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by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her...
by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America’s first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women’s right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood...
Regular Haunts
New and Previous Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer...
The Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us—or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean...
Latinx Writing Los Angeles
Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles’s most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city’s inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry...
Queen of the Fall
A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston’s Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in...
How Winter Began
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town’s cruelest...
Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work...
People of the Saltwater
An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home...
I'll Be Your Mirror
Essays and Aphorisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form’s past—interviewing...
Defying Maliseet Language Death
Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Today, indigenous communities throughout North America are grappling with the dual issues of language loss and revitalization. While many communities are making efforts...
Indigenous Cities
Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In Indigenous Cities Laura M. Furlan demonstrates that stories of the urban experience are essential to an understanding of modern Indigeneity. She situates Native identity among theories of diaspora, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism by examining urban narratives—such as those written by Sherman...
In the Lands of Fire and Sun
Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggled to maintain their independence over two centuries. From the days of the Aztec Empire, the history...
Rival Gardens
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along...