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Carl L. Bankston, Stephen J. Caldas
Troubled Dream

Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the United States still has a long way to go to attain true integration of our educational system.Using extensive interviews and a wealth of statistical info…

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Bruce R. Burningham
Tilting Cervantes

Tilting Cervantes examines several contemporary texts -- Fight Club, Brazil, The Matrix, and The Moor's Last Sigh, among others -- by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish and Latin Am…

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Deborah Cohn
History and Memory in the Two Souths

It is commonplace among literary critics to refer to William Faulkner's influence on Spanish American literature. Yet few studies have delved seriously into why the attraction of the writings of this sout…

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Vincent Colapietro
Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom

John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, …

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Robert E. Cummings
Lazy Virtues

Winner of the MLA's Mina P. Shaugnessy Prize for an outstanding work in the fields of language, culture, literacy, or literature with strong application to the teaching of English.Focusing largely on the …

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Wendy B. Faris
Ordinary Enchantments

Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to exp…

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Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea
Perversion of Power

Since 2002, the Roman Catholic Church has been in crisis over the sexual abuse of minors by priests and the cover-up of those crimes by bishops. Over 11,000 alleged victims have reported their experiences…

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Kirsty Hooper
Stranger in My Own Land

This is the first in-depth analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofía Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, campaigner, translator, histo…

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Myriam Yvonne Jehenson, Peter N. Dunn
Utopian Nexus in Don Quixote

Jehenson and Dunn explore the mythic utopian desires that drive Don Quixote and Sancho Panza in Don Quixote . By tracing the discourses surrounding what they identify as a myth of abundance and a myth of …

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Roberta Johnson
Gender and Nation in the Spanish Modernist Novel

Offering a fresh, revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940, this study examines the work of both men and women writers and how they practiced differing forms of modernism. As Roberta John…

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Joy Jordan-Lake
Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweís enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a ìtheology of whitenessî from within the p…

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Carol B. Liebman, Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Bioethics Mediation

Bioethics Mediation offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It provides guidance for those charged with…

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Kimberly A. Nance
Can Literature Promote Justice?

As if in direct response to The New Yorker's question of "The Power of the Pen: Does Literature Change Anything?" Kimberly Nance takes up the relationship between ethics and literature. With the…

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Marilyn Adler Papayanis
Writing in the Margins

Looking closely at a group of writers who rejected the industrial West in favor of the expatriate life and made that quest the subject of their work, Marilynn Papayanis reveals their concerns to be ethica…

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Guy Rotella
Castings

Whether looming over public squares or dotting old battlefields, monuments certify a culture's present by securing its past and pledging its future. They embody exemplary persons or events and the shared …

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Sherry Velasco
Male Delivery

Using the one-act comedy El parto de Juan Rana (John Frog Gives Birth) as a point of departure, Velasco argues that the figure of the pregnant man in early modern Spanish culture was not merely comic ente…

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Dana Cairns Watson
Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens

In this provocative study, Dana Cairns Watson traces Gertrude Stein's growing fascination with the cognitive and political ramifications of conversation and how that interest influenced her writing over t…

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Esther Isabelle Wilder
Wheeling and Dealing

Before his motorcycle accident, Travis saw himself becoming a pro football player. Now, paralyzed from the nipple down, he says, "At times it's a pain in the ass-literally and figuratively. But it al…

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Esther Isabelle Wilder
Wheeling and Dealing

Before his motorcycle accident, Travis saw himself becoming a pro football player. Now, paralyzed from the nipple down, he says, "At times it's a pain in the ass-literally and figuratively. But it al…

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Islam and Social Policy

At a time when more nuanced understandings of Muslim countries and their legal and social practices are urgently needed in the West, the appearance of this collection is especially welcome. In these illum…

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