Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger’s Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essays offer technique-focused readings of writers...

In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race. Interweaving his own experience with that of his family and of other sansei-third generation Japanese Americans-Mura reveals how being a "model minority"...

"The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture" ( The New York Times).Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a C...

Uncovering the pernicious narratives white people create to justify white supremacy and sustain racist oppressionThe police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country’s founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to ...

The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country's founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present.Intertwining history, literature, ethics, and the deep...

A collection of poems by the author of Turning Japanese, exploring race and sexuality, history and identity, through the lens of desire.

A Sense of Regard, says Laura McCullough, “is an effort to collect the voices of living poets and scholars in thoughtful and considered exfoliation of the current confluence of poetry and race, the difficulties, the nuances, the unexamined, the feared, the questions, and the quarrels across aesthetic camps and biases.”The contributors discuss issues as various as their own diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Their essays, which range in style from the personal and lyric...

Un manipolo di autori coraggiosi.Un manifesto letterario innovativo.Il desiderio di trasformare il racconto della storia in un’esperienza immersiva, appassionante e rigorosa allo stesso tempo.Un viaggio affascinante nelle pieghe del passato che la letteratura mainstream non ha voluto o saputo raccontare.In questo primo volume raccontano la storia d’Italia tra la Guerra Gotica e l’arrivo dei Longobardi:Errico Borro - Il giardino d'invern...

L'opera ha lo scopo di offrire analisi e spunti di riflessione per comprendere come e perché l'Italia abbia ceduto, all'Unione Europea, la propria sovranità economica e monetaria (e dunque, latamente quella politica), disattendendo in questo modo la Costituzione del 1948, e precisamente, i principi fondamentali inderogabili (sovranità popolare, uguaglianza sostanziale, tutela del lavoro e del risparmio), con conseguente frustrazione dei processi democratici in ragione del vincolo esterno (...

La revista Luvina y la Editorial de la Universidad de Guadalajara reúnen estos cien Cuentos de Asia, Europa y América para celebrar el número 100 de Luvina y sus veinticinco años ininterrumpidos de publicación. Son textos representativos de la literatura universal contemporánea que Luvina ha publicado, especialmente en los números dedicados al país invitado de honor de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Es una muestra formada por distintas literaturas, en el afán de ...

«E come potrebbero non ricordarlo con gratitudine commossa quelli che sono stati i suoi amici, i suoi figli e discepoli? Grazie alla sua paternità sacerdotale appassionata nel comunicare Cristo, essi sono cresciuti nella fede come dono che dà senso, ampiezza umana e speranza alla vita. Don Giussani è stato padre e maestro, è stato servitore di tutte le inquietudini e le situazioni umane che andava incontrando nella sua passione educativa e missionaria. La Chiesa riconosce la sua genialità ...

Un manipolo di autori coraggiosi.Un manifesto letterario innovativo.Il desiderio di trasformare il racconto della storia in un’esperienza immersiva, appassionante e rigorosa allo stesso tempo.Un viaggio affascinante nelle pieghe del passato che la letteratura mainstream non ha voluto o saputo raccontare.In questo primo volume raccontano la storia d’Italia tra la Guerra Gotica e l’arrivo dei Longobardi:Errico Borro - Il giardino d'invern...