Sentences with phrase «african writer living»

Glen is a South African writer living in central Pennsylvania.

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The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

Here the aspiring writer bumps into a story idea: She takes a look at life in the white community from the perspective of the families» African - American maids (two of whom are played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer).

Noem My Skollie (Call Me Thief) is Daryn Joshua's emphatic debut and Dann - jacques Mouton's breakout performance, but the heart of this year's South African Oscar submission belongs to its writer, John Fredericks, on whose life growing up in the townships...

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History and The Freeman Institute have information about writer and editor Carter G. Woodson.

A native South African, Louise lives in Manhattan, but travels to Cape Town every year, where she spends time educating South African writers, meeting with international publishers.

Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer, whose collaborations include the New York Times bestseller The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age, with Catherine Steiner - Adair, EdD (HarperCollins 2013), Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Lives of Boys (Ballantine 1999) with Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D., and Dan Kindlon, Ph.D.; In the Moment: Celebrating the Everyday, a Literary Guild Holiday Featured Selection with Harvey L. Rich, MD (HarperCollins 2002); Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident, Courageous Daughters, a USA Today Top Summer Reading choice, with JoAnn Deak, Ph.D. (Hyperion 2002); Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most - Asked Questions About Raising Boys (Ballantine 2000) by Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.; The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life (Avon 2000), by Gene Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., founding director of the national Center on Aging, and The Mother - Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh and Learn Through Their Love of Reading (HarperCollins 1997) by Shireen Dodson, former assistant director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American History.

In Kill»Em and Leave, acclaimed writer James McBride (The Color of Water) seeks to explain why, for African Americans, Brown remains the «song of our life, the song of our entire history.»

I AM YOU: Selected Works, 1942 — 1978 reveals the breadth of his work as the first African American photographer for Vogue and Life magazines as well as a filmmaker, and as a writer.

Muholi will be joined by Lerato Dumse, writer, journalist and activist passionate about documenting LGBTI's lives in and outside her South African hometown of Kwa - Thema.

Animated by flânerie — the idle, detached observation of street life that 19th - century writers associated with the rise of modern cities, that was an important strategy of the French Impressionists — and making reference to African tribal art, Ward's oeuvre resonates with the Barnes collection and speaks with penetrating insight and imagination to a broad range of subjects, including black history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and Caribbean diaspora identity.

Chandra is inspired by the book, The Soul of the White Ant (1925) by Eugène Marais, the South African poet, writer and naturalist, who spent his life studying termites.