Close Kin
Title | Close Kin PDF eBook |
Author | Clare B. Dunkle |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006-12-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780805081091 |
After the mostly human Emily rejects the elvish Seylin's marriage proposal, both undertake separate quests to learn about their true natures and discover a royal elf and orphaned goblin to bring to the goblin kingdom.
Close Kin
Title | Close Kin PDF eBook |
Author | Clare B. Dunkle |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006-12-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466803827 |
The goblin King's face lit up with amusement. "Seylin was proposing marriage to you," he cried, "and you wanted him to change into a cat?" A thrilling and magical sequel to The Hollow Kingdom For years Emily has been living happily in the underground goblin kingdom. Now she is old enough to marry, but when her childhood friend Seylin proposes, she doesn't even pay attention. Devastated, Seylin leaves the kingdom to find his own people: the elves. Emily sets out in search of him. But they accidentally awaken hatreds and prejudices that have slumbered for hundreds of years, and soon two worlds are brought onto a dangerous collision course. Clare B. Dunkle once again draws readers deep into the magical realm that Newbery-winning author Lloyd Alexander calls "as persuasive as it is remarkable."
Close Kin and Distant Relatives
Title | Close Kin and Distant Relatives PDF eBook |
Author | Susana M. Morris |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | 233 |
Release | 2014-02-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813935512 |
The "black family" in the United States and the Caribbean often holds contradictory and competing meanings in public discourse: on the one hand, it is a site of love, strength, and support; on the other hand, it is a site of pathology, brokenness, and dysfunction that has frequently called forth an emphasis on conventional respectability if stability and social approval are to be achieved. Looking at the ways in which contemporary African American and black Caribbean women writers conceptualize the black family, Susana Morris finds a discernible tradition that challenges the politics of respectability by arguing that it obfuscates the problematic nature of conventional understandings of family and has damaging effects as a survival strategy for blacks. The author draws on African American studies, black feminist theory, cultural studies, and women’s studies to examine the work of Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat, and Sapphire, showing how their novels engage the connection between respectability and ambivalence. These writers advocate instead for a transgressive understanding of affinity and propose an ethic of community support and accountability that calls for mutual affection, affirmation, loyalty, and respect. At the core of these transgressive family systems, Morris reveals, is a connection to African diasporic cultural rites such as dance, storytelling, and music that help the fictional characters to establish familial connections.
Incestuous and Close-kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia
Title | Incestuous and Close-kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia PDF eBook |
Author | Paul John Frandsen |
Publisher | Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 8763507781 |
For both ancient Egypt and Iran, as a cultural feature, incestuous relationships are usually dismissed on the grounds that they are only found as the exception, being allowed for royalty as representatives for the divine on earth, or that the evidence for such relationships are unreliable. Neither view, from the perspective of this study, is tenable. This work examines the evidence for marriage and sexual relations between siblings, and between a parent and child, in ancient Egypt and pre-Islamic Iran. The book restricts its examination to incestuous relationships between members of non-royal nuclear families and puts forth arguments against the generally held axiom that the prohibition of incest is a universal phenomenon.
Close Relations
Title | Close Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Wahlström Henriksson |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2021-07-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9811607923 |
This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounded by boundaries that both constrain and enable their practical, symbolical and legal formation. Carefully contextualising close relations in relation to different national contexts, but also in relation to gender, sexuality, race, religion and dis/ability, the volume points to the importance of and variations in how close relations are lived, understood and negotiated. Grounded in a number of academic areas and disciplines, ranging from legal studies, sociology and social work to literary studies and ethnology, this volume also highlights the value of using inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly approaches in research about close relations. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
The Marriage of Near Kin
Title | The Marriage of Near Kin PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Henry Huth |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 2024-05-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385255120 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Marriage of Near Kin
Title | The Marriage of Near Kin PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred Henry Huth |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | Consanguinity |
ISBN |