![]() ![]() Our concept of pure wilderness untouched by grubby human hands must now be jettisoned." -The New York Sun "Monumental. Mann has chronicled an important shift in our vision of world development, one out young children could end up studying in their text books when they reach junior high." -San Francisco Chronicle "Marvelous. A revelation. Part detective story, part epic and part tragedy." -The Miami Herald "Provocative. A Jared Diamond-like volley that challenges prevailing thinking about global development. 1491 vividly compels us to re-examine how we teach the ancient history of the Americas and how we live with the environmental consequences of colonization." -The Washington Post Book World "Engagingly written and utterly absorbing. It replaces that fallacy with evidence of a different genesis, exciting and closer to true." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Mann tells a powerful, provocative and important story. 1491 erases our myth of a wilderness Eden. A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial American into the dustbin, one after the other." -The Boston Globe "A ripping, man-on-the-ground tour of a world most of us barely intuit. A remarkably engaging writer." -The New York Times Book Review "Fascinating. A sweeping portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. "A journalistic masterpiece." -The New York Review of Books "Marvelous. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Although the culture of commercialism in transnational financial partnerships is volatile and, therefore, the degree to which authorial control and cultural ‘veracity’ are compromised remains unpredictable, a great deal of intra-national cross-cultural collaboration in the creative processes of filmmaking is being undertaken with high levels of mutual respect and considerable awareness of both what differentiates and what connects peoples from different cultures. ![]() This thesis argues that the processes and resulting products of cross-cultural creative collaboration and financial partnerships in fiction filmmaking affect both the output and the very notion of New Zealand national cinema. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Regularly using the stories of her own family's history in the United States as inspiration, McKissack's works seek to invigorate the underrepresented canon of African- American literature for young readers, particularly through her biographical accounts of great persons of African descent. The author of historical fiction and biographies for children, McKissack focuses on religious as well as African-American themes. McKissack has written over one hundred titles under her own name, as well as in collaboration with her husband, Fredrick L. For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volumes 23 and 55. The following entry presents an overview of McKissack's career through 2007. (Full name Patricia Carwell McKissack has also written under the pseudonym L'Ann Carwell) American author of juvenile biographies, juvenile fiction, juvenile nonfiction, juvenile short stories, and picture books. ![]() |