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Articles covering literary criticism and literary cultures of many different countries.
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, humanist scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some the most important book in the Hebrew Bible, Exodus tells the story of the Jewish people from their enslavement in Egypt, through their liberation under Moses's leadership, to the covenantal founding at Sinai...
4) Reading testimony, witnessing trauma: confronting race, gender, and violence in American literature
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about-or witnessing-trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature. Eden Wales Freeman articulates a theory of reading...
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Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what sociocultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to two of Hurston's areas of achievement by examining the critical response...
Series
Papers volume 3
Publisher
Carleton University Press for the Centre for Textual Analysis, Discourse and Culture
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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