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Fox offers a clear and important, if brief, consideration of the fiction of Baraka, Reed, and Delany. Readers will find this volume useful as a starting point for the investigation of recent Afro-American fiction and as an example of the application of poststructuralist criticism to Afro-American fiction.

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This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.

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This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.

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An innovative interdisciplinary exploration of metaphors of contagion in language and culture.

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This reference book sheds light on the achievement of African American female playwrights, both in the theatre and the literary world, including contemporary African American women dramatists within the circle of production, publication, and criticism.

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During the last two decades, African American writers have emerged as a distinct and dominant force in world literature.

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This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present.

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Explains the interface between landscape and style and form in contemporary British fiction. This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with aesthetic form, offering an account of how British writers over the years have engaged with landscape depiction as a catalyst for stylistic innovation.

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This Reader's Guide provides a timely critical overview that allows readers to orient themselves authoritatively in the rapidly-evolving field of contemporary British poetry. Focusing on key themes and issues, and a wide range of poets, the Guide captures the intersection between the historical and cultural contexts of critical debate today.

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This Reader's Guide provides a timely critical overview that allows readers to orient themselves authoritatively in the rapidly-evolving field of contemporary British poetry. Focusing on key themes and issues, and a wide range of poets, the Guide captures the intersection between the historical and cultural contexts of critical debate today.

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Radically reassesses postcolonial theory in the light of the postcontinental philosophy of Deleuze, through readings of a wide range of contemporary Caribbean writers.

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Provides a critical analysis of post-Franco Spain's successful women novelists. These writers' works share woman-centered themes such as: family relationships, the search for self-fulfillment in a restrictive society, and the hope for the construction of a new world order. The author provides an overview of contemporary women's writing in Spain.

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Provides an exploration of the spiritual and religious contexts and subtexts of contemporary fiction. This title argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature.

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Argues against the idea that the 'postmodern condition' of late twentieth and early twenty-first century culture has undermined the close and creative association between religious practice and literature. This study suggests that the novel has become an increasingly vital, dynamic and problematic space for engaging with the sacred.

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