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Collects sixteen interviews, conducted over three decades, with the British author. McEwan (b. 1948) discusses his views on authorship, the writing process, and major themes found in his fiction, but he also expands upon his interests in music, film, global politics, the sciences, and the state of literature in contemporary society.

This volume of papers from the Porter M. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History questions what was distinctively "southern" about the colonial South. Though this region was a land of diversity and had the kind of provincialism that typified other English colonies during this period, the editors find it nearly impossible to characterize the colonial South as unique.

As William Faulkner himself and the authors of these essays insist, the South is part of the United States and ultimately a part of Western society. Rather than considering Faulkner as an isolated southern oddity who inexplicably wrote important fiction, these authors explore why Faulkner's "Southerness" made him universal.

This collection of interviews with Amiri Baraka, the former LeRoi Jones and a key figure in the worldwide black liberation movement, provides an extraordinary insight not only into African American literature but also into the turmoil and passions of the "black experience" during the second half of the twentieth century.

Readers know that humour abounds in the writings of William Faulkner, but the thousands of articles and hundreds of books about his fiction contain little commentary on Faulknerian humour. To give attention to this subject, numerous aspects of Faulknerian humour were explored at the Eleventh Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. Thirteen of the papers are presented in this volume.

This collection of essays about the writings of Eudora Welty reflects a range of Welty criticism. Themes, forms, and stylistic features in her work are given careful consideration by some of the most notable scholars on her work. This edition, selected from the twenty-seven essays published in 1979, retains the breadth of subject and approach that marked the earlier volume.

Argues that the novels of the period 1969-1988 served as a dialogue among women authors and their readers as they attempted to deal with dramatic alterations in attitudes toward career, sexuality, and continued tension between personal autonomy and cultural sexism.

In this persuasive study of culture politics, Richard Nelson examines the concept of confidence and doubt as the cement that holds the US together. He explores confidence in its dual meanings - of trusting faith and of deception, guile, and illusion. His book confirms that US national identity is deeply imbued by both.

From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the colour line.

Arthur E. Morgan (1878-1975) was a visionary who responded to a very high calling - the building of a perfect community, one based upon the bedrock of morality. This book, the first to explore the career of FDR's Utopian, is a soundly researched historical narrative that details Morgan's career and conflicts.

Offers a new interpretation of the transformation of Anglo-American intellectual and aesthetic culture since 1890. Richard Nelson shows that southern intellectuals confronted head on the tensions Machiavelli observed between power and value, creativity and tradition, and romanticism and realism while seeking a cultural ideal that balances politics and aesthetics.

Since no other book has been written on this subject, Metapop blazes a trail into new territory. The author writes very clearly and gracefully and expresses what could be difficult critical concepts in concise and comprehensible prose free of jargon. He identifies a major characteristic of our culture and provides a definitive guide to the phenomenon.

Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career.

Brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or broadcast between 1938 and 1989, these pieces confirm that Welles's career was multidimensional and thoroughly interwoven with Welles's persona.

Examines the complex negotiations behind the production of African American literature. John K. Young presents the first book-length application of editorial theory to African American literature. He expands upon the concept of socialized authorship and demonstrates how the study of publishing history and practice and African American literary criticism enrich each other.

Traces Ralph Ellison's intellectual and aesthetic development and the evolution of his cultural philosophy throughout his long career. The book explores Ellison's published fiction, his criticism and correspondence, and his passionate exchanges with - and impact on - other literary intellectuals during the Cold War 1950s and during the culture wars of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Tells the story of James K. Humphrey and his attempt to bring about self-determination for twentieth-century blacks in New York City. Humphrey established an independent black religious organisation, the United Sabbath-Day Adventists. This book rescues the Sabbath-Day Adventists from obscurity.

In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself "Ann J. Trask" and later "Semper Fidelis". Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881). Recovering Carter's work from obscurity, this volume represents one of the most exciting bodies of extant work by an African American journalist before the twentieth century.

Offers historical and theoretical readings of Caribbean and African American interaction from the 1700s to the present. By analysing travel narratives, histories, creative collaborations, and political exchanges, Kevin Meehan traces the development of African American/Caribbean dialogue through works of Arthur Schomburg, Zora Neale Hurston, Jayne Cortez, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

For any herbist this is an indispensable handbook of fascinating lore, of tips on practical herb garden design, and of comprehensive guidance in cultivating and harvesting herbs. Non-native herbs grow best and look best in gardens that reproduce their native habitats. This view is the keystone of The Essence of Herbs.

In an era that glorified Southern womanhood, especially the women who contributed significantly to the Confederate cause, the subject of this fascinating book, until now, somehow has been largely forgotten. These are the papers that survived her, and they detail the life and deeds of Belle Edmondson (1840-1873), a heroine of the Confederacy.

Explores the interplay of contradictory but equally prevailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last pure vestige of undominated southern eco-culture.

For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. This collection of interviews documents the long career of an influential economist and political philosopher who has spent much of his professional life in the public eye. Throughout the collection, Galbraith's erudition, wit, and impassioned liberalism shine through.