twentieth-century literature
Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction From Faulkner to Morrison John N. Duvall, Professor of English, Purdue University, USA; Author of Faulkner’s Marginal Couple: Invisible Outlaw, and Unspeakable Communities
Now availalable in paperback, this book explores a form of literary racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed in fictional characters who present a white face to the world even as they unconsciously perform cultural blackness, such as in the work of William Faulkner among others, revealing that being merely Caucasian was insufficient to claim Southern Whiteness. July 2012 Paperback
224pp £17.99
Disability and Modern Fiction
Century American Literature
Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature
Writing Apartheid
Alice Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
‘This book is one of the best literary critical accounts I have read in a long time. Hall writes with great clarity and addresses the complexity of ‘disability’ in a highly intelligent and nuanced manner. Her insights into the representation of disability in the fiction of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee are first rate.’ - Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham, UK November 2011 232pp Hardback £50.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-29209-3
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This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. January 2012 Hardback
316pp £55.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11593-4
Future of Minority Studies ebook available from: Palgrave Connect Literature Collections http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=514305
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210x140mm 978-0-230-34044-2
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Richard Wright Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature West Meets East Edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani, Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar, Kent State University, UK
Faulkner’s Gambit Chess and Literature Michael Wainwright, Visiting Lecturer, Staffordshire University, UK
‘This is an assured and highly original study of one of William Faulkner's most neglected works.’ - David Rogers, Head of School of Humanities, Kingston University, UK This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner’s Knight’s Gambit December 2011 256pp Hardback £55.00
Tyrone R. Simpson II, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Urban Studies, Africana Studies, and American Culture, Vassar College, USA
The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, esteemed contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy and religion on African American writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, offering a fresh field of literary inquiry. May 2011 Hardback
242pp £52.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11341-1
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216x138mm 978-0-230-33860-9
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New Readings in the 21st Century Edited by Alice Mikal Craven, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, American University of Paris, France and William Dow, Professor of American Literature, Université Paris-Est, France
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright’s recently published A Father June 2011 Hardback
304pp £55.00
216x138mm 978-0-230-11281-0
Signs of Race Series Editors: Gary Taylor and Arthur Little, Jr. ebook available from: Dawson ERA, Ebook Library, ebooks.com, Ebrary, Myilibrary, NetLibrary, Palgrave Connect Literature Collections http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=500549
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Ghetto Images in Twentieth40
New
Available as an ebook
Inspection copy available
The Postcolonial and Imperial Web resource available
Comes with a CD/DVD