| Author | : Dannelle Gutarra Cordero |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2021-11-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1316512207 |
A new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery in the Atlantic World.
The Weeping Woman
| Author | : Zoe Valdes |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2016-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1628725818 |
Originally published as La mujer que llora (Barcelona: Planeta, 2013).
La Llorona
| Author | : Joe Hayes |
| Publisher | : Cinco Puntos Press |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0938317865 |
A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.
The Crying Book
| Author | : Heather Christle |
| Publisher | : Catapult |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2019-11-05 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 1948226456 |
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Tired of Weeping
| Author | : Jonina Einarsdottir |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2005-01-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0299201333 |
In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.
Silent Souls Weeping
| Author | : Jane Clayson Johnson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-12-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781629727141 |
The Weeping Time
| Author | : Anne C. Bailey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2017-10-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108141218 |
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.
Weeping Under This Same Moon
| Author | : Jana Laiz |
| Publisher | : Crow Flies Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0981491006 |
Weeping Under This Same Moon, by Jana Laiz is the three time award winning novel, based on the true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. Mei is an artist whose life has been disrupted by the Vietnam War. Her anguished parents send her away on a perilous escape during the exodus of thousands of Vietnamese refugees known as "Boat People." In Mei's words we learn of the dangers she faces caring for her two younger siblings on a sea journey fraught with hunger, thirst and deprivation, leaving behind everything she loves, to find refuge for her family. Hannah is an angry seventeen-year-old American high school student. Friendless, neurotic, a social misfit - her passion for writing and the environment only intensify her outcast state. Through Hannah's voice, we get inside her head, there to discover a gentle soul beneath all the anger and turmoil. When Hannah learns of the plight of the "Boat People," she is moved to action. Destiny brings Mei and Hannah together in a celebration of cultures and language, food and friendship, and the ultimate rescue of both young women from their own despair. Weeping Under This Same Moon is a testament to the power of love and the spirit of volunteerism; affirming that doing for others does so much for one's self.. Weeping Under This Same Moon won Gold Medal in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for the best in Young Adult Fiction The International Reading Association IRA has named Weeping Under This Same Moon a Notable Book for 2009. Arts Reach Alliance - Valley Reads Selection for 2010
Death Without Weeping
| Author | : Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520911563 |
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
