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Presents essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Moving beyond the static "either/or" categories of racial identification found within typical insular conversations about mixed-race peoples, Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable.

Examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skilfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White.

This comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal the profound similarities in their theories of fiction, their understanding of the interconnectedness of place, culture, and experience, and their concerns about American culture.

The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Low's remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.

An exploration of the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia.

Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport.

Foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest Gibson highlights the complex and emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.

An early and largely unknown chapter of Bruce Lee's career anchors this in-depth chronicle of the trailblazing martial arts scene on San Francisco Bay during the early 1960s.

The Distance Between is a nuanced exploration of and reckoning with absent fathers, fatherhood, addiction, adolescent rage, white male privilege, and the author's own toxic masculinity.

In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Hard Damage charts the intergenerational damage caused by war, environmental loss, and the collective grief of exile.

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context.

This collection of short stories is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.

Informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Willa Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods, and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence, the essays in this collection reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.

Mapping Beyond Measure analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space.

The Virgin of Prince Street chronicles Sonja Livingston's quest to explore devotion and spirituality in her life. Meditations on quirky rituals and fading traditions thoughtfully and dynamically interrogate traditional elements of sacramental devotion, especially as they relate to shifting concepts of religion, relationships, and the sacred.

The study of narrative has been a continuous concern from antiquity to the present day because stories are everywhere - from fiction across media to nation building and personal identity. This title sorts out traditional narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.

Joyce Sutphen's evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and travelling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota will recognise themselves, their parents, aunts and uncles, and neighbours in these poems.

Fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. This work comprises more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a range of topics - from Henry James' own life and literary projects to questions on art, literature, and criticism.

This is the first volume of the Sandoz Studies series, a collection of thematically grouped essays that feature writing by and about Mari Sandoz and her work. The scholarly essays and writings of Sandoz place her work into broader contexts, enriching our understanding of her as an author and as a woman deeply connected to the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Traces the evolution of the humanitarian hero, looking at the ways in which historians, politicians, and filmmakers have treated individual rescuers like Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler, as well as the rescue efforts of humanitarian organizations. Contributors also explore classroom possibilities for dealing with the role of rescuers.

Questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. Contra Instrumentalism aims to end the dominance of instrumentalism by showing how it grossly oversimplifies translation practice and fosters an illusion of immediate access to source texts.

Offers an anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language non-fiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern US.

Contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw, Mahtem Shiferraw's poems explore what the woman's body has to do to survive and persevere in the world, especially in the aftermath of abuse.

This dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Dema's collection, The Careless Seamstress, evokes the national and the subjective while reemphasizing that what is personal is always political.

This panoramic history of Jewish food highlights its breadth and depth on a global scale from Renaissance Italy to the post-World War II era in Israel, Argentina, and the United States and critically examines the impact of food on Jewish lives and on the complex set of laws, practices, and procedures that constitutes the Jewish dietary system.

In 1876 one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time. Jonathan Weber examines how Mexican state officials, including President Porfirio Diaz, tried to resolve the public health dilemmas facing the city.

Deploying a postcolonial, ecofeminist approach, Place and Postcolonial Ecofeminism allows theories of space and place-based identities to supply a framework for exploring everyday practices represented within Pakistani women's film and literature.