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The riveting biography of one of the world's greatest yet lesser-known jazz musicians

Fresh perspectives on one of literature's most willfully enigmatic figures

"Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History examines a rich combination of writers and texts, from antebellum works like Martin R. Delany's novel, Blake, and the poetry of Les Cenelles to Patricia Smith's recent collection of poems, Blood Dazzler. The thirteen essays in Voices and Visions treat two hundred years of literature and include discussions on canonical, contemporary, and experimental writers. Authors often associated with New Orleans such as Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, and Walker Percy are treated in new ways, as are well-known writers who are not often thought of in relation to the city: Charles Chesnutt, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, and Joy Harjo. Examining this wide array of voices demonstrates the myriad ways New Orleans's storied past has affected its present. Scholars find enduring themes-race, gender, religion, disease, art-but do so in the context of emerging conversations. Essayists in the volume address such topics as New Orleans as part of the global South and the Black diaspora, the transformation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the recovery of previously lost voices, including those of Native Americans and immigrants. They also discuss the legacy of pandemics and racial violence that in more recent years has been manifest in the COVID-19 outbreak and the Black Lives Matter movement"--

"Voices and Visions: Essays on New Orleans's Literary History examines a rich combination of writers and texts, from antebellum works like Martin R. Delany's novel, Blake, and the poetry of Les Cenelles to Patricia Smith's recent collection of poems, Blood Dazzler. The thirteen essays in Voices and Visions treat two hundred years of literature and include discussions on canonical, contemporary, and experimental writers. Authors often associated with New Orleans such as Kate Chopin, George Washington Cable, and Walker Percy are treated in new ways, as are well-known writers who are not often thought of in relation to the city: Charles Chesnutt, Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston, and Joy Harjo. Examining this wide array of voices demonstrates the myriad ways New Orleans's storied past has affected its present. Scholars find enduring themes-race, gender, religion, disease, art-but do so in the context of emerging conversations. Essayists in the volume address such topics as New Orleans as part of the global South and the Black diaspora, the transformation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the recovery of previously lost voices, including those of Native Americans and immigrants. They also discuss the legacy of pandemics and racial violence that in more recent years has been manifest in the COVID-19 outbreak and the Black Lives Matter movement"--

A detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters

Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; and Vixen!

Thirty years of interviews with the provocative and often controversial creator of films including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; and Vixen!

The first critical collection to unsettle the horror genre through a contemporary Indigenous gaze

An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children's picture books

An engaging collection of original scholarship on LGBTQ+ children's picture books

"Committed to developing frameworks for defining and evaluating Black poetry, literary scholar Stephen E. Henderson (1925-1997) examined the question: What makes a poem Black? In his critical approach, Henderson prioritized form but not at the expense of source, function, or context, and, in so doing, developed convincing theoretical frameworks for examining African American lyric expressions, especially that of Black Arts poets. Black Saturation: Selected Works of Stephen E. Henderson is designed to expand and enrich understandings of Henderson's critical corpus by showcasing many of his most essential essays, presentations, and syllabi in a standalone volume. Henderson deftly conceptualized the ways in which aesthetic innovations were interwoven with revolutionary exigencies--a marriage of poetry and politics that became a hallmark of the 1960s and '70s. While other critics often ignored or fumbled to construct an adequate rubric for evaluating and celebrating Black Arts poetry--penned by Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Rodgers, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Mari Evans, Sarah Webster Fabio, Haki Madhubuti, and Larry Neal, among many others--Henderson constellated a triad of interdependent characteristics (structure, theme, and saturation) through which he examined Black literature in general and poetry in particular. Revisiting Henderson's scholarship in the third decade of the twenty-first century allows us, on the one hand, to further appreciate his imprint on current scholarship about Black literature, especially poetry, and, on the other, to introduce contemporary students and scholars to his salient theoretical frameworks, not to mention his persuasive critical style"--

Collected interviews with the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film American Beauty and creator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Six Feet Under and True Blood

Interviews with the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Body and Soul and the director of Force of Evil and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Conversations with the author of They Came Like Swallows, The Folded Leaf, and the American Book award-winning So Long, See You Tomorrow

Interviews with the author of the on-going column "Real Life Top Ten"