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Paperback. African American writers have consistently drawn connections between hunger and illiteracy, and by extension between food and reading. This book investigates the juxtaposition of mulnutrition and spectacular food abundance as a key trope of African American writing. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325620
ISBN
9780820325620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.09

Paperback. This anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals. Editor(s): Moramarco, Fred; Zolynas, Al. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
First edition. Paperback.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820326498
ISBN
9780820326498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.79

Paperback. Collects essays that explore some of the directions in the study of literature and the environment. This work looks to underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. Editor(s): Ingram, Annie Merrill; Marshall, Ian; Philippon, Daniel J.; Sweeting, Adam W. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820328867
ISBN
9780820328867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.09

Hardcover. Explores Toni Morrison's admitted, but critically neglected, interest in the relationships between African American men and women and the "axes" on which these relationships turn. This book considers the barriers between black men and women thrown up by their participation in a racist culture of competition, and fixed ideals about physical beauty. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820329451
ISBN
9780820329451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.99

Hardcover. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820329468
ISBN
9780820329468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.23

Paperback. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820329475
ISBN
9780820329475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.12

Paperback. A biography of Ellison that focuses on the author's early life. Containing photographs, it draws from archives, literary correspondence, and interviews with Ellison's relatives, friends, and associates. It traces the writer's path from poverty in dust bowl Oklahoma to his rise among the literary elite. Num Pages: 544 pages, 21 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820329932
ISBN
9780820329932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.52

Hardcover. Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330051
ISBN
9780820330051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.52

Paperback. For better or worse, representations abound of Native Americans as a people with an innate and special connection to the earth. This study looks at the challenges faced by Native American writers who confront stereotypical representations as they assert their own ethical relationship with the earth. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330594
ISBN
9780820330594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.19

Paperback. Reveals affinities between antebellum southern and modern American capitalist psychology. This book identifies a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820331126
ISBN
9780820331126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.09

Paperback. Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist. This work selects the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. Editor(s): Greenspan, Ezra. Num Pages: 432 pages, 6 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820332246
ISBN
9780820332246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.96

Paperback. Drawing on a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including aesthetics, anthropology, phenomenology, and ecocriticism, "Shades of Green" demonstrates the agility with which human thought about the natural and the racial leapt across formal epistemological, professional, and artistic boundaries. Num Pages: 360 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820337807
ISBN
9780820337807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.82

Hardcover. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820343167
ISBN
9780820343167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820345000
ISBN
9780820345000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.63

Paperback. Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, "Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways" places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity. Series: New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820345994
ISBN
9780820345994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.53

Hardcover. Editor(s): Lawler, Traugott; Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Chaucer Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 40. Weight in Grams: 970.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820346106
ISBN
9780820346106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.14

Hardcover. The first full-length biography of one of the most unlikely figures in twentieth-century American literature, a writer who emerged from a dirt-poor South Georgia tenant farm and went on to create a singularly unique voice of fiction. Editor(s): Geltner, Ted. Num Pages: 456 pages, 39 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349237
ISBN
9780820349237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.54

Paperback. A collection of poems, artful yet accessible, lyrical yet direct, strange but recognizable; about the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession - how what we want redeems and isolates us. This book believes the exploration of the physical and mental selves - fears and desires - is the key to moving and being completely alive in the material world. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822958888
ISBN
9780822958888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.50

Paperback. "Keeper" is a book of lyric poems concerned with relationships of different sorts with the natural world, with people and animals, and with the unseen and unknown." Series: Pitt Poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822962564
ISBN
9780822962564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.23

Paperback. An analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. It explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors and the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. Editor(s): Whited, Lana A. Num Pages: 424 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Missouri Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826215499
ISBN
9780826215499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.60

Paperback. Crane's first collection of poems, published when he was twenty-seven, displays a prodigious gift already at the height of its powers. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871401793
ISBN
9780871401793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.73

Hardcover. In the first two essays in this volume - "The Age of Dobie" and "The Age of McMurtry" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652887
ISBN
9780875652887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.02

Hardcover. Talks about Birkelbach who writes of the Texas landscape and its people. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight. Series: TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875653402
ISBN
9780875653402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.63

Hardcover. Red Steagall brings the cowboy way of life to the public through many different media, including poetry. His poetry speaks in its own right, possessing a musical, songlike quality. His lilting rhythms carry the reader through the journey that each poem represents. Steagall's poems chart the changing of the land and the passing of generations. Series: TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series. Num Pages: 96 pages, 1 b&w photo. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875653419
ISBN
9780875653419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.88

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