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With echoes of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, Penelope Cray creates dark and sometimes darkly funny scenes that most resemble the works of Kafka. Cray's characters strain... Læs mere
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As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like “leper”, whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illness or a word inscribed on the... Læs mere
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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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Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and... Læs mere
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Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes... Læs mere
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Explores the organisational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to... Læs mere
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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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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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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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Investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature - the Revolutionary War veteran narrative - showing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of military heroism as the source of US sovereignty.
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Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.