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  • "...the real war will never get in the books"

    Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • "...the real war will never get in the books":Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • "Beyond This Narrow Now"

    Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois

    In “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois's early essays, previously unpublished or seldom studied, with ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • "Do You Have a Band?"

    Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City

    by Daniel Kane ...
    During the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist, the cultural capital of poetry, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • "How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?"

    Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs

    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    American comics reflect the distinct sensibilities and experiences of the Jewish American men who played an outsized role in creating them, but what about the contributions of Jewish women? Focusing on the visionary work of seven contemporary female Jewish cartoonists, Tahneer Oksman draws a remarkable connection between innovations in modes of graphic storytelling and the unstable, contradictory, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • "I Am Not Your Black, America!"

    Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam" has branded him with, including "uncle tom"!If MeShorn is NOT "your black", America, then who is he?As soon as you think you can "box" MeShorn into "one of yours", you will have to embarrassingly pull ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Disenthralled Hosts of Freedom"

    Party Prophecy in the Antebellum Editions of Leaves of Grass

    by David Grant ...
    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    Walt Whitman wrote three distinct editions of Leaves of Grass before the Civil War. During those years he was passionately committed to party anti-slavery, and his unpublished tract The Eighteenth Presidency shows that he was fully attuned to the kind of rhetoric coming out of the new Republican party. This study explores how the prophecies of the pre–war Leaves of Grass relate to the prophecy of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • "The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up"

    Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings

    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman’s writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself in different genres throughout the years of the war. The ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • "Theatricals of Day"

    Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture

    by Sandra Runzo ...
    In her own private ways, Emily Dickinson participated in the popular entertainments of her time. On her piano, she performed popular musical numbers, many from the tradition of minstrelsy, and at theaters, she listened to famous musicians, including Jenny Lind and, likely, the Hutchinson Family Singers. In reading the Atlantic Monthly, the Springfield Republican, and Harper's, she kept up with the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War

    by Tom Burns ...
    This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • "This Mighty Convulsion"

    Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War

    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation for the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • "Who Set You Flowin'?"

    The African-American Migration Narrative

    Series series Race and American Culture
    Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • 'Inspiring a Mysterious Terror'

    200 Years of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Best known for his Gothic masterpiece Uncle Silas and the vampire story Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a prolific writer whose extensive body of work included historical, sensation and horror novels, poems and ballads, numerous stories of the supernatural, journalism and a verse-drama. While his name is well known to aficionados of the horror genre, much of his work still remains in the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • 'Membering Austin Clarke

    Edited by Paul Barrett ...
    'Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like.Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction

    Uncanny Terror

    by P. Liao ...
    While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part

    Love and Marriage in African America

    Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • (Re:)Working the Ground

    Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan

    Edited by J. Maynard ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
    This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • (Trans)national Tsina/oys

    Hybrid Performances of Chinese and Filipina/o Identities

    Series Book 30 - Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
    The Chinese in the Philippines constitute one of the many Chinese communities globally. Although many Chinese have maintained their cultural traditions, most of them are Filipina/o citizens and have always considered the Philippines home. Embodying "Tsina/o" (Chinese) and "Pina/oy" (Filipina/o) identities, Tsina/oys must learn how to negotiate their hybridity through cultural and linguistic ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • 09/11

    Topics in Contemporary North American Literature

    Edited by Dr Catherine Morley ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
    The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary responses to the attacks and its aftermath. The book covers the most widely studied texts, from Don ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • 100 American Crime Writers

    Edited by S. Powell ...
    Series series Crime Files
    100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars and an ideal introduction to crime fiction for anyone who enjoys this fascinating genre. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 101 Insults By Donald Trump

    A How to Guide on Twitter Warfare.

    by Dave Oakley ...
    This book pays homage to the genius of Donald J Trump. Once thought to be a total joker who could never ascend to the presidency of the United States of America.Donald Trump is now president elect against all odds and naysayers.We have selected 101 of our favourite tweets from the President and attempt to guide you in understanding the tweets. This book makes no claims that it is 100% accurate. We ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 135 Life Principles

    Life in America from a Different Point of View

    by Dale Stewart ...
    Religion, politics, abortion, suicide, over population, sex-ed in schools, crime, drugs, gun control; Dr. Stewart has an opinion on every hot button issue in America today. Doctors, lawyers, Muslims, bikers, teen agers, immigrants, unions; no one escapes the good doctors scrutiny. Dr. Stewart writes as democratically as possible. He has managed to offend (or bring a smile to) almost every segment ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1960

    When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern

    by Al Filreis ...
    In 1960, when World War II might seem to have been receding into history, a number of artists and writers instead turned back to it. They chose to confront the unprecedented horror and mass killing of the war, searching for new creative and political possibilities after the conservatism of the 1950s in the long shadow of genocide.Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 21st Century US Historical Fiction

    Contemporary Responses to the Past

    Edited by Ruth Maxey ...
    This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD