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American Drama

In Dialogue, 1714-Present

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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American Drama

In Dialogue, 1714-Present

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350310093

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Enemies Within

The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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Enemies Within

The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

She considers the "false binaries" (straight/gay, patriot/traitor, healthy/infected) that promise protection from an invasive threat and the utopian impulse to purge, homogenize, and relocate problematic individuals outside the city walls."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252026373

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9780252026379

Reckoning Day

Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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Reckoning Day

Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

Too often lost in our understanding of the American Cold War crisis, with its nuclear brinkmanship and global political chess game, is the simultaneous crisis on the nation's racial front. Reckoning Day is the first book to examine the relationship of African Americans to the atom bomb in postwar America. It tells the wide-ranging story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. It examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of major figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement (or absence) of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction. Author Jacqueline Foertsch analyzes the work of African American thinkers, activists, writers, journalists, filmmakers, and musical performers in the "atomic" decades of 1945 to 1965 and beyond. Her book tells the dynamic story of commitment and interdependence, as these major figures spoke with force and eloquence for nuclear disarmament, just as they argued unstintingly for racial equality on numerous other occasions. Foertsch also examines the location of African American characters in novels, science fiction, and survivalist nonfiction such as government-sponsored forecasts regarding post-nuclear survival. In these, black characters are often displaced or absented entirely: in doomsday narratives they are excluded from executive decision-making and the stories' often triumphant conclusions; in the nonfiction, they are rarely envisioned amongst the "typical American" survivors charged with rebuilding US society. Throughout Reckoning Day, issues of placement and positioning provide the conceptual framework: abandoned at "ground zero" (America's inner cities) during the height of the atomic threat, African Americans were figured in white-authored survival fiction as compliant servants aiding white victory over atomic adversity, while as historical figures they were often perceived as "elsewhere" (indifferent) to the atomic threat. In fact, African Americans' "position" on the bomb was rarely one of silence or indifference. Ranging from appreciation to disdain to vigorous opposition, atomic-era African Americans developed diverse and meaningful positions on the bomb and made essential contributions to a remarkably American dialogue.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826502865

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9780826502865

Bracing Accounts

The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

This work is the textual response to polio from the postwar era to the present. It considers women's magazines, in which polio was both a fitfully treated subject and a frequently important subtext.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641733

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9780838641736

Freedom’s Ring

Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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Freedom’s Ring

Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

Freedom’s Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French “freedom fries” during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement, and more militant Black Power and Women’s Liberation movements with equal efficacy. Focused as it is on the faring of freedom throughout the liberation era, this book also explores attempts made by rights movements to achieve the often competitive or cross-canceling American ideal of equality–economic, professional, and otherwise. Although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedoms such as the vote, integrated bus rides, and sex without consequences via the Pill, are ultimately free–costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement—while equality with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care, will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack. Freedom’s Ring regards the politics of freedom, and politics in general, as a low-cost substitute for and engrossing distraction from substantive economic problem-solving from the liberation era to the present day.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978822731

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9781978822733

Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance

What We Can Learn from Program Evaluations

By: Jacqueline Fleming

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Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance

What We Can Learn from Program Evaluations

By: Jacqueline Fleming

In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing academic performance among minority students and includes models of evaluations that describe successful programs that use statistical methods to verify outcomes.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0787957135

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9780787957131

American Culture in the 1940s

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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American Culture in the 1940s

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

This is a clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1990s America: fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography; digital and 'post-human' cultures, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.

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0748624139

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Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering

By: Jacqueline Fleming,Irving Pressley McPhail

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Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering

By: Jacqueline Fleming,Irving Pressley McPhail

This book aims to isolate specific success factors for underrepresented minorities in undergraduate engineering programs. Based on a three-phase study spearheaded by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, the findings include evidence that hands-on exposure to problem-based courses, research, and especially internships are powerful catalysts for engineering success, and that both college adjustment and academic skills matter, in varying degrees, to minority success. By encompassing an unusually large number and range of programs, this research adds to the evidence base for the importance of hands-on exposure to the work of engineering.

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Routledge

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0429762860

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American Drama

In Dialogue, 1714-Present

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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In Dialogue, 1714-Present

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137605294

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Reckoning Day

Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

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Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America

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Vanderbilt University Press

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Freedom’s Ring

Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

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Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave

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Rutgers University Press

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Bracing Accounts

The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

This work is the textual response to polio from the postwar era to the present. It considers women's magazines, in which polio was both a fitfully treated subject and a frequently important subtext.

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Associated University Presse

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Enemies Within

The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture

By: Jacqueline Foertsch

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The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture

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University of Illinois Press

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Freedom’s Ring

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Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance

Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance

American Culture in the 1940s

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Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering

Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering

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