Ragged Company
Title | Ragged Company PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wagamese |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307372634 |
Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found cigarette package (contents: some unsmoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Ragged Company is a journey into both the future and the past. Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories.
The Ragged School Union Magazine
Title | The Ragged School Union Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada
Title | Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Kim |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-05-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1554584183 |
Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates. The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, the politics of migrant labour and the “domestic labour scheme” in the 1960s, and the trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver in 2007. The contributors are particularly interested in how diaspora and indigeneity continue to contribute to this critical reconfiguration and in how conversations about diaspora and indigeneity in the Canadian context have themselves been transformed. Cultural Grammars is an attempt to address both the interconnections and the schisms between these multiply fractured critical terms as well as the larger conceptual shifts that have occurred in response to national and postnational arguments.
Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey
Title | Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey PDF eBook |
Author | New Jersey. Legislature |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1236 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | New Jersey |
ISBN |
Ragged Company
Title | Ragged Company PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wagamese |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009-10-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385256949 |
Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found cigarette package (contents: some unsmoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Ragged Company is a journey into both the future and the past. Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories.
Report
Title | Report PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Office |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Michigan |
ISBN |
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maryland ...
Title | Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maryland ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 378 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | |
ISBN |