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García Márquez
The Man and His Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of the most influential writers of our time, with a unique literary creativity rooted in the history of his native Colombia. This revised and expanded edition of a classic work is the first book of criticism to consider in detail the totality of Garcia Marquez's magnificent...
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie
Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism,...
Public Sentiments
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers,...
Remembering Generations
Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of...
No Mercy Here
Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom,...
Critical Regionalism
Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The idea of "region" in America has often served to isolate places from each other, observes Douglas Reichert Powell. Whether in the nostalgic celebration of folk cultures or the urbane distaste for "hicks," certain regions of the country are identified as static, insular, and culturally disconnected...
Jasmine and Stars
Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2007
In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy. Her fresh perspective on present-day Iran provides a rare insight into this rich culture alive...
by Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners.
"[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--Publishers Weekly
Sufi Narratives of Intimacy
Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and...
The Southern Tailgating Cookbook
A Game-Day Guide for Lovers of Food, Football, and the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
According to tailgating enthusiast Taylor Mathis, "You'll understand why a game day in the South is unlike any other" when you read this cookbook. Mathis traveled across twelve states to document the favorite foods and game-day traditions embraced by thousands of fans at colleges and universities...
Field Armies and Fortifications in the Civil War
The Eastern Campaigns, 1861-1864
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Earl J. Hess provides a narrative history of the use of fortifications--particularly trenches and other semi-permanent earthworks--used by Confederate and Union field armies at all major battle sites in the eastern theater of the Civil War. Hess moves beyond the technical aspects of construction to...
Sweet Tea
Black Gay Men of the South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways...
The View from the Masthead
Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere....
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national...