Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture
Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois' seminal double consciousness concept by emphasizing a third gendered lens, a definite consciousness that legitimizes the rich complexities of the black American female experience. In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple ......
Niko Pirosmanashvili comprehensively tells the story of the life and work of elusive Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili (c.1866-1918), popularly known as Pirosmani, during one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Georgia. Key essays, both recollections by those who knew him and contemporary scholarship, explore his life as an ......
John O'Connor (1913-2004), a romantic but also a realist, recorded old endangered things, high and low: churches, canals, barges, dilapidated barns and garden sheds.With a keen eye, sure hand and way with words, he drew, engraved, painted and described what he valued most around him.
Seasons for the Soul explores the beauty and magic of nature seen through the eye of a broider's needle: the colours of flowers and shapes of plants; bleached grass and golden cornfields at harvest time; spiders webs on the structures of decayed seedheads; a metallic green chafer beetle landing on a deep crimson rose; a shooting star. Beguiling ......
June 2024 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Beatles historic – and hysterical – visit to Australasia. When We Was Fab: Inside The Beatles Australasian Tour 1964 is the definitive and highly illustrated account of this extraordinary tour.
How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men succesfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly inhospitable and largely unknown to them.
Discarded architectural legacies, the abandoned factories, homes and public places of New South Wales, are small footnotes of history. Here, the past and present clash to reveal a handful of small vignettes that whisper the secrets of those who came to live and dwell. Here are clues that speak of the forgotten lives of Australia’s oldest state.
A Celebration of Outback Australia's Iconic Watering Holes
This popular visual pub crawl across outback Australia is lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinating full-colour photographs. It features an eclectic collection of historic outback watering holes, including such classics as Queensland’s famous Birdsville Hotel and New South Wales’ characterful Silverton Hotel.
