Writing Out of Limbo

Writing Out of Limbo

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  • Author: Nina Sichel
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443834084
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 498

Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, they are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, international business, education and missions communities. They are called Third Culture Kids or Global Nomads, and the many benefits of their lifestyle – expanded worldview, multiplicity of languages, tolerance for difference – are often mitigated by recurring losses – of relationships, of stability, of permanent roots. They are part of an accelerating demographic that is only recently coming into visibility. In this groundbreaking collection, writers from around the world address issues of language acquisition and identity formation, childhood mobility and adaptation, memory and grief, and the artist’s struggle to articulate the experience of growing up global. And, woven like a thread through the entire collection, runs the individual’s search for belonging and a place called “home.” This book provides a major leap in understanding what it’s like to grow up among worlds. It is invaluable reading for the new global age.


Writing in Limbo

Writing in Limbo

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  • Author: Simon Gikandi
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • ISBN: 150172293X
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 273

In Simon Gikandi’s view, Caribbean literature and postcolonial literature more generally negotiate an uneasy relationship with the concepts of modernism and modernity—a relationship in which the Caribbean writer, unable to escape a history encoded by Europe, accepts the challenge of rewriting it. Drawing on contemporary deconstructionist theory, Gikandi looks at how such Caribbean writers as George Lamming, Samuel Selvon, Alejo Carpentier, C. L. R. James, Paule Marshall, Merle Hodge, Zee Edgell, and Michelle Cliff have attempted to confront European modernism.


Limbo

Limbo

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  • Author: Alfred Lubrano
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1118039726
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within individuals raised in blue-collar homes, now living white-collar lives. These people often find that the values of the working class are not sufficient guidance to navigate the white-collar world, where unspoken rules reflect primarily upper-class values. Torn between the world they were raised in and the life they aspire too, they hover between worlds, not quite accepted in either. Himself the son of a Brooklyn bricklayer, Lubrano informs his account with personal experience and interviews with other professionals living in limbo. For millions of Americans, these stories will serve as familiar reminders of the struggles of achieving the American Dream.


Saints in Limbo

Saints in Limbo

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  • Author: River Jordan
  • Publisher: WaterBrook
  • ISBN: 0307457915
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

“River Jordan’s Saints in Limbo is a compelling story of the mysteries of existence and, specially, the mysteries of the human heart.” –Ron Rash, author of Serena and Chemistry and Other Stories “I lose myself in River’s writing–transported to a different time and place– and in this case, to one that makes the ordinary mystical and magical. I give it FIVE diamonds in the Pulpwood Queen’s TIARA!” –Kathy L. Patrick, founder of the Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs and author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life Ever since her husband Joe died, Velma True’s world has been limited to what she can see while clinging to one of the multicolored threads tied to the porch railing of her home outside Echo, Florida. When a mysterious stranger appears at her door on her birthday and presents Velma with a special gift, she is rattled by the object’s ability to take her into her memories–a place where Joe still lives, her son Rudy is still young, unaffected by the world’s hardness, and the beginning is closer than the end. As secrets old and new come to light, Velma wonders if it’s possible to be unmoored from the past’s deep roots and find a reason to hope again. Praise for River Jordan “[River Jordan’s] literary spice rack has everything you need to put together a good book.” –Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and Ava’s Man “River Jordan writes so beautifully.” –Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming


Limbo

Limbo

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  • Author: Bernard Wolfe
  • Publisher: Gateway
  • ISBN: 1473212480
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

In the aftermath of an atomic war, a new international movement of pacifism has arisen. Multitudes of young men have chosen to curb their aggressive instincts through voluntary amputation - disarmament in its most literal sense. Those who have undergone this procedure are highly esteemed in the new society. But they have a problem - their prosthetics require a rare metal to function, and international tensions are rising over which countries get the right to mine it . . .


Blue Limbo

Blue Limbo

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  • Author: Frank Lauria
  • Publisher: Frog Books
  • ISBN: 9781583940372
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324

Psychic sleuth Dr. Owen Orient fights zombies and bureaucrats in this outrageous adventure. When unsuspecting people are turned into zombies, Dr. Orient gets involved when he is called in as a consultant for a mysterious submarine accident resulting from the zombification of one of the passengers. Sidetracked by a voodoo temptress, the good doctor is captured and must make contact with a higher spiritual realm.


Limbo of the Lost

Limbo of the Lost

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  • Author: John Wallace Spencer
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180


Lady Limbo

Lady Limbo

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  • Author: Consuelo Roland
  • Publisher: Jacana Media
  • ISBN: 1431405086
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 446

One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer with a deep love of poetry, disappears from a Camps Bay apartment while cooking pasta. His wife Paola, desperately worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric stranger who claims to have known her missing husband under a different name and warns her not to look for him. Paola soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex industry, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to keep a level head and find her own humanity while trying to outwit her enemies and stay alive. The result is a fast-paced thriller that shifts between Cape Town and Paris, blending realism with the fantastic and pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure.


Living in the Land of Limbo

Living in the Land of Limbo

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  • Author: Carol Levine
  • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
  • ISBN: 0826519717
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Living in the Land of Limbo is the first anthology of short stories and poems about family caregivers. These men and women find themselves in "limbo," as they struggle to take care of a family member or friend in the uncertain world of chronic illness. The authors explore caregivers' experiences as they deal with family conflicts, the complexities of the health care system, and the impact of their choices on their lives and the lives of others. The book includes selections devoted to caregivers of aging parents; husbands and wives; ill children; and relatives, lovers, and friends. A final section is devoted to paid caregivers and their clients. Among the conditions that form the background of the selections are dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, and pediatric cancer. Many of the authors are well-known poets and writers, but others have not been published in mainstream media. They represent a range of cultural backgrounds. Although their works approach caregiving in very different ways, the authors share a commitment to emotional truth, unvarnished by societal ideals of what caregivers should feel and do. These stories and poems paint profoundly moving and revealing portraits of family caregivers.


Slake's Limbo

Slake's Limbo

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  • Author: Felice Holman
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0689710666
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 132

"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".