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  • Children of the Dark House

    Text and Context in Faulkner

    by Noel Polk ...
    This book by a major scholar of William Faulkner’s writings collects choice selections of his Faulkner criticism from the past fifteen years. Its publication underscores the significance of his indispensable work in Faulkner studies, both in criticism and in the editing of Faulkner’s texts.Here, Polk’s focus is mainly upon the context of Freudian themes, expressly in the works written between 1927 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Children of the Dark House

    Text and Context in Faulkner

    by Noel Polk ...
    Polished and refitted into a new critical matrix, these essays by a distinguished Faulkner editor and scholar in no way resemble the casual self-anthologizing often encountered. Polk's stature as a critic meshes neatly with his work as an editor; his patent joy at the very sight of Faulkner manuscripts is inspiriting, and his professed commitment to Freudian readings is borne lightly (that is, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Outside the Southern Myth

    by Noel Polk ...
    Noel Polk, the Faulkner scholar and academician, is a native of the small Mississippi city of Picayune. In his career as an international scholar and traveler and in his role as a teacher and a professor of literature he has moved beyond his origins while continuing to be nourished by his hometown roots. Like many other southern men he doesn't fit the outside world's stereotype of the southern ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Outside the Southern Myth

    by Noel Polk ...
    Like many other southern men, Noel Polk doesn't fit the outside world's stereotype of the southern male. This notable Faulkner critic is a native of the small Mississippi city of Picayune. In his career as an international scholar and traveler and in his role as a teacher and a professor of literature, he has moved beyond his origins while continuing to be nourished by his hometown roots.“I almost ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Reading Faulkner

    Absalom, Absalom!

    by Joseph R. Urgo, Noel Polk ...
    Series series Reading Faulkner Series
    Absalom, Absalom! has long been regarded as one of William Faulkner's most difficult, dense, and multilayered novels. It is, on one level, the story of Thomas Sutpen, an enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson in the early 1830s to wrest his mansion out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. He was a man, Faulkner said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed him." On another ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Lynching in American Literature and Journalism

    by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Keith Byerman, Neil R. McMillen, Kiyohiko Murayama, Donald Pizer, Noel Polk, Michael Sanders, Robert Butler, Toru Kiuchi, Debbie Lelekis0 ...
    Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American tragedy and the ugliest element of national character. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 European Americans. More than 73 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    A Sermon to White America

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    "A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide, directed specifically to a white congregation." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewA New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe BestsellerAs the country grapples with racial division at a level not seen since the 1960s, Michael Eric Dyson's voice is heard above the rest. In Tears We Cannot Stop, a provocative and deeply pe... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Origin of Others

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series Book 56 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? ... Read more

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  • The Cross of Redemption

    Uncollected Writings

    by James Baldwin ...
    **From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume.“An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books**James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The N Word

    Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why

    by Jabari Asim ...
    A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word.The N Word reveals how the term "nigger" has both reflected and spread the scourge of bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken on our shores. Jabari Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image of the "nigger." In a seminal but now ... Read more

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  • Harlem Renaissance

    by the late Nathan Irvin Huggins ...
    A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide ... Read more

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