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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume"--
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers. It considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field"--
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Series
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
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Irish American Fiction from World War II to JFK addresses the concerns of Irish America in the post-war era by studying its fiction and the authors who brought the communities of their youth to life on the page. With few exceptions, the novels studied here are lesser-known works, with little written about them to date. Mining these tremendous resources for the details of Irish American life, this book looks back to the beginning of the twentieth...
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspanol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Una extraordinaria seleccion de obras esenciales, en su mayoria ineditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Ines de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana Maria Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebron y Berta Caceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; desde...
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On February 6, 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment. Naming itself "The Sisterhood," the group would meet over the next two years to discuss the future of Black literary feminism, how to promote and publicize their work, and the everyday pressures and challenges of being a Black woman writer. This network of individuals, which would also come to include Audre...
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...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on several archives, magazine articles, and nearly-forgotten bestsellers, Rachel Gordan examines how Jewish middlebrow literature helped to shape post-Holocaust American Jewish identity. Positive depictions of Jews in popular literature had a normalizing effect, while at the same time forging the notion of Judaism as an American religion distinct from Christianity but part of America's alleged 'Judeo-Christian' heritage."--
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Wright's dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape Wright's long-overlooked writing for theater and other performative mediums. Drawing on decades of research and interviews with Wright's family and Wright scholars, Bruce Allen Dick uncovers the theatrical influence on Wright's oeuvre--from his 1930s boxing journalism to his unpublished one-acts on returning Black GIs in WWII to...
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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