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  • Literally

    The Queerness of Things Just as They Are

    by Michael Bibler ...
    A lively look at how queer artists turn everyday culture into surprising sites of humor, insight, and creative possibilityWhat happens when we take things literally? In Literally: The Queerness of Things Just as They Are, Michael P. Bibler argues that the literal, so often dismissed as obvious or unremarkable, has been a powerful and playful tool in queer cultural production. Examining music, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Keywords for Southern Studies

    by Erich Nunn, Leigh Anne Duck, Melanie Benson Taylor, Deborah Cohn, Martyn Bone, Coleman Hutchinson, Houston A. Baker Jr., Steven Knepper, John T. Matthews, Michael Bibler, Sylvia Shin-Huey Chong, Briallen Hopper, Claudia Milian, Wanda Rushing, Anna Brickhouse, Eric Lott, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Jayna Brown, Matthew Guterl, Ted Atkinson, Natalie J. Ring, Suzanne Jones, Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Thomas F. Haddox, Eric G. Anderson, Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
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    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Gathering Storm

    A Story of the Black Belt

    by Myra Page ...
    Series series Radical Souths
    This novel is one of the most clear-eyed and compelling works of the Great Depression. As Marge Crenshaw grows up in the cotton mills, she learns to fight the forces of racial, sexual, and class oppression that hold her, her family, and her community back. With her brother Tom, who has joined the Communist Party, Marge eventually becomes a union organizer who leads the famous strike at Loray Mill ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Cotton's Queer Relations

    Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968

    by Michael P. Bibler ...
    Finally breaking through heterosexual clichés of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "Jezebels," Cotton’s Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, William Styron, and Arna Bontemps, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Southscapes

    Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

    by Thadious M. Davis ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern Studies
    In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism

    by Phillip J. Barrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Fifty-One Key Feminist Thinkers

    Edited by Lori Marso ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one hundred and two thinkers collected in these pages, as each author is a feminist thinker ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • A Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern dayExamines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Negative Liberties

    Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology

    by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South

    Edited by Sharon Monteith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Properties of Violence

    Claims to Ownership in Representations of Lynching

    by Sandy Alexandre ...
    The Properties of Violence focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century American photographs, poetry, and fiction; and the effects of those representations. Alexandre compellingly shows how putting representations of lynching in dialogue with the history of lynching uncovers the profound investment of African American literature--as an ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Inventing the New Negro

    Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

    by Daphne Lamothe ...
    It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD