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Red States examines how the recurrent use of Native American
history in southern cultural and literary texts produces ideas of
""feeling southern"" that have consequences for how present-day
conservative political discourses resonate across the United
States. Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes
theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War literatures, and
contemporary novels, Gina Caison argues that notions of Native
American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing
how audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through
texts ranging from the nineteenth-century Cherokee Phoenix to the
Mardi Gras Indian narratives of Treme. Policy issues such as Indian
Removal, biracial segregation, land claim, and federal termination
frequently correlate to the audience consumption of such texts, and
therefore the reception histories of this archive can be tied to
shifts in the political claims of--and political possibilities
for--Native people of the U.S. South. This continual appeal to the
political issues of Indian Country ultimately generates what we see
as persistent discourses about southern exceptionality and
counternationalism.
The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both
American studies and the old southern studies. In "Finding Purple
America," Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement,
locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern
fantasies of both older fields.
The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a
mystic southern essence--a dangerous outside force taking the form
of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "national project
of forgetting." Since the rise of the New Americanists, American
studies has also imagined itself to be in a permanent crisis mode,
seeking to affiliate the field and the national essence with youth
countercultures that sixties leftists once imagined to be "the
future." Such fantasies, Smith argues, have resulted in an old
southern studies that cannot understand places like Birmingham or
Atlanta (or cities at all) and an American studies that cannot
understand red states.
Most Americans live in neither a comforting, premodern Mayberry nor
an exciting, postmodern Los Angeles but rather in what
postcolonialists call "alternative modernities" and "hybrid
cultures" whose relationships to past and future, to stability and
change, are complex and ambivalent. Looking at how "the South" has
played in global metropolitan pop culture since the nineties and at
how southern popular and high culture alike have, in fact,
repeatedly embraced urban modernity, Smith masterfully weaves
together postcolonial theory, cultural studies, Lacanian
psychoanalysis, and, surprisingly, marketing theory to open up the
inconveniently in-between purple spaces and places that Americanist
and southernist fantasies about "who we are"have so long sought to
foreclose.
Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth
guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from
the bestselling original edition, it's filled with over 100
diagrams, code snippets, and examples-including building and
scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon
Smith's extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as
you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security,
performance tuning, unit testing, and all the book's code is
available on GitHub. about the technologyEntity Framework Core is
an object-relational mapper (ORM) that bridges the gap between your
C# code and the commands required to access relational databases.
As Microsoft's recommended data access technology, it automatically
maps your classes and code to the tables and views of a
database-making it radically easier to query and write to databases
from a .NET application. It allows you to query and write to your
database using standard LINQ commands, and it will even
automatically generate the model from your database schema. Now
that .NET Core 5 is Microsoft's primary development system, it's
never been more important to master Entity Framework Core. about
the book Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is a
comprehensive guide to accessing databases from .NET applications.
Updated and upgraded with new content, new diagrams, and new
examples, this second edition of the bestselling original begins
with a clear breakdown of Entity Framework, along with the mental
model behind ORM. You'll discover time-saving patterns and best
practices for security, performance tuning, and even unit testing,
as well as tips and tricks developed by the author through their
extensive experience working on different client applications. As
you go, you'll address common data access challenges and learn how
to handle them with Entity Framework. what's inside Read and write
databases with Entity Framework Core Configure EF Core to define
every table and column in your database Update your schema as your
app grows Using EF Core with ASP.NET Core web applications Write
and test business logic for database access Looking at different
architectures to use with EF Core about the readerFor .NET
developers with beginning-to-intermediate experience using
relational databases. about the author Jon P. Smith is an
independent principal software developer and architect with a
special focus on .NET Core and Azure. He mainly works on the
back-end of client applications, typically using EF Core and
ASP.NET Core web applications. He is a working developer with
clients from the USA and UK, typically designing and writing large
sections of an application.
Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth
century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three
writers from the Rio de la Plata region of South America-Uruguayan
Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio
Cortazar. In Borges's Poe, Emron Esplin focuses on the second
author in this trio and argues that Borges, through a sustained and
complex literary relationship with Poe's works, served as the
primary catalyst that changed Poe's image throughout Spanish
America from a poet-prophet to a timeless fiction writer. Most
scholarship that couples Poe and Borges focuses primarily on each
writer's detective stories, refers only occasionally to their
critical writings and the remainder of their fiction, and
deemphasizes the cultural context in which Borges interprets Poe.
In this book, Esplin explores Borges's and Poe's published works
and several previously untapped archival resources to reveal an
even more complex literary relationship between the two writers.
Emphasizing the spatial and temporal context in which Borges
interprets Poe-the Rio de la Plata region from the 1920s through
the 1980s-Borges's Poe underlines Poe's continual presence in
Borges's literary corpus. More important, it demonstrates how
Borges's literary criticism, his Poe translations, and his own
fiction create a disparate Poe who serves as a precursor to
Borges's own detective and fantastic stories and as an inspiration
to the so-called Latin American Boom. Seen through this more
expansive context, Borges's Poe shows that literary influence runs
both ways since Poe's writings visibly affect Borges the poet,
story writer, essayist, and thinker while Borges's analyses and
translations of Poe's work and his responses to Poe's texts in his
own fiction forever change how readers of Poe return to his
literary corpus.
'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious
world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book
reveals the true workings of football business that take into
account things few of us even could even imagine . . . The Deal
answers some of those questions and leaves you wanting more. It is
an educational tool that most fans could do with researching' Joe
Short, Express Football analysis has grown at the same exponential
rate as the sport's popularity and yet one of its most intrinsic
elements remains tantalisingly opaque: the role of 'agent'. The
Deal is a unique and fascinating perspective into the business of
sports management through the eyes of 'Mr Football', 'super-agent',
Jon Smith. 800,000 watch their professional football team play each
week and TV pulls in audiences of around 600 million. Despite these
phenomenal figures, the complex money-making scene behind sport is
one of its biggest mysteries. The Deal will be an unprecedented
insight into this world, showing what goes on as players and big
money change hands. The Deal is also the story of one of the
shrewdest and most successful businessmen of our time. Documented
through Jon's personal rollercoaster of high-flying success to near
bankruptcy, the book's over-arching narrative will offer an
inspiring personal journey as well as insider knowledge of
brokering deals at a high level and under extreme pressure. The
Deal will appeal strongly to buyers of business books as well as a
significant number of sports fans interested to know what goes on
in the back room of their favourite sport.
Reading and storing data is a core part of any application, and
.NET developers want database access to be easy and intuitive.
Entity framework Core is a .NET library designed to simplify data
persistence, bridging the mismatch between the different structures
of object-oriented code and relational databases. Entity Framework
Core in Action teaches developers how to add database functionality
to .NET applications with EF Core. Key features * Clear
Introduction * Teaches from real-world applications * Hands-on
examples Audience This book assumes readers are familiar with .NET
development and some understanding of what relational databases
are. No experience with SQL needed. About the technology With EF
Core, you can access data using abstract objects and properties
without tightly coupling your code to the underlying relational
database structure. And because it's part of Microsoft's open
source .NET Core initiative, EF works on Windows, Linux and MacOS,
and even mobile platforms via Microsoft's Xamarin. Author biography
Jon Smith is a full-stack software developer and architect who
focuses on Microsoft's ASP.NET web applications using Entity
Framework (EF) ORM on the server-side, with various front-end
JavaScript libraries. Jon is especially interested in defining
patterns and building libraries that improve the speed of
development of ASP.NET web/database applications.
Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South
for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association
and the reasons for its perseverance of ten seem unclear. Anthony
Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so
particular as the social habit of hospitality-which is exercised
among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular
practices-and so generalized it as to make it a cultural trait of
an entire region of the country. Historians have offered a variety
of explanations of the origins and cultural practices of
hospitality in the antebellum South. Economic historians have at
times portrayed southern hospitality as evidence of conspicuous
consumption and competition among wealthy planters, while cultural
historians have treated it peripherally as a symptomatic expression
of the southern code of honor. Although historians have offered
different theories, they generally agree that the mythic dimensions
of southern hospitality eventually outstripped its actual
practices. Szczesiul examines why we have chosen to remember and
valorize this particular aspect of the South, and he raises
fundamental ethical questions that underlie both the concept of
hospitality and the cultural work of American memory, particularly
in light of the region's historical legacy of slavery and
segregation.
A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and
depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in
sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning
with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his
hand-drawn and hand-illustrated play The Marionettes) and early
novels (Mosquitoes and Sartoris), working through many major works
(The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in
August, and Absalom, Absalom!), and including more popular fictions
(The Wild Palms and The Unvanquished) and late novels (notably
Intruder in the Dust and The Town), The Signifying Eye reveals
Faulkner's visual obsessions with artistic creation as his work is
read next to Wharton, Cather, Toomer, and-in a tour de force
intervention-Willem de Kooning. After coloring in southern
literature as a "reverse slave narrative," Waid's Eye locates
Faulkner's fiction as the "feminist hinge" in a crucial parable of
art that seeks abstraction through the burial of the race-defined
mother. Race is seen through gender and sexuality while social fall
is exposed (in Waid's phrase) as a "coloring of class." Locating
"visual language" that constitutes a "pictorial vocabulary," The
Signifying Eye delights in literacy as the oral meets the written
and the abstract opens as a site to see narrative. Steeped in
history, this book locates a heightened reality that goes beyond
representation to bring Faulkner's novels, stories, and drawings
into visible form through Whistler, Beardsley, Gorky, and de
Kooning. Visionary and revisionist, Waid has painted the proverbial
big picture, changing the fundamental way that both the making of
modernism and the avant-garde will be seen.
"If you want a book that instructs you about all the technical
skills you need to pass the examinations set by the National
Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and embark on a
career in journalism, then this is the book for you. It outlines
the basic knowledge required to succeed as a trainee reporter.
Shorthand, intros, writing styles, subbing, layout, the way
newsrooms work and how to find things out are among the range of
skills described." - Times Higher Education "Precisely what it says
on the cover - a down-to-earth essential handbook for anyone
embarking on a career in journalism. All you need to know about
avoiding newsroom minefields and attracting the editor's attention
for the right reasons. If only it had been around in my day!' - Bob
Satchwell, Executive Director, Society of Editors This is a book
for everyone who wants to be a journalist: a practical guide to all
you need to know, learn and do to succeed as a trainee reporter in
today's newsroom. Although the world of journalism is changing
fast, as technology blurs the boundaries between newspapers, radio,
television and web-based media, the reporter's core role remains
the same: to recognise news, communicate with people, gather
information, and create accurate, balanced and readable stories.
Essential Reporting, written by an experienced NCTJ examiner,
explains how to do this. Contents include: what makes a good
reporter what is news, and how to find it how newsrooms work
day-to-day life as a reporter key reporting tasks covering courts
and councils successful interviewing writing news stories
specialist reporting handling sound, pictures and the web It also
contains a wealth of advice, tips and warnings from working
journalists, a guide to NCTJ training and examinations, a glossary
and a guide to further reading. It will be invaluable to anyone
embarking on a career in journalism and is the NCTJ's recommended
introductory text for all students on college and university
courses preparing them to become successful reporters.
Based on more than 100 interviews with blokes who lived to tell the
tale--some who even admitted to enjoying the experience--this book
has real-life stories as well as tons of advice that isn't remotely
boring (honestly). Now you'll be able to tell your trimesters from
your triple blood tests, as well as getting answers on the
following topics:
- Money--Do I really have to spend my entire lager allowance on
that hand-held breast pump?
- Sex--Will it harm the unborn baby? (Or am I just being
arrogant?)
- Breasts--Will they stay that size forever?
- Hospital Parking Spaces--Am I going to have to fork out 50 every
time she thinks she's going into labour?
... and a whole lot more besides...this is a book you'll want to
share with all the blokes in your life!
NOT FOR CHILDREN! Jon Smith shares his experiences with the world's
newest deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. According to legend,
the FSM created the universe, starting with mountains, trees, and a
"midgit." Jon Smith presents words of wisdom directly from the
Flying Spaghetti Monster's noodly lips. All readers, both believers
and skeptics alike, will be transformed by the revealed poetic
wisdom on love, sex, service, and cleanliness. Read eye-opening
commentary on the seven deadly sins and other world religions.
Discover the only logically proven answers to the questions "What
is the one true religion?" and "Who is the one true God?" GOD
SPEAKS! ends with astonishing prophecies on the end of the world,
and a catalog of 10,000 mysterious and uncensored verses. This book
is also a thoughtful essay on delusion and belief. Through humor,
GOD SPEAKS! challenges us to take our spirituality and religion
seriously, and look deeper.
Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America
and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics
that mark the South as exceptional within the United
States-including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave
trade-are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to
postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to
comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part
of the United States, the South-both center and margin, victor and
defeated, and empire and colony-complicates ideas of the
postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative,
interdisciplinary collection rethink southern U.S. identity, race,
and the differences and commonalities between the cultural
productions and imagined communities of the U.S. South and Latin
America. Look Away! presents work by respected scholars in
comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American
studies. The contributors analyze how writers-including the
Martinican Edouard Glissant, the Cuban-American Gustavo Perez
Firmat, and the Trinidad-born, British V. S. Naipaul-have engaged
with the southern United States. They explore William Faulkner's
role in Latin American thought and consider his work in relation to
that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Many essays
re-examine major topics in southern U.S. culture-such as race,
slavery, slave resistance, and the legacies of the past-through the
lens of postcolonial theory and postmodern geography. Others
discuss the South in relation to the U.S.-Mexico border. Throughout
the volume, the contributors consistently reconceptualize U.S.
southern culture in a way that acknowledges its postcolonial status
without diminishing its distinctiveness. Contributors. Jesse
Aleman, Bob Brinkmeyer, Debra Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Michael Dash,
Leigh Anne Duck, Wendy Faris, Earl Fitz, George Handley, Steve
Hunsaker, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Dane Johnson, Richard King, Jane
Landers, John T. Matthews, Stephanie Merrim, Helen Oakley, Vincent
Perez, John-Michael Rivera, Scott Romine, Jon Smith, Ilan Stavans,
Philip Weinstein, Lois Parkinson Zamora
A follow on to the bestselling Blokes Guide to Pregnancy, this
pocket bite size guide book has all the crucial advice for
expectant blokes and outlines 100 absolute need to know tips for
surviving pregnancy. Written in Smith's customary no nonsense,
straightforward style - These 100 tips are taken from interviews
with 100 blokes who have lived to tell the tale. Taking you through
all the highs and lows (and ins and outs) of those crucial nine
months, advice includes: - taking the news like a man (when inside
you're feeling like a mumbling idiot) - keeping abreast (ahem!) of
the physical changes going on in your partner's body - sex (what
happens now??) - getting your finances and lifestyle sorted - the
best ways to prepare for becoming a dad. This is the only guide to
be reading for all expectant dads out there.
"Look Away " considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America
and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics
that mark the South as exceptional within the United
States--including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave
trade--are common to most of the Americas, "Look Away " points to
postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to
comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part
of the United States, the South--both center and margin, victor and
defeated, and empire and colony--complicates ideas of the
postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative,
interdisciplinary collection rethink southern U.S. identity, race,
and the differences and commonalities between the cultural
productions and imagined communities of the U.S. South and Latin
America.
"Look Away " presents work by respected scholars in comparative
literature, American studies, and Latin American studies. The
contributors analyze how writers--including the Martinican Edouard
Glissant, the Cuban-American Gustavo Perez Firmat, and the
Trinidad-born, British V. S. Naipaul--have engaged with the
southern United States. They explore William Faulkner's role in
Latin American thought and consider his work in relation to that of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Many essays
re-examine major topics in southern U.S. culture--such as race,
slavery, slave resistance, and the legacies of the past--through
the lens of postcolonial theory and postmodern geography. Others
discuss the South in relation to the U.S.-Mexico border. Throughout
the volume, ""the contributors consistently reconceptualize U.S.
southern culture in a way that acknowledges its postcolonial status
without diminishing its distinctiveness.
"Contributors." Jesse Aleman, Bob Brinkmeyer, Debra Cohen,
Deborah Cohn, Michael Dash, Leigh Anne Duck, Wendy Faris, Earl
Fitz, George Handley, Steve Hunsaker, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Dane
Johnson, Richard King, Jane Landers, John T. Matthews, Stephanie
Merrim, Helen Oakley, Vincent Perez, John-Michael Rivera, Scott
Romine, Jon Smith, Ilan Stavans, Philip Weinstein, Lois Parkinson
Zamora
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