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Ashley M Jones
What the Mirror Said

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem,…

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José Felipe Alvergue
Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Gabriela Alemán,
Smoke

FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family …

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Namwali Serpell
On Morrison

An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor"As gripping as it is intellectually brilliant . . . a classic."---Cathy …

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Mary Jo Bona
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs wo…

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Mary Jo Bona
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.

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Albert Maltz
Man on a Road and Other Stories

The titular story in this collection, 'Man on a Road' - which famously led to the 1936 congressional hearings that exposed the worst industrial disaster in American history - is a snapshot of appalling ca…

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Arnab Ray
Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

The book is a study of the politics in Tony Kushner's political plays as representing the New Left politics that speaks for the unrepresented or under-represented people. This book studies the complex and…

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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven

Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. Here his adventures appear for the first time in the original language -- transcribed directly …

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Tymek Woodham,
The Poetics of Agency

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic form in the post-war United States actively intervened in and reframed period-defining …

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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic raci…

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Manuel Muñoz
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, Muñoz's second story collection won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award. A new foreword by Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz's st…

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Randall Fuller
Bright Circle

Bright Circle tells a little-known story of five women who contributed to the literary and philosophical movement known as transcendentalism and, in the process, inaugurated what became the feminist movem…

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Manuel Muñoz
Zigzagger

Grounded in California's Central Valley, Muñoz's breakthrough collection explores the constant struggle of characters against their physical and personal surroundings.

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Jim Crow Modernism

The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color lin…

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Jerald Walker
Magically Black and Other Essays

*** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longli…

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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic raci…

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions - by what happens "behind our backs." Chall…

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