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  • Skin Acts

    Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer

    by Michelle Ann Stephens ...
    In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin. She situates each figure within his cultural moment, examining his performance in the context of contemporary race relations and visual ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Archipelagic American Studies

    Edited by Brian Russell Roberts, Michelle Ann Stephens ...
    Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents, seas, and oceans. They trace these planet-spanning archipelagic connections in essays on topics ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Black Empire

    The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962

    by Donald E. Pease, Michelle Ann Stephens ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    by Michael Cotsell ...
    This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Body Is Yours

    A Memoir

    by Michael V. Smith ...
    Lambda Literary Award finalistMichael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male-a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Life

    by Laura Dassow Walls ...
    This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: "a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man" ( The New York Times).Henry David Thoreau's attempt to "live deliberately" in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his ... Read more

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  • The Geezers' Guide To Football

    by Dougie Brimson ...
    Football isn't all about players tactics or even satellite telly. It's about a culture. A culture born out of the obsession fanaticism and humour that is football fandom. The ultimate product of that culture is the Geezer. The sexist elitist and abusive yob who clad in his designer clothes follows his chosen team week in week out. Every club has them in their hundreds but who or what are they? And ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Frontier: A New Edition with a Special Introduction by the Author

    by Howard Fast ...
    The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • God of the Rodeo

    The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison

    by Daniel Bergner ...
    Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisiana. The convicts, sentenced to life without parole, were thrown, trampled, and gored by bucking bulls and broncos before thousands of cheering ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Ugly Feelings

    by Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Moby Dick In One Sitting

    A Condensed Classic

    by Stu Guideman ...
    Series series In One Sitting
    The purpose of this text is to capture, as far as is possible, the beauty and purpose of the writing in an condensed and readable form. Melville, by his own admission, was torn between what he wanted to write and what he imagined others would wish to read. Much of the plot redundancy, contextual flavor, and extensive history of the whaling industry has been removed. What is left is Melville’s rich ... Read more

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  • Salvage Work

    U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood

    by Angela Naimou ...
    Salvage Work examines contemporary literary responses to the law’s construction of personhood in the Americas. Tracking the extraordinary afterlives of the legal slave personality from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first, Angela Naimou shows the legal slave to be a fractured but generative figure for contemporary legal personhood across categories of race, citizenship, gender, and labor. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD