The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see "difference." At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on ......
The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist
How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhal-considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realism-addressed these questions with style and acumen ......
The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist
How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there such a thing as an authentic self? Can an author translate an authentic self onto the written page? Stendhal-considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of French realism-addressed these questions with style and acumen ......
The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing A robust body of work has established the importance of print in general, and newspapers in particular, to African American culture in the 1800s. Such work regularly acknowledges Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) as one of the most ......
Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more. A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal ......
Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more. A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow authors, and others to reminisce about him at every stage of his life and everywhere he lived. In Mark Twain Remembered: An Anecdotal ......
Essays on teaching the Spanish author Benito Perez Galdos The Spanish author Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) produced an immense oeuvre of novels, stories, plays, and journalism that addressed the political, social, and aesthetic questions of his time. This volume will give any instructor interested in teaching Galdos, including those who want ......
Essays on teaching the Spanish author Benito Perez Galdos The Spanish author Benito Perez Galdos (1843-1920) produced an immense oeuvre of novels, stories, plays, and journalism that addressed the political, social, and aesthetic questions of his time. This volume will give any instructor interested in teaching Galdos, including those who want ......
Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, this work explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. It analyses the polemical ""Autobiography"" of Harriet Martineau and ""Personal Recollections"" of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary ......