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Anna in the Tropics
Nilo Cruz Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1559362324 |
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Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama
. . . there are many kinds of light.
The light of fires. The light of stars.
The light that reflects off rivers.
Light that penetrates through cracks.
Then there's the type of light that reflects off the skin.
-Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
"The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both specific place and time . . . and in timeless passions that touch us all. In Anna in the Tropics, the world premiere work he created for Coral Gables' intimate New Theatre, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power."-Miami Herald
Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States including the Public Theater (New York, NY), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theater (Princeton, NJ) and New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL). His other plays include Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, among others. Anna in the Tropics also won the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. Mr. Cruz teaches playwriting at Yale University and lives in New York City.
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At last, some content.......2006-03-01
Loved it on stage!.......2005-11-14
Overrated Nonsense.......2005-08-08
A Bit Predictable and Formulaic With A Few Good Moments.......2004-11-24
"Today we are baptizing our new cigar...Anna Karenina.".......2004-10-07
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Anna in the Tropics - Playbill, Royale Theatre, New York
Nilo Cruz , and Playbill Magazine Manufacturer: Playbill Magazine ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000TC6INC |
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Theatre program. Cast includes Jimmy Smits, Priscilla Lopez.
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The Magic of Costa Rica
Rowland Mead Manufacturer: New Holland Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1843309998 |
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A beautiful pictoral guide & history of the tropical Costa Rica!
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Best of Bermuda: sun, sights, and a gourmet taste of the tropics.(FIRST-CLASS TICKET) : An article from: Black Enterprise
Lee Anna Jackson Manufacturer: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALS5IS Release Date: 2005-07-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 535 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Nilo Cruz's "Anna in the Tropics": A Study Guide from Gale's "Drama for Students" (Volume 21, Chapter 2)
Manufacturer: The Gale Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009JJ83M Release Date: 2005-04-27 |
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Turn to "Drama for Students" to get your research done in record time. Brought to you by Thomson Gale--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: author biography; plot summary; character analysis; an overview of the play's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more.
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Anna and The Tropics
Nilo Cruz Manufacturer: Theatre Communications Group, 2003 ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000J0UERU |
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In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties / by Lady Brassey
Anna (Allnutt), Baroness Brassey Brassey Manufacturer: Longmans, Green ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KVDWSQ |
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Japanese and Sun Yat-Sen (Historical Monographs No 27)
Marius B. Jansen Manufacturer: Harvard Univ Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0674472004 |
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Sun Yat-sen: The Man Who Changed China
Stella Dong Manufacturer: Art Media Resources Ltd ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 9627283665 |
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Modern China Comes Alive!.......2004-12-23
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Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling (Lives of Modern Women)
Jung Chang , and John Halliday Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 014008455X |
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The jewel of the nation.......2007-04-29
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Sun Yat-Sen, Frustrated Patriot (Studies of the East Asian Institute (Columbia Paperback))
Clarence Martin Wilbur Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0231040369 |
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Sun Yat-sen
Marie-Claire Bergere Manufacturer: Stanford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0804740119 Release Date: 2000-01-20 |
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The Demythification of Sun Yat-sen.......2000-09-27
Bergére claims that Sun Yat-sen made little direct impression on many of the events that he has been associated with previously. She questions whether the 1911 Revolution was really the fruit of Sun Yat-sen's efforts and claims that if he had died in 1920 his name would now probably be forgotten. Sun played no direct role in the events leading to the Wuchang insurrection of 10 October1911 and the edict of abdication of 12 February 1912. Sun Yat-sen did reap the benefits of the revolution by becoming the republic's first president. However, Sun's failure to work effectively with fellow revolutionaries and his poor leadership of the government in the early days explains why there was much support for Sun to stand down in favour of Yuan Shikai. Bergére argues that Sun only made a significant impact on events in China from 1920 when he re-invigorated his Guomindang party using Soviet support. By1924 Sun finally had all the ingredients necessary to unite China such as a secure revolutionary base in Canton, Soviet financial and technical aid and most importantly Soviet military support via the Hungpo Military Academy.
However, just at the time when Sun Yat-sen stood poised at the head of a revolutionary movement that was ready to challenge warlord control of China, he was struck down with cancer of the liver and died in April 1925. It was from the time of his death that Sun Yat-sen was transformed into the patriotic hero that we are familiar with in the current histories. During the Nanking regime from 1927 Sun Yat-sen was portrayed as having "single-handedly guided and inspired the revolution, ignited the 1911 revolution, and founded the Republic." There was no mention of Sun's long string of failures, of numerous attempts to achieve foreign support for his cause even at the expense of China or his pandering to Japanese imperialism in the guise of pan-Asianism. Bergére maintains that the "construction of the myth was pursued with renewed vigour, now served by the Guomindang's entire propaganda apparatus." A cult was constructed around Sun Yat-sen with the creation of a huge mausoleum at Nanking, the making of the Three Principles as a school textbook, and celebrating of Sun's birthdays and his death with national public holidays. In Nationalist China Sun Yat-sen was known by the of the 'president' up until 1940 when it was decreed that he was to be referred to as the 'Father of the Nation'. When the Nationalist Government was defeated in 1949 and retreated to the island of Taiwan it became even more crucial to rely on the myth of Sun Yat-sen to restore legitimacy in defeat.
It wasn't only the Guomindang which produced a neatly packaged version of Sun Yat-sen. The Communists, in their history of the revolutionary movement, revered Sun Yat-sen as 'pioneer of the revolution', though in a more modest role compared to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Similarly to the Guomindang, the Communists portrayed Sun as the exclusive leader of the revolutionary movement at least up until the appearance of the Communist party in 1921. Bergére says that from 1978 the Sunist myth has been invoked again as a justification of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernisations policy which gives absolute priority of economic production to deal with China's backwardness. But also, Bergére maintains that in the long term the exultation of Sun Yat-sen is supposed to create the basis of an entente with the Taiwan regime and prepare the way for island's return to the mother country.
Bergére concludes by observing the heroic myth created by Chinese historiography has not stood up to the critical analysis by Western authors and that few of them now recognise Sun Yat-sen "as the sole guide or even the predominant leader of the Chinese revolution, neither does any of them venture explicitly to deny him any importance at all". Western studies of Sun seem to have got stuck in an impasse and that "once stripped of its legendary aura, the figure of Sun Yat-sen arouses very little interest", laments Bergére. However, after reading this book, nothing could be further from the truth. This more human portrait of Sun Yat-sen is far more scintillating, and the unravelling of myth and history that Bergére has undertaken has made reading this book a truly enlightening experience. This biography is a must for anyone wishing to understand the events in China from the turn of the century to the twenties.
The Demythification of Sun Yat-sen.......2000-09-27
Bergére claims that Sun Yat-sen made little direct impression on many of the events that he has been associated with previously. She questions whether the 1911 Revolution was really the fruit of Sun Yat-sen's efforts and claims that if he had died in 1920 his name would now probably be forgotten. Sun played no direct role in the events leading to the Wuchang insurrection of 10 October1911 and the edict of abdication of 12 February 1912. Sun Yat-sen did reap the benefits of the revolution by becoming the republic's first president. However, Sun's failure to work effectively with fellow revolutionaries and his poor leadership of the government in the early days explains why there was much support for Sun to stand down in favour of Yuan Shikai. Bergére argues that Sun only made a significant impact on events in China from 1920 when he re-invigorated his Guomindang party using Soviet support. By1924 Sun finally had all the ingredients necessary to unite China such as a secure revolutionary base in Canton, Soviet financial and technical aid and most importantly Soviet military support via the Huangpu Military Academy.
However, just at the time when Sun Yat-sen stood poised at the head of a revolutionary movement that was ready to challenge warlord control of China, he was struck down with cancer of the liver and died in March 1925. It was from the time of his death that Sun Yat-sen was transformed into the patriotic hero that we are familiar with in the current histories. During the Nanking regime from 1927 Sun Yat-sen was portrayed as having "single-handedly guided and inspired the revolution, ignited the 1911 revolution, and founded the Republic." There was no mention of Sun's long string of failures, of numerous attempts to achieve foreign support for his cause even at the expense of China or his pandering to Japanese imperialism in the guise of pan-Asianism. Bergére maintains that the "construction of the myth was pursued with renewed vigour, now served by the Guomindang's entire propaganda apparatus." A cult was constructed around Sun Yat-sen with the creation of a huge mausoleum at Nanking, the making of the Three Principles as a school textbook, and celebrating of Sun's birthdays and his death with national public holidays. In Nationalist China Sun Yat-sen was known by the of the 'president' up until 1940 when it was decreed that he was to be referred to as the 'Father of the Nation'. When the Nationalist Government was defeated in 1949 and retreated to the island of Taiwan it became even more crucial to rely on the myth of Sun Yat-sen to restore legitimacy in defeat.
It wasn't only the Guomindang which produced a neatly packaged version of Sun Yat-sen. The Communists, in their history of the revolutionary movement, revered Sun Yat-sen as 'pioneer of the revolution', though in a more modest role compared to Marx, Lenin and Mao. Similarly to the Guomindang, the Communists portrayed Sun as the exclusive leader of the revolutionary movement at least up until the appearance of the Communist party in 1921. Bergére says that from 1978 the Sunist myth has been invoked again as a justification of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernisations policy which gives absolute priority of economic production to deal with China's backwardness. But also, Bergére maintains that in the long term the exultation of Sun Yat-sen is supposed to create the basis of an entente with the Taiwan regime and prepare the way for island's return to the mother country.
Bergére concludes by observing the heroic myth created by Chinese historiography has not stood up to the critical analysis by Western authors and that few of them now recognise Sun Yat-sen "as the sole guide or even the predominant leader of the Chinese revolution, neither does any of them venture explicitly to deny him any importance at all". Western studies of Sun seem to have got stuck in an impasse and that "once stripped of its legendary aura, the figure of Sun Yat-sen arouses very little interest", laments Bergére. However, after reading this book, nothing could be further from the truth. This more human portrait of Sun Yat-sen is far more scintillating, and the unravelling of myth and history that Bergére has undertaken has made reading this book a truly enlightening experience. This biography is a must for anyone wishing to understand the events in China from the turn of the century to the twenties.
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Sun Yat-Sen in Hawaii: Activities and Supporters
Yansheng Ma Lum , and Raymond Mun Kong Lum Manufacturer: Hawaii Chinese History Center ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0824821793 |
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Prescriptions for Saving China: Selected Writings of Sun Yat-Sen (Studies in Economic, Social, and Political Change, the Republic of China)
Yat-Sen Sun Manufacturer: Hoover Institution Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0817992812 |
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a review on the editor's introduction only.......2000-03-10
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The Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen (World Landmark Book, 9)
Pearl S. Buck Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0394805097 |
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Sun Yat-sen and the origins of the Chinese revolution (Center for Chinese Studies. Publications)
Harold Z Schiffrin Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Similar Items: ASIN: B0006D75IQ |
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San Min Chu I = the Three Principles of the People (China in the 20th century)
Yat-Sen Sun Manufacturer: Da Capo Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306706989 |
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