University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Caribbean Literary Discourse
Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Caribbean Literary Discourseis a study of the multicultural, multilingual, and Creolized languages that characterize Caribbean discourse, especially as reflected in the language choices that preoccupy creative writers.
Caribbean Literary Discourse opens the challenging world of language choices...
The Ascent of Chiefs
Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this...
John Steinbeck Goes to War
The Moon is Down as Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
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In March 1942, a desperate period for the allies in World War II, John Steinbeck published his propaganda novel The Moon is Down—the story of ruthless invaders who overrun a militarily helpless country. Throughout the novel,...
Ecosublime
Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance, Rozelle finds evidence that the ecosublime--nature experienced as an instance of wonder and fear--profoundly reflects spiritual and political responses to the natural world,...
Survival Pending Revolution
The History of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
The Black Panther Party (BPP) seized the attention of America in the frenetic days of the late 1960s when a series of assassinations, discontent with the Vietnam War, and impatience with lingering racial discrimination roiled the United States, particularly its cities. The BPP inspired dread among...
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
By studying the multiracial Jewish organization Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer’s Stepping into Zion considers the question “Who is a Jew?”— a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.
Hatzaad Harishon ("The First Step") was...
by Christian K. Messenger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions,...
Southern Women Playwrights
New Essays in History and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.
Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women...
by Ángel Escobar
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Ángel Escobar’s Breach of Trust / Abuso de confianza is known by many as the most devastating book of his poetic generation. It is his first to be offered to an English-speaking audience. Merging personal and collective meditations, these twenty-three poems perform an indictment of violence. Escobar’s...
From the Modernist Annex
American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman’s close readings of four modernist...
Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister.
Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
by Emily J. Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority.
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially paintingas a...