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Toni Morrison
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Toni Morrison

Thirty years of interviews with the author of The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, and other novels

Conversations with Gloria Naylor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Conversations with Gloria Naylor

Collected interviews with the author of The Women of Brewster Place, The Men of Brewster Place, and Linden Hills

Reckonings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Reckonings

Unlike most anthologies that present a single story from many writers, this volume offers an in-depth sampling of two or three stories by a select number of both famous and emergent Native women writers. Here you will find much-loved stories (many made easily accessible for the first time) and vibrant new stories by such well-known contemporary Native American writers as Paula Gunn Allen, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Leslie Marmon Silko as well as the fresh voices of emergent writers such as Reid Gomez and Beth Piatote. These stories celebrate Native American life and provide readers with essential insight into this vibrant culture.

Unflinching gaze
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Unflinching gaze

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Fatal Fascinations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Fatal Fascinations

What is crime? What constitutes violence? What is it permissible to talk about or describe in cultural depictions of crime and violence? What is the impact of portraying crime and violence on an audience? How are crime and violence presented to make them culturally acceptable for educational or entertainment purposes? This book examines representations of violence and crime both historically and in relation to contemporary culture across a wide range of media, including fiction, film, art, biography, and journalism, to interrogate the issues raised. While some articles here analyze the ethics invoked by different representative frameworks, the danger that violence will be treated as spectacle, and the implications of using violence as a polemical device to shift public sentiment, others address the relationship between coercive power, crime and violence that is not necessarily primarily physical, and the political or ideological contexts in which narratives of good and evil are constructed and crime defined.

Truthtellers of the Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Truthtellers of the Times

Frank and lively conversations with some of our finest contemporary women poets. These interviews have been culled from the pages of BELLES LETTRES REVIEW OF BOOKS BY WOMEN, a pioneering journal that for 12 years has brought to light the best of women's writing. Subjects covered are consistently engaging and as varied as the poets themselves.

Afrocubanas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

Afrocubanas

Originally published in Spanish and edited by Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo and playwright and theater critic Inés María Martiatu Terry, this ground-breaking edited collection is the first work of its kind. It places the experiences of black and mulata women at the center of Cuban history. Including essays from a mix of well-known and newly published Cuban authors, the volume examines the lives of Afrocubanas from the late nineteenth century to the present. The volume’s contributors collect and interrogate the voices of black Cuban women and the political, cultural, social, and ideological contributions they have made to the history of their nation. One of the unique qualities o...

Modernist Futures
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Modernist Futures

This book examines what innovation means to novelists today by reading their work in dialogue with the modernist tradition.

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us no...

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 33

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

A Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Jazz," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.