Conversations with Sarah Schulman

Edited by Will Brantley
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

The twenty-four interviews collected in Conversations with Sarah Schulman, roughly a fifth of those that exist, have enabled Schulman to expound upon her distinctive fusion of art and social commitment. ...

Inventing Benjy

By Frédérique Spill
Translated by Arby Gharibian
Foreword by Taylor Hagood
Categories: Literature

Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la ...

See Justice Done

By Christopher Michael Brown
Categories: Literature
Series: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies

In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this ...

Conversations with Orhan Pamuk

Edited by Erdağ Göknar & Pelin Kıvrak
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

In over thirty interviews ranging from 1982 until 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engagement. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk (b. 1952) is a foremost ...

Tending to the Past

By Karen Michele Chandler
Categories: Literature
Series: Children's Literature Association Series

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary families ...

Black Hibiscus

Edited by John Wharton Lowe
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Simone A. Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, Noelle ...

Intersecting Aesthetics

Edited by Charlene Regester, Cynthia Baron, Ellen C. Scott, Terri Simone Francis, and Robin G. Vander
Categories: African American Studies

Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Terri Simone Francis, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith ...

Conversations with Karl Ove Knausgaard

Edited by Bob Blaisdell
Categories: Literature
Series: Literary Conversations Series

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, when his debut novel won the prestigious Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. His fame continued to ...

American Landscapes

Edited by Ann J. Abadie & J. Richard Gruber
Categories: Art And Architecture
Series: University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses Series

American Landscapes: Meditations on Art and Literature in a Changing World is a major contemporary survey of landscapes in art and literature of the United States, especially the American South. Inspired ...

Djeha, the North African Trickster

Edited by Christa C. Jones
Categories: Folklore

Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster ...