Louisiana State University Press Forlag
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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of the South's most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. In this welcome guide to Gaines's fiction, Keith Clark offers insightful analyses of his novels and short stories.
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Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the organisational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to... Læs mere
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Romances: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this subtle and candid collection, Lisa Ampleman mixes contemporary elements and historical materials as she speaks back to the literary tradition of courtly love. Instead of bachelor... Læs mere
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Refusal: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Refusal, her searing new collection of poetry, Jenny Molberg draws on elements of the uncanny - invented hospitals, the Demogorgon of Dungeons & Dragons, an Ophelia character who refuses suicide - to investigate trauma, addiction, and forces of oppression.
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Race and Education in New Orleans: Creating the Segregated City, 1764-1960 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Surveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.
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Huey ""Piano"" Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Huey “Piano” Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. This... Læs mere
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The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Port of No Return: Enemy Alien Internment in World War II New Orleans (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that... Læs mere
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William Spratling, His Life and Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating... Læs mere
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Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this groundbreaking study, Gary Ciuba examines how four of the American South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction - Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy - expose the roots of violence in southern culture.
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Prophet of Decline: Spengler on World History and Politics (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
John Farrenkopf takes advantage of the historical perspective the end of the millennium provides to reassess visionary thinker Oswald Spengler and his challenging ideas on world history and politics and modern civilisation.
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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores how southern writers of the 1930s and 1940s responded to Fascism, and most tellingly to the suggestion that the racial politics of Nazi Germany had a special, problematic relevance to the South and its segregated social system.
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