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  • Georges

    par Alexandre Dumas ...
    Traduit par Tina Kover ...
    A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in which his themes of intrigue and romance are illuminated by the issues of racial prejudice and the profound quest for identity.Georges Munier is a sensitive boy growing up in ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • The Promised Land

    par Mary Antin, Werner Sollors ...
    An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from theEastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally inquisitive, Antin was a provocative observer of the identity-altering contrasts between Old World ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Beyond Ethnicity

    Consent and Descent in American Culture

    par Werner Sollors ...
    Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not ... En savoir plus

    $56.79 CAD

  • Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

    par Jeffrey B. Ferguson, George B. Hutchinson ...
    Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Crossing Borders

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

    par Silvia Schultermandl, Peter Schmidt, Elleke Boehmer, Martha J. Cutter, Thadious M. Davis, Robin E. Field, Rahul K. Gairola, Fred Gardaphe, Ayesha Hardison, Jasbir Jain, Zubeda Jalalzai, Charles Johnson, Auritro Majumder, Arnold Rampersad, Catherine Rottenberg, Amritjit Singh, Werner Sollors, Robert B. Stepto, Nibir K. Ghosh, Lynda Ng, Nalini Iyer, Cheryl A. Wall ...
    Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD

  • The Temptation of Despair

    Tales of the 1940s

    par Werner Sollors ...
    In Germany, the years immediately following World War II call forward images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. The temptation of despair was hard to resist, and to contemporary observers the road toward democracy in the Western zones of occupation seemed rather uncertain. Drawing on a vast array of American, German, and other sources--diaries, ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD

  • Challenges of Diversity

    Essays on America

    par Werner Sollors ...
    What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are we, and can we strike a balance between an emphasis on our divergent ethnic origins and what we have in common? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines our evolving understanding of ourselves as an Anglo-American nation to a multicultural one and the key role writing has ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Blacks at Harvard

    A Documentary History of African-American Experience At Harvard and Radcliffe

    Modifié par Werner Sollors, Caldwell Titcomb, Thomas A. Underwood, Randall Kennedy ...
    The history of blacks at Harvard mirrors, for better or for worse, the history of blacks in the United States. Harvard, too, has been indelibly scarred by slavery, exclusion, segregation, and other forms of racist oppression. At the same time, the nation's oldest university has also, at various times, stimulated, supported, or allowed itself to be influenced by the various reform movements that ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Pudd’nhead Wilson

    par Mark Twain ...
    Collections Livre 145 - The John Harvard Library
    When a murder takes place in Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd “black” son who has been raised “white,” and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd’nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than it is the question of whether nature ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

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  • A New Literary History of America

    Modifié par Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors ...
    Collections Livre 16 - Harvard University Press Reference Library
    America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.In more than two hundred original essays, A New ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves

    Expanded Edition

    Modifié par Werner Sollors, Hamilton Holt ...
    Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and reissued a decade ago, this new edition of Life Stories of Undistinguished**Americans is expanded to include lives Holt did not include in his ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

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