Ma Rainey's Traveling Blues is the fullest and most nuanced portrait to date of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939), once promoted as the "Mother of the Blues." Although Rainey's place in American music history is firmly established, much about her life has remained shrouded in uncertainty. This book presents a carefully reconstructed timeline of the ......
Ma Rainey's Traveling Blues is the fullest and most nuanced portrait to date of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939), once promoted as the "Mother of the Blues." Although Rainey's place in American music history is firmly established, much about her life has remained shrouded in uncertainty. This book presents a carefully reconstructed timeline of the ......
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) became one of Canada's most beloved and honored writers during the last four decades of the twentieth century. Because of their controversial subjects and unconventional style, his first two novels, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969), were initially published only in Great Britain and ......
Timothy Findley (1930-2002) became one of Canada's most beloved and honored writers during the last four decades of the twentieth century. Because of their controversial subjects and unconventional style, his first two novels, The Last of the Crazy People (1967) and The Butterfly Plague (1969), were initially published only in Great Britain and ......
Body parts litter William Faulkner's work-the icon of an eye suddenly breaks apart in The Sound and the Fury, and numerous pieces are starkly titled by the body, such as "The Leg" or "Hair." Yet, it is a common conception that Faulkner's fiction is intensely cerebral and emphasizes detachment from the bodily and sensory aspects of experience. ......
Body parts litter William Faulkner's work-the icon of an eye suddenly breaks apart in The Sound and the Fury, and numerous pieces are starkly titled by the body, such as "The Leg" or "Hair." Yet, it is a common conception that Faulkner's fiction is intensely cerebral and emphasizes detachment from the bodily and sensory aspects of experience. ......
From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was ......
Comics Art in the Caribbean introduces readers to the vibrant but long-overlooked world of Caribbean comics, cartoons, and animation. Scholar John A. Lent, a pioneer in global comics studies, offers the first comprehensive survey of the region's artists and traditions, spanning fourteen countries and territories across Spanish-, English-, French-, ......
Comics Art in the Caribbean introduces readers to the vibrant but long-overlooked world of Caribbean comics, cartoons, and animation. Scholar John A. Lent, a pioneer in global comics studies, offers the first comprehensive survey of the region's artists and traditions, spanning fourteen countries and territories across Spanish-, English-, French-, ......
