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Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading) No regrets: Anita Baker let go of fame to raise her sons, save her marriage, and hold her dying mother in her arms. Now the Grammy-winning songstress is
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN YOU COULDN'T BE IN LOVE AND NOT HEAR ANITA BAKER'S SMOKY contralto whispering into your soul to go for it. She preached a biblical ......(Continue Reading)Sofia Bukovina Songs. - sound recording review
Oriente 34 The Bukovina region of Eastern Europe is fertile cultural ground, having been ruled variously by Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and Russian emperors, and in more modern times having come un...(Continue Reading)Sexing the Domestic: Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and the Sexology Movement
EUDORA WELTY PORTRAYS a growing sense of sexual freedom for women during the 1920s through the 1940s within the southern United States domestic tradition....(Continue Reading)The light of the Divine Mother: though childless by choice, I see myself in her, and find a name for the sacred - Spirituality
God or Goddess? I have long been uneasy with either name for the divine. It's my own prejudice, of course, but god and goddess sound too much like king ......(Continue Reading)
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