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Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Part survey of the field of indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, this book asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of indigenous peoples today.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century-including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and Sylvia Plath-finally gets her due in this intimate biography.When twenty-five-year-old Judith Jones began working as a secretary at Doubleday's newly opened Paris office in 1949, she was tasked with wading through manuscripts in the slush pile until one caught her eye. She read the...
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time: the four years of World War II during which the US government expelled resident aliens and its own citizens from their homes and imprisoned 125,000 of them in American concentration camps, based solely upon the race they shared with a wartime enemy. This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the editor-in-chief of The Creative Independent, a beautiful, celebratory anthology about sadness and everything that accompanies it from some of the most talented creatives working todayexploring why we cry, how tears can connect us, and the role sadness plays in all aspects of our lives.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to change in the 1830s, while Darwin was exploring the Pacific aboard the Beagle and Dickinson was a student in Amherst, Massachusetts. Poetry and science started...
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