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The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books - Jennifer Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books - Jennifer Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children''s Picture Books , Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children''s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children''s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children''s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children''s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children''s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children''s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.

DKK 276.00
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Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic - Keith D. Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic - Keith D. Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In his final speech "I''ve Been to the Mountaintop," Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King''s finest, it is mainly known for its concluding two minutes, wherein King compares himself to Moses and seems to predict his own assassination. But King gave an hour-long speech, and the concluding segment can only be understood in relation to the whole. King scholars generally focus on his theology, not his relation to the Bible or the circumstance of a Baptist speaking in a Pentecostal setting. Even though King cited and explicated the Bible in hundreds of speeches and sermons, Martin Luther King''s Biblical Epic is the first book to analyze his approach to the Bible and its importance to his rhetoric and persuasiveness.Martin Luther King''s Biblical Epic argues that King challenged dominant Christian supersessionist conceptions of Judaism in favor of a Christianity that affirms Judaism as its wellspring. In his final speech, King implicitly but strongly argues that one can grasp Jesus only by first grasping Moses and the Hebrew prophets. This book also traces the roots of King''s speech to its Pentecostal setting and to the Pentecostals in his audience. In doing so, Miller puts forth the first scholarship to credit the mostly unknown, but brilliant African American architect who created the large yet compact church sanctuary, which made possible the unique connection between King and his audience on the night of his last speech.Keith D. Miller, Tempe, Arizona, is professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King Jr. and Its Sources.

DKK 867.00
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Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic - Keith D. Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic - Keith D. Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In his final speech "I''ve Been to the Mountaintop," Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his support of African American garbage workers on strike in Memphis. Although some consider this oration King''s finest, it is mainly known for its concluding two minutes, wherein King compares himself to Moses and seems to predict his own assassination. But King gave an hour-long speech, and the concluding segment can only be understood in relation to the whole. King scholars generally focus on his theology, not his relation to the Bible or the circumstance of a Baptist speaking in a Pentecostal setting. Even though King cited and explicated the Bible in hundreds of speeches and sermons, Martin Luther King''s Biblical Epic is the first book to analyze his approach to the Bible and its importance to his rhetoric and persuasiveness.Martin Luther King''s Biblical Epic argues that King challenged dominant Christian supersessionist conceptions of Judaism in favor of a Christianity that affirms Judaism as its wellspring. In his final speech, King implicitly but strongly argues that one can grasp Jesus only by first grasping Moses and the Hebrew prophets. This book also traces the roots of King''s speech to its Pentecostal setting and to the Pentecostals in his audience. In doing so, Miller puts forth the first scholarship to credit the mostly unknown, but brilliant African American architect who created the large yet compact church sanctuary, which made possible the unique connection between King and his audience on the night of his last speech.Keith D. Miller, Tempe, Arizona, is professor of English at Arizona State University. He is the author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King Jr. and Its Sources.

DKK 311.00
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Improvising Sabor - Sue Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Improvising Sabor - Sue Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachachá and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalú''s development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachachá and pachanga''s popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.

DKK 312.00
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Improvising Sabor - Sue Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Improvising Sabor - Sue Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Improvising Sabor: Cuban Dance Music in New York begins in 1960s New York and examines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Such innovators as José Fajardo, Johnny Pacheco, George Castro, and Eddy Zervigón dazzled the Palladium ballroom and other Latin music venues in those crucible years. Author Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York. While much about Latin jazz and salsa has been written, this book focuses on the relatively unexplored New York charangas that were performing during the chachachá and pachanga craze of the early sixties. Indeed, many accounts cut straight from the 1950s and the mambo to the bugalú''s development in the late 1960s with little mention of the chachachá and pachanga''s popularity in the mid-twentieth century. Improvising Sabor addresses not only this lost and ignored history, but contends with issues of race, class, and identity while evaluating differences in style between players from prerevolution Cuban charangas and those of 1960s New York. Through comprehensive explorations and transcriptions of numerous musical examples as well as interviews with and commentary from Latin musicians, Improvising Sabor highlights a specific sabor that is rooted in both Cuban dance music forms and the rich performance culture of Latin New York. The distinctive styles generated by these musicians sparked compelling points of departure and influence.

DKK 876.00
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The Films of Martin Ritt - Gabriel Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Films of Martin Ritt - Gabriel Miller - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The first in-depth critical analysis of Ritt''s films and a justification of his renown as America''s premier social-issues filmmaker In a Hollywood career that spanned more than thirty years, Martin Ritt (1914-1990) directed twenty-six films. Among them were some of Hollywood''s most enduring works -- Hud, Hombre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Molly Maguires, The Front, and Norma Rae.In addition to displaying a passionate commitment to social issues, Ritt''s body of work represents a sustained exploration of the American myth and American national character. This study of his films shows how his work articulates the communal, agrarian ideal and its perversion as industrialism and urbanism have denatured the landscape.Encompassing a hundred years of American life, these films follow the common man through the chronology of social history, including the arrival of the railroads in the West, coal mining in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, Jack Johnson''s rise as the first black heavyweight champion of the boxing world, the television blacklist, spying and the Cold War, trade unions, and the war in Vietnam. The subjects he treats project a cultural framework for examining what America means as a nation and as an experience.The sixties was the decade of Ritt''s most sustained achievement. This period culminated in his masterpiece, The Molly Maguires, perhaps the finest film ever made on the subject of American labor. In the first detailed analysis of this great realistic film The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man shows that its greatness lies in Ritt''s complex interweaving of love and friendship, the labor struggle, the story of the immigrant dream, and the ideal of upward mobility.The book includes analyses of all twenty-six films, including such early works as Edge of the City and The Long Hot Summer, as well as such later successes as Norma Rae, Sounder, and Murphy''s Romance. Ritt''s work in theater, notably in the Group Theatre, which he joined in 1937, and his being blacklisted from television during the 1950s, informed his directorial philosophy throughout his career. Many recognize him as America''s finest director of social films.Gabriel Miller is chair of the English department at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Screening the Novel (1980), John Irving (1982), and Clifford Odets (1989).

DKK 312.00
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The Eye That Is Language - Daniele Pitavy Souques - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Eye That Is Language - Daniele Pitavy Souques - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty''s view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty''s fiction, memoir, and photographs in illuminating ways. The nine essays collected here offer scholars, critics, and avid readers a new understanding and enjoyment of Welty''s work. The volume explores beloved stories in Welty''s masterpiece The Golden Apples, as well as "A Curtain of Green," "Flowers for Marjorie," "Old Mr. Marblehall," "A Still Moment," "Livvie," "Circe," "Kin," and The Optimist''s Daughter , One Writer''s Beginnings , and One Time, One Place . Essays include "Technique as Myth: The Structure of The Golden Apples " (1979), "A Blazing Butterfly: The Modernity of Eudora Welty" (1987), and others written between 2000 and 2018. Together, they reveal and explain Welty''s brilliance for employing the particular to discover the universal. Pitavy-Souques, who briefly lived in and often revisited the South, met with Welty several times in her Jackson, Mississippi, home. Her readings draw on the visual arts, European theorists, and styles of modernism, postmodernism, surrealism, as well as the baroque and the gothic. The included essays reflect Pitavy-Souques''s European education, her sophisticated understanding of intellectual theories and artistic movements abroad, and her passion for the literary achievement of women of genius. The Eye That Is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty reveals the way in which Welty''s narrative techniques broaden her work beyond southern myths and mysteries into a global perspective of humanity.

DKK 303.00
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History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Perspectives on French-language comics and graphic novelsINCLUDESBaru, "The Working Class and Comics: A French Cartoonist''s Perspective"Bart Beaty, "The Concept of ''Patrimoine'' in Contemporary Franco-Belgian Comics Production"Cécile Vernier Danehy, "Textual Absence, Textual Color: A Journey Through Memory-Cosey''s Saigon-Hanoi"Hugo Frey, "Trapped in the Past: Anti-Semitism in Hergé''s Flight 714"Pascal Lefèvre, "The Congo Drawn in Belgium"Fabrice Leroy, "Games Without Frontiers: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation in Schuiten and Peeters''s La frontière invisible"Amanda Macdonald, "Distractions from History: Redrawing Ethnic Trajectories in New Caledonia"Mark McKinney, "The Algerian War in Road to America (Baru, Thévenet, and Ledran)"Ann Miller, "Citizenship and City Spaces: Bande dessinée as Reportage"Clare Tufts, "Re-imaging Heroes / Rewriting History: The Pictures and Texts in Children''s Newspapers in France, 1939-45"Mark McKinney is associate professor of French at Miami University, Ohio. With Alec G. Hargreaves, he edited Post-Colonial Cultures in France.

DKK 312.00
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Peter Bogdanovich - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Peter Bogdanovich - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Before he was the Academy Award- nominated director of The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich (b. 1939) interviewed some of cinema''s great masters: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, and others. Since becoming an acclaimed filmmaker himself, he has given countless interviews to the press about his own career.This volume collects thirteen of his best, most comprehensive, and most insightful interviews, many long out-of print and several never before published in their entirety. They cover more than forty years of directing, with Bogdanovich talking candidly about his great triumphs, such as The Last Picture Show and What''s Up, Doc?, and his overlooked gems, such as Daisy Miller and They All Laughed.Assembled by acclaimed critic Peter Tonguette, also author of a new critical biography of Bogdanovich, these interviews demonstrate that Bogdanovich is not only one of America''s finest filmmakers, but also one of its most eloquent when discussing film and his own remarkable movies.Peter Tonguette, New Albany, Ohio, is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Weekly Standard, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, and many other publications. Also the author of Orson Welles Remembered and The Films of James Bridges, he is author of a forthcoming critical biography of Peter Bogdanovich.

DKK 858.00
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Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes - Doug Singsen - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes - Doug Singsen - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in general are products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its presence. Even when comics creators and publishers sought to advance an antiracist agenda, their attempts were often undermined by a lack of awareness of their own whiteness and the ideological baggage that goes along with it. Even the most celebrated figures of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions or explanations. Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics. Josef Benson and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been defined, transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror, crime, funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary fiction, and historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking book assesses industry giants, highlights some of the most important episodes in American comic book history, and demonstrates how they relate to one another and form a larger pattern, in unexpected and surprising ways.

DKK 303.00
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William Wyler - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

William Wyler - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood''s Golden Age. One of the film industry''s most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards, twelve nominations for his direction, and five nominations for his work as a producer. No film director in history has guided more actors to Academy Award nominations (thirty-one). During his fifty-year career, he directed some of Hollywood''s most enduring films­-among them Ben-Hur, Jezebel, The Letter, The Little Foxes, Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights, the documentary Memphis Belle, and the musical Funny Girl. William Wyler: Interviews spans his career and includes three previously unpublished exchanges. Despite the accolades, Wyler has not received the kind of academic and critical appraisal lavished on contemporaries such as John Ford, Orson Welles, Frank Capra, George Stevens, and Billy Wilder. In his later interviews he seems good-natured about this neglect, but it clearly rankled. He dismisses detractors by explaining that he was always interested in trying out new forms, variety being more important to him than mining the same territory.Gabriel Miller is professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark. He has published books on Daniel Fuchs, John Irving, Clifford Odets, and Fred Zinnemann, and he is the author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man (University Press of Mississippi).

DKK 858.00
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Conversations with Anais Nin - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Anais Nin - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Largely ignored by mainstream audiences for the first thirty years of her career, Anais Nin (1903-1977) finally came into her own with the publication of the first part of her diary in 1966. Thereafter she was catapulted into fame. Throughout the late sixties and the seventies she attracted a host of devoted and admiring readers in the counterculture, who were magnetized by her personal liberation and openness. For a woman to make such a probing exploration of the intimate recesses of her psyche made her a cult figure with a large and lasting readership. Born in France, she came to America in the thirties. Her liaison with Henry Miller and his wife June, documented in her explicitly detailed diaries, became the subject of a major film of the nineties. Nin's forthright books such as Delta of Venus, her diaries that continue to be published in a steady flow, and her charismatic charm made her the subject of many candid interviews, such as those collected here. Eight included in this volume are printed for the first time. Many others were originally published in magazines that are now defunct. Nin elaborates on subjects only touched upon in the diaries, and she speaks also of her role in the women's movement and of her philosophies on art, writing, and individual growth.

DKK 307.00
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Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers - Arthur Redding - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers - Arthur Redding - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism.In Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War, Arthur Redding traces the historical contours of this manufactured consent by considering the ways in which authors, playwrights, and directors participated in, responded to, and resisted the construction of Cold War discourses. The book argues that a fugitive resistance to the status quo emerged as writers and activists variously fled into exile, went underground, or grudgingly accommodated themselves to the new spirit of the times. To this end, Redding examines work by a wide swath of creators, including essayists (W. E. B. Du Bois and F. O. Matthiessen), novelists (Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Jane Bowles, and Paul Bowles), playwrights (Arthur Miller), poets (Sylvia Plath), and filmmakers (Elia Kazan and John Ford). The book explores how writers and artists created works that went against mainstream notions of liberty and offered alternatives to the false dichotomy between capitalist freedom and totalitarian tyranny. These complex responses and the era they reflect had and continue to have profound effects on American and international cultural and intellectual life, as can be seen in the connections Redding makes between past and present.

DKK 312.00
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Fantastic Cities - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Fantastic Cities - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Panem''s Capitol, the Sprawl, Caprica City--American (and Americanized) urban environments have always been a part of the fantastic imagination. Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. Fantastic Cities builds on a mix of theoretical and methodological tools that are drawn from criticism of the fantastic, media studies, cultural studies, American studies, and urban studies. Contributors explore cultural media across many platforms such as Christopher Nolan''s Dark Knight Trilogy, the Arkham Asylum video games, the 1935 movie serial The Phantom Empire , Kim Stanley Robinson''s fiction, Colson Whitehead''s novel Zone One , the vampire films Only Lovers Left Alive and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night , Paolo Bacigalupi''s novel The Water Knife , some of Kenny Scharf''s videos, and Samuel Delany''s classic Dhalgren . Together, the contributions in Fantastic Cities demonstrate that the fantastic is able to "real-ize" that which is normally confined to the abstract, metaphorical, and/or subjective. Consequently, both utopian aspirations for and dystopian anxieties about the American city become literalized in the fantastic city.

DKK 303.00
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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O''Connor," which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O''Connor''s work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O''Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O''Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention. The volume opens with "New Methodologies," which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O''Connor''s fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, "New Contexts," stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called "Strange Bedfellows," puts O''Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, "O''Connor''s Legacy," reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O''Connor''s interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O''Connor.

DKK 312.00
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The Sacred Language of the Abakua - Lydia Cabrera - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

The Sacred Language of the Abakua - Lydia Cabrera - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution''s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera''s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first "insider''s" view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera''s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba''s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera''s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.

DKK 437.00
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Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Contributions by Lindsay Alexander, Alison Arant, Alicia Matheny Beeson, Eric Bennett, Gina Caison, Jordan Cofer, Doug Davis, Doreen Fowler, Marshall Bruce Gentry, Bruce Henderson, Monica C. Miller, William Murray, Carol Shloss, Alison Staudinger, and Rachel Watson The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded two Summer Institutes titled "Reconsidering Flannery O''Connor," which invited scholars to rethink approaches to Flannery O''Connor''s work. Drawing largely on research that started as part of the 2014 NEH Institute, this collection shares its title and its mission. Featuring fourteen new essays, Reconsidering Flannery O''Connor disrupts a few commonplace assumptions of O''Connor studies while also circling back to some old questions that are due for new attention. The volume opens with "New Methodologies," which features theoretical approaches not typically associated with O''Connor''s fiction in order to gain new insights into her work. The second section, "New Contexts," stretches expectations on literary genre, on popular archetypes in her stories, and on how we should interpret her work. The third section, lovingly called "Strange Bedfellows," puts O''Connor in dialogue with overlooked or neglected conversation partners, while the final section, "O''Connor''s Legacy," reconsiders her personal views on creative writing and her wishes regarding the handling of her estate upon death. With these final essays, the collection comes full circle, attesting to the hazards that come from overly relying on O''Connor''s interpretation of her own work but also from ignoring her views and desires. Through these reconsiderations, some of which draw on previously unpublished archival material, the collection attests to and promotes the vitality of scholarship on Flannery O''Connor.

DKK 1029.00
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