Lelia

by Harold George Scott
Lelia
Author: Harold George Scott
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 244
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781455607273
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Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�s career with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography of one of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Lelia documents the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse of the Paris Op�ra. Lelia�s experience in the world of dance takes her from beginnings in New Orleans to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and back to New Orleans, where she opened Studio de Danse. On these travels, she danced alongside other great dancers--such as Italian ballerina, Carlotta Zambelli--and trained under Russian ballet master, Nicolas Legat.

Lelia

by George Sand
Lelia
Author: George Sand
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 702
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548914660
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Clopinet, jeune paysan légèrement boiteux et surtout très rêveur s'éloigne du monde des hommes pour se rapprocher des oiseaux... En peu de temps, il devient l'ami et le plus grand connaisseur des oiseaux de la région. Il vaincra un à un tous les obstacles, grâce à ses « ailes de courage », symbole de toute ascension et de liberté...

Lelia's Kiss

by Laura Giannetti
Lelia's Kiss
Author: Laura Giannetti
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802099513
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In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

On Her Own Ground

by A'Lelia Bundles
On Her Own Ground
Author: A'Lelia Bundles
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743431723
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Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale biography of “one of the great success stories of American history” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), Madam C.J. Walker—the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist—by her great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Along the way, she formed friendships with great early-twentieth-century political figures such as Ida B. Wells, Mary McLeod Bethune, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington.

Songs of a Friend

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Songs of a Friend
Author:
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1996
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780807845745
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Portugal enjoyed one of the richest and most sophisticated cultures of the Middle Ages, in part because of its vibrant secular literature. One popular literary genre of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was the cantigas de amigo, love songs in w

Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography

by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography
Author: Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0195387953
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The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham have selected 300 key biographical entries culled from the eight-volume African American National Biography, providing an authoritative who's who of this seminal period. Here readers will find engagingly written and authoritative articles on notable African Americans who made significant contributions to literature, drama, music, visual art, or dance, including such central figures as poet Langston Hughes, novelist Zora Neale Hurston, aviator Bessie Coleman, blues singer Ma Rainey, artist Romare Bearden, dancer Josephine Baker, jazzman Louis Armstrong, and the intellectual giant W. E. B. Du Bois. Also included are biographies of people like the Scottsboro Boys, who were not active within the movement but who nonetheless profoundly affected the artistic and political statements that came from Harlem Renaissance figures. The volume will also feature a preface by the editors, an introductory essay by historian Cary D. Wintz, and 75 illustrations.

Service

by Karen Manno
Service
Author: Karen Manno
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2000
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573627033
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The Spiritual Pursuit of Cosmetic Surgery: Cuban born Rita Rivera Goldstein married several times and converted religions even more often until settling on Judaism. For years she has been the servant and companion of Weeba Epstein, nee Weeba Post of Connecticut, a protestant who always felt Semitic. Weeba has elected to surgically increase the size of her nose to reflect her inner Semitism in a warm and funny play about identity and friendship. ** Domestic Bliss: Cuban born Rita Rivera Goldstein married several times and converted religions even more often until settling on Judaism. For years she has been the servant and companion of Weeba Epstein, nee Weeba Post of Connecticut, a protestant who always felt Semitic. Weeba has elected to surgically increase the size of her nose to reflect her inner Semitism in a warm and funny play about identity and friendship. **Overeating, and the Disappearing Nanny Syndrome:Evelyn, whose negligent mother allowed her to be cared for by a series of psycho nannies while ignoring her daughter's eating disorder and obesity, is facing the prospect of caring for her senile mother. Now svelte but angry, Evelyn rants hysterically about the bizarre succession of maids who raised her and the progression of her tremendous weight gain.** With a Side of Sabotage: