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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's history in Appalachia, where most members have worked with their hands as farmers or millworkers....
Personal Souths
Interviews from the Southern Quarterly
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Personal Souths, a collection of 20 interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the 50th anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. The figures interviewed range from Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty and Tennessee...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
On the strength of a National Book Award for his novel Going After Cacciato (1978) and a widely acclaimed short-story cycle, The Things They Carried (1990), Tim O'Brien (b. 1946) cemented his reputation as one of the most compelling chroniclers of Vietnam--and, in the process, was cast as a "Vietnam...
The New Territory
Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, Eric J. Sundquist, and Steven E. Tracy
Ralph Ellison once said, “We’re only a partially achieved...
Scoop
The Evolution of a Southern Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and...
Overseas American
Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question "Where are you from?" By the time Bell-Villada was a teenager, he had lived in Puerto Rico, Venezuela,...
The Identity Question
Blacks and Jews in Europe and America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
A diasporic study of the striking similarities between Jewish consciousness and black consciousness in Europe and America Download Plain Text version Despite the Enlightenment's promise of utopian belonging among all citizens, blacks and Jews were excluded from the life of their host countries....
Projections of Passing
Postwar Anxieties and Hollywood Films, 1947-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A key concern in postwar America was "who's passing for whom?" Analyzing representations of passing in Hollywood films reveals changing cultural ideas about authenticity and identity in a country reeling from a hot war and moving towards a cold one. After World War II, passing became an...
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers
Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially...
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic...
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars
A New Pandora's Box
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day. Nationalism,...
Garden of Dreams
The Life of Simone Signoret
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
The incomparable Simone Signoret (1921-1985), one of the grand actresses of the twentieth century and one of France's most notable stars, considered herself the "oldest discovery" in Hollywood. After years of blacklisting during the McCarthy era, she was thirty-eight years old when she entered Hollywood...
Abraham Polonsky
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society structured to undermine their hopes. In the process, he ennobled their struggle. His auspicious beginning in...
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
Innocence by Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren,...