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“alix chapman”

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  • Raising the Bottom

    Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

    by Alix Chapman ...
    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent mass displacement of black neighborhoods in New Orleans, black queer performers redefined notions of belonging throughout the city. These unlikely figures, such as artists Big Freedia and Vockah Redu, played a significant role in calling the displaced back home and serving as beacons of hope. In Raising the Bottom, Alix Chapman engages in ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Navigating Souths

    Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region

    by Alix Chapman, Annette Trefzer, Anne Lewis, John Hayes, Kathryn Green, Kathryn Radishofski, Rico D. Chapman, Daniel Cross Turner, Robert Greene II, Melanie Benson Taylor, Charles Reagan Wilson, Kirsten A. Dellinger, Emily Satterwhite, Gwendolyn Ferreti, Jeffrey T. Jackson, Katie McKee ...
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    The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have helped to shape the U.S. South. However, most of the debates on these ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

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  • Walt Whitman

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  • Melville

    His World and Work

    by Andrew Delbanco ...
    If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates thatMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his ... Read more

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  • Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

    by Mark Twain ...
    These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from ... Read more

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  • The Novel After Theory

    by Judith Ryan ...
    Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides fresh insight into the recent development of the novel and the persistence of modern theory ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

    by Judie Newman ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror — whether state or non-state, external or homegrown — shadows Utopian imaginings. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Black Frankenstein

    The Making of an American Metaphor

    by Elizabeth Young ...
    Series Book 22 - America and the Long 19th Century
    For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout ... Read more

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  • American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

    A Critical Reassessment

    Edited by Steven Belletto, Daniel Grausam ...
    Series series New American Canon
    The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that ... Read more

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  • Bird Relics

    Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau

    by Branka Arsić ...
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  • The Sentimental Touch

    The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

    by Aaron Ritzenberg ...
    Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental ... Read more

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