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The argumentative theatre of Joe Penhall by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the raves to the stages of London -- Wild turkey and the new man, The new lad and the Penhall male -- Some voices and the failure of care -- Pale horse and the struggle to mourn -- Love and understanding and the demise of relationships -- The bullet and the stigma of redundancy -- Blue/orange and racism within the National Health Service -- Dumb show and Penhall's women -- Landscape with weapon and post-September 11 drama -- Afterword.…”
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Planet taco : a global history of Mexican food / by Pilcher, Jeffrey M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Global Tacos -- The First Wave of Global Mexican -- The Blue Corn Bonanza -- Conclusion: The Battle of the Taco Trucks -- Glossary.…”
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The words and music of Sting by Gable, Christopher, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Outlandos d'amour ; Reggatta de blanc ; Zenyatta mondatta ; Ghost in the machine -- Synchronicity to superstardom -- Going solo. The dream of the blue turtles ; Bring on the night -- Mother and father. …”
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The words and music of Sting by Gable, Christopher, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Outlandos d'amour ; Reggatta de blanc ; Zenyatta mondatta ; Ghost in the machine -- Synchronicity to superstardom -- Going solo. The dream of the blue turtles ; Bring on the night -- Mother and father. …”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…A poetry play from slavery through the blues to now - and then some! With singing, music, and dancing (1938) -- Six satires (1938) -- The sun do move (1942).…”
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A fury in the words love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. …”
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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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A fury in the words love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. …”
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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
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Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American narratives / by Hogue, W. Lawrence, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, traditional cultural forms, and African American subjectivity -- Multiple representations of Philadelphia and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia fire -- The trickster, African American virtual subject and Percival Everett's erasure -- Using jazz music and aesthetics to re-describe the African American in Toni Morrison's jazz -- Revolting to sustain psychic life: Bonnie Greer's hanging by her teeth and the encounter with the other -- Virtual-actual reality and Clarence Major's reflex and bone structure -- The Jungian/African collective unconscious, jazz aesthetics, and Xam Cartier's Muse-echo blues -- Conclusion.…”
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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest / by Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- The meteor in the man-The artistic light of Leon Forrest -- To survival and beyond: the journey motif and transcendence in There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden -- "Salvation is the issue": Black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth Orphans -- "Learn it to the Younguns": Bearing witness to the blues in Two Wings to Veil My Face -- Though I am many, I am yet still one: reinvention in Divine Days -- "The transformation of grief": self-invention and survival in Meteor in the Madhouse.…”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…A poetry play from slavery through the blues to now - and then some! With singing, music, and dancing (1938) -- Six satires (1938) -- The sun do move (1942).…”
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"In the Light of Likeness - Transformed" : The Literary Art of Leon Forrest / by Williams, Dana A., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: Black cultural traditions and Leon Forrest's healing narratives -- The meteor in the man-The artistic light of Leon Forrest -- To survival and beyond: the journey motif and transcendence in There is a Tree More Ancient than Eden -- "Salvation is the issue": Black music as metaphor in The Bloodworth Orphans -- "Learn it to the Younguns": Bearing witness to the blues in Two Wings to Veil My Face -- Though I am many, I am yet still one: reinvention in Divine Days -- "The transformation of grief": self-invention and survival in Meteor in the Madhouse.…”
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The hamster revolution how to manage your email before it manages you / by Song, Mike, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…-- Harold's progress check -- Chaos in info-land -- Strategy 4 - file and find info fast with COTA -- A blue sky wrap up.…”
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Policing marital violence in Singapore by Narayanan, Ganapathy

Table of Contents: “…-- The operational policing of marital violence : a view from the street -- Between the devil and the deep-blue sea : victims' experiences of policing in marital violence -- Conclusion: Rethinking the problem of policing marital violence.…”
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The hamster revolution how to manage your email before it manages you / by Song, Mike, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…-- Harold's progress check -- Chaos in info-land -- Strategy 4 - file and find info fast with COTA -- A blue sky wrap up.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Policing marital violence in Singapore by Narayanan, Ganapathy

Table of Contents: “…-- The operational policing of marital violence : a view from the street -- Between the devil and the deep-blue sea : victims' experiences of policing in marital violence -- Conclusion: Rethinking the problem of policing marital violence.…”
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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

Table of Contents: “…Between the Devil and the deep blue sea -- "Una raza, dos etnias" : the politics of be(com)ing "Afropanameño" -- Christ, the Devil, and the terrain of blackness -- Baptizing the Devil : circum-local transmission and translation of culture -- "Los gringos vienen!" …”
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Theatrical Jazz : Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment / by Jones, Omi Osun Joni L., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling jazz, Abínibí, Black theatre for the twenty-first century -- The ensemble, Ẹgbẹ́, community -- The marrow : Laurie Carlos -- The blue note : Daniel Alexander Jones -- The roots : Sharon Bridgforth -- The break, Awo, process -- The bridge, Áṣẹ, transformation -- Appendix I. …”
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