The first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by award-winning writer Lance Richardson....Daugiau...
WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD After a grotesque accident, a famous author discovers that her reality is not what it seems in this imaginative, intricate, and electrifying (Associated Press) horror novel from the #1 New York Times best...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231217255)
Modernism with its emphasis on the new combined with the racist views of many of its innovators has rarely, if ever, been acknowledged as confronting the legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. Even much of the scholarship focused on Black authors fro...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231217248)
This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passageand, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category of the human. Modernism is typically thought of as focusing on the new and now, not...Daugiau...
This important guide will help LIS instructors, educators, librarians, students, and scholars better understand Asian American children’s and young adult literature in a historical, geographical, and political context. This important gu...Daugiau...
How the Hell Did I Not Know That? is a trivia-filled memoir that follows Lucie Frosts first year after retirement. After quitting her job with an awkward text to her boss, she planned to live out her early retirement fantasy-except she was lost, an...Daugiau...
Places Butlers story within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her lifethe Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, womens liberation, queer rights, and Reaganomicsrevealing how these influences impacted Butlers personal and int...Daugiau...
From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilarious collection of genre-bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as youve never seen it...Daugiau...
A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelists absurd quest to sabotage his more successful rival-- A wry, incisive satire of envy and ambition following a failed novelists absurd quest to sabotage his more...Daugiau...
Master of language (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the slaveroad, offering a fresh perspective of slaverys impact and a confirmation of Widemans exalted st...Daugiau...
An inspiring memoir that explores natures crucial role in our emotional and mental health, and a poignant meditation on surviving the darkest recesses of human nature (The Marginalian). Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat...Daugiau...
Serija: Clemson University Press: African American Literature
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Clemson University Digital Press, ISBN-13: 9781949979466)
Written for an audience that has witnessed the election of Barack Obama, the debt anxieties of the Great Recession, and the emergence of Black Lives Matter as a powerful protest movement, Make Capital Out of Their Sympathy presents a literary prehist...Daugiau...
Serija: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820374949)
A provocative and meticulously structured exploration of identity, language, and the body, My Corpse Inside exposes the thin and increasingly blurry line between the physical and the digital, between the living and the dead....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradi...Daugiau...
