166 títulos para "University Of Virginia"
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Illiberal Imagination
Shapiro, Joe
978-0-8139-4050-2The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how--and to what end--U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s represented economic inequality and radical forms of economic egalitarianism in the new nation. In conversation with intellectual, social,...
101.31€ (97.41€ sin IVA) -
Women Fight, Women Write
Mortimer, Mildred
978-0-8139-4205-6Today, the "fight to write"--the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story--is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders. But such battles of authorship extend well beyond a single cultural moment.In her gripping study of unsung female narratives of...
39.71€ (38.18€ sin IVA) -
Dézafi
Franketienne
978-0-8139-4139-4Dézafi is no ordinary zombie novel. In the hands of the great Haitian author known simply as Frankétienne, zombification takes on a symbolic dimension that stands as a potent commentary on a country haunted by a history of slavery. Now this dynamic new translation brings this touchston...
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Jefferson, the Virginian
Dumas Malone
978-0-8139-2361-1Dumas Malones classic six-volume biography Jefferson and His Time was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history and became the standard work on Jeffersons life. Volume 1. Jefferson the VirginianThis first volume explores the early phases of Jeffersons life, from his youth, education, legal career, and m...
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Writing Rumba
Arnedo-Gomez, Miguel
978-0-8139-2542-4Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through poetry, this movement was the first serious attempt on the part...
33.00€ (31.73€ sin IVA) -
Facing Freedom
Thorp, Daniel B
978-0-8139-4357-2The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated...
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Terrible Beauty
Eide, Marian
978-0-8139-4237-7If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century. From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of th...
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Erotic Citizens
Dill, Elizabeth
978-0-8139-4337-4What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy man...
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Schooling Jim Crow
Driskell, Jay Winston
978-0-8139-4258-2In 1919 the NAACP organized a voting bloc powerful enough to compel the city of Atlanta to budget $1.5 million for the construction of schools for black students. This victory would have been remarkable in any era, but in the context of the Jim Crow South it was revolutionary. Schooling Jim Crow tel...
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Reading Trauma Narratives
Vickroy, Laurie
978-0-8139-3738-0As 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 Palahn...
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Do You Hear in the Mountains... and Other Stories
Bey, Maissa
978-0-8139-4028-1This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey's important works for the first time in English. "Do You Hear in the Mountains..." is a compelling piece of autofiction in which three destinies meet dramatically on a train moving through France. We meet an Al...
87.82€ (84.44€ sin IVA)