Faulkner and Ideology
Explores some of the specific ideologies at work in William Faulkner's historical and...
EAN: 9781617037078
Reading Like a Girl
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen,...
EAN: 9781617038112
Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement
A disproportionate number of male writers continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and...
EAN: 9781617036804
Eudora Welty and Surrealism
Surveys Eudora Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The...
EAN: 9781617036736
Mystery Fiction and Modern Life
This intelligent and probing analysis of the detective novel shows how the fictional world...
EAN: 9781617037481
Properties of Violence
Focuses on two connected issues: representations of lynching in late-nineteenth and...
EAN: 9781617036651
Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture
Traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in...
EAN: 9781617033018
Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs
Focuses on three street gang memoirs memoirs - Shakur's Monster; Luis J. Rodriguez's Always...
EAN: 9781617032813
Conversations with William Maxwell
Collects thirty-eight interviews, public speeches, and remarks that span five decades of the...
EAN: 9781617032547
Conversations with David Foster Wallace
Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable...
EAN: 9781617032264
Desegregating Desire
A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to...
EAN: 9781617037832
Sitting in Darkness
Explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black...
EAN: 9781617032073
Trickster Comes West
In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how...
EAN: 9781617032103
Witness to Reconstruction
This volume's sixteen essays illuminate, through Constance Fenimore Woolson’s example, the...
EAN: 9781617030253
Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty, for nearly forty years the first lady of southern letters, has recreated most...
EAN: 9781617032127
Other World of Richard Wright
Reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. These essays open up a new...
EAN: 9781617030222
Faulkner and Whiteness
Explores the ways in which William Faulkner's fiction addresses and destabilizes the concept of...
EAN: 9781617030208
Finding a Way Home
Thirteen essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to...
EAN: 9781617030659
Conversations with Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker began her writing career as a poet in the late 1930s. But she was cast into the...
EAN: 9781578065127
C. L. R. James
This study of C.L.R. James's writings is the first to look at them as literature and not as...
EAN: 9781617038464
Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction
EAN: 9781617038433
