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“sylvia bailey shurbutt”

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  • Silas House

    Exploring an Appalachian Writer’s Work

    Edited by Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt ...
    Bestselling author, journalist, playwright, and activist Silas House has focused nearly all of his work on Appalachia. His acclaimed and diverse body of work includes the novels Clay's Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, The Coal Tattoo, Eli the Good, and Southernmost. Well known for its lyrical style, diverse and sympathetic characters, and political engagement, House's work is overdue for deeper ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place

    by Elisabeth Aiken, M. Joseph Aloi, Cynthia Belmont, Theresa Burriss, Cameron Williams Crawford, Evan Gurney, Ethan Mannon, Michael S. Martin, Savannah Paige Murray, Lucas Nossaman, Kevin E. O’Donnell, Caleb Pendygraft, Stewart Plein, Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt, Zackary Vernon ...
    Ecocriticism and Appalachian studies continue to grow and thrive in academia, as they expand on their foundational works to move in new and exciting directions. When researching these areas separately, there is a wealth of information. However, when researching Appalachian ecocriticism specifically, the lack of consolidated scholarship is apparent. With Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of ... Read more

    $51.69 CAD

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  • Besides the Bible

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

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  • The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni

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    From one of the most commanding, luminous voices to grace America’s political and poetic landscape comes a brilliant and searing collection of essays, articles, meditations and recollections.This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My ... Read more

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

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  • Broken Hallelujahs

    Why Popular Music Matters to Those Seeking God

    by Christian Scharen ...
    Building on the success of One Step Closer: Why U2 Matters to Those Seeking God, Christian Scharen shows how to engage faith and culture through a wide range of popular music, including the blues, hip-hop, and rock. He examines artists such as Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Leonard Cohen, and Billie Holiday, offering a fresh, compelling theology of culture in conversation with C. S. Lewis that can look ... Read more

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

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    by Ben Child ...
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  • Miss Chloe

    A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

    by A. J. Verdelle ...
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  • EcoGothic

    Edited by Andrew Smith, William Hughes ...
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    This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the ... Read more

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  • The Three Hardest Words

    In the World to Get Right

    by Leonard Sweet ...
    Three simple words–“I love you”–capture the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry.These three words form the bottom line and top drawer of all his teachings. And they remain the three hardest words in the world to get right. Two pronouns and a verb have never been so difficult to grasp, much less to practice.Popular culture has ruined love’s reputation by redefining it first as romance, and then as ... Read more

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