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Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present"--

This volume addresses the integration of Beat authors, texts, and themes into formal academic settings. Addressed to secondary and post secondary instructors, the book features six domains: 1) Foundational Issues, 2) Beat Literary Genres, 3) Beat Literary Topics, 4) Beat Lineages and Legacies, 5) Selected Resources, and 6) Sample Assignments.

Sam Aleckson was the pen name for Samuel Williams, a man born into slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote a memoir about his life and the world around him during and after his bondage. Published privately by his family, Before the War and After the Union traces Williams's life from his earliest memories of being enslaved and forced to serve Confederate soldiers in army camps, through the post-Civil War years as his family struggled t...

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This book exposes a relationship between music and propaganda that crossed generations and genres. Music, in theory and practice, was consistently used as propaganda in a variety of printed genres that included or discussed music from the English Civil Wars through the reign of William and Mary"--

Volume 1 edited by Ariane Mildenberg and Patricia Novillo-Corvalâan -- Volume 2 edited by Peter Adkins and Derek Ryan.

Volume 1 edited by Ariane Mildenberg and Patricia Novillo-Corvalâan -- Volume 2 edited by Peter Adkins and Derek Ryan.

This book examines W.B. Yeats's and Rabindranath Tagore's literary engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. It offers a critical perspective on their work in the twentieth century, when their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives of their literature"--

Granville Bantock: A Guide to Research provides both researchers and British music aficionados an entry to documents, books, articles, recordings, and the like currently available for further study about Bantock's life and music. Location and descriptive details of the manuscripts that are extant will assist those looking to construct editions of especially those works which have remained in manuscript and updated editions of those works which...

Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects, featuring observations by women writers as recorded in texts. The book presents a case for transnational women writers, participating in the discourse of natural philosophy from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries"--

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