Literature: history & criticism books

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Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom...

Author: Ellen McLarney
ISBN: 9780231219426
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Ellen McLarney explores how writers in the Black Arts Movement identified with Islam as integral to the African...  Read More >>

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden History of Mass Incarceration

American Literature's War on Crime: Novels and the Hidden...

Author: Theodore Martin
ISBN: 9780231211819
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Theodore Martin offers a groundbreaking account of the ways that reading habits and crime politics intersected in...  Read More >>

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and Popular Authoritarianism

Make China Great Again: Online Alt-History Fiction and...

Author: Rongbin Han
ISBN: 9780231220552
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight...  Read More >>

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language Movements After Independence

Linguistic Resistance in Pakistan: Punjabi Language...

Author: Julien Columeau
ISBN: 9780231219822
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Julien Columeau examines three movements for the defense and promotion of Punjabi formed between 1947 and 1960,...  Read More >>

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience

Aristotle and Black Drama: A Theater of Civil Disobedience...

Author: Patrice D. Rankine
ISBN: 9781602584532
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Modern parallels to Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests

Furious Harvests

Author: Alex Averbuch ,  Oksana Maksymchuk
ISBN: 9780674301061
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Graphic War: Jewish Women Drawing Contested Spaces

Author: Laini Kavaloski
ISBN: 9781978830981
Format: Paperback
$61.60

Graphic War introduces graphic border poetics to the field of comics, which enables a methodological response to...  Read More >>

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance

The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the...

Author: Petal Kimberly Samuel
ISBN: 9781978844704
Format: Paperback
$66.00

A serene beach. The classroom of an elite private school. The still nights in an upscale residential neighborhood....  Read More >>

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an Indigenous Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century Peru

Inca Garcilaso De La Vega: Literary Genealogies of an...

Author: Thomas Ward
ISBN: 9781496244376
Format: Hardback
$162.00

A thorough examination of four Peruvian intellectuals who found inspiration in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's work...  Read More >>

Camus on Justice: A Metaphysics of Revolt

Camus on Justice: A Metaphysics of Revolt

Author: Craig DeLancey
ISBN: 9780268210793
Format: Paperback
$87.99

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West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture

West of the Ghetto: Jewish Women, Old San Francisco,...

Author: Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814352328
Format: Paperback
$85.99

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Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman
ISBN: 9780226847221
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look...  Read More >>

Judy Blume: a life

Judy Blume: a life

Author: Mark Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781761380686
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The definitive, all-access biography of one of the world's most beloved literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant...  Read More >>

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913–1941

Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction,...

Author: James Reichert
ISBN: 9798880700547
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as...  Read More >>

Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere

Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early...

Author: Fumiko Joo
ISBN: 9798880700530
Format: Paperback
$79.20

""The Story of the Peony Lantern"" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and...  Read More >>

Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902

Paper Heroines: Women Writers in Conversation and Community...

Author: Mollie Barnes
ISBN: 9781643365367
Format: Hardback
$80.99

The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the...  Read More >>

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves

A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents...

Author: Dale DeBakcsy
ISBN: 9781036122812
Format: Hardback
$69.99

When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite...  Read More >>

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in the Writings of Joseph Roth and Soma Morgenstern

Galicia As a Literary Idea: Jewish Eastern Europe in...

Author: Kata Gellen
ISBN: 9781487528898
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Galicia as a Literary Idea explores the relationship of Jewish tradition and modernity in literary works by Joseph...  Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...

Author: Fabian Alfie
ISBN: 9780268210588
Format: Hardback
$289.00

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian...  Read More >>

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español

Author: Anna Rufat ,  Francisco Jiménez Calderón
ISBN: 9781138227354
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Vocabulario y enseñanza del español delves into the nature and acquisition of vocabulary, its relevance to linguistic...  Read More >>

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