Archive for February, 2012
• 1,February 25, 2012 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: bombings London, Brenda Blethyn, Days of Glory, dispair, fear, French-Algerian director, London River, multiracial society, Muslim immigrants, prejudice, Rachid Bouchareb, racism, reconciliation, redemption, Sotigui Kouyate, terrorist attack
• 1,February 17, 2012 •
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Posted in At the Movies
Tags: art of survival, death, distopian, entertainment, fiction, film, fun, movie, novel, SciFi, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Twilight, watch & listen, young adult novel
• 1,February 16, 2012 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: Aruba, Aruba Carnival, Caribbean, Carnival season, culture, Dushi Band, entertainment, events, Lightning Parade 2012, Oranjestad, watch & listen
• 1,February 15, 2012 •
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Posted in Review
Tags: Africa, allegorical, British colony, colonial explotation, colonial love affair, créolité, India, love, Mascarene Islands, Mauritius, Napoleonic war, plantation society, race relations, Romesh Gunesekera, slave trade, The Prisoner of Paradise
• 1,February 15, 2012 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: 200th anniversary, books, British writer, Charles Dickens, culture, Dickensian, English canon, English literature, events, fiction, literature, novel, novelist, Oliver Twist
• 1,February 11, 2012 •
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Posted in Miscellaneous
Tags: African American women, Angela Davis, Black History Month, Harriet Tubman, Mae Jemison, Mary McLeod Bethune, Maya Angelou, NAACP, Ophrah Winfrey, Rosa Parks, Shirlet Chisholm, Sojourner Truth, Zora Neal Hurston
• 1,February 11, 2012 •
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Posted in New book
Tags: adventures, books, Brazil, carnal outbursts, Creole, El imperio eres tú, El sari rojo, emperor Pedro 1, eroticism, fiction, fight for freedom, history, independence Brazil Portuguese, India, Javier Moro, novel, novelist, Premio Planet, Spanish writer
• 1,February 11, 2012 •
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Posted in Music
Tags: African identity, Caribbean, Caribbean racial constructions, culture, entertainment, Hispanic Caribbean, ICS Lecture, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Juan Otero Garabís, Latin American composers, lyrics, music, Plantación adentro, Racial representations, Rio Piedras, Ruben Blades, Taíno identity, Tite Curet Alonso, University of Puerto Rico, watch & listen, Willie Colón
• 1,February 8, 2012 •
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Posted in Review
Tags: Algeria, Arab and African immigrants, book reviews, books, Dreams from the Endz, Dromen tussen het beton, Du rêve por les oufs, equal opportunity, ethnicity, exclusion, Faïza Guène, fiction, France, French citizenship, French writer, Kiffe kiffe demain, migrants lifes, muslims, novel, novelist, Parisian suburb, race, racism, religion, social integration
• 1,February 5, 2012 •
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Posted in Review
Tags: class relations, class structure, class-driven America, controlled state, dystopian future, Kimberley Derting, passive coercion, repressive, The Pledge, young adult novel
• 1,February 5, 2012 •
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: Africa, books, events, fiction, Ghana must go, Ghanian British writer, India, Indian writers, Jaiphur Festival, Nigeria, novel, novelist, Taiye Selasi, watch & listen
• 1,February 4, 2012 •
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Posted in Interviews
Tags: Ben Okri, books, entertainment, events, fiction, India, Jaipur Festival, Nigerian British writer, novelist, watch & listen
• 1,February 3, 2012 •
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Posted in Art
Tags: 150th birth anniversary, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Austrian artist, Austrian paintings, cultural icon, German expressionism, Gustav Klimt, Jugendstil, Secession, The Kiss, Vienna’s golden age, Viennese movement
• 1,February 3, 2012 •
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Posted in Uncategorized
Tags: books, Britisch literature, British writer, Death comes to Pemberley, fiction, Jane Austen, literature, novel, novelist, P.D. James, Pride and Prejudice