From the mind of Elizabeth Rhodes, author of Walk of Life, a poem, comes a soul stirring book about the life of a young African-American teenager, living in deep Southern America. The story gives an account of how circumstances in life can determine how we turn out in the end. Or does it?
From the mind of Elizabeth Rhodes, author of Walk of Life, a poem, comes a soul stirring book about the life of a young African-American teenager, liv...
At the height of Maria de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. "Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion" gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas's signature topics-gender equality and domestic violence-written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative...
At the height of Maria de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novel...
The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.
Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desenga?os...
The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, w...
