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Sitting in Darkness
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Peter Schmidt |
Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… |
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A reader's guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching god
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Laura Baskes Litwin |
"An introduction to Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their eyes were watching God for high school students, which includes biographical background on the author, explanations of various literary devices an… |
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Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume
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Jennifer O'Connell |
Whether laughing to tears or clamoring for more unmistakable "me too!" moments, girls all over the world have been touched by Judy Blume's poignant coming-of-age stories. Now, in this anthology of es… |
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Epistemology of the closet
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… |
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Science Fiction Rebels
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Michael Ashley |
This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines.The period saw the emergence of … |
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Republic of Imagination
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Azar Nafisi |
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she tau… |
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Taylored lives
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Martha Banta |
Scientific management: Technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries pride… |
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Scene of the crime
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David Geherin |
"Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. After an introductory chapter dealing with general conside… |
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The belle gone bad
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Betina Entzminger |
"Examining the "bad belle" as a recurring character, The Belle Gone Bad finds that white southern women writers from the antebellum period to the present have used treacherous belles to subtly indict… |
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The Secret Garden
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. |
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