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  • Family Money

    Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    par Jeffory Clymer ...
    Collections series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
    Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child ... En savoir plus

    $31.19 CAD

  • America's Culture of Terrorism

    Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word

    par Jeffory A. Clymer ...
    Collections series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has confronted terrorism at home for well over a century. With the invention of dynamite in 1866, Americans began to worry about anonymous acts of mass violence in a way that differed from previous generations' fears of urban riots, slave uprisings, and mob violence. Focusing on the volatile period between the 1886 ... En savoir plus

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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    par James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Collections series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Oracle and the Curse

    A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

    par Caleb Smith ...
    Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the ... En savoir plus

    $47.29 CAD

  • Playing in the Dark

    par Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $11.99 CAD

  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

    par Michel de Montaigne ...
    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... En savoir plus

    $1.36 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    par Andrew Warnes ...
    Collections series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

    par Michael Martone ...
    Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more, selected from a survey of more than five hundred English professors, short story writers, and novelists.Contributors include Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, Charles Baxter, Amy Bloom, T.C. Boyle, Kevin Brockmeier, Robert ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

    par Stoneback ...
    Collections series Reading Hemingway
    The first volume in an important series of guides to the works of Ernest Hemingway"The Reading Hemingway series of guides to Ernest Hemingway's major works of fiction, short stories, and novels are written for students, fellow teachers, and other readers who share an interest in the works of one of America's, and indeed the world's, outstanding writers…. The books in this series will gloss or ... En savoir plus

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  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    par Mary Washington ...
    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Balancing the Books

    Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

    par Erik Dussere ...
    Collections series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about how the legacies of slavery linger in the lives and actions of their characters, although the ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • American Poetry in Performance

    From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop

    par Tyler Hoffman ...
    "Tyler Hoffman brings a fresh perspective to the subject of performance poetry, and this comes at an excellent time, when there is such a vast interest across the country and around the world in the performance of poetry. He makes important connections, explaining things in a manner that remains provocative, interesting, and accessible."---Jay Parini, Middlebury CollegeAmerican Poetry in ... En savoir plus

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