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Whale!
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 58.50The aim of this thoroughly unconventional work is to demonstrate that Herman Melville?s Moby Dick and Ludwig Wittgenstein?s Philosophical Investigations are, in effect, one and the same book. Whale! not only successfully reveals the vital intersections between Melville and Wittgenstein but also makes a compelling argument for why such intersections... more...
Other People's Skin
Atria Books 2007; US$ 23.99In Other People's Skin , Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with fellow authors Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper, take on one of the most controversial topics within the African-American community: the self-hatred caused by intra-racial prejudice and the ongoing obsession with skin tone and hair texture. In other words, the skin/hair... more...
Earthdivers
University of Minnesota Press 1977; US$ 17.00A series of stories that convey a sense of the oral tradition of modern American Indian life. more...
The Salt Roads
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 10.99A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet Charles Baudelaire...Mer, plantation slave and doctor, both... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature
Penguin Group Inc. 1999; US$ 18.95You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card... more...
American Modernism's Expatriate Scene
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 89.55This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen... more...
The Italian American Reader
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99This anthology -- the first general-reader collection of writing by Italian American authors -- is part manifesto, part Sunday dinner. A gathering of voices old and new, some speak in the accents of another age, some completely contemporary and assured, and all together for the first time. To stand with all the other popular media images we represent,... more...
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 55.00Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is one of the most widely read works of African American literature. This book gives students a thorough yet concise introduction to the novel. Included are chapters on the creation of the novel, its plot, its historical and social contexts, the themes and issues it addresses, Ellison's literary style, and the critical... more...
The Fun of It
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 27.00William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along... more...









