Author: Angela Carter File Type: epub Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests the brothers Grimm William Burroughs food writing, Elizbaeth David British writing American writing sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset and appreciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.

Author: Robert W. Fieseler File Type: epub An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans subterranean gay community.Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue- collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community. The aftermath was no less traumaticfamilies ashamed to claim loved ones, the Catholic Church refusing proper burial rights, the city impervious to the survivors needsrevealing a world of toxic prejudice that thrived well past Stonewall. Yet the impassioned activism that followed proved essential to the emergence of a fledgling gay movement. Tinderbox restores honor to a forgotten generation of civil-rights martyrs. 16 pages of illustrations Map **

Author: Nick Rennison File Type: epub An informative, lively guide through the rich mythology of Robin Hood, across all mediumsEveryone knows the story of Englands greatest folk hero,the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor.This highly entertaining book begins with the search for the historical Robin, lookingat the candidates for the real Robin Hoodwho have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in whichhe has been portrayed in literature and onscreen. He began as the hero of dozens of late medieval ballads, appeared in plays by contemporaries of Shakespeare, and in the Romantic era was reinvented by Walter Scott as a Saxon champion in the struggle against the Normans. During the 19th century,RobinHoodemerged as a hero in childrens literature, while more recently he has been portrayed as everything from proto-socialist man of the people to anarchist thug. In the cinema he put in an appearance as early as 1908 and Douglas Fairbanks and then Errol Flynn turned him into the typical hero of Hollywood swashbucklers. In the last20 years, Kevin Costner and Russell Crowe have provided their own very different interpretations of the character. On the small screen, Robin has been the hero of half a dozen TV shows from the 1950s series starring Richard Greene, which used many writers blacklisted by Hollywood, via the well-remembered Robin of Sherwood in the 1980s, to the recent BBC series. Robin Hood is still very much with us, as the subject of graphic novels and computer games. Robin is an archetypal hero who, it seems, can never die. This engaging book charts his life so far. **

Author: Slavoj Žižek File Type: pdf