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This welcome study delivers a long-overdue analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908-1997), a major mid-twentieth-century African American author. Primarily known as the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest, " Petry has been most recognized for her 1946 novel The Street, about a woman's struggle to raise her son in a hardscrabble Harlem neighborhood. Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a sort of literary desce...

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From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. "Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson" explores how in their own work three major African-American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison

A popular California hypnotherapist will teach you how to "be your own surgeon" using the power of the "mind-body connection". The author has assisted many of his hypnotherapy/NLP clients, who were previously considering plastic surgery, with powerful techniques for breast enlargement, breast reduction, waist reduction, thigh reduction, improving self-esteem, eliminating limiting beliefs and more. Includes Valuable information about "body cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection illustrates how African-American male novelists and playwrights have absorbed, challenged, and expanded the conventions of black American writing and, with it, black male identity.From the "John Henry Syndrome" -- a definition of black masculinity based on brute strength or violence -- to the submersion of black gay identity ...

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Excerpt from The Spell of Scotland You cannot come back from the far corners of the earth - to which Scotland has sent such majorities of her sons, Since the old days when she squandered them in battle on the Border or on the Continent, to the new days when She squanders them in colonization SO that half a dozen of her counties Show decline in popula tion - but you must come to Glasgow. The steamers are second-class compared with those which ...

As policy choices grow more complicated, they are harder to present to citizens - which undermines citizen legitimacy of parties and elected officials. How can government maintain democratic accountability? This volume explores the answers by probing citizen involvement in specific cities and countries the world over.

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