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  • Family Money

    Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • America's Culture of Terrorism

    Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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    Series series The Last Interview Series
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  • The Oracle and the Curse

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  • Playing in the Dark

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  • Essays

    The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record for the 'private benefit of friends and kinsmen ... some traits of my character and of my humours.' The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of ... Leer más

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    de Andrew Warnes ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction

    50 North American Stories Since 1970

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    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

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