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  • The West House

    by Erik Dussere ...
    A literary mystery of small-town secrets and social class in New England.When Kese, just out of college, starts his summer job in a small New England town, he finds himself trying to unravel a mystery. Charlotte West, rich and imperious, has been baffling the locals since she arrived in the town more than twenty years ago. Does she have a dark past—or is she just an excuse for Kese to indulge an ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Balancing the Books

    Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

    by Erik Dussere ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about how the legacies of slavery linger in the lives and actions of their characters, although the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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  • Playing in the Dark

    by Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Read more

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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... Read more

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  • A Trail of Memories

    The Quotations Of Louis L'Amour

    by Angelique L'Amour ...
    For decades, generations of readers have shared their favorite passages of favorite Louis L'Amour novels and short stories: parents with their children, neighbors with their friends, executives with their staff and clergy with their congregations. They pass around dog-eared copies of the books, underlined and yellowing, recalling words that echoes in their readers' hearts and minds long after the ... Read more

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  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    by Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    by Mary Washington ...
    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Lost and Found in Translation

    Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity

    by Martha J. Cutter ...
    Starting with Salman Rushdie’s assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works advocate a politics of language diversity — a literary and social agenda that validates the ... Read more

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  • American Poetry in Performance

    From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop

    by Tyler Hoffman ...
    "Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains provocative, interesting, and accessible."---Jay Parini, Middlebury CollegeAmerican Poetry in ... Read more

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  • Wrestling with the Left

    The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    by Barbara Foley ...
    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction

    by Darryl Dickson-Carr ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD