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Understanding Margaret Atwood

by Donna M. Bickford

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 Provides an overview of Margaret Attwoodâ€™s life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most recent novels, signposts to the connections and intertextual references between them, and attention to their critical reception.
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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee

by Ruth Maxey

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 The first book to examine this pioneering authorâ€™s complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Ruth Maxey offers new insights into widely discussed texts and recuperates overlooked works, such as Mukherjeeâ€™s first and last published short stories, her neglected nonfiction, and her many essays.
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Understanding Etheridge Knight - With A New Preface

by Michael S. Collins

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 "Collins has written the book that Knight has long deserved."-American Literary ScholarshipUnderstanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a major-but understudied-American poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as well as a drug addiction that led to an eight-year prison sentence, to publish five volumes of poetry and a small cache of powerful prose. His status in the front ranks of American poets and thinkers on poetry was acknowledged in 1984, when he won the Shelley Memorial Award, which had previously gone to E.E. Cummings, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W. S. Merwin as an acknowledgement of "genius and need." In this first book-length study of Knight and his complete body of work, Michael Collins examines the poetry of a complex literary figure who, following imprisonment, transformed his life to establish himself as a charismatic voice in American poetry and an accomplished teacher at institutions such as the University of Hartford, Lincoln University, and his own Free Peoples Poetry Workshops. Beginning with a concise biography of Knight, Collins explores Knight's volumes of poetry including Poems from Prison, Black Voices from Prison, Born of a Woman, and The Essential Etheridge Knight. Updated to include a new preface, Understanding Etheridge Knight brings attention to a crucial era in African American and American poetry, and to the literature of the incarcerated, while reflecting on the life and work of an original voice in American poetry.
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Understanding Jorie Graham

by N. S. Boone

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 The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980, Jorie Graham has challenged readers with her bold, innovative, and capacious poetry. In the collections that followed, she expanded the scope of the lyric form through her maximalist poetics, her provocative ethical imagination, and, in later years, her environmentalist vision. Graham was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dream of the Unified Field and has served as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. As a professor at Harvard University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Graham has mentored and inspired the next generation of poets. In Understanding Jorie Graham, N. S. Boone situates Graham among postWorld War II and contemporary American poets, and he provides a look inside her life and career based on a series of exclusive personal interviews. Boone then traces the development of Graham's themes and style through her collections, providing detailed readings of the most significant poems in Graham's corpus. For scholars, students, and fans of Graham's poetry, the volume provides essential context and insight.
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Understanding Octavia E. Butler

by Kendra R. Parker

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 New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Butler''s work blurs the boundaries of commercial genres, exploring themes of race, gender and sexuality, religion, politics, and environment. A recipient of the MacArthur "Genius Grant" and PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, Butler is best known for her novels Kindred (1979), Parable of the Sower (1993), and Fledgling (2005). In Understanding Octavia E. Butler, Kendra R. Parker surveys Butler''s life, career, and major works, highlighting her ongoing interest in Black peoples'' pasts, presents, and futures. After a biographical introduction, Parker evaluates Butler''s career chronologically and thematically, with chapters covering her engagement with the African American literary tradition, her romance novels, and her nonfiction.
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Understanding Hunter S. Thompson

by Kevin J. Hayes

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 An insightful guide to the life and literary career of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) pushed the boundaries of storytelling. While the writer is most recognized for the genre-bending work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), in Understanding Hunter S. Thompson, Kevin J. Hayes provides a broad and nuanced analysis of Thompson''s multifaceted career and unique literary voice. Following a biographical introduction, Hayes examines the different roles Thompson played throughout his literary career, resulting in a view of his work unlike any previously published biographical or critical study. The ensuing chapters analyze Thompson''s work in his capacities as a foreign correspondent, literary critic, New Journalist, gonzo journalist, campaign writer, anthologist, letter writer, and novelist. Hayes draws on previously unrecorded articles, correspondence, and interviews to inform his insightful analysis. Written in an engaging and propulsive style, Understanding Hunter S. Thompson is essential reading for scholars and fans.
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Understanding Adrienne Rich

by Jeannette E. Riley

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 Among the most celebrated American poets of the past half century, Adrienne Rich was the recipient of awards ranging from the Bollingen Prize, to the National Book Award, to the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. In this book, Jeannette E. Riley assesses the full scope of Richâ€™s career through a chronological exploration of her poetry and prose.
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Understanding Lynn Nottage

by Jennifer L. Hayes

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 The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ruined) and at a Pennsylvania factory (Sweat), she creatively foregrounds explorations of race, gender, and class. In Understanding Lynn Nottage, Jennifer L. Hayes presents an accessible overview of Nottage''s body of work to date, connecting her to other Black female playwrights and situating her in the African American literary tradition. In this character-driven study, Hayes examines how the playwright''s dynamic narratives bring together diverse perspectives to address historical and contemporary issues. Hayes argues that Nottage privileges Black women''s voices within vital discourse about topics such as migration, domestic terrorism, and historical erasure. This book lays essential groundwork for future study of Nottage, who will continue to be a central dramatic voice for years to come, examining social problems through complex portraits of communities struggling to balance their values with shifting societal norms.
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Understanding Barbara Kingsolver

by Ian Tan

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 A modern understanding of critically acclaimed and best-selling author Barbara Kingsolverâ€™s fiction.
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Understanding Margaret Atwood

by Donna M. Bickford

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 A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood''s most recent novels and enduring themesIn 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood''s The Handmaid''s Tale introduced the acclaimed and bestselling Canadian author to a new generation and reminded Atwood''s long-established readers of her uncanny prescience. Understanding Margaret Atwood provides an overview of the author''s life, descriptions and analyses of the key themes present in her most recent novels, signposts to the connections and intertextual references between them, and attention to their critical reception. Following a biographical overview, author Donna M. Bickford studies The Handmaid''s Tale (1985) and its sequel The Testaments (2019), retellings of The Odyssey in The Penelopiad (2005) and The Tempest in Hag Seed (2016), the MaddAddam trilogy (2003, 2009, 2013), and The Heart Goes Last (2015). Written in clear language and a style appropriate both for scholars and for new students of Atwood, Bickford locates Atwood''s recent works in the literary, political, and social context. Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, essays, and poetry, which have collectively sold more than eight million copies worldwide; has received numerous awards and accolades, including multiple Booker Prizes and a PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award; and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Understanding Michael S. Harper

by Michael Antonucci

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 The first book devoted to the groundbreaking poetâ€™s work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates his poetic project within Black expressive tradition. The study examines poems drawn from the eleven volumes of verse that Harper (1938-2016) produced between 1970 and 2010.
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Understanding Jonathan Franzen

by Timothy W. Galow

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 The first comprehensive study to address Franzen's work to date, including his latest novel, CrossroadsJonathan Franzennovelist and essayistis a critical darling, commercial success, and magnet for controversy. His career took off with the publication of The Corrections (2000), which won a National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His follow-up, Freedom (2009), received so much attention that it started a debate over the politics of critical attention. Love him or hate him, Franzen has proven to be a crucial figure in twenty-first century American letters, and the publication of each new novel has been a major literary event.In Understanding Jonathan Franzen, Timothy W. Galow studies Franzen's first five novels and surveys his most recent, Crossroads, which was published to much fanfare in 2021. He traces Franzen's work from its roots in late twentieth-century literary theory and experimental postmodernism through the socially conscious family novels for which the author is best known. This careful analysis provides a new lens for viewing each of the works and demonstrates why Franzen's stories of (white, bourgeois) American life have inspired and provoked readers for over two decades.
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Sugaring Off

by Gillian French

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 A dazzling and evocative novel about seventeen-year-old Owl, left partially deaf by an early childhood tragedy that will come back to haunt her all these years later when her father is released from prison, and who is always her freest self while hiking the forested acres surrounding her familyâ€™s New Hampshire maple sugar farm.
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Finding Francis - One Family'S Journey From Slavery To Freedom

by Elizabeth J. West

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 Francis is found. Beyond Francis, a family is found - in archival material that barely deigned to notice their existence. This is the story of Francis Sistrunk and her children, from enslavement into forced migration across South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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Embracing Vocation - Cormac Mccarthy'S Writing Life, 1959-1974

by Dianne C. Luce

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 Devotees of Cormac McCarthyâ€™s novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of Americaâ€™s greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and literary critics - and to the many fans - interested in his work.
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Understanding Philip K. Dick

by Eric Carl Link

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 Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. Eric Carl Link introduces readers to the life, career, and work of this groundbreaking, prolific, and immeasurably influential force in American literature.
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The Jewish Confederates

by Robert N. Rosen

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 Intrigued by the apparent irony of the story, Robert Rosen weaves a complex chronicle that outlines how Southern Jews - many of them recently arrived immigrants from Bavaria, Prussia, Hungary, and Russia who had fled European revolutions and anti-Semitic governments - attempted to navigate the fraught landscape of the American Civil War.
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Gullah Spirituals - The Sound Of Freedom And Protest In The South Carolina Sea Islands

by Eric Sean Crawford

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 Traces Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. The book illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s.
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A Short History Of Charleston

by Robert N. Rosen

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 A lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city. Beginning with the founding of colonial Charles Town and ending three hundred and fifty years later in the present day, Robert Rosen's fast-paced narrative takes the reader on a journey through the city's complicated history.
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Sharks In The Shallows - Attacks On The Carolina Coast

by Clay Creswell

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 Beyond the statistics, Sharks in the Shallows offers a history of shark-human interactions and an introduction to the world of shark attacks. With a better understanding of sharks' responses to their environment, Clay Creswell hopes people will develop a greater appreciation of the invaluable role sharks play in our marine environment.
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Understanding Colson Whitehead

by Derek C. Maus

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 In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Although Whitehead's widely divergent books complicate overarching categorization, Derek Maus argues that they are linked by their scepticism toward the ostensible wisdom inherited from past generations.
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Understanding William S. Burroughs

by Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

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 Through critical readings, Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. examines the life of William S. Burroughs and the evolution of his various radical styles not just in writing but also in audio, film, and painting. Miller argues that Burroughs, more than any other author, ushered in the era of both postmodern fiction and poststructural philosophy.
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Understanding James Baldwin

by Marc Dudley

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 The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc Dudley shows that a proper grasp of Baldwin's work begins with a grasp of the times in which he wrote.
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Gone With The Wind As Book And Film

by Richard Harwell

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 One of the foremost authorities on Gone With the Wind, Richard Harwell, has gathered into one collection the most significant writings on the book, the film, and author Margaret Mitchell. Harwell brings special depth and understanding to these writings because of his personal acquaintance with Mitchell and his long-time study of GWTW phenomena.
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