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  • Raising the Dead

    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

    by Sharon Patricia Holland, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

    by Jack London, Robert L. Fish ...
    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

    The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

    by C. L. R. James ...
    A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a brilliant polymath who was described by Edward Said as “a centrally important twentieth-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • The New American Exceptionalism

    by Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this cold war paradigm was replaced by a series of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Affirmative Reaction

    New Formations of White Masculinity

    by Hamilton Carroll, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama 24 to the Marvel Comics miniseries The Call of Duty, and from the reality show American Chopper to the movie Million Dollar Baby, Hamilton Carroll argues that the true privilege of white masculinity—and its ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Theodor Geisel

    by Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    Dr. Seuss's infectious rhymes, fanciful creatures, and roundabout plots not only changed the way children read but imagined the world. And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, Green Eggs and Ham,The Cat and the Hat, these and other classics have sold hundreds of millions of copies and entertained children and adults for decades. After graduating from Dartmouth, Theodor Geisel used his ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Deep River

    Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

    by Paul Allen Anderson, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Crossing the Line

    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    by Gayle Wald, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Morocco Bound

    Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

    by Donald E. Pease, Brian T. Edwards ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades—from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Individuality Incorporated

    Indians and the Multicultural Modern

    by Joel Pfister, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Spanning the 1870s to the present, Individuality Incorporated demonstrates how crucial a knowledge of Native American-White history is to rethinking key issues in American studies, cultural studies, and the history of subjectivity. Joel Pfister proposes an ingenious critical and historical reinterpretation of constructions of “Indians” and “individuals.” Native Americans have long contemplated the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Waves of Decolonization

    Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

    by David Luis-Brown, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders, novelists ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD