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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…"Memory as forgetting" : historical reference, ethics, and postmodernist fiction -- The pageantry of the past and the reflection of the present : history, reality, and feminism in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- "A knife blade called now" : historiography, narrativity, and the "here and now" in Graham Swift's Waterland -- "What's real and what's true" : metaphors, errata, and the shadow of the real in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- "It's enough stories" : truth and experience in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- Expanding the field.…”
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Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition by Konkle, Lincoln

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Purchasing power black kids and American consumer culture / by Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Consumption in Context 1 --2. The Shadow of Whiteness 27 --3. "What Are You Looking At, You White People?" …”
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The occupation of Iraq winning the war, losing the peace / by Allawi, Ali A., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…The great divides -- The rise of the opposition -- The build-up to war -- The invasion -- Occupation authorities -- A collapsed state : a ruined economy : a damaged society -- Deepening rifts in a brittle society -- Dismantling the Ba'athist state -- The formation of the governing council and the rise of the insurgency -- The shadow of real power -- The enigma of Ayatollah Sistani -- A constitution in waiting -- The fires of sectarian hatreds -- A Marshall Plan for Iraq? …”
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Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought / by Melzer, Patricia, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.…”
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Freedom's prophet Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers / by Newman, Richard S.

Table of Contents: “…I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.…”
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Canada and the United States ambivalent allies / by Thompson, John Herd, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that roared, 1961-1968 -- The ambivalent ally, 1968-1984 -- Republicans and Tories, 1984-1993 -- A North American trajectory? …”
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Jane Campion authorship and personal cinema / by Fox, Alistair

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema -- Origins of a problematic: the Campion family -- The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films -- Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie -- "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table -- Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano -- The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady -- Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy -- "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut -- Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star -- Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.…”
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Reality principles from the absurd to the virtual / by Blau, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…Relevance : the shadow of a magnitude -- The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd -- The soul-complex of Strindberg : suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer -- From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater -- Performing the chaosmos : farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze -- Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough -- Who's there? …”
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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series / by Chapman, Jennie

Table of Contents: “…apocalyptic spectacle and the agency of watching -- "In the world but not of it": agency and social engagement -- A very American apocalypse: Left Behind's neoliberal end-times vision -- The revelation will be televised: media, celebrity, and authority in Left Behind -- Negotiated agency: female subjectivities at the end of history -- Queering the apocalypse: homosocial, homophobic, and homoerotic subjectivities in Left Behind -- Conclusion: Both now and not yet: reading in the shadow of the rapture.…”
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A constitution for all times / by Karlan, Pamela S.

Table of Contents: “…-- The unhealthy activism of the Roberts Court -- The long shadow Bush v. Gore -- The wages of Watergate -- Me, Inc. -- Votes behind bars -- Gideon's muted trumpet -- The cost of death -- What's a right without a remedy? …”
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Canada and the United States ambivalent allies / by Thompson, John Herd, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that roared, 1961-1968 -- The ambivalent ally, 1968-1984 -- Republicans and Tories, 1984-1993 -- A North American trajectory? …”
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Jane Campion authorship and personal cinema / by Fox, Alistair

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: authorship, creativity, and personal cinema -- Origins of a problematic: the Campion family -- The "tragic underbelly" of the family: fantasies of transgression in the early films -- Living in the shadow of the family tree: Sweetie -- "How painful it is to have a family member with a problem like that": authorship as creative adaptation in An angel at my table -- Traumas of separation and the encounter with the phallic other: The piano -- The misfortunes of an heiress: The portrait of a lady -- Exacting revenge on "cunt men": Holy smoke as sexual fantasy -- "That which terrifies and attracts simultaneously": Killing daddy in the cut -- Lighting a lamp: loss, art, and transcendence in The water diary and Bright star -- Conclusion: theorizing the personal component of authorship.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Reality principles from the absurd to the virtual / by Blau, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…Relevance : the shadow of a magnitude -- The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd -- The soul-complex of Strindberg : suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer -- From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater -- Performing the chaosmos : farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze -- Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough -- Who's there? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Plotting apocalypse : reading, agency, and identity in the Left Behind series / by Chapman, Jennie

Table of Contents: “…apocalyptic spectacle and the agency of watching -- "In the world but not of it": agency and social engagement -- A very American apocalypse: Left Behind's neoliberal end-times vision -- The revelation will be televised: media, celebrity, and authority in Left Behind -- Negotiated agency: female subjectivities at the end of history -- Queering the apocalypse: homosocial, homophobic, and homoerotic subjectivities in Left Behind -- Conclusion: Both now and not yet: reading in the shadow of the rapture.…”
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A constitution for all times / by Karlan, Pamela S.

Table of Contents: “…-- The unhealthy activism of the Roberts Court -- The long shadow Bush v. Gore -- The wages of Watergate -- Me, Inc. -- Votes behind bars -- Gideon's muted trumpet -- The cost of death -- What's a right without a remedy? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Thornton Wilder and the Puritan narrative tradition by Konkle, Lincoln

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