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  • Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature

    by Jill Goad ...
    Through the lens of a feminist psychoanalytic framework, Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature re-evaluates the mother-child dynamic as one far more complicated than what is present in typical psychoanalytic readings.Under this framework, Jill Goad explores the figure of the mother through Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, William Faulkner's Light in August, Tennessee ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media

    by Samantha Allan, Hatice Bay, Jill Goad, M. Anjum Khan, Alicia Ye Sul Oh, Peter Piatkowski, Namrata Dey Roy, Margaret E. Salifu, Emilia Nodzak, Lynn Deboeck ...
    Marginalized Women and Work in 20th- and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work through critical essays about representations of women’s work in non-canonical literary writings, mass media, and popular culture. Covering a broad range of texts including Paule Marshall’s fiction, Natasha Trethewey’s poetry, and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    by Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Read more

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

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  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    by Roberta S. Trites ...
    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

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  • Toni Morrison

    Writing the Moral Imagination

    by Valerie Smith ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
    This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels.Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American ... Read more

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  • Reading Trauma Narratives

    The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression

    by Laurie Vickroy ...
    As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

    Edited by Justine Tally ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

    by Tessa Roynon ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Toni Morrison has written some of the most significant and demanding fiction of the modern age. Her dazzling depictions of African-American experience are studied in high schools and colleges, debated in the media and analyzed by scholars at an astounding rate. This Introduction offers readers a guide to the world of Morrison in all its complexity, from her status as a key player on the global ... Read more

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  • Race and the Literary Encounter

    Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of ... Read more

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  • Contemporary African American Literature

    The Living Canon

    Edited by Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

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  • The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

    Performing Identity

    by Caroline Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate ... Read more

    $77.99 USD