Brittany Powell: 2 books

For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation...

A classic story gets a new twist. In this retelling of Cinderella, we find the beloved heroine to potentially be the source of her own troubles. Cinderella becomes somewhat germ phobic and obsessive compulsive after the death of her mother. Her fairy Godmother provides a remedy that will keep...