wyszukanych pozycji: 6
American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race
ISBN: 9780226819662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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112,00 zł |
American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race
ISBN: 9780226819648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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386,94 zł |
Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
ISBN: 9780226293905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre the race melodrama and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena.
"Blood Talk" shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in... The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the ...
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163,80 zł |
Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: Race, Conflict and Culture
ISBN: 9780822310464 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection seeks to place "Pudd nhead Wilson" a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain s in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors introduction argues the virtues of using "Pudd nhead Wilson" as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender.
In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in... This collection seeks to place "Pudd nhead Wilson" a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain s in the context of contemporary critical appr...
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114,06 zł |
Dark Twins: Imposture and Identity in Mark Twain's America
ISBN: 9780226293875 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging themselves." Mark Twain enjoyed trading on that horror, as the many confidence men, assumed identities, and disguised characters in his fiction attest. In Dark Twins, Susan Gillman challenges the widely held assumption that Twain's concern with identity is purely biographical and argues that what has been regarded as a problem of individual psychology must be located instead within American society around the turn of the century. Drawing on Twain's...
"Many persons have such a horror of being taken in," wrote P. T. Barnum, "that they believe themselves to be a sham and are continually humbugging the...
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163,80 zł |
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9780816647231 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the "Negro question" that defined so much of his intellectual life and the "woman question" that engaged writers and feminist activists around him, Next to the Color Line argues that within Du Bois's work is a politics of juxtaposition that connects race, gender, sexuality, and justice.This provocative collection investigates a set of political formulations and rhetorical strategies by which Du Bois approached, used, and repressed issues of gender and sexuality. The essays in Next to the Color Line propose a return to Du...
Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the "Negro question" that defined so much of his intellectual life and the "wom...
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108,87 zł |