Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness 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… OL1452983W
Queering the Color Line Queering the Color Line Siobhan B. Somerville Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a ran… OL17371695W
Dislocating race and nation Dislocating race and nation Robert S. Levine American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciou… OL18353855W
Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country Harold Bloom Examines different aspects of Paton's novel about race relations in South Africa, with a biographical sketch of the author and critical essays on this work. OL19159038W
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom… OL53908W
The inadvertent epic The inadvertent epic Leslie A. Fiedler *The Inadvertent Epic* is based on a five part radio broadcast of the 1978 Massey Lectures which were aired in October of that year as part of CBC's IDEAS series. "I want to discuss the treatmen… OL59093W
"Miscegenation" "Miscegenation" Elise Virginia Lemire "In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling… OL5955951W