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  • Paul Green

    North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright

    Edición de Georgann Eubanks, Margaret Bauer ...
    This anthology examines the life and selected works of North Carolina’s most distinguished playwright of the 20th century, Paul Green (1894-1981).Paul Green is best known for his outdoor historical dramas, which are still performed across the United States. However, he was not only a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, but was also an activist committed to human rights, racial equity, prison reform ... Leer más

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  • The Origin of Others

    de Toni Morrison ...
    Series Libro 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? ... Leer más

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  • Wild Girls

    How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

    de Tiya Miles ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of the YearNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub“Thoroughly absorbing.… A beautiful synthesis of diverse women’s experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action.” —Jill Watts, New York Times Book ReviewAn award-winning historian shows how ... Leer más

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  • Harlem Renaissance

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Leer más

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  • Big Jim and the White Boy

    An American Classic Reimagined

    A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South—from the team behind the Eisner Award–winning The Black Panther Party.WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ALEX AWARD • A BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, School Library Journal, Library ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Leer más

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  • In Search of the Blues

    Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight.In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only ... Leer más

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  • Up from the Depths

    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

    **Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis**Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one ... Leer más

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  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Leer más

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  • Literary Connecticut

    The Hartford Wits, Mark Twain and the New Millennium

    A tour through this New England state and the many writers who have lived and worked there.Connecticut has produced and inspired a dazzling array of literary talent. Helen Keller's adult stomping grounds were the woods and gardens of Easton, while Eugene O'Neill's childhood home in New London found its way into the pages of his greatest work. In this book you'll discover the secret passage to ... Leer más

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  • Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

    Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

    Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early “talkies” firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans.Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial ... Leer más

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