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  • Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought

    Genealogies, Theories, Enactments

    Edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Lisa Outar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • South Toward Home

    Travels in Southern Literature

    by Margaret Eby ...
    "Fascinating…Eby lyrically uncovers a bit of the magic that makes a Southern writer Southern." —Josh Steele, Entertainment WeeklyWhat is it about the South that has inspired so much of America’s greatest literature? And why do we think of the authors it influenced not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby goes in search of answers to these questions, visiting ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • The Poetics of Transition

    Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism

    by Jonathan Levin ...
    Series series New Americanists
    The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another or, alternately, the figural enactment of that movement—is infused with power. He then offers a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945

    Edited by John N. Duvall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The War Complex

    World War II in Our Time

    by Marianna Torgovnick ...
    The recent dedication of the World War II memorial and the sixtieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day remind us of the hold that World War II still has over America's sense of itself. But the selective process of memory has radically shaped our picture of the conflict. Why else, for instance, was a 1995 Smithsonian exhibition on Hiroshima that was to include photographs of the first atomic bomb ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Twilight of the Middle Class

    Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

    by Andrew Hoberek ...
    In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The Major Prose

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971–2013) was hailed as a major achievement of scholarship and textual editing. Drawing from the ten volumes of the Collected Works, Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered some of Emerson’s most memorable prose published during his lifetime and under his direct supervision. The editors have enhanced those selections with ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Enemies of All Humankind

    Fictions of Legitimate Violence

    by Sonja Schillings ...
    Hostis humani generis, meaning “enemy of humankind,” is the legal basis by which Western societies have defined such criminals as pirates, torturers, or terrorists as beyond the pale of civilization. Sonja Schillings argues that the legal fiction designating certain persons or classes of persons as enemies of all humankind does more than characterize them as inherently hostile: it supplies a ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Imagining the Black Female Body

    Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture

    Edited by C. Henderson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Poems for America

    Edited by Carmela Ciuraru ...
    An inspiring anthology that celebrates our nation with more than one hundred of the greatest poems ever written about the landscapes, institutions, and transforming events of America.This remarkable volume commemorates our country's struggles and triumphs with poems chronicling the American experience in all its vastness, from the late seventeenth century through the present day. Alongside poems ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Greening The Lyre

    Environmental Poetics And Ethics

    by David W. Gilcrest ...
    Series series Environmental Arts and Humanities Series
    This work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? He addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction

    “An Almost Theatrical Innocence”

    by John T. Irwin ...
    A personal interpretation of one of America’s most important writers.“Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me,” writes John T. Irwin. “And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early readings, as well as the way each work seemed ... Read more

    $37.69 USD