This peculiar local identity, of course, is also frequently reflected in the mirror of football.
Also of note is the peculiar sequence identity between the S4 S5 linker of TRPC3 and Kv channels.
Naipaul's magisterial novel about Africa, his narrator, Salim, a trader of Muslim Indian heritage, tries to explain his peculiar sense of identity: Africa was my home, had been the home of my family for centuries.
They argue that Katowice represents a peculiar model of urban identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe that has to date not been researched in any depth, in which each successive historical period represents a rupture with the foregoing values and ideas and an attempt to make a new, lasting imprint on the material outlook of the city.
Mr. Brunett talks of pepperoni rolls as peculiar totems of Italian-American identity in West Virginia.
All his works share an abiding interest in the moral dimensions of everyday life, and none more so than his new novel, "The Man in My Basement" (Little, Brown; $22.95), a compelling, peculiar exploration of race and identity.
The jury said her seven young adult novels, which include How I Live Now and Just In Case, "speak to the emotions as well as the intellect", and that "in sparkling prose, she writes about the search for meaning and identity in a peculiar and bizarre world".
For all his other activities, Skip Gates is also a tremendously gifted writer about race, and his themes include the complications of identity and the peculiar struggles of what his hero, W. E. B. DuBois, called "the talented tenth," the most gifted members of the African-American community.
In "Escanaba's Magic Hour," he uses a movie shoot in his Michigan hometown to reflect on identity and the peculiar isolation of rural life.
