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  • Stateless

    The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile

    by Talar Chahinian, Figure Foundation ...
    In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods—post WW I Paris and Post WW II Beirut—to trace the ways in which literature developed in each diaspora. In Paris, a literary ... Read more

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  • Race across America

    Eddie Gardner and the Great Bunion Derbies

    by Charles B. Kastner, Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Sports and Entertainment
    2020 Peace Corps Writers Paul Cowan Award for the Best Book of Non-FictionOn April 23, 1929, the second annual Transcontinental Foot Race across America, known as the Bunion Derby, was in its twenty-fifth day. Eddie "the Sheik" Gardner, an African American runner from Seattle, was leading the race across the Free Bridge over the Mississippi River. Along with the signature outfit that earned him ... Read more

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  • Communes in America, 1975-2000

    by Timothy Miller, Figure Foundation ...
    Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller’s trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and ... Read more

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  • The Muckers

    A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club

    by William Osborne Dapping, Figure Foundation ...
    In 1899, William Osborne Dapping was a Harvard-bound nineteen-year-old when he began writing down exploits from his rough childhood in the immigrant slums of New York City. Now published for the first time, The Muckers: A Narrative of the Crapshooters Club recovers a long-lost fictionalized account of Dapping’s life in a gang of rowdy boys. Simultaneously a polished work of social reform ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Fondane's Ulysses

    Bilingual Edition

    Translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody ...
    by Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art
    From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris. One of the most significant pieces in Fondane’s body of work is the long poem Ulysses, first published in 1933. Fondane considerably revised his text during the dark years of occupied Paris, ... Read more

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  • Prison Pedagogies

    Learning and Teaching with Imprisoned Writers

    by Figure Foundation ...
    In a time of increasing mass incarceration, US prisons and jails are becoming a major source of literary production. Prisoners write for themselves, fellow prisoners, family members, and teachers. However, too few write for college credit. In the dearth of well-organized higher education in US prisons, noncredit programsestablished by colleges and universities have served as a leading means of ... Read more

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  • Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence

    The Evolution of a National Icon

    by J. Richard Stevens, Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America’s character. Because the comic book world fosters a close fan–creator dialogue, creators must consider their ever-changing readership. Comic book artists must carefully balance storyline continuity with cultural relevance. Captain America’s seventy ... Read more

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  • The Children of La Hille

    Eluding Nazi Capture during World War II

    by Walter W. Reed, Figure Foundation ...
    Series series Modern Jewish History
    Following the horrors of Kristallnacht in November of 1938, frightened parents were forced to find refuge for their children, far from the escalating anti-Jewish violence. To that end, a courageous group of Belgian women organized a desperate and highly dangerous rescue mission to usher nearly 1,000 children out of Germany and Austria. Of these children, ninety-three were placed on a freight train ... Read more

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    by Iftikhar Dadi ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia in relation to transnational modernism and in light of the region's intellectual, cultural, and political developments.Art historian Iftikhar Dadi here explores the art and writings of major artists, men and women, ranging from the late colonial period to the era of independence and beyond. He looks ... Read more

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  • Not Without Laughter

    by Langston Hughes ...
    A landmark of Harlem Renaissance fiction, Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes is a moving and beautifully observed portrait of African American life in early twentieth-century America. Blending the clarity of realism with the emotional music of blues and spirituals, this powerful African American coming-of-age novel follows young Sandy Rogers as he navigates family, identity, race, and the ... Read more

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  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley ...
    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Read more

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  • Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry

    by Ralph Connor ...
    The “Twentieth” school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew how; but somehow the holes always appeared on the boys' side, and being there, were found to be most useful, for as looking out of the window was forbidden, through these holes the boys could catch glimpses of ... Read more

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