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Breaking the Silence
LSU Press 2007; US$ 24.95Can black males offer useful insights on black women and patriarchy? Many black feminists are doubtful. Their skepticism derives in part from a history of explosive encounters with black men who blamed feminism for stigmatizing black men and undermining racial solidarity and in part from a perception that black male feminists are opportunists capitalizing... more...
Labor and Workplace Issues in Literature
ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 70.00The daily newspaper headlines revealing deaths, illnesses, and injuries in the workplace, along with the ongoing decline of workers' rights, make this book an especially timely volume. Included are chapters devoted to such widely read texts as Hard Times, Life in the Iron Mills, Bartleby the Scrivener, The Grapes of Wrath, and several others. Each... more...
Youth Gangs in Literature
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 77.00Gang culture is one of the most volatile issues to have impacted young people throughout history and around the world. By focusing on the fictional representation of youth gangs, this work presents a unique perspective on an all-too-real phenomenon and its many manifestations. Organized chronologically and topically, the volume begins with a powerful... more...
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 250.00Works of science fiction and fantasy increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. This book examines women's contributions to science fiction and fantasy across a range of media and genres, such as fiction, nonfiction, film, television, art, comics, graphic novels, and music. The first volume... more...
Gothic to Multicultural
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 152.60Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction , twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Coopers The Spy , Antarctica as world-genesis... more...
Lost and Found
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 50.40Aura Paulauskienes book Lost and Found: The Discovery of Lithuania in American Fiction targets American as well as European scholars in the fields of literature, ethnic studies and immigration. The author discovers obscure texts on Lithuania and alerts Western and Eastern academia to their significance as well as the reasons for their neglect.... more...
In the Shadow of the Black Beast
LSU Press 2010; US$ 24.95Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or ?black beast,? as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social... more...
The Vernacular Matters of American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00From this study of Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ana Castillo arises a new model for analyzing American literature that highlights commonalities - one in which colloquial and lyrical style and content speak out against oppression. more...
Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists. more...
The Accidental Orphan
Dundurn 1998; US$ 7.99Ellen, 11, becomes a stowaway aboard a steamship bound for Canada in 1885 an unwilling member of a band of orphans headed for new families on the Prairies. more...









