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Caucasia (1998) is the first novel written by American author Danzy Senna.It is the coming-of-age story of two multiracial girls, Birdie Lee and her sister Cole, who have a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.
—from "Early Autumn, Miserable Heat, Papers Piling Up"; translation by William Hung. He moved on in the summer of 759; this has traditionally been ascribed to famine, but Hung believes that frustration is a more likely reason. He next spent around six weeks in Qinzhou (now Tianshui, Gansu province), where he wrote more than sixty poems. Chengdu In December 759, he briefly stayed in Tonggu ...
The story is based on a real incident in his life while he was serving in the Russian military. [1] It is about two soldiers kidnapped by their rivals for ransom who were in custody for some time. They tried to escape twice, were caught the first time, but succeeded the second. The novella was acclaimed for its view of humanity in the face of ...
"The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (story), an 1872 novella by Leo Tolstoy Prisoner of the Mountains , a 1996 Russian film based on Tolstoy's novella The Prisoner of the Caucasus , a variant translation for Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика, translit.
The poem tells the story of a black Puerto Rican who "answers" a white-skinned Puerto Rican after the latter calls the Afro-Puerto Rican "black" and "big lipped." In his answer, the black man describes both his own African attributes while also describing the Caucasian attributes of the white Puerto Rican as well as that person's light-skinned daughter.
A German translation by Adolf Berge was published in 1866 . The stories exist in the form of prose tales as well as epic songs. The stories exist in the form of prose tales as well as epic songs. It is generally known that some of the Nart corpora have an ancient Iranian core, inherited from the Scythians , Sarmatians , and Alans (the latter ...
Movses Kaghankatvatsi (Old Armenian: Մովսէս Կաղանկատուացի Movsēs Kałankatuacʻi 'Moses of Kaghankatuk'), or Movses Daskhurantsi (Մովսէս Դասխուրանցի Movsēs Dasxurancʻi 'Moses of Daskhuran'), is the reputed author (or the alias of several authors) of a tenth-century Classical Armenian historical work on Caucasian Albania and the eastern provinces of ...
In 2000, The Caucasian Chalk Circle in turn was rewritten as Full Circle, or The Berlin Circle, by Charles L. Mee, set in 1989 East Germany after the fall of Communism. [11] The famous Kyrgyz author and novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov was also indirectly inspired from the Chalk Circle, while writing his 1960 book, The Red Scarf. He used some ...