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Being Property Once Myself by Joshua Bennett
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Joshua Bennett

Here, in Susan Byrd’s retelling of an age-old local myth, we hear an echo of Porter’s lament earlier in the novel, his desire to be released from the heaviness of ...
( Category: United States July 2,2020 )
Selected Poems, 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Brodsky

II The month of stalled pendulums. Only a fly in August in a dry carafe’s throat is droning its busy hymn. The numerals on the clock face crisscross like earnest ...
( Category: Russian July 1,2020 )
Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka;
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Outka;

A PARTICULAR FORM OF VIOLENCE I’ve focused on the way “The Second Coming” evokes a viral-like threat and suggests a body experiencing an illness-based violence. Before turning to the way ...
( Category: Modern July 1,2020 )
The American Adrenaline Narrative by Kristin J. Jacobson
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Kristin J. Jacobson

Nichols suggests a firm separation between the sea and humans. Steven Callahan also stresses nature’s indifference, but he still assigns nature a female gender as he describes her motivations, or ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
Modernist Time Ecology by Jesse Matz
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-06-14 | Author:Jesse Matz

7 Naipaul’s Changing Times He was the “scourge of the Third World,” but then in the late 1980s some critics began to speak of V. S. Naipaul in terms of ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
The Best Spiritual Writing 2010 by Zaleski Philip
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Zaleski, Philip

The Snow Leopard is a liberating book, in fact, in part because it is not about ordinary goodness. It features some of the most transcendent, crystalline moments in modern prose, ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
The Black Middle Ages by Matthew X. Vernon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Matthew X. Vernon

One could go as far to read the discrepancy between the sophistication of the frame narrative and the simplicity of the folk tale as a hopeful assessment of the social ...
( Category: United States June 30,2020 )
Dislocating Race & Nation by Robert S. Levine
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Robert S. Levine

However much Crafts might wish to attribute the “reeking” filth to the degradation forced upon enslaved blacks by whites, she seems to discern in the cabin something essentially repulsive about ...
( Category: United States June 29,2020 )
The Great War and Modern Memory by Fussell Paul;
epub |eng | 1975-06-14 | Author:Fussell, Paul;

SURVIVALS Nobody alive during the war, whether a combatant or not, ever got over its special diction and system of metaphor, its whole jargon of techniques and tactics and strategy. ...
( Category: European June 28,2020 )
Deep Water by Thomas Ruys Smith
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Thomas Ruys Smith

“Oh, Ain’t I Gone, Gone, Gone, Way Down de Ribber Road” Minstrelsy’s fixation with the Mississippi River hardly went away after the Civil War. Continuing stage adaptations of Uncle Tom’s ...
( Category: United States June 28,2020 )
Weird but Normal by Mia Mercado
epub |eng | 2020-03-20 | Author:Mia Mercado

I’m a Guy’s Girl Oh, I didn’t see you there—I was too busy watching sports and shotgunning beers. I’m a pretty typical tomboy. Also, I’m pretty. It’s confusing, I know. ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
'I can't Breathe' The Cities Cry Echoing George Floyd's Final Words by HENRY KADESHA
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:HENRY, KADESHA [HENRY, KADESHA]

Chapter 7 Blacks Are Important Over the past few years we have seen various pictures in the media of law enforcement shootings and in most cases they result in the ...
( Category: United States June 27,2020 )
You're Doing Great! by Tom Papa
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Papa

IT’S DATE NIGHT I know it sounds corny and it is. I know it sounds like the most unspontaneous thing you could do. And you’re not wrong. But it’s date ...
( Category: United States June 15,2020 )
Shadow Archives by Jean-Christophe Cloutier
epub |eng | | Author:Jean-Christophe Cloutier

FIGURE 3.8. Detail from contact sheet, untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948; image for caption H, “Harlem Is Nowhere” project. Photograph by Gordon Parks. Source: Courtesy of and copyright © The ...
( Category: United States June 10,2020 )
Mourning the Nation to Come by Jillian Sayre
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Jillian Sayre

AnOther Mother Against this hearty reconciliation of the white, Christian American community lingers the specter of another mother, Hobomok’s mother. This Native American mother has the potential to serve as ...
( Category: United States June 7,2020 )

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