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  • An Ethics of Betrayal

    The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture

    de Crystal Parikh ...
    In An Ethics of Betrayal, Crystal Parikh investigates the theme and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. In considering betrayal from an ethical perspective, one grounded in the theories of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, Parikh argues that the minority subject is obligated in a primary, preontological, and irrecusable relation ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature

    Edición de Crystal Parikh ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Writing Human Rights

    The Political Imaginaries of Writers of Color

    de Crystal Parikh ...
    The legal texts and aspirational ideals of human rights are usually understood and applied in a global context with little bearing on the legal discourse, domestic political struggles, or social justice concerns within the United States. In Writing Human Rights, Crystal Parikh uses the international human rights regime to read works by contemporary American writers of color—Toni Morrison, Chang ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature

    Edición de Crystal Parikh, Daniel Y. Kim ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature offers an engaging survey of Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day. Since the 1980s, Asian American literary studies has developed into a substantial and vibrant field within English and American Studies. This Companion explores the variety of historical periods, literary genres and cultural movements affecting ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Geographical History of America

    Or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind

    de Gertrude Stein ...
    First published in 1936, The Geographical History of America compiles prose pieces, dialogues, philosophical meditations, and playlets by one of the century's most influential writers. In this work, Stein sets forth her view of the human mind: what it is, how it works, and how it is different from - and more interesting than - human nature. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Prince And The Pauper

    de Mark Twain ...
    Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Great War and Modern Memory

    de Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    de Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Stray Bullet

    William S. Burroughs in Mexico

    de Jorge García-Robles ...
    Traducido por Daniel C. Schechter ...
    William S. Burroughs arrived in Mexico City in 1949, having slipped out of New Orleans while awaiting trial on drug and weapons charges that would almost certainly have resulted in a lengthy prison sentence. Still uncertain about being a writer, he had left behind a series of failed business ventures—including a scheme to grow marijuana in Texas and sell it in New York—and an already long history ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • So We Read On

    How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

    de Maureen Corrigan ...
    The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby—"The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Last Looks, Last Books

    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

    de Helen Vendler ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Modern American poets writing in the face of deathIn Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Lost and Found in Translation

    Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD