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The Belle Créole
Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018. The fourteenth …
In the Arena
In December 1967, Chuck Robb was catapulted onto the national scene when he married Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a nationally broadcast White …
Love, Etc.
The look of love . . . through an analytic lens Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting …
The Road to Charleston
In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical …
The Last of the African Kings
The Last of the African Kings follows the wayward fortunes of a noble African family. It begins with the regal BÉhanzin, an African king who opposed French colonialism and was …
Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden
Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her …
I Tituba Black Witch Of Salem
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten …
The Anguish of Displacement
Following Congress’s approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to U.S. government officials requesting various …
Versions of Deconversion
This text examines the work of a broad selection of authors in order to discover the reasons for their loss of faith and to analyse the ways they have interpreted that loss. For …
The Mystery of Continuity
General Sun, My Brother
An English translation of ""Compere General Soleil"", published in France in 1955. This novel depicts the nightmarish journey of a labourer and his wife from the slums of …
The Civil War Political Tradition
Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter’s 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise …