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Georgina Brandt Book Reviews

Fiction
English
12603 Words
Ages 16 and up
333
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Various book reviews and essays on famous plays, novels from European authors. Themes: sci-fi, colonialism, WWI, history, WWII, [more]

Keywords: novels, plays, sci-fi, drama, love, history, adventure, colonialism

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ALbert Russo The Revelation

Fiction
English
2809 Words
No Age Recommendation
621
8

Leodine, a young girl in the Belgian Congo, is told a secret that will mark her for life.

Keywords: colonialism, mixed blood, fighting prejudice

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Bob Swartzel Diverting The Buddha

Dedicated to all who fight for democracy for, of, and by the people.

Fiction
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
668
7

A timely thriller about CIA dirty tricks! One that explores the most feared sentence in the English language: “hello I am from the U.S. government with democracy for you people”. Diverting the Buddha is a timely thriller that describes how American elites treat emerging democracies as a form of social cancer. It is the Year of the Fire Horse, democracy is beleaguered, and only the Buddha can help a war weary people. This fast-paced adventure follows the struggles of four characters caught in a web of wartime intrigue. In the end, all four wander into harm’s way, during an all out explosion of murderous betrayal. Diverting The Buddha is a driving, powerful, entertaining novel marking Bob Swartzel as a writer of considerable accomplishments. Midwest Book Review A major theme of the novel is betrayal—of individuals, of the democratic aspirations of pro-democracy people, of Americans, and of betrayal of truth itself. Historian David Heiser [more]

Keywords: Democracy, CIA, Buddhism, Warfare, colonialism

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Herman Melville Typee, a Romance of the South Sea

Illustrated

Fiction
English
113372 Words
Ages 6 and up
345
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Typee, a Romance of the South Sea is the first book by American writer Herman Melville. Herman Melville (1819–1891) was an American novelist, poet, and writer of short stories. A classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva, which Melville spelled as Nukuheva, in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842. The title comes from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, but made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." Typee may have provided the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke and Jack London with the themes and images of the Pacific experience: cannibalism, cultural absorption, colonialism, exoticism, eroticism, natural plenty and beauty, and a perceived simplicity of native lifestyle, desires and motives. [more]

Keywords: Typee, a Romance, Romance, South Sea, Illustrated, Exoticism, Herman Melville, Literature, Literature of Travel, Cultural Absortion, Cannibalism, Captive, Adventure, Autobiography, Island Nuku Hiva, Memoirs, Nukuheva, Travel Literature, Marquesas Islands, South Pacific, Colonialism [more][Less]

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Albert Russo Gloria's Diary

a Eur-African saga

Biography & Autobiography
English
22549 Words
No Age Recommendation
1113
10

This is the story of Sandro Romano-Livi, a young Italian Jew, leaving his Mediterranean island by boat, for the Belgian Congo (DR Congo), in 1926, as a stowaway. Of his adventurous life in Central Africa, during the first fifteen years, of David-Kanza (aka Daviko), the mulatto son he adopts, a secret he will disclose to his white Anglican fiancée, Gloria Simpson, born and raised in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Of their two daughters, Astrid and Dalia. Of his family's difficult situation and of their hopes. Of the loss of his parents and baby sister, who were sent to a nazi concentration camp. Of his many travels in the African bush and of his ultimate success as a businessman. Of the family’s departure to northern Italy, where they will settle, just before Central Africa’s tragic events, whilst Sandro and Daviko will remain in Africa for a longer period. Of their love of the black continent and their incurable nostalgia. Of Astrid’s later humanitarian activities in Botswana and Malawi. [more]

Keywords: multicultural - exile - mixed race - colonialism & post

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ALbert Russo Who am I now?

Fiction
English
2946 Words
No Age Recommendation
381
1

Leodine, a young girl raised in the Belgian Congo, gets closer to her best friend, a mulatto girl, [more]

Keywords: racism, colonialism, identity, challenging the moral majority

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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter

Fiction
English
82877 Words
Ages 8 and up
272
3

The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered to be his magnum opus.Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of Adam and Eve because, in both cases, sin results in expulsion and suffering. But it also results in knowledge – specifically, in knowledge of what it means to be immoral. For Hester, the Scarlet Letter is a physical manifestation of her sin and reminder of her painful solitude. She contemplates casting it off to obtain her freedom from an oppressive society and a checkered past as well as the absence of God. Because the society excludes her, she considers the possibility that many of the traditions held up by the Puritan culture are untrue and are not designed to bring her happiness. As for Dimmesdale, the "cheating minister", his sin gives him "sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind, so that his chest vibrate[s] in unison with theirs." His eloquent and powerful sermons derive from this sense of empathy. The narrative of the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is quite in keeping with the oldest and most fully authorized principles in Christian thought. His "Fall" is a descent from apparent grace to his own damnation; he appears to begin in purity but he ends in corruption. The subtlety is that the minister's belief is his own cheating, convincing himself at every stage of his spiritual pilgrimage that he is saved. The rose bush, its beauty a striking contrast to all that surrounds it – as later the beautifully embroidered scarlet "A" will be held out in part as an invitation to find "some sweet moral blossom" in the ensuing, tragic tale and in part as an image that "the deep heart of nature" (perhaps God) may look more kind on the errant Hester and her child than her Puritan neighbors do. Throughout the work, the nature images contrast with the stark darkness of the Puritans and their systems. [more]

Keywords: the scralet letter, nathaniel hawthorne, american literature, american history, puritainism, colonialism, morality

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G. A. Henty By Right of Conquest

Fiction
English
141064 Words
Ages 8 and up
153
2

When Roger Hankshaw boards the merchant ship Swan for a perilous journey to the New World, little does the young Englishman know what adventure awaits him. After a shipwreck strands him in Pre-Columbian Mexico, Roger must find a way to avoid becoming one of the many human sacrifices offered to the Aztec gods. Proving himself to be honorable and trustworthy, Roger builds enduring friendships with many of the natives. Later, when the Spanish noble and explorer Hernando Cortez arrives, Roger is placed in a difficult position. How can an Englishman explain his presence in Mexico? Cortez, with a military force intent on converting the heathen Aztecs, will also plunder their riches. Can Roger help his native friends survive the turmoil of the Spanish conquest of Mexico? [more]

Keywords: by right of conquest, historical adventure, conquistadors, aztecs, colonialism, human sacrifice, cortez, america

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy Exile in Greece

Hassan Fathy in Athens

Architecture
English
8301 Words
Ages 14 and up
249
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In 1957 the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy left Egypt for five years, going to Greece when Constantinos A. Doxiadis asked him to join his organisation in Athens. Although Fathy was recognised as a proponent of nationalistic attitudes, he left Egypt at the time when it had just achieved its independence and when the British occupation had ended. Fathy justified his move to Greece as an opportunity to achieve more professional freedom elsewhere. Frustrated in his efforts to build in Egypt, he believed that it was more influential to build than to teach and that a building anywhere in the world, “would speak louder than lectures; and that if some completed project attracted international attention, it would eventually have an effect on Egypt”. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Architecture, City of the Future, ekistics, Africa, Iraq Housing Programme, contemporaneity, Auto-Colonialism

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Multatuli . Walter Pieterse A Story Of Holland

Essay
English
71570 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Eduard Douwes Dekker, better known by his pen name Multatuli, was a Dutch writer famous for his satirical [more]

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