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Matthew J C Cella
Disability and Rurality in American Literature

Matthew J.C. Cella examines the ways in which contemporary American writers deploy disability in order to deconstruct American pastoralism.An essential tenet of pastoralism is that encounters with rural l…

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Juliet Faithfull
Liar's Dice

An astonishing debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister---and who must learn what it means to fight for those she loves when all the odds are stacked against her.Do…

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Hell-Bent for Leather

This edited collection explores the role of sex and sexuality in the genre known as the weird western---a popular hybrid form that mixes western themes, iconography, settings, or conventions with elements…

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Douglas Cole
The Invisible Hand

For readers of Praiseworthy and My Friends, The Invisible Hand unfolds a cityscape of unseen forces and entwined lives, where the margins of society converge and hope re-emerges in the cracks.After her te…

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Justin Parks
Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epist…

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H Lawrence Freeman,
The Negro in Music and Drama

Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869 -1954) preceded Scott Joplin, Shirley Graham, and William Grant Still in African-American grand opera composition. One of the earliest American composers to infuse his scores …

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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Complete Series: A Library of America Boxed Set

Few writers roiled the American cultural scene like Henry Louis Mencken. Pathbreaking journalist, trenchant social observer, and unbridled humorist, Mencken was the most provocative and influential cultur…

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Steven Belletto
The Beats

Kerouac. Ginsberg. Burroughs. These are the most famous names of the Beat Generation, but in fact they were only the front line of a much more wide-ranging literary and cultural movement. This critical hi…

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Mark Twain,
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature."Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . .…

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Mitch Ploskonka,
The Bad Poor

The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces t…

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Japanese Forms in American Poetry

Analyzing the poetic forms of haibun, linked verse, senryu, and tanka, this collection argues that these traditional Japanese methods have established themselves in American poetry.Beginning with its Japa…

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature."Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . .…

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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3

Mark Twain's final and uncensored masterpiece, presented in three volumes, is a landmark publication in American literature."Twain will begin to seem strange again, alluring and still astonishing . .…

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Getting Naked with Harry Crews

In twenty-six interviews conducted between 1972 and 1997, novelist Harry Crews tells the truth -- about why and how he writes, about the literary influences on his own work, about the writers he admires (…

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Eric Gardner
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the natio…

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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Steven Belletto
Black Surrealist

"Black Surrealist. Poet. Artist. Jazz trumpeter. Member of the Beat Generation. Life-long wanderer. Pan-Africanist. Black Power agitator. Author of his own "poem-life." Ted Joans (1928-2003…

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Dorothy West,
Where the Wild Grape Grows

The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights Originally published in 2005, Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings , 1930--1950 was the first book-length study of …

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Dorothy West,
Where the Wild Grape Grows

When Where the Wild Grape Grows was published in 2005 by the University of Massachusetts Press, it was the first book-length critical study of Dorothy West. Since then, the publication of more volumes on …

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