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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 in…

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Bruce R. Burningham
Tilting Cervantes

Tilting Cervantes examines a number of contemporary cultural texts--from Fight Club and Toy Story to The Matrix and The Moor's Last Sigh--by reflecting them against a cluster of early modern Spanish liter…

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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. In this study, Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's powerful…

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Robert E. Cummings
Lazy Virtues

Using Wikipedia to understand and teach electronic collaboration in college writing

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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. This book examines factors internal to the Church and outsi…

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Kirsty Hooper
Stranger in My Own Land

Offers analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sofia Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, and journalist. This study addresses the scandalous disappearance of Casa…

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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

This text offers a revisionist analysis of Spanish fiction from 1900 to 1940. Tracing the history of public discourse on gender from the 1890s through to the 1930s, it examines the work of both men and wo…

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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 Stowe?'s enormously popular "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by preaching a theology of whiteness from within the …

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Carol B. Liebman, Nancy Neveloff Dubler
Bioethics Mediation

Offers stories about patients, families, and health care providers enmeshed in conflict as they wrestle with decisions about life and death. It gives clinical ethics consultants, palliative care providers…

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Kimberly A. Nance
Can Literature Promote Justice?

Taking up the relationship between ethics and literature, this is a political autobiography of,Kimberly Nance, a Latin American activist, who hopes, through the telling of her life story, to bring about c…

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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

Monuments certify a cultures present by securing its past and pledge its future. They assume arts power to maintain whats held in common by making transient things persistent. This book examines the work …

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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 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 the course of…

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Esther Isabelle Wilder
Wheeling and Dealing

WHEELING AND DEALING evaluates the appropriateness of the biomedical and social models of understanding disability. 32 men and women living with spinal cord injury discuss their experiences and views on a…

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Esther Isabelle Wilder
Wheeling and Dealing

In a series of interviews, 32 men and women describe the ways in which they have responded to their spinal cord injuries. They discuss their sex lives, their beliefs about God, how they want others to tre…

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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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