In these stories about a small Southern cotton mill town, its history and the histories of the people who live there, Christina Jacqueline Johns conjures into being a little world of interconnected lives, intergenerational stories and complicated family relationships. William Faulkner once wrote that in the South the past is not dead, it isn't even the past. In Love Stories for Wilkes Ferry you will find the kind of storytelling about the past that used to be done on front porches while people smelled honeysuckle and watched lightening bugs. It's the kind of storytelling that if your Mama knew you were doing it, she would want to kill you.
This is the first in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. The authors seek to explain the most important issues confronting any study of modern art, without attempting exhaustive coverage. The books present a range of approaches characteristic of current art-historical debates. The first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between about 1848 and 1900.
Establishes the interconnections between the economic structure and state violence in Aztec and Conquest Mexico from pre-contact to present-day patterns of state organized crime.
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.
A self-described “disappointed Author”, Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) has been largely relegated to the margins of literary history since his death in 1824. Yet, as this study demonstrates, he exerted a fundamental influence on the development of Irish fiction in the early nineteenth century. In particular, his novels dramatically underscore the continuing presence and deployment of the Gothic mode in Romantic Ireland – an influence now frequently overlooked in critical attention to the national and regional forms popularized in Ireland in the wake of Anglo-Irish Union (1801). Working from Jacques Derrida’s influential theory on ghosts, this study positions Maturin as the cornerstone on which to build a new paradigm of Irish Romantic fiction, one which accounts for the spectral traces of the past – cultural, social, and political – evident in early-nineteenth century Irish fiction. As it does so, it calls for renewed critical and popular attention to an author who himself continues spectrally to emerge in the works of his literary successors.
Optical Impersonality will appeal to scholars and advanced students of modernist literature and visual culture and to those interested in the intersections of art, literature, science, and technology.
Annotation Why were the Victorians so passionate about 'history'? How did this passion relate to another Victorian obsession - the 'woman question'? Christina Crosby investigates the links between the Victorians' fascination with 'history' and with the nature of 'women'.
Each book in the For Less guidebook series contains up-to-date information on events, attractions, hotels, and restaurants; a fold-out street map; and a unique discount card that offers savings of 20%-70% at the city's best places. Unlike other guidebooks for the money-conscious traveler, this series does not limit its coverage to inexpensive places, but rather details all the popular places in every price range -from pizzerias to trendy Italian restaurants and from budget motels to posh hotels. The For Less series is comprehensive because it contains information on everything a tourist might want to see, not just information on places offering a discount.
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