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The Blue Period
Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of African American literature and its authors during the Cold War, an era McCarthy calls “the Blue Period.” In the years after World War II, to be a black writer was to face a stark predicament. The contest between the Soviet Union and the United States was a global one—an ideological battle that dominated almost every aspect of the cultural agenda. On the one hand was the Soviet Union, espousing revolutionary communism that promised egalitarianism while being hostile to conceptions of personal freedom. On the other hand was the United States, a country steeped in racial prejudice and the policies of Jim Crow. Black writers of this time ...
Embodying Difference
This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphy’s The Body Silent, Simi Linton’s My Body Politic, Rod Michalko’s The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, three memoirs by Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book, as well as two novels, Matthew Griffin’s Hide and Armistead Maupin’s Maybe the Moon. All of the texts discussed in this book negotiate the significance of bodily and perceptual habits, the influence of language and culture on embodiment, the importance of relationality and community, the severe effects of misrecognition, and the possibilities of emancipation and social recognition. Hence, they are read as pioneering contributions to the emerging field of critical phenomenology.
McFarland Collections
John McFarland (ca.1820-1891), of Scottish lineage, married Margaret Campbell and, as a widower, immigrated from Ireland to Philadelphia. His son, James, immigrated to join John in the 1860s. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana and elsewhere.
Such Sweet Thunder
Set in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community.
The Time War
Was macht Andrain Albus Uhren so begehrt? Sie zeigen dir nicht, wie die Zeit vergeht, sondern halten sie für dich an, wenn du einmal mehr davon brauchst. Aber der Handel, den Andrain vor Jahren dafür abgeschlossen hat, birgt nicht nur Reputation und Reichtum, sondern auch große Gefahr. Diese scheint bereits unabwendbar, als die Astrophysikerin Hemma ihren Wecker reklamiert. Dieser hält sie mit seinen Geräuschen wach, obwohl er eigentlich nicht ticken sollte.
Bern Book
The Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a “diary of an isolated soul” (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a “record of a voyage of the mind.” The voyage begins with Carter’s furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked “the hated question” (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls “lacerating subjective sociology.” Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.
Meine weisse Stadt und ich
1944/45 hatte er als umjubelter GI Europa befreit, als er Jahre später wiederkommt, um sich als Schriftsteller niederzulassen, will man ihm nicht mal ein Zimmer vermieten. 1953 lässt er sich in Bern nieder, wo er als Schriftsteller und Englischlehrer arbeitet. Verlässt er das Haus, ist er immer auf die ihm verhasste Frage gefasst: Warum bist du nach Bern gekommen? Und so macht sich Carter in seinem Buch auf, diese Frage, die an seinen «Grundfesten rüttelt», zu bewältigen. In immer neuen Anläufen erzählt er, warum er nicht in Paris, Amsterdam oder München geblieben ist, er erzählt Kindheitserinnerungen aus Kansas City und vor allem von Begegnungen in Bern, wo ihn alle anstarren – Männer, Frauen, Kinder, Hunde, Katzen ... –, von Geldsorgen, Liebesgeschichten, Reisen, Wohnungssuche. Mit so unzerstörbarem Humor wie hartnäckigem Engagement und voller Ambivalenz geht er dem Rassismus auf den Grund, der Verschiedenheit der Menschen, dem Fremdsein des Individuums in der Gesellschaft. Und ganz nebenbei zeichnet er ein scharf beobachtetes Porträt seiner Zeit, seiner Gesellschaft und seiner Stadt.
World Authors, 2000-2005
Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.
