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Focuses on the visual, material, and sonic cultures of Lusophone Africa from the pre colonial period to the contemporary moment, and seeks to complicate current understandings of Lusophone Africa that are based on colonial and postindependence national borders.

Takes a transnational approach to contemporary Luso-American literatures and cultures from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from both within and beyond the current set of canonical reference points.

Taking up previously unexamined primary sources and cultural productions that include the first scholarly studies of the faith, material culture and visual arts, stage performances, and museum exhibitions, Shaker Fever compels a reconsideration of this religious group and its place within American memory.

Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go ""on progress"", a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. In this book, Mary Hill Cole provides a detailed analysis of these progresses.

Brings blackface minstrelsy and performance culture into the discussion of apartheid's nineteenth-century origins and afterlife, employing a broad archive of South African newspapers and magazines, memoirs, minstrel songs and sketches, diaries, and interview transcripts.

Drawing on primary texts, paratexts, audio and visual recordings, and archival sources, James Smethurst looks at how Amiri Baraka's writing on and performance of music envisioned the creation of an African American people or nation, as well as the growth and consolidation of a black working class within that nation, that resonates to this day.

Mapping an uncanny journey through the clusters of media we encounter daily but seldom stop to contemplate, Christina Pugh's focused descriptions, contrasting linguistic textures, and acute poetic music become multifarious sources of beauty, disruption, humour, and hurt.

Offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding of black and white authors' strivings for socioeconomic justice across racial lines in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Interrogating the movement's alleged atheistic underpinnings, David Faflik contends that transcendentalism reconstituted the religious sensibilities of 1830s and 1840s New England, producing a dynamic and complex array of beliefs and behaviours that cannot be categorized as either religious or non-religious.

Explores how Native American, African American, Latinx, Asian American, and Irish American writers at the turn of the twentieth century relied on self-caricature, tricksterism, and the careful control of authorial personae to influence white audiences.

The sale of authors' papers to archives has become big news. Amy Hildreth Chen offers the history of how this multimillion dollar business developed from the mid-twentieth century onward and considers what impact authors, literary agents, curators, archivists, and others have had on this burgeoning economy.

Reveals the attractions and contradictions of mid-century America through the experiences, discoveries, perceptive observations, and critical reflections of a lifelong enfant terrible.

Based on the author's own experiences of life, exile, and return under the dictatorship that gripped Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s, this novel follows Lena, a journalist, as she resists political repression, and flees to Paris. Originally published in 1988, Ana Maria Machado's novel captures one of the darkest periods in recent Brazilian history.

This innovative study chronicles how the print book has fared as both novelists and the burgeoning profession of information science have grappled with unprecedented quantities of data across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Deliberately invoking Henry David Thoreau's commitment to ""living a border life"", a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the writer's thinking and writing as situated not merely against, but across and beyond borders and boundaries - whether geographic, temporal, or spiritual.

Traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s to the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected.

Traces the planning, construction, and operation of penitentiaries in five Adirondack Park communities from the 1840s to the early 2000s to demonstrate that the histories of mass incarceration and environmental consciousness are interconnected.