The New Desert Reader brings together a historical cross section of writing about the American Southwest in selections that demonstrate how thinking about American deserts has changed from the earliest times to the present day. Beginning with the centuries-old legends of the Tohono O'Odham Indians, it moves through the foresighted ......
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. This literary corpus presents sixteen African American short stories, novelettes, and excerpts of novels.
It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core. This book aims to show that some celebrated African American authors, such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, have resisted this canonical rule. It also presents sixteen short stories and novelettes to demonstrate this act of literary defiance.
Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series
Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at ......
The Best of the City Section of the New York Times
The City section in 'The New York Times' is distributed only in papers in the five boroughs. New York Stories brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers around the country. New Yorkers can learn something new about their city, while other readers can enjoy the flavour of the Big Apple.
Based on either written or oral interviews with a dozen prominent environmental writers, What's Nature Worth? explores how the art of storytelling might bring new perspectives and insights to economic and policy discussions regarding the "value" of nature and the environment. The diverse points of view explored, and the writers' insistence on ......
This anthology explores the literary theme of black-white encounters, of love and family stories, that cross - or are crossed by - what came to be considered racial boundaries. It extends from Cleobolus' ancient Greek riddle to tormented encounters in the modern US.
This anthology explores the literary theme of black-white encounters, of love and family stories, that cross - or are crossed by - what came to be considered racial boundaries. It extends from Cleobolus' ancient Greek riddle to tormented encounters in the modern US.
