Frank Marshall Davies (1905-1987) was a prominent African American poet and journalist in the 1930s and 1940s. Although not as familiar a name as his contemporaries, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendoline Brooks and Langston Hughes, Davis was a significant figure during the Depression and the Second World War. He wrote and published four collections of poetry in the 1930s and 1940s. Black Man's Verse (1935), I Am the American Negro (1937), Through Sepia Eyes (1938), and 47th Street: Poems (1948).
Frank Marshall Davies (1905-1987) was a prominent African American poet and journalist in the 1930s and 1940s. Although not as familiar a name as his ...
In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began helplessly and spasmodically to record her passage in a diary. This is a collection of excerpts from that diary and other notes from this period of the Brathwaite lives.
In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, h...
In this work Jewish-American scholars share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas. They examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavours, and how their intellectual work has developed their sense of themselves as Jews.
In this work Jewish-American scholars share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas. They examine how their Jewishness has...
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical...
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis wh...
This study of autobiographers from the 1960s demonstrates how they often claimed to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. It argues that the autobiographies are instead constructed with specific agendas in an effort to define the generation's and the writers' own identities.
This study of autobiographers from the 1960s demonstrates how they often claimed to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. It argues that...
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chronicles his adventures and misadventures from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to organizing African-American sharecroppers in Georgia.
An account of time served in the great battles of the 20th century - for workers' rights, against fascism, communism, and racism. William Herrick chro...
This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century wave of immigration. A vivid, richly detailed account, the narrative traces Rosa s life in an Italian peasant village and later in Chicago. Marie Hall Ets, a social worker and friend of Rosa s at the Chicago Commons settlement house during the years following World War I, meticulously wrote down her lively stories to create this book. Rosa was born in a silk-making village in Lombardy, a major source of north Italian emigration; she first set...
This is the life story of Rosa Cavalleri, an Italian woman who came to the United States in 1884, one of the peak years in the nineteenth-century w...
