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Telling Narratives

Secrets in African American Literature

By: Leslie W. Lewis

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Telling Narratives

Secrets in African American Literature

By: Leslie W. Lewis

Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of "breaking silence" in response to sexual violence. This fascinating study also suggests that masculine bias problematically ignores female experience in order to equate slavery with social death. In calling attention to the sexual behavior of slave masters in African American literature, Lewis highlights its importance to slavery’s legacy and offers a new understanding of the origins of self-consciousness within African American experience.

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232

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University of Illinois Press

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ISBN 10

025205590X

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9780252055904

Halliwell's Film Guide

By: Leslie Halliwell

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Halliwell's Film Guide

By: Leslie Halliwell

Totally updated and revised for the sixth edition, this book includes more than one thousand new entries plus entertaining and informative data on more than 16 thousand English-language films. 100 photos.

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1220

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Scribner Book Company

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ISBN 10

0684190516

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9780684190518

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

By: Donald McDonald,Leslie B. Hunt

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A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

By: Donald McDonald,Leslie B. Hunt

This book describes the history of platinum and its associated metals, covering important discoveries and scientific work on the platinum group metals up to the early twentieth century. With twenty-four chapters, 450 pages, over 600 references and 235 illustrations (20 in colour) including 100 portraits, “A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals” by Donald McDonald and Leslie B. Hunt is the definitive description of how science was able to progress by means of the unique properties of these metals.

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461

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Johnson Matthey Plc

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ISBN 10

0905118839

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9780905118833

Plant Bush Back in Texas

A Compilation of Political Commentary about the 2004 Presidential Election

By: Leslie B. O'Shaughnessy

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Plant Bush Back in Texas

A Compilation of Political Commentary about the 2004 Presidential Election

By: Leslie B. O'Shaughnessy

Plant Bush Back in Texas offers a humorous, yet insightful, political commentary on the Bush administration people and policy. Intermingled with 40 political cartoons by worldwide artists, featured chapters include: National Election Overview, Issues of Character and Abuse of Power, Prevention of 9/11, The Iraq War, Economic Issues, Bush Environmental Track Record, and Candidate Profiles.

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100

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097607060X

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9780976070603

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege

Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893

By: Kent Anderson Leslie

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Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege

Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893

By: Kent Anderson Leslie

This fascinating story of Amanda America Dickson, born the privileged daughter of a white planter and an unconsenting slave in antebellum Georgia, shows how strong-willed individuals defied racial strictures for the sake of family. Kent Anderson Leslie uses the events of Dickson's life to explore the forces driving southern race and gender relations from the days of King Cotton through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and New South eras. Although legally a slave herself well into her adolescence, Dickson was much favored by her father and lived comfortably in his house, receiving a genteel upbringing and education. After her father died in 1885 Dickson inherited most of his half-million dollar estate, sparking off two years of legal battles with white relatives. When the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the will, Dickson became the largest landowner in Hancock County, Georgia, and the wealthiest black woman in the post-Civil War South. Kent Anderson Leslie's portrayal of Dickson is enhanced by a wealth of details about plantation life; the elaborate codes of behavior for men and women, blacks and whites in the South; and the equally complicated circumstances under which racial transgressions were sometimes ignored, tolerated, or even accepted.

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248

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University of Georgia Press

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082033717X

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9780820337173

Telling Narratives

Secrets in African American Literature

By: Leslie W. Lewis

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Secrets in African American Literature

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Telling Narratives

Telling Narratives

Halliwell's Film Guide

Halliwell's Film Guide

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

A History of Platinum and its Allied Metals

Plant Bush Back in Texas

Plant Bush Back in Texas

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege

Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege

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