रसिद्ध लेखकों द्वारा लिखी सामग्री के साथ-साथ बच्चों के लिए अन्य कहानी, कविता, नाटक आदि की पुस्तकों की भी एक महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका है। बच्चों के अनेक स्वाभाविक अनुभवों के बारे में सोचना, उनका गहराई से विश्लेषण करना व इन सबको एक-दूसरे से बाँटना न सिर्फ भाषायी समझ बढ़ाता है वरन् कई और महत्वपूर्ण क्षमताएँ भी प्रदान करता है। कक्षा आठवीं में पढ़नेवाले बच्चों के भाषायी ज्ञान को और समृद्ध बनाना है। इसमें समझने व अभिव्यक्त करने, दोनों तरह की क्षमताएँ शामिल हैं। अच्छे लेखकों, कवियों और साहित्यकारों द्वारा लिखी कहानी, कविता, निबंध, नाटक आदि साहित्य की विधाएँ तो हैं ही, साथ ही-साथ ऐसी पुस्तकें सोचने-समझने के तरीकों को भी समृद्ध बनाती हैं। इन सभी की पढ़ने में रुचि पैदा करना ही एक प्रमुख लक्ष्य है। ज्यादातर भाषा-शिक्षण व साहित्य का उद्देश्य बच्चे के विकास व समाज के साथ उसके संबंध को गहरा करना व उसके सोचने व जीवन दर्शन को वृहद् करना है। इस लक्ष्य को पूरा करने के लिए यह आवश्यक है कि बच्चे अच्छे साहित्य को पढ़ें-लिखें और उस पर बातचीत करें। बच्चों का पुस्तक की सामग्री के साथ संबंध गहरा हो, उनके बीच एक सतर्क पाठक का रिश्ता बने। इसके लिए वे पाठों पर आधारित नए प्रश्न बनाएँ व अपने जीवन के अनुभवों के आधार पर सामग्री में प्रस्तुत विचारों पर टिप्पणी करें।
Chiapas
by Carlos MontemayorChiapas. La rebelión indígena es una revisión extraordinaria de Carlos Montemayor en torno a la guerrilla, los movimientos sociales, el ejército, la forma en que el gobierno ha enfrentado a la movilización y la cosmovisión de los pueblos indígenas en Chiapas. Este libro está dedicado al estudio del origen, desarrollo, consolidación y aparición pública del movimiento guerrillero zapatista en el estado de Chiapas, estudiando sus vínculos con otros grupos armados y la singularidad que lo caracteriza: a diferencia de otros movimientos armados en las décadas de los setentas y ochentas, el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional se conforma principalmente por movimientos indígenas radicalizados ante la pobreza del Estado y la falta de oportunidades para la población. El autor estudia documentos de fuentes oficiales, así como periodísticos y de otras fuentes. Examina el desarrollo del conflicto desde enero de 1994 hasta 1998, tanto las acciones del Gobierno Federal, y de los zapatistas, así como de la Sociedad Civil. Esta edición cuenta con nuevos apéndices y reajustes, por lo que supera y actualiza la primera edición.
Chiasmus in the New Testament: A Study in Formgeschichte
by Nils Wilhelm LundThis study is devoted to the tracing of the Hebrew literary influence of the Greek text of the New Testament. It discusses specifically one form, the extensive use of the inverted order called chiasmus, a form that seems to be a part of Hebrew thought itself, whether in poetry or in prose. Originally published in 1942.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare
by William E. EngelPaying special attention to Sidney's Arcadia, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's romances, this study engages in sustained examination of chiasmus in early modern English literature. The author's approach leads to the recovery of hidden designs which are shown to animate important works of literature; along the way Engel offers fresh and more comprehensive interpretations of seemingly shopworn conventions such as memento mori conceits, echo poems, and the staging of deus ex machina. The study, grounded in the philosophy of symbolic forms (following Ernst Cassirer), will be a valuable resource for readers interested in intellectual history and symbol theory, classical mythology and Renaissance iconography. Chiastic Designs affords a glimpse into the transformative power of allegory during the English Renaissance by addressing patterns that were part and parcel of early modern "mnemonic culture."
Chic Ironic Bitterness
by R. Jay Magill Jr.The events of 9/11 had many pundits on the left and right scrambling to declare an end to the Age of Irony. But six years on, we're as ironic as ever. From The Simpsons and Borat to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the ironic worldview measures out a certain cosmopolitan distance, keeping hypocrisy and threats to personal integrity at bay. Chic Ironic Bitterness is a defense of this detachment, an attitude that helps us preserve values such as authenticity, sincerity, and seriousness that might otherwise be lost in a world filled with spin, marketing, and jargon. And it is an effective counterweight to the prevailing conservative view that irony is the first step toward cynicism and the breakdown of Western culture.
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Cristina HerreraChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Pérez, Erika Sánchez, Guadalupe García McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness—a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one’s nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.
Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City's History
by Chicago TribuneThe history of America’s third-largest city, as told through stories and photos from the Chicago Tribune archives.The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have been reporting the city’s news since 1847. As a result, the paper has amassed an inimitable, as-it-happened history of its hometown, a city first incorporated in 1837 that rapidly grew to become the third-largest in the United States. For the past decade, the Chicago Tribune has been mining its vast archive of photos and stories for its weekly feature Chicago Flashback, which deals with the significant people and events that have shaped the city’s history and culture from the paper’s founding to the present day, from the humorous to the horrible to the quirky to the remarkable.Now the editors of the Tribune have carefully collected the best, most interesting Chicago Flashback features into a single volume. Each story is accompanied by at least one black-and-white image from the paper’s fabled photo vault located deep below Michigan Avenue’s famed Tribune Tower. Chicago Flashback offers a unique, you-are-there perspective on the city’s long and colorful history.
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
by Liesl OlsonA fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson’s enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic “renaissance” moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women. Olson argues for the importance of Chicago’s editors, bookstore owners, tastemakers, and ordinary citizens who helped nurture Chicago’s unique culture of artistic experimentation.Cover art by Lincoln Schatz
Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image
by Neil Harris Caxton ClubDespite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
Chicago of the Balkans: Budapest in Hungarian Literature 1900-1939
by Gwen JonesAt the point of its creation in 1873, Budapest was intended to be a pleasant rallying point of orderliness, high culture and elevated social principles: the jewel in the national crown. From the turn of the century to World War II, however, the Hungarian capital was described, variously, as: Judapest, the sinful city, not in Hungary, and the Chicago of the Balkans. This is the first English-language study of competing metropolitan narratives in Hungarian literature that spans both the liberal late Habsburg and post-liberal, 'Christian-national' eras, at the same time as the 'Jewish Question' became increasingly inseparable from representations of the city. Works by writers from a wide variety of backgrounds are discussed, from Jewish satirists to icons of the radical Right, representatives of conservative national schools, and modernist, avant-garde and 'peasantist' authors. Gwen Jones is Hon. Research Associate at the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London.
Chicago: A Literary History
by Frederik Byrn KøhlertChicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation's goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world's first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city's contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.
Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata Since the Sixties
by Karen Mary DavalosRewrites our understanding of the last 50 years of Chicana/o cultural production. Chicana/o Remix casts new light not only on artists—such as Sandra de la Loza, Judy Baca, and David Botello, among others—but on the exhibitions that feature their work, and the collectors, curators, critics, and advocates who engage it. Combining feminist theory, critical ethnic studies, art historical analysis, and extensive archival and field research, Karen Mary Davalos argues that narrow notions of identity, politics, and aesthetics limit our ability to understand the full capacities of Chicana/o art. She employs fresh vernacular concepts such as the “errata exhibit,” or the staging of exhibits that critically question mainstream art museums, and the “remix,” or the act of bringing new narratives and forgotten histories from the background and into the foreground. These concepts, which emerge out of art practice itself, drive her analysis and reinforce the rejection of familiar narratives that evaluate Chicana/o art in simplistic, traditional terms, such as political versus commercial, or realist versus conceptual. Throughout Chicana/o Remix, Davalos explores undocumented or previously ignored information about artists, their cultural production, and the exhibitions and collections that feature their work. Each chapter exposes and challenges conventions in art history and Chicana/o studies, documenting how Chicana artists were the first to critically challenge exhibitions of Chicana/o art, tracing the origins of the first Chicano arts organizations, and highlighting the influence of Europe and Asia on Chicana/o artists who traveled abroad. As a leading scholar in the study of Chicana/o artists, art spaces, and exhibition practices, Davalos presents her most ambitious project to date in this re-examination of fifty years of Chicana/o art production.
Chicana/o Subjectivity And The Politics Of Identity
by Carlos GallegoThis book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad
by Ylce IrizarryIn this new study, Ylce Irizarry moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o America. Irizarry establishes four dominant categories of narrative--loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory--that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As she shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the weathered notions of arrival and assimilation. Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures instead tell stories that have little, if anything, to do with integration into the Anglo-American world. The result is the creation of new memory. This reformulation of cultural membership unmasks the neocolonial story and charts the conscious engagement of cultural memory. It outlines the ways contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o communities create belonging and memory of their ethnic origins.
Chicano Images: Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film (Routledge Library Editions: Cinema)
by Christine ListProviding textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano, or Mexican American, identity in films by chicanos. Part historiography, part film analysis, part ethnography, this book offers a compelling story of how Chicanos challenge, subvert and create their own popular portrayals of Chicanismo. Historical stereotypical images in Hollywood films are discussed alongside contemporary images portrayed by Hollywood studios and independent Chicano filmmakers. The author examines the way in which newer films "construct new representations of Chicano culture" and present a greater variety of images of Chicanos for mainstream audiences. Originally published in 1996, this authoritative volume provides a full history of the Chicano cultural movement beginning in the 1960s as well as information on the development of Mexican American film production.
Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos
by Bruce-NovoaAlurista. Gary Soto. Bernice Zamora. José Montoya. These names, luminous to some, remain unknown to those who have not yet discovered the rich variety of late twentieth century Chicano poetry. With the flowering of the Chicano Movement in the mid-1960s came not only increased political awareness for many Mexican Americans but also a body of fine creative writing. Now the major voices of Chicano literature have begun to reach the wider audience they deserve. Bruce-Novoa's Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos-the first booklength critical study of Chicano poetry-examines the most significant works of a body of literature that has grown dramatically in size and importance in less than two decades. Here are insightful new readings of the major writings of Abelardo Delgado, Sergio Elizondo, Rodolfo Gonzales, Miguel Méndez, J. L. Navarro, Raúl Salinas, Ricardo Sánchez, and Tino Villanueva, as well as Alurista, Soto, Zamora, and Montoya. Close textual analyses of such important works as I Am Joaquín, Restless Serpents, and Floricanto en Aztlán enrich and deepen our understanding of their imagery, themes, structure, and meaning. Bruce-Novoa argues that Chicano poetry responds to the threat of loss, whether of hero, barrio, family, or tradition. Thus José Montoya elegizes a dead Pachuco in "El Louie," and Raúl Salinas laments the disappearance of a barrio in "A Trip through the Mind Jail. " But this elegy at the heart of Chicano poetry is both lament and celebration, for it expresses the group's continuing vitality and strength. Common to twentieth-century poetry is the preoccupation with time, death, and alienation, and the work of Chicano poets-sometimes seen as outside the traditions of world literature-shares these concerns. Bruce-Novoa brilliantly defines both the unique and the universal in Chicano poetry.
Chicano-Anglo Conversations: Truth, Honesty, and Politeness (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
by Madeleine YoumansThis groundbreaking book--about differences in communication practices between Mexican-American underclass residents in an East Los Angeles housing project and white, middle-class literacy tutors who worked with them--makes an important contribution to research on the sociolinguistics of the Chicano gang culture. More specifically, this work adds substantially to research on understanding linguistic politeness theories, the use of epistemic modals for negative politeness, and evidentiality. It refines, and in a number of cases, defines, function categories for epistemic modals through a rigorous grammatical analysis. This book is also distinctive in that the author subjects the language of middle-class Anglos to the same type of scrutiny that is often reserved for non-mainstream groups. Youmans contends that the differences between the Chicano and Anglo speakers are the result of the two groups’ different sociocultural circumstances, including historical and current living and working patterns and the relative value placed on familialism and communalism versus individualism and independence. (The terms Chicano and Anglo are used as a kind of shorthand in this book--not to raise larger sociocultural issues implied by these terms.) Although the number of participants in the study limits the applicability of the findings as they might be extrapolated to all Chicanos/as, or all Anglos when reporting sociolinguistic observations, the main argument advanced is that language use may provide insights into beliefs, attitudes, and practices in the larger society. This volume is directed to researchers and graduate students in the areas of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and cross-cultural communication, and will also interest language and linguistics educators and grammarians.
Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Identities
by David W. FosterThis collection, which grew out of a research conference held at Arizona State Universoty in November 1997, examines varieties of Chicano/Latino homoerotic identities. It includes essays by a group of scholars who are engaged in defining the parameters of these identities and who are concerned with how those identities interact with the dominate ones articulated by a hegemonic Anglo society in the United States.
Chick Lit and Postfeminism
by Stephanie HarzewskiOriginally a euphemism for Princeton University's Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women's avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women's literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such best sellers as Bridget Jones's Diary The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrative traditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewski uses chick lit as a lens through which to view gender relations in U.S. and British society in the 1990s. Chick Lit and Postfeminism is the first sustained historicization of this major pop-cultural phenomenon, and Harzewski successfully demonstrates how chick lit and the critical study of it yield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage and education patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.
Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction
by Mallory Young Suzanne FerrissFrom the bestselling Bridget Jones's Diary that started the trend to the television sensation Sex and the City that captured it on screen, "chick lit" has become a major pop culture phenomenon. Banking on female audiences' identification with single, urban characters who struggle with the same life challenges, publishers have earned millions and even created separate imprints dedicated to the genre. Not surprisingly, some highbrow critics have dismissed chick lit as trashy fiction, but fans have argued that it is as empowering as it is entertaining.This is the first volume of its kind to examine the chick lit phenomenon from a variety of angles, accounting for both its popularity and the intense reactions-positive and negative-it has provoked. The contributors explore the characteristics that cause readers to attach the moniker "chick" to a particular book and what, if anything, distinguishes the category of chick lit from the works of Jane Austen on one end and Harlequin romance novels on the other. They critique the genre from a range of critical perspectives, considering its conflicted relationship with feminism and postfeminism, heterosexual romance, body image, and consumerism. The fourteen original essays gathered here also explore such trends and subgenres as "Sistah Lit," "Mommy Lit," and "Chick Lit Jr.," as well as regional variations. As the first book to consider the genre seriously, Chick Lit offers real insight into a new generation of women's fiction.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
by John Archambault Lois Ehlert Bill MartinA told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree. In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no - Chicka Chicka Boom! Boom! The well-known authors of Barn Dance and Knots on a Counting Rope have created a rhythmic alphabet chant that rolls along on waves of fun. Lois Ehlert's rainbow of bright, bold, cheerful colors makes the merry parade of letters unforgettable.
