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  • Reading Lessons in Seeing

    Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel

    by Michael A. Chaney ...
    Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them. Theoretically eclectic, this study attends to the lessons taught by both the form and content of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Where Is All My Relation?

    The Poetics of Dave the Potter

    Edited by Michael A. Chaney ...
    Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he incised couplets and signatures (a singular "Dave") onto the incredibly large storage vessels that he ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Security and Crime Prevention in Libraries

    Edited by Michael Chaney, Alan F. MacDougall ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1992, the purpose of this book is to identify and describe the most important factors that must be considered in making decisions about the optimal ways to provide access to information – in short the best way to use the humans, the machines, and the intangible resources known as information, particularly at the organizational level.In recent years executives have begun to ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Psychic Hold of Slavery

    Legacies in American Expressive Culture

    by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Robert J. Patterson, Aida Levy-Hussen, Calvin Warren, Margo Natalie Crawford, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, GerShun Avilez, Brandon J. Manning0, Michael Chaney1, Douglas A. Jones Jr.2 ...
    What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Race Matters, Animal Matters

    Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930

    by Lindgren Johnson ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and James Weldon Johnson alongside slaughterhouse lithographs, hunting photography, and sheep ... Read more

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  • In Small Things Forgotten

    An Archaeology of Early American Life

    by James Deetz ...
    A fascinating study of American life and an explanation of how American life is studied through the everyday details of ordinary living, colorfully depicting a world hundreds of years in the past.History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Natasha Trethewey

    Edited by Joan Wylie Hall ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey's range of forms and subjects is wide. In compact sonnets, elegant villanelles, ballad stanzas, and free verse, she creates monuments to mixed-race children of colonial Mexico, African American soldiers from the Civil War, a beautiful ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD