The Pleasures of the Text
The Pleasures of the Text

Author: Elizabeth Locey

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780742515277

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Why was Violette Leduc's 1954 novel ThZr_se et Isabelle not published in its entirety until November 2000? Under threat of scandal and obsenity charges, French publisher Gallimard withheld the novel, but Leduc continued to write of her life as a woman writer in wartime Paris, frankly depicting her own and imagined lesbian experiences. Mentored by Simone de Beauvoir and a contemporary of French twentieth-century luminaries Sartre, Camus, Genet, and Cocteau, Leduc is, however, known best as France's great unknown writer. In The Pleasures of the Text, Elizabeth Locey restores Leduc to her rightful place in the canon, bringing to light her singular and important contributions to contemporary literary theory. Locey reads Leduc's works from the perspective of reader seduction, which erodes the divide between body and text. Situating Leduc within a continuum with Emma Bovary and Roland Barthes at its extremes, Locey investigates Leduc's use of the erotic touch, look, and voice to seduce her readers. More than an accessible introduction to an overlooked writer, The Pleasures of the Text confronts and challenges the philosophical debate between pornography and erotica and pins down some of the often slippery ways pleasure is mapped onto the body of the reader.

Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide
Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide

Author: Martin Munro

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1802070699

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Despite being a major figure of Haitian literature, Jean-Claude Charles (1949-2008) has received relatively little scholarly attention to date. The present volume seeks to serve as an introduction to the work and universe of this unique and capital writer to an English-language readership. The essays in the collection are organized along three major axes: contextual articles, placing Charles’ work within the larger Haitian literary landscape, punctual articles, addressing specific themes in a selection of Charles’ books, and author testimonials, attesting to Charles’ work’s importance both to his contemporaries and to a new generation of writers. With the ongoing republication of Charles’ work by Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal, and the increasing interest in the author, the proposed volume is timely and necessary, and is in large part a critical accompaniment to the republishing programme. Described by Dany Laferrière as “most brilliant Haitian author of his generation,” Charles has until recently remained largely unread and little understood. As the various chapters in the volume show, Charles is an author for now, and the collection will accompany readers seeking strikingly original insights on issues such as race, migration, and exile, and the role of the author and literature in times of crisis.

State of Siege
State of Siege

Author: Juan Goytisolo

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780872864061

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Set during the siege of Sarajevo these fictionalized reflections bear witness to the universal cry for freedom.

Can't Find My Way Home
Can't Find My Way Home

Author: Jake Wilhelm

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 3743874121

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CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME “Can’t Find My Way Home” is a collection of short stories devoted to how far a person will go when their lives didn’t go the way they wanted them to. Our title story features Kris and Ray. They should have been rock gods. Their meteoric rise in the electric blues band ‘Adam’s Rockets’ exploded in the stratosphere when bandleader Adam ruined their key performance. After decades of obscurity for everyone, Adam needs help. Will he get it? “To Balance the World” gives us Charlie. There are a lot of nice people in the world – Charlie isn’t one of them. He’s served 26 years for killing his wife’s lover. Now he’s out, and along with staying by his side, his wife wants to act like nothing happened. Not so with Charlie. He has it in his mind that he should and will kill his wife. Will they make it home? Unlike Charlie, the husband in “Our Separate Ways” loves his wife. He loves her with a passion - although it’s been 17 years since she was kidnapped, never to be seen again. Wait a minute. He’s just seen her. Our collection concludes with “Behoove”. Richie has just come into some money thanks to some ancient dirty pictures featuring the state’s Governor in much younger days. Her lawyer wants the pictures and he’s willing to pay big bucks for ‘em. Too bad Richie has neighbors...

The Masked Family
The Masked Family

Author: Robert Jeschonek

Publisher: Robert Jeschonek

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1452315779

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A super-heroic tale from a DC Comics writer. Meet Cary Beacon, a super-hero in his own mind. Cary's mission to rescue his kidnapped step-kids leads him to Mexico, where he teams up with El Yucatango, a gonzo masked wrestler on a mission of vengeance. As Cary and El Yucatango fight the battle of their lives to save the kids, Cary's disappearance forces together his fractured family back home, torn apart by a fiery tragedy years ago. The parallel quests of Cary and his family link to an explosive moment in true-life history: the KKK's 1924 siege of the immigrant mining town of Lilly, Pennsylvania, which left a curse on the Beacon family. Can delusional Cary break the curse? If he and his siblings reunite as their childhood backyard alter egos, The Nuclear Family, maybe they stand a chance. Don't miss this action-packed thriller with a comic book sensibility. Award-winning author Robert T. Jeschonek writes for DC Comics and brings a super-hero state of mind to this mind-bending, history-spanning adventure.

Dear Diary Boy
Dear Diary Boy

Author: Kumiko Makihara

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-07-17

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1628728922

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When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his high achievements with the other perfect moms. Together they would climb the rungs into the country's successful elite. But it didn't turn out that way. Taro had other things in mind.While set in Japan, their struggles in the school's hyper-competitive environment mirror those faced by parents here in the US and raise the same questions about the best way to educate a child—especially one that doesn’t quite fit the mold. Public or private? Competitive or nurturing? Standardized or individualized. Helicopter parenting or free-range? Amid this frenzied debate, how does one find balance and maintain a healthy parent-child relationship? Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.

Hershey Herself
Hershey Herself

Author: Cecilia Galante

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-05-06

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1416954635

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When twelve-year-old Hershey runs away with her mother to a women's shelter, she worries about who will take care of her cat, how she'll compete in a talent show with her best friend, and if she'll survive being on a new bus route with her sworn enemy.