In Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and
In this book, Andrea Ponsi gives readers a melding of academic and scientific researcher focused on the principle of analogous design, using connections between disciplines to drive creativity. The au
Review from Shelf Awareness (2/7/2012): "Mouloud Feraoun, a friend of Albert Camus, was brutally murdered by right-wing paramilitary terrorists in 1962 during the last days of French colonial rule in
In Pulpit and Nation, Spencer McBride highlights the importance of Protestant clergymen in early American political culture, elucidating the actual role of religion in the founding era. Beginning wit
With the publication of his ambitious new work Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture, Antony H. Harrison continues his exploration of poetry as a significant force in the construction of English
The New York Times–bestselling author Donald McCaig has established an expansive literary career, founded equally on books about working sheepdogs and the Civil War novelsJacob’s Ladder and Rhett Butl
The two early autobiographical pieces by American novelist James (1843-1916) show him gaining the literary voice of his mature work. The first recounts his life after illness and boyhood, in Germany a
In this acclaimed work, available here for the first time in paperback, Herbert E. Sloan examines Thomas Jefferson's complex and obsessive relationship to debt—its roles in his life and political care
In 1946, after more than three hundred years as French colonies, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana were transformed into "overseas departments" of France, equal and identical in theory to any
Norse mythology is obsessed with the idea of an onrushing and unstoppable apocalypse: Ragnarok, when the whole of creation will perish in fire, smoke, and darkness and the earth will nolonger support
Roma Ben-Atar resisted until late in life the urging of her family to share the memories of her Nazi-era experiences. The Holocaust exerted a dark pressure on all of their lives but was never openly d
Smith (African and Afro-American studies, English and American literature, Brandeis U.) introduces the Caribbean as a region "languaged by sex" in discussions about political and cultural sovereignty.
Harzewski (English, U of New Hampshire) offers a scholarly dissection of "chick lit" from a post-feminist perspective. She anchors her study in analysis of the bestselling novel Bridget Jones' Diary a
Independent scholar Brittan presents an introduction to the interpretation of metaphorical language in poetry. Aimed at undergraduate students of English or comparative literature, the text provides a
Of Dreams and Assassins is the urgent and rhythmic fourth novel of Malika Mokeddem, her second to appear in English. Born in Algeria to a Bedouin family that had only recently become sedentary, Mokedd
As a companion to a February 19-August 8, 1999 exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, this catalog presents both well-known and less familiar renderings of the nation's
This collection of essays by leading scholars and practitioners addresses a timely and essential question: How can we design, plan, and sustain built environments that will foster health and healing?
Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political
What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of th
Exploring white American popular culture of the past century and a half, Turner (rhetoric, folklore, African American studies, U. of California at Davis) details subtle and not-so-subtle negative trop
In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white su
"It is arguably the case," writes William Parsons, "that no two figures have had more influence on the course of Western introspective thought than Freud and Augustine.&
Walker (history, UC Davis) presents an otherwise absent historical perspective on race, sexuality and politics in the 2008 presidential election. He examines the context of Jeremiah Wright's remarks i
Collister presents a fully annotated critical edition of the first volume of novelist Henry James's autobiography. He begins with a short introduction in which he sketches James's history and offers i
Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and op
Ausband (English, Averett U.) describes the hunting, fishing, and other excursion opportunities available around coastal Virginia and North Carolina to those on a "reasonably tight" budget (approximat
The West African writer, painter, playwright, and director Werewere Liking is considered one of the best literary interpreters of the postcolonial condition in Africa. Her first work to be translated
Christopher Freeburg’s Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting th
Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this
We are living in the midst of the Earth's sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In "Wild Dog Dreaming, " Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethic
Given its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in terms of religion. In his expl
Drawing on Jurgen Haberman's theory of the "public sphere" as a framework for a literary/cultural history of the Caribbean, Dalleo (English, Florida Atlantic U.) points out the challenges of a unified
Dumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life.Volume 2. Jefferson and the Rights of Man
Dumas Malone’s classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jefferson’s life.Volume 3. Jefferson and the Ordeal of Lib
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality—modern soci
The advertising campaigns launched by Kodak in the early years of snapshot photography stand at the center of a shift in American domestic life that goes deeper than technological innovations in camer
The Civil War forced America finally to confront the contradiction between its founding values and human slavery. At the center of this historic confrontation was Abraham Lincoln. By the time this Ill
Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's vari
