University Of Florida Press: 327 books
by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
"Original and significant. This book shows us how Conrad and Joyce manipulate representations of imperialist belief in the sacred to indict Western culture for its racist colonization. This striking reading of modernism emphasizes Conrad's and Joyce's use of chaos in general and pilgrimage in...
Impossible Returns
Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and visual arts, many of these accounts feature a physical arrival on the island while others depict a metaphorical...
Masculinity after Trujillo
The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
"Provides an insightful look at the persistent power of masculinism in Dominican post-dictatorship politics and literature."--Ignacio López-Calvo, author of God and Trujillo "The ideas about masculinization of power developed by Horn are important not only to Dominican scholarship...
Contrary Destinies
A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation, and Reoccupation of Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and political scientists interested in international relations between the United States and other countries in the region."--Leslie G. Desmangles, author of...
From Douglass to Duvalier
U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan Americanism, 18701964
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2010
Haiti has long been both a source of immense pride--because of the Haitian Revolution--and of profound disappointment--because of the unshakable realities of poverty, political instability, and violence--to the black diasporic imagination. Charting the long history of these multiple meanings is the...
In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. . . . A significant and fascinating collection."--African...
The Challenge of Blackness
The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The Challenge of Blackness examines the history and legacy of the Institute of the Black World (IBW), one of the most important Black Freedom Struggle organizations to emerge in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A think tank based in Atlanta, the IBW sought to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
"This groundbreaking study examines the connection between what are arguably the two most distinguishing phenomena of the modern world: the unprecedented surges in global mobility and in the creation of politically bounded spaces and identities."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers...
by Jennifer C. Kronenberg, Carlos M. Guerra
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
"An insightful read from one of the ballet world’s most beloved married couples!"--Melinda Roy, former principal dancer, New York City Ballet "Wonderfully complete and instructive, written by two artists who have lived what they write about and are sharing their life experience from...
by Gail Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Saunders resoundingly affirms the relevance of island history. Scholars will appreciate the detail and insights."--Choice "Deftly unravels the complex historical interrelationships of race, color, class, economics, and environment in the Colonial Bahamas. An invaluable study for scholars...
Uncommonly Savage
Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
“Truly impressive. Travels uncharted terrain, moving deftly through a vast scholarship in two languages. The research is sound, the prose crisp and accessible, and the subject unquestionably important.”—W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory
“Illuminates...
Voyages, the Age of Engines
Documents in American Maritime History, Volume II, 1865-Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2009
Intended as a text for college and advanced high school students, Voyages covers the entirety of the American maritime experience, from the discovery of the continent to the present. Published in cooperation with the National Maritime Historical Society, the selections chosen for this anthology of...
by Ted Spitzmiller
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
“A very competent, complete history of manned spacecraft. . . . A strongly recommended resource.”—Choice "A fascinating human saga of dedication, competition, sacrifice, and achievement."--Dave Finley, National Radio Astronomy Observatory "An ambitious and thorough history, extending...
Serials to Graphic Novels
The Evolution of the Victorian Illustrated Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the long nineteenth century. While existing scholarship on Victorian illustrators largely centers on the realist artists of the "Sixties," this volume examines the entire lifetime of the Victorian illustrated...