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  • American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

    Edited by Bryce Traister ...
    This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature

    Edited by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature, including new world migration, indigenous encounters, religious and secular histories, and the emergence of American literary genres. This book guides readers through important conceptual ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

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  • States of Emergency: Anxiety, Panic, Nation

    Edited by Traister Bryce ...
    Although the events that have come to be known as 9/11 happened over a decade ago, lingering effects from the tragedy remain in the everyday life of the US and Canada today. This special volume explores these effects, investigating how 9/11 and its aftermath have changed political and cultural discourses in the US and beyond. "America now knows what it is like to be European," an ex-patriot friend ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

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  • Laboring Women

    Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery

    Series series Early American Studies
    When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses ... Read more

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  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

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  • Reckoning with Slavery

    Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

    In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Long Before Stonewall

    Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America

    Edited by Thomas A. Foster ...
    2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleAlthough the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City symbolically mark the start of the gay rights movement, individuals came together long before the modern era to express their same-sex romantic and sexual attraction toward one another, and in a myriad of ways. Some reflected on their desires in quiet solitude, while others endured verbal, physical, and legal ... Read more

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  • On the Postcolony

    Series Book 41 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory.This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection ... Read more

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  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

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