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Being numerous poetry and the ground of social life / by Izenberg, Oren

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: poems, poetry, personhood -- White thin bone: Yeatsian personhood -- Oppen's silence, Crusoe's silence, and the silence of other minds -- The justice of my feelings for Frank O'Hara -- Language poetry and collective life -- We are reading.…”
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Out of the mountains Appalachian stories / by Willis, Meredith Sue

Table of Contents: “…Triangulation -- Pie knob -- Big boss is back -- On the road with C.T. Savage -- Tara White -- Speak well of the dead -- Nineteen sixty-nine -- Evenings with Dotson -- The little harlots -- Scandalous Roy critchfield -- Fellowship of kindred minds -- Elvissa and the Rabbi.…”
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Knut Hamsun the dark side of literary brilliance / by Žagar, Monika

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia -- Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins -- Imagining the Indians -- Imagining black and white -- A taste of the Orient -- Imagining the sly magic "lapps" -- Imagining degeneration and revolution -- The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.…”
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Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / by Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux -- Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market -- "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white -- The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Redressing the new Negro woman.…”
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Intimacy in America dreams of affiliation in antebellum literature / by Coviello, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- Intimate property : race and the civics of self-relation -- The melancholy of little girls : Poe, pedophilia, and the logic of slavery -- Bowels and fear : nationalism, sodomy, and whiteness in Moby-Dick -- Loving strangers : intimacy and nationality in Whitman -- Epilogue : nation mourns.…”
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Understanding Don DeLillo / by Veggian, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.…”
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Understanding Don DeLillo / by Veggian, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.…”
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The cross and other Jewish stories by Shapiro, Lamed, 1878-1948

Table of Contents: “…Pogrom tales -- The cross -- Pour out thy wrath -- In the dead town -- The kiss -- White challah -- The Jewish regime -- The old world -- Smoke -- Tiger -- Eating days -- The rebbe and the rebbetsin -- The man and his servant -- Between the fields -- Myrtle -- The new world -- At sea -- The chair -- New Yorkish.…”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…Transmogrifying the traumatic into the democratic ideal in autobiographical cultural memory: Nelson Mandela's The long walk to freedom / Mike Kgomotso Masemola -- White lies, white truth: confession and childhood in white women's narratives / Georgina Horrell -- Reconciling citizenship, AIDs, and gayness in post-apartheid South Africa / John C. …”
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Hollywood's last golden age politics, society, and the seventies film in America / by Kirshner, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Before the flood -- Talkin' 'bout my generation -- 1968, Nixon, and the inward turn -- The personal is political -- Crumbling cities and revisionist history -- Privacy, paranoia, disillusion, and betrayal -- White knights in existential despair -- Businessmen drink my wine -- Appendix : 100 "seventies" films of the last golden age.…”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…: Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood -- Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Afterword /Janice M. …”
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The beat generation and counterculture Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac / by Chandarlapaty, Raj, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jack Kerouac, the common "human story" and white-other historicity : beatniks face the challenge of popularizing and humanizing otherness.…”
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Faulkner in the twenty-first century Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…: the difference between white men and white men / Walter Benn Michaels -- Beyond the edge of the map : Faulkner, Turner, and the frontier line / Robert W. …”
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Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions gender, culture, and nation building / by Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Race mixture and the representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes -- Temperance and miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans -- Cuban slave fiction : race mixture in Sab -- Floral counterdiscourse : miscegenation, ecofeminism, and hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- The white blackbird : miscegenation, genre, and the tragic mulatta in Howells, Harper, and The babes of romance.…”
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Literature and the creative economy / by Brouillette, Sarah, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The creative class and cultural governance -- Work as art, art as life -- The psychology of creativity -- Economy and pathology in Aravind Adiga's The white tiger and Monica Ali's In the kitchen -- Economy and authenticity in Daljit Nagra's Look we have coming to Dover! …”
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Difficult women on television drama : the gender politics of complex women in serial narratives / by Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Female Sexual Pleasure and Freedom: Outlander and Westworld -- Violence Against Women and Women Who Kill: Big Little Lies, Orange is the New Black, and Wentworth -- Intersectionality: Beyond the White Female Subject -- Conclusion.…”
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What I cannot say to you / by Jackson, Vanessa Furse

Table of Contents: “…Darrell's garage -- On the road to Greater Bishop -- Breaking faith -- Living alone -- A small independence -- Grandmother's footsteps -- Victoria and Albert I : running away to sea -- Victoria and Albert II : day-trippers -- Telling stories -- Imagining friends -- A little kingdom -- The outing -- White sandals -- What I cannot say to you.…”
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Turncoats, traitors, and fellow travelers culture and politics of the early Cold War / by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Matthiessen's From the heart of Europe -- What's black and white and red all over? the Cold War and the geopolitics of race -- What it takes to be a man : masculinity, deviance, and sexuality -- The dreaded voyage into the world : nomadic ethics -- Frontier mythographies : savagery and civilization in John Ford.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Complicating constructions race, ethnicity, and hybridity in American texts /

Table of Contents: “…I love Lucy: taking on the postwar consumer fantasy / Tracy Floreani -- Some do, some don't: whiteness theory and the treatment of race in African American drama / William Over -- Traumatic legacy in Darryl Pinckney's High cotton / Alexandra W. …”
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