Literature, Gender And Sexuality – alle Bücher, Seite 8

Maya Angelou
Mom and Me and Mom

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in t…

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Hilton Als
The Women

'Magical ... truly original ... Writing of people who limited themselves and died of it, Als has overcome limits' The New York Times Book Review What are the forces that shape us? Hilton Als's brilliant, …

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Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writers One of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st C…

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Michael Sappol
Queer Anatomies

In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unmentionables debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline-anatomy-had license to represe…

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Victorian Gaslighting

Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the Victorian British Empire.Victorian Gaslighting is the first literary-cultural history of gas…

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Jeffery Self
Self-Sabotage

"Jeffery takes us on a wild---sometimes shocking---and always funny romp."---Andy Cohen"Excellent . . . Self is a very clever writer . . . and there's never a dull moment in his captivating…

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Geraldine Brooks
Memorial Days

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey towards peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of¿HorseMany cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grie…

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Jeffery Self
Self-Sabotage

"In the vein of works by Gary Janetti and Danny Pellegrino, an honest, funny, and heartfelt memoir-in-essays about chasing your dreams, making big messes, and finding yourself along the way"--

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Sheneese Thompson
Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality

Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, this book explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and wom…

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Sheneese Thompson
Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality

Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, this book explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and wom…

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Other Influences

"A groundbreaking collection of original essays by prominent poets of the feminist avant-garde about what influenced and inspired their writing, establishing a powerful new literary history"--

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Nafeesa T Nichols
Popular Spaces in Post-Apartheid Literature

Nafeesa T. Nichols analyzes how racialized and gendered spaces are presented in post-apartheid South African literature.Through the examination of four novels, Kopano Matlwa's Coconut (2007), Zukiswa Wann…

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Siri Hustvedt
Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmm…

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Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant. Here is a book as joyous and painful,…

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Carolyn Dever
Chains of Love and Beauty

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as “Michael Field”—and who were partners and lovers for decades—is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early mode…

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Azar Nafisi
Read Dangerously

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Bald…

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Cristina Salcedo González
The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a rewo…

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Stephanie Brown
Watching Women

Watching Women explores how female activists narrated their struggles with political policing in the early twentieth century.

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Alejandra Márquez
Lenchitudes

Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s.Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Le…

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Belle Burden
Strangers

'A beautifully written eulogy for the loss of a relationship' Joyce Carol OatesHow do we go on when a loved one betrays us?On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden…

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