Author: Seth Godin File Type: pdf So this is what I did After reading PURPLE COW, people told me that they wanted more examples. They wanted to see how to get to the edges, how to create something remarkable. Well, I found 99 remarkable people, products, services, organizations and projects and wrote about each one of them. Thats it. About 15,000 words. Read it fast.Review Seth Godin may be the best intuitive marketer alive today. Hes in that tiny subset of the niche within the microcommunity of people who simply get it. Randall Rothenberg, AD AGE Purple Cow is great inspiration for marketers who have the guts to make real changes and real impact! Amy Curtis, Jet Blue From the Inside Flap 99 examples of Seth Godins PURPLE COW philosophy, sort of the sequel to his bestselling Purple Cow book. By finding the edges, by becoming remarkable, organizations win. Invest in cool stuff, not advertising. The goal is to enter a Purple Cow trance, in which all the examples combine and shine a bright light on your particular quandary, making it easy for you to invent your own Cow. EVERY SINGLE PENNY the author makes from this eBook is donated to www.roomtoread.org, which builds libraries in Vietnam and other countries. By my calculations, youre paying about 10 cents an example. Not a bad deal.

Author: Valérie K. Orlando File Type: pdf This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, andor queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write. Additionally, the volumes essays seek to define alienation and marginalization as not solely subscribing to any single denominator -- sexual preference, gender, or nationality-- but rather as shared modes of being that allow authors to explore what it is to write from abroad in a place that is foreign yet freed of the constrictions of ones home space. What makes Paris a particularly fruitful space that has allowed these authors and their writings to cross national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic boundaries for over a century? What is it that brings together writers such as Moroccan Abdellah Taia, Americans James Baldwin, Richard Wright and, most recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shay Youngblood, Algerian Nabile Fares, Franco-Algerian Leila Sebbar, Canadian Nancy Huston, French Jean Genet and French-Vietnamese Linda Le? How do their representations and understanding of transgression and marginalization transcend national, linguistic and ethnic boundaries, leading ultimately to revolution, both literary and literal? How does their writing help us to trace the history of Paris as a literary and artistic capital that has been useful for authors exploration of the Self, race and home country? These are but a few of the many questions explored in this volume. This book relies on an inherently intersectional approach, which is not based in reified identities, whether they be LGBT, postcolonial, ethnic, national, or linguistic. Instead, we posit that, for example, queer theory, and a politics of differencei can help us investigate the dynamics of these multiple identity positions, and hence provide a broader understanding of the lived experiences of these writers, and, perhaps, their readers from the early 1940s to the present. **ReviewParis and the Marginalized Author provides an original and welcome lens through which the shadowy sides of the City of Lights come to life from the thirties to the present. The juxtaposition of multiple perspectives on authors from different origins (from African-American to Algerian), some of them little known, offers to the reader a unique Paris, haunted by the ghosts of its colonial history. The complex cartography that emerges as a multilayered palimpsest connects race, class, gender, and sexuality and creates an alternative map of the French capital bound to change the way we study Paris. (Joelle Vitiello, Macalester College) Pears and Orlandos edited volume Paris and the Marginalized Author Treachery, Alienation , Queerness and Exile is a great example of the embodiment of intersectionality, inviting readers to rethink notions of identities based on nationality, home and language. The paradox of Paris is that it is simultaneously mystified and vilified because it is a space that on the one hand welcomes some writers and dictators of different race, creed, and sexual belonging, while on the other hand marginalizes and alienates other writers and asylum seekers. The writers of this volume represent Frances ongoing struggle with its own double consciousness, metissage, history of oppression, violence and slavery. (Cecile Accilien, Kansas University) Moving beyond paradigms of melancholia and debilitating loss, this perceptive volume rethinks exile as a site of productive estrangement enmeshed in transnational political struggles. A vibrant reflection on the marginalized subjects aspiration to find their place in the world. (Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Tulane University) This outstanding co-edited volume comprises a stunning set of excellent, thought-provoking and original essays. The analyses examine the ways in which exiled writers of various origins addressed marginalization and related themes while living in Paris. The contributors aptly demonstrate that due to the diverse linguistic, national, ethnic, religious and sexual identities of the examined authors, their creative productions have participated in major ongoing local and global debates about race, gender, literature, sexuality, politics, postcolonialism and bilingualism. (Hakim Abderrezak, University of Minnesota) **About the AuthorbValerie K. Orlandob is professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Maryland, College Park. bPamela A. Pearsb is professor of French at Washington College.bContributorsbLaila Amine & Dr. Leslie Barnes & Sandra Messinger Cypess & Karl Ashoka Britto & Norrell Edwards & Felix Germain & Aparna Nayak & Denis M. Provencher & Laura Reeck & Alison Rice & T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

Author: Karen Kampwirth File Type: pdf The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the new man. But in fact, many of the new men who participated in these movements were not men. Thousands of them were women. This book aims to show why a full understanding of revolutions needs to take account of gender. Karen Kampwirth writes here about the women who joined the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the Mexican state of Chiapas, about how they became guerrillas, and how that experience changed their lives. In the last chapter she compares what happened in these countries with Cuba in the 1950s, where few women participated in the guerrilla struggle. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, Kampwirth examines the political, structural, ideological, and personal factors that allowed many women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities. Her emphasis on the experiences of revolutionaries adds a new dimension to the study of revolution, which has focused mainly on explaining how states are overthrown. **

Author: Christine Kim File Type: pdf An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canadas $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nations trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize races relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works, and media debates to highlight the struggles of minor publics with social intimacy. Her insightful engagement with everyday conversations as well as artistic expressions that invoke the figure of the Asian allows Kim to reveal the affective dimensions of racialized publics. It also extends ongoing critical conversations within Asian Canadian and Asian American studies about Orientalism, diasporic memory, racialized citizenship, and migration and human rights. **