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  • Visualizing Blackness and the Creation of the African American Literary Tradition

    de Lena Hill ...
    Series Libro 167 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Negative stereotypes of African Americans have long been disseminated through the visual arts. This original and incisive study examines how black writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity. Lena Hill charts two hundred years of African American literary history, from Phillis Wheatley to Ralph Ellison, and engages with a variety of canonical ... Leer más

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  • Everybody Behaves Badly

    The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

    The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, ... Leer más

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  • Henry Miller on Writing

    de Henry Miller ...
    “A brilliant selection . . . it is in short a voyage of discovery, an adventure and this the log of that voyage in the life of a probing and powerful writer.” —Robert R. Kirsch, Los Angeles TimesSome of the most rewarding pages in Henry Miller's books concern his self-education as a writer. He tells, as few great writers ever have, how he set his goals, how he discovered the excitement of using ... Leer más

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  • The Man Who Stole Himself

    The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

    The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen.The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free Black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels.In ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarter

    The Complete Works of Margaret Hill McCarterMargaret Hill McCarter was an American teacher and novelist.This collection includes the following:Vanguards of the PlainsA Master's DegreeWinning the WildernessThe Price of the PrairieThe Reclaimers ... Leer más

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  • The Wisdom of the Heart

    de Henry Miller ...
    An essential collection of writings, bursting with Henry Miller’s exhilarating candor and wisdomIn this selection of stories and essays, Henry Miller elucidates, revels, and soars, showing his command over a wide range of moods, styles, and subject matters. Writing “from the heart,” always with a refreshing lack of reticence, Miller involves the reader directly in his thoughts and feelings. “His ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Edición de Ezra Tawil ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Leer más

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  • 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

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  • Bitter Tastes

    Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women's Writing

    Challenging the conventional understandings of literary naturalism defined primarily through its male writers, Donna M. Campbell examines the ways in which American women writers wrote naturalistic fiction and redefined its principles for their own purposes. Bitter Tastes looks at examples from Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and others and positions their work within the ... Leer más

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  • Law and Legal Institutions of Asia

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  • Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling

    Elizabeth Johnson's Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling develops the argument that one way Black women define themselves and each other, is by the way they style/groom their hair via endorsement by the media through advertisement, idealized identification of Black female celebrities, and encouragement by professional celebrity hair stylists who serve as change agents. As a ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Sam Shepard

    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwrightUnderstanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America's most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently focused his ... Leer más

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