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Paperback. Condition: Good. The story of my curly hair, says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics. Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered, intricately constructed prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of returning to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. The story of my curly hair, says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics. Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity. In layered, intricately constructed prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of returning to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The discrete yet overlapping tales in Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Three Stories of Forgetting explore the lives of three men-perhaps already dead in the eyes of God-who live within the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and the spoils of the Portuguese Empire. They are all incarnations of our despair in the face of the questions that history does not answer. In 'The Vision of the Plants,' Celestino, an old slave trader, returns to the solitude of his home and garden after a life of horrors. In 'Seaquake,' Boa Morte da Silva, an Angolan who served on the Portuguese side in the Colonial War and has become a valet in Lisbon, writes to his daughter asking for forgiveness. And in 'Bruma,' an old slave initiates a young Eça de Queiroz into the world of French literature, even as he finds himself trapped by his own demons.Left to their agony, remorse, and guilt, or undeserved peace, the three men may be tormented ghosts who cannot find rest. Perhaps the land they aspire to, their home in this world, is a place hidden in their souls, somewhere between nowhere and goodbye. Their lives are unstable chapters in postcolonial history and allegories of the reading and rereading of that history, and of literature. All three have been expelled from their lives, sent on a solitary journey into the night.…

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Mixed Media Product. Condition: New. Learn to speak, read, write and understand Brazilian Portuguese!Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Brazilian Portuguese will help you to: - Communicate naturally in everyday situations.- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.- Understand and pronounce Brazilian Portuguese easily with online audio.- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.Is this course for me?Beginners' Brazilian Portuguese is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Brazilian Portuguese. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.Where do I go next?Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Brazilian Portuguese. Have some fun with our Short Stories in Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners by Olly Richards. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.…

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