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Author: Nitza Ben-Dov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789004098633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study demonstrates how Agnon combined traditional Hebrew lore, modern literary devices and, especially, highly crafted dream-sequences revealing subconscious motivations behind apparently fortuitous acts and decisions, thus creating a unique narrative form reflecting the "indeterminacy" of human behaviour.
Author: Matthew J. Smith (Ph. D.)
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0807832650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1934 the republic of Haiti celebrated its 130th anniversary as an independent nation. In that year, too, another sort of Haitian independence occurred, as the United States ended nearly two decades of occupation. In the first comprehensive political hi
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: London : W.H. Allen
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Bendixen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-01-29
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0521861098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stimulating overview of American journeys from the eighteenth century to the present.
Author: Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Published: 2004-05-14
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1551302683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The updated edition of this perceptive study could hardly appear at a more auspicious moment, as the latest phase of the tragedy of Haiti is unfolding. It brilliantly illuminates the rich tapestry of Haitian culture and reveals the remarkable resilience of the Haitian people, subjected to centuries of rapacity and violence and brutally punished for revealing the limited definition of freedom adopted by the French and American revolutions, in the author's accurate words. As he relates, they have continued to teach such lessons to this day, frightening the rich and powerful in their own tortured land and at the centers of global rule. It is our great loss if we choose not to understand, and there is no better starting point than this learned and penetrating inquiry." — Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0374600058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson’s private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer’s life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in 1940, and this volume The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries of the Period shows the extent to which he was reappraising his life in the decade to follow - saying goodbye to the drifting of the 1920s and the Marxism of the 1930s. Published posthumously and edited by Leon Edel, The Forties includes observations on his increasingly complicated family matters and covers appreciatively writers like Andre Malraux, W. H. Auden, and Max Beerbohm, as well as entries from his research and travels. "We can see the beginnings of the masterly work of Wilson's later years, the studies of the American literary and mythic past on which his reputation will surely rest." Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post on The Forties
Author: Chantalle F. Verna
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2017-06-19
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 081358518X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to popular notions, Haiti-U.S. relations have not only been about Haitian resistance to U.S. domination. In Haiti and the Uses of America, Chantalle F. Verna makes evident that there have been key moments of cooperation that contributed to nation-building in both countries. In the years following the U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915-1934), Haitian politicians and professionals with a cosmopolitan outlook shaped a new era in Haiti-U.S. diplomacy. Their efforts, Verna shows, helped favorable ideas about the United States, once held by a small segment of Haitian society, circulate more widely. In this way, Haitians contributed to and capitalized upon the spread of internationalism in the Americas and the larger world.
Author: Eric Homberger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1986-12-03
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1349184845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-04-03
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780520220805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese letters outline the mutual affection and closeness of the two writers, but also reveal the slow crescendo of mutual resentment, mistrust and rejection."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Valerie Kaussen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780739116364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigrant Revolutions: Haitian Literature, Globalization, and U.S. Imperialism interprets Haitian literature in a transnational context of anti-colonial--and anti-globalization--politics. Positing a materialist and historicized account of Haitian literary modernity, it traces the themes of slavery, labor migration, diaspora, and revolution in works by Jacques Roumain, Marie Chauvet, Edwidge Danticat, and others. Author Valerie Kaussen argues that the sociocultural effects of U.S. imperialism have renewed and expanded the relevance of the universal political ideals that informed Haiti's eighteenth-century slave revolt and war of decolonization. Finally, Migrant Revolutions defines Haitian literary modernity as located at the forefront of the struggles against transnational empire and global colonialism.
