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Forty Acres and a Mule: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Land Ownership (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
First published in 1978, Claude Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American... Læs mere
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Eyes, Stones: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this debut collection, Eyes, Stones, Elana Bell brings her heritage as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors to consider the difficult question of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Wild Blessings: The Poetry of Lucille Clifton (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers the first full-length study of Lucille Clifton’s poetry, drawing on a broad knowledge of the American poetic tradition and African American poetry in... Læs mere
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The Greatest Show: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Inspired by the 1944 Hartford Circus Fire, the interconnected stories in Michael Downs’s The Greatest Show explore the aftermath of a disaster in a world of clowns, elephants, and childhood fantasies.
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Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged.
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Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Argues that the language of William Faulkner's fiction is replete with the voiced conflicts that shaped America and the South from the 1920s to 1950. Specifically,... Læs mere
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Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this study, Richard Lehan demonstrates how and why the “originary vision” of modernism changed radically after it gained... Læs mere
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Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this unique work, twelve prominent Kate Chopin scholars reflect on their parts in the Kate Chopin revival and its impact on their careers. A generation... Læs mere
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Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1957, Congress voted to set up the Civil War Centennial Commission. A federally funded agency, the commission's charge was to... Læs mere
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Rites of August First: Emancipation Day in the Black Atlantic World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
“August First Day” became the most important annual celebration of emancipation among people of African descent in the northern US, the... Læs mere
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In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ten scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three... Læs mere
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Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Until now, Civil War scholars considered Bright and the Union incursion that culminated in his... Læs mere
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