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Remembering Dixie - Susan T. Falck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Remembering Dixie - Susan T. Falck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Nearly seventy years after the Civil War, Natchez, Mississippi, sold itself to Depression-era tourists as a place "Where the Old South Still Lives." Tourists flocked to view the town's decaying antebellum mansions, hoopskirted hostesses, and a pageant saturated in sentimental Lost Cause imagery. In Remembering Dixie: The Battle to Control Historical Memory in Natchez, Mississippi, 1865-1941, Susan T. Falck analyzes how the highly biased, white historical memories of what had been a wealthy southern hub originated from the experiences and hardships of the Civil War. These collective narratives eventually culminated in a heritage tourism enterprise still in business today. Additionally, the book includes new research on the African American community's robust efforts to build historical tradition, most notably, the ways in which African Americans in Natchez worked to create a distinctive postemancipation identity that challenged the dominant white structure. Using a wide range of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century sources--many of which have never been fully mined before--Falck reveals the ways in which black and white Natchezians of all classes, male and female, embraced, reinterpreted, and contested Lost Cause ideology. These memory-making struggles resulted in emotional, internecine conflicts that shaped the cultural character of the community and impacted the national understanding of the Old South and the Confederacy as popular culture. Natchez remains relevant today as a microcosm for our nation's modern-day struggles with Lost Cause ideology, Confederate monuments, racism, and white supremacy. Falck reveals how this remarkable story played out in one important southern community over several generations in vivid detail and richly illustrated analysis.

DKK 858.00
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Prefiguring Postblackness - Carol Bunch Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Prefiguring Postblackness - Carol Bunch Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American print media reviews, and the cultural context in which they were produced, Carol Bunch Davis shows how these representations complicate narrow ideas of blackness, which often limit the freedom struggle era to Martin Luther King’s nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X’s black nationalism as undermining the civil rights movement’s advances. These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric, representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African American freedom struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This revision critiques racial uplift ideology’s tenets of civic and moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship. The dramas also reimagine the Black Arts movement’s restrictive notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity, and their staged representations construct a counter-narrative to cultural memory of the freedom struggle during that very era. In their use of a “postblack ethos” to enact African American subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it moves beyond the struggle. The plays under discussion range from the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness, Howard Sackler’s The Great White Hope, and Charles Gordone’s No Place to Be Somebody). Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of their creation.

DKK 307.00
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Prefiguring Postblackness - Carol Bunch Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Prefiguring Postblackness - Carol Bunch Davis - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American print media reviews, and the cultural context in which they were produced, Carol Bunch Davis shows how these representations complicate narrow ideas of blackness, which often limit the freedom struggle era to Martin Luther King's nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X's black nationalism as undermining the civil rights movement's advances. These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric, representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African American freedom struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This revision critiques racial uplift ideology's tenets of civic and moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship. The dramas also reimagine the Black Arts movement's restrictive notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity, and their staged representations construct a counter-narrative to cultural memory of the freedom struggle during that very era. In their use of a ""postblack ethos"" to enact African American subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it moves beyond the struggle. The plays under discussion range from the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness, Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope, and Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody). Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of their creation.

DKK 603.00
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Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comicsEssays by Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher Bush, Isaac Cates, Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O''Brien, Davida Pines, Yaël Schlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin WidissAutobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. The book engages with wellknown figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.Negotiations between artist/writer/ body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics'' viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.Jane Tolmie, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is associate professor of gender studies and cultural studies, cross-appointed to English at Queen''s University. Find her at http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/tolmie.php

DKK 858.00
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Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Drawing from Life - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Essays that query the roles of trust, truth, and family memoirs in autobiographical comicsEssays by Jan Baetens, David M. Ball, Lopamudra Basu, Christopher Bush, Isaac Cates, Michael A. Chaney, Alisia Chase, Sharon O''Brien, Davida Pines, Yaël Schlick, Rachel Trousdale, and Benjamin WidissAutobiography has seen enormous expansions and challenges over the past decades. One of these expansions has been in comics, and it is an expansion that pushes back against any postmodern notion of the death of the author/subject, while also demanding new approaches from critics.Drawing from Life: Memory and Subjectivity in Comic Art is a collection of essays about autobiography, semiautobiography, fictionalized autobiography, memory, and self-narration in sequential art, or comics. Contributors come from a range of academic backgrounds including English, American studies, comparative literature, gender studies, art history, and cultural studies. The book engages with wellknown figures such as Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel; with cult-status figures such as Martin Vaughn James; and with lesser-known works by artists such as Frédéric Boilet.Negotiations between artist/writer/ body and drawn/written/text raise questions of how comics construct identity, and are read and perceived, requiring a critical turn towards theorizing the comics'' viewer. At stake in comic memoir and semi-autobiography is embodiment. Remembering a scene with the intent of rendering it in sequential art requires nonlinear thinking and engagement with physicality. Who was in the room and where? What was worn? Who spoke first? What images dominated the encounter? Did anybody smile? Man or mouse? Unhinged from the summary paragraph, the comics artist must confront the fact of the flesh, or the corporeal world, and they do so with fascinating results.Jane Tolmie, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is associate professor of gender studies and cultural studies, cross-appointed to English at Queen''s University. Find her at http://www.queensu.ca/gnds/tolmie.php

DKK 312.00
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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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Black Bodies in the River - Davis W. Houck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Black Bodies in the River - Davis W. Houck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events--especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner--stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that during the search for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, the FBI and other law enforcement personnel discovered many unidentified Black bodies in Mississippi''s swamps, rivers, and bayous. This claim has evolved in subsequent years as activists, journalists, filmmakers, and scholars have continued to repeat it, and the number of supposed Black bodies--never identified--has grown from five to more than two dozen. In Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer , author Davis W. Houck sets out to answer two questions: Were Black bodies discovered that summer? And why has the shocking claim only grown in the past several decades--despite evidence to the contrary? In other words, what rhetorical work does the Black bodies claim do, and with what audiences? Houck''s story begins in the murky backwaters of the Mississippi River and the discovery of the bodies of Henry Dee and Charles Moore, murdered on May 2, 1964, by the Ku Klux Klan. He pivots next to the Council of Federated Organization''s voter registration efforts in Mississippi leading up to Freedom Summer. He considers the extent to which violence generally and expectations about interracial violence, in particular, serves as a critical context for the strategy and rhetoric of the Summer Project. Houck then interrogates the unnamed-Black-bodies claim from a historical and rhetorical perspective, illustrating that the historicity of the bodies in question is perhaps less the point than the critique of who we remember from that summer and how we remember them. Houck examines how different memory texts--filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums--function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

DKK 823.00
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Black Bodies in the River - Davis W. Houck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Black Bodies in the River - Davis W. Houck - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Nearly sixty years after Freedom Summer, its events--especially the lynching of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner--stand out as a critical episode of the civil rights movement. The infamous deaths of these activists dominate not just the history but also the public memory of the Mississippi Summer Project. Beginning in the late 1970s, however, movement veterans challenged this central narrative with the shocking claim that during the search for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner, the FBI and other law enforcement personnel discovered many unidentified Black bodies in Mississippi''s swamps, rivers, and bayous. This claim has evolved in subsequent years as activists, journalists, filmmakers, and scholars have continued to repeat it, and the number of supposed Black bodies--never identified--has grown from five to more than two dozen. In Black Bodies in the River: Searching for Freedom Summer , author Davis W. Houck sets out to answer two questions: Were Black bodies discovered that summer? And why has the shocking claim only grown in the past several decades--despite evidence to the contrary? In other words, what rhetorical work does the Black bodies claim do, and with what audiences? Houck''s story begins in the murky backwaters of the Mississippi River and the discovery of the bodies of Henry Dee and Charles Moore, murdered on May 2, 1964, by the Ku Klux Klan. He pivots next to the Council of Federated Organization''s voter registration efforts in Mississippi leading up to Freedom Summer. He considers the extent to which violence generally and expectations about interracial violence, in particular, serves as a critical context for the strategy and rhetoric of the Summer Project. Houck then interrogates the unnamed-Black-bodies claim from a historical and rhetorical perspective, illustrating that the historicity of the bodies in question is perhaps less the point than the critique of who we remember from that summer and how we remember them. Houck examines how different memory texts--filmic, landscape, presidential speech, and museums--function both to bolster and question the centrality of murdered white men in the legacy of Freedom Summer.

DKK 258.00
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Embroidered Stories - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Embroidered Stories - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A THOROUGH EXPLORATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF A TRADITIONAL SKILL OF THE ITALIAN DIASPORAFor Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations represent Italian immigrant women''s needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants.Contributions by B. Amore, Mary Jo Bona, Phyllis Capello, Rosette Capotorto, Jo Ann Cavallo, Hwei-Fe''n Cheah, Paola Corso, Peter Covino, Barbara Crooker, Elisa D''Arrigo, Louise DeSalvo, Bettina Favero, Marisa Frasca, Donna R. Gabaccia, Sandra M. Gilbert, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lucia Grillo, Maria Grillo, Karen Guancione, Jennifer Guglielmo, Joanna Clapps Herman, Joseph Inguanti, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, Anne Marie Macari, Giuliana Mammucari, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Denise Calvetti Michaels, Lia Ottaviano, Gianna Patriarca, Joan L. Saverino, Maria Terrone, Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, Angela Valeria, Ilaria Vann, Lisa Venditelli, Paul Zarzyski, Christine F. ZinniEDVIGE GIUNTA, Teaneck, New Jersey, is professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. JOSEPH SCIORRA, Brooklyn, New York, is the associate director for academic and cultural programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College. He is editor of the journal Italian American Review and the book Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives.

DKK 312.00
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Embroidered Stories - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Embroidered Stories - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

A THOROUGH EXPLORATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF A TRADITIONAL SKILL OF THE ITALIAN DIASPORAFor Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting to help define who they were and who they have become. This book is an interdisciplinary collection of creative work by authors of Italian origin and academic essays. The creative works from thirty-seven contributors include memoir, poetry, and visual arts while the collection as a whole explores a multitude of experiences about and approaches to needlework and immigration from a transnational perspective, spanning the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.At the center of the book, over thirty illustrations represent Italian immigrant women''s needlework. The text reveals the many processes by which a simple object, or even the memory of that object, becomes something else through literary, visual, performance, ethnographic, or critical reimagining. While primarily concerned with interpretations of needlework rather than the needlework itself, the editors and contributors to Embroidered Stories remain mindful of its history and its associated cultural values, which Italian immigrants brought with them to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Argentina and passed on to their descendants.Contributions by B. Amore, Mary Jo Bona, Phyllis Capello, Rosette Capotorto, Jo Ann Cavallo, Hwei-Fe''n Cheah, Paola Corso, Peter Covino, Barbara Crooker, Elisa D''Arrigo, Louise DeSalvo, Bettina Favero, Marisa Frasca, Donna R. Gabaccia, Sandra M. Gilbert, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Lucia Grillo, Maria Grillo, Karen Guancione, Jennifer Guglielmo, Joanna Clapps Herman, Joseph Inguanti, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, Anne Marie Macari, Giuliana Mammucari, Giovanna Miceli Jeffries, Denise Calvetti Michaels, Lia Ottaviano, Gianna Patriarca, Joan L. Saverino, Maria Terrone, Tiziana Rinaldi Castro, Angela Valeria, Ilaria Vann, Lisa Venditelli, Paul Zarzyski, Christine F. ZinniEDVIGE GIUNTA, Teaneck, New Jersey, is professor of English at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture and The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. JOSEPH SCIORRA, Brooklyn, New York, is the associate director for academic and cultural programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College. He is editor of the journal Italian American Review and the book Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives.

DKK 867.00
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Rough Tactics - Mark A. Johnson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Rough Tactics - Mark A. Johnson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932, author Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885-1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians'' Union prior to the 1903 UCV Reunion in New Orleans; and the 1909 Memphis mayoral election featuring Edward Hull Crump and W. C. Handy. Through these case studies, Johnson explains how white politicians and Black performers wielded and manipulated racist stereotypes and Lost Cause mythology to achieve their respective goals. Ultimately, Johnson portrays the vibrant, exuberant political culture of the New South and the roles played by both Black and white southerners. During the nadir of race relations in the United States South from 1877 to 1932, African Americans faced segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. Among many forms of resistance, African Americans used their musical and theatrical talents to challenge white supremacy, attain economic opportunity, and transcend segregation. In Rough Tactics, Johnson argues that African Americans, especially performers, retooled negative stereotypes and segregation laws to their advantage. From 1877 to 1932, African Americans spoke at public rallies, generated enthusiasm with music, linked party politics to the memory of the Civil War, honored favorable candidates, and openly humiliated their opposition.

DKK 307.00
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Rough Tactics - Mark A. Johnson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Rough Tactics - Mark A. Johnson - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932, author Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885-1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians'' Union prior to the 1903 UCV Reunion in New Orleans; and the 1909 Memphis mayoral election featuring Edward Hull Crump and W. C. Handy. Through these case studies, Johnson explains how white politicians and Black performers wielded and manipulated racist stereotypes and Lost Cause mythology to achieve their respective goals. Ultimately, Johnson portrays the vibrant, exuberant political culture of the New South and the roles played by both Black and white southerners. During the nadir of race relations in the United States South from 1877 to 1932, African Americans faced segregation, disfranchisement, and lynching. Among many forms of resistance, African Americans used their musical and theatrical talents to challenge white supremacy, attain economic opportunity, and transcend segregation. In Rough Tactics, Johnson argues that African Americans, especially performers, retooled negative stereotypes and segregation laws to their advantage. From 1877 to 1932, African Americans spoke at public rallies, generated enthusiasm with music, linked party politics to the memory of the Civil War, honored favorable candidates, and openly humiliated their opposition.

DKK 841.00
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Conversations with Sherman Alexie - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Sherman Alexie - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

"The responsibilities of being an Indian writer are enormous. Even more so than any other group of people because we have so much more to protect."Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems and stories, in 1992, when a critic for the New York Times Book Review called him "one of the major lyric voices of our time." More recently, in 2007, Alexie won a National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, a young-adult novel based on his own high school experiences. In Conversations with Sherman Alexie, the writer displays the same passion, dynamic sense of humor, and sharp observational skills that characterize his work. The interviews-ranging from 1993 to 2007-feature Alexie speaking candidly about the ideas and themes behind his poetry collections (I Would Steal Horses, First Indian on the Moon), short story collections (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Ten Little Indians), novels (Indian Killer, Reservation Blues), and screenplays (Smoke Signals). Nancy J. Peterson is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University. She is the author of Beloved: Character Studies and Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory.

DKK 858.00
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