White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Row Jess)(Paperback)

White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination (Row Jess)(Paperback)

A bold, incisive look at race and reparative writing in American fiction, by the author of Your Face in Mine White Flights is a meditation on whiteness in American fiction and culture from the end of the civil rights movement to the present. At the heart of the book, Jess Row ties 'white

Your Face in Mine (Row Jess)(Paperback)

A widely praised young writer delivers a daring, ambitious novel about identity and race in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

Dune (Herbert Frank)(Paperback)

Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his

Bream Gives Me Hiccups - And Other Stories (Eisenberg Jesse)(Paperback / softback)

The fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright and New Yorker contributor Jesse

Endurance: My Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery (Kelly Scott)(Paperback)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few have. Now, he takes us inside a sphere utterly hostile to human life: the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight. 'Kelly's

Race and the Making of American Political Science (Blatt Jessica)(Paperback)

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually

The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (Buell Lawrence)(Paperback)

With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural

We Are the Land: A History of Native California (Akins Damon B.)(Pevná vazba)

'A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White's California Exposures.'--Kirkus Reviews Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous. Before there was such a thing as 'California,' there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial

Stephen King and American Politics (Blouin Michael J.)(Paperback)

Stephen King and American Politics examines the complicated political character of King's fiction. From the 1960s to Donald Trump, these works force us question how America got into its current political crisis - and where it might go from

The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Jennings Willie James)(Paperback)

A ground-breaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period--winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence 'Detailing the nooks and crannies of white supremacist Christianity, The

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Rapport Evan)(Paperback)

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research,

American Poetry as Transactional Art (Fredman Stephen)(Paperback)

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry--its forms and traditions. Indeed much of

Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (Morgan Iwan)(Paperback)

In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (Chude-Sokei Louis)(Paperback)

Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fiction The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the

American Outlaw (James Jesse)(Paperback)

The New York Times bestselling self-portrait of a flawed but determined Jesse James: rebel, outlaw, gearhead, artist, entrepreneur, lost son, and fiercely committed father. Jesse James is everything you imagined him to be--and more than you ever expected. He has led a violent life. He's survived

How to Drag Race (Kevin McKenna)(Paperback)

The photos in this edition are black and white.From race registration to the finish line and everything in between, How to Drag Race explains all the steps for successful drag racing, so the aspiring drag racer can easily setup his or her car, launch off the line, and quickly run at every

Bug Club Independent Fiction Year 1 Blue A Jay and Sniffer: The Bike Race (Miles Liz)(Paperback / softback)

Dune (Herbert Frank)(Pevná vazba)

Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timoth e Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Dave

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? (Carlstrom Nancy White)(Paperback)

In lilting verse and exuberant paintings, the first of Nancy White Carlstrom's and Bruce Degen's celebrated Jesse Bear books creates a special day not only for Jesse Bear, but for young children everywhere. What does a little bear wear while he romps through a bright and sunny day? In the morning,

Jung & the Alchemical Imagination (Raff Jeffrey)(Paperback)

Jung and the Alchemical Imagination illustrates the spiritual nature of Jungian psychology and the debt it owes to the tradition of esoteric religion. Unlike other books on Jung and alchemy which contain a psychological interpretation of alchemical material, this work uses alchemy to understand the

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings (Gilman Charlotte Perkins)(Paperback)

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon--with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree and a Granta Best Young American Novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short

Oh, Freedom! (D'Adamo Francesco)(Paperback)

A newly translated Young Adult's fiction title set in the American South from the best-selling and award winning author of Iqbal. Oh Freedom is about a child's loss of innocence, and perseverance in the face of oppression.Francesco D'Adamo is an Italian author born in Milan in 1949. Francesco

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (Adams John Joseph)(Paperback)

'This volume showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre and celebrates its current renaissance.' --Washington Post Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what