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People | Center for Global Studies - Illinois

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Center for Global Studies. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2016 Summer Graduate FLAS Fellow. 2016 Summer Undergraduate FLAS Fellow. 2016-17 Graduate Academic Year FLAS Fellows. 2016-17 Undergraduate Academic Year FLAS Fellows. Undergraduate Minor in Sustainability. Graduate Minor in Global Studies. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships. Less Commonly Taught Languages at Illinois. Global Studies Courses at Illinois. International and Area Studies Library. Geography and Ge...

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My Brava/Azores connection #52 Ancestors  – The Creola Genealogist

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Cape Verdean Genealogy and History. May 3, 2015. My Brava/Azores connection #52 Ancestors. By The Creola Genealogist. I recently posted this on the Azores genealogy group on Facebook. To which I got this reply,. I am only beginning my research of records from the Azores but I have found that the Coelho’s were among the first families to settle in the Azores and the island of Terceira, specifically. There are two branches of the family, descendants of Joao Coelho and Luis Afonso Coelho. Aye, Nha Leandra!

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Philip Graham » The Vanishings

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Release Press, 1978). Prose poems appeared in. And the collection was listed by. As one of the best small press publications of 1978. V 55, #2, Spring 1979. Only after handprints appeared on the walls did I realize I walk in my sleep. But if there were any patterns, they were lost in some dream I couldn’t remember. Awake, alone and lost, I decided to invest in the hope of common cleansers: I scrubbed down the handprints. Or rather,. For no matter how hard I rubbed, they only became. I began to sleep agai...

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Philip Graham » Blog Archive » The Man Behind the Beard: Santa Confesses

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The Man Behind the Beard: Santa Confesses. Maybe I could get a story out of it. Ten years later, in the fall of 1984 and on the eve of the release of my second book,. The Art of the Knock: Stories. The editors at the. Sunday Magazine (who had recently published one of my short stories in their summer fiction issue) contacted me and asked if I had any holiday memories for an essay they might feature in the Christmas issue. Oh, I have a few, I’d replied. Click cover to enlarge. All that showed of me was no...

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Philip Graham » Braided Worlds

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University of Chicago Press, 2012). Selections from. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally. Harvard University Press, 2011). Are available on the web for your reading pleasure: “The Adventures of Tintin,”. And “My Father’s African Afterlife”. At McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “The Madman and the Seismograph,”. At Numéro Cinq, and “The African Food Fairy” at Leite’s Culinaria. Are dedicated to the Beng people. You can listen to a podcast of Philip and Alma reading s...

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Philip Graham » Blog Archive » My Mambo King

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We became friends, visiting each other often in his apartment on the Upper West Side or the house I was renting with old college friends north of the city. We read each other’s manuscripts ( and continued to do so over the years. When my wife Alma and I spent the summer of 1987 in New York City with our then months-old son Nathaniel, we rented an apartment a few blocks from Oscar’s place. He was just back from living abroad (he’d won a Rome Prize for his first novel,. Our House in the Last World. I nodde...

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Philip Graham » Blog Archive » Oh You Doll

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Recently I came upon a startling video of a Japanese woman’s quest to fill her nearly deserted town with life-size dolls that represent the hundreds of people who used to live there. “When I make dolls of dead people,” she says, “I think of them when they were alive and healthy.”. For example, the town’s school closed down two years ago for lack of students, and she has re-inhabited it with pupils and teachers. Lotte Pritzel in her workshop. In some ways, they are like fictional characters still in the p...

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Philip Graham » How to Read an Unwritten Language

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How to Read an Unwritten Language. How to Read an Unwritten Language. Scribner, 1995), a novel. Nominated and longlisted for the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and included in the 1996 Magill’s Literary Annual as one of the 200 outstanding books in any genre of 1995, the novel also appeared on the Wordstock bestseller list. The paperback. Edition (Warner Books, 1996) was listed as a “New and Noteworthy paperback by. The New York Times Book Review. How to Read an Unwritten Language. 8220;...

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Philip Graham » Blog Archive » The Art of Verbal Dueling

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The Art of Verbal Dueling. Writing about African dilemma tales in my last post reminded me of another form of African oral literature that I’m a fan of: verbal dueling. It’s an improvised performance, whereby two opponents try to best each other by their wit and quick thinking. It’s a practice that continues in African-American culture, known as the dozens, or freestyle, or a rapper’s boast. Is a collection of those early efforts). Sundiata: an Epic of Old Mali. Since the 13th century this epic has been ...

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Philip Graham » Blog Archive » That Hidden Second Story

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That Hidden Second Story. I’m back on the beat as the fiction editor of. After a hiatus as the nonfiction editor and as an editor-at-large for the magazine’s website. I have to say, it’s good to be back. Recently we had an editorial meeting about a story that the assistant editors liked enough to “bring to table a final meeting in which we make a decision about acceptance or rejection. So what was missing? My long-ago writing mentor, the extraordinary fiction writer and poet Grace Paley. What you don’t k...