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Judith KellerPublication Details
BookJ. Paul Getty Museum2009Links
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Jo Ann Callis : Woman Twirling
The Wounded Animal : J.M. Coetzee And The Difficulty Of Reality In Literature And Philosophy
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Stephen MulhallPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2009Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR9369.3.C58 Z86 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Red Land, Red Power : Grounding Knowledge In The American Indian Novel
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Sean Kicummah TeutonPublication Details
BookDuke University Press2008Description
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of ?Red Power,? For this tribal realist position, Teuton enlarges the concepts of Indigenous identity and tribal experience as intertwined sources of insight into a shared world. While engaging a wide spectrum of Native American writing, Teuton focuses on three of the most canonized and, he contends, most misread novels of the era?N. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.I52 T48 2008 AVAILABLE
Tibet : My Story, An Autobiography
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Jetsun Pema ; with Gilles Van GrasdorffPublication Details
BookElement1997Description
Jetsun Pema, the Dalai Lama’s younger sister, offers a rare and poignant account of life in Tibet before the Chinese occupation–a world that is lost forever. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) DS786 .J47 1997 AVAILABLE
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J.M.G. Le ClézioPublication Details
BookMercure de France2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PQ2672.E25 Z46 2004 AVAILABLE
Mel Bochner : Language, 1966-2006
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Johanna Burton ; with contributions by Mel Bochner, James Meyer, and James Rondeau ; accompanying an exhibition organized by James Rondeau with Mark Pascale and Lisa DorinPublication Details
BookArt Institute of Chicago2007Links
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As a result, language becomes a tool in Bochner’s interrogation into how an object—be it a painting, sculpture, mathematical equation, or a complete replacement of the “object” with language itself—can function as a work of art. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N6537.B578 A4 2007 AVAILABLE
The Bitter Sea : Coming Of Age In A China Before Mao
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Charles N. LiPublication Details
Book1st edHarperCollins2008Description
Born near the beginning of World War II, Li Na was the youngest son of a wealthy Chinese government official. He went from being Li Na—the dutiful Chinese son yearning for a harsh, manipulative father’s love—to Charles, an independent Chinese American seeking no one’s approval but his own. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) P85 .L54 L54 2008 AVAILABLE
Banker To The Poor : Micro-lending And The Battle Against World Poverty
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Muhammad Yunus with Alan JolisPublication Details
BookPublicAffairs2007Description
In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5 billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in rural Bangladesh. Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus’s memoir of how he decided to change his life in order to help the world’s poor. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HG3290.6.A6 Y86 2007 AVAILABLE
Telling Anxiety : Anxious Narration In The Work Of Marguerite Duras, Annie Ernaux, Nathalie Sarraute, And Anne Hébert
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Jennifer WillgingPublication Details
BookUniversity of Toronto Press2007Description
From two world wars to rapid industrialization and population shifts, events of the twentieth century have engendered cultural anxieties to an extent hitherto unseen, particularly in Europe. In Telling Anxiety, Jennifer Willging examines manifestations of such anxiety in the selected narratives of four women writing in French ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PQ673 .W54 2007 AVAILABLE
Fat Girl : A True Story
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Judith MoorePublication Details
BookPlume2006Description
K.Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore?s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles. ?Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (editor?s choice) ?Searingly honest without affectation . ?Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett, The Seattle Times ?Stark . ?Anne Lamott ?Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS RESERVE BOOK N29-B c.2 DUE 11-30-09
J.M. Coetzee And The Idea Of The Public Intellectual
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edited by Jane PoynerPublication Details
BookOhio University Press2006Links
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Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual addresses the contribution Coetzee has made to contemporary literature, not least for the contentious forays his work makes into South African political discourse and the field of postcolonial studies. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual explores Coetzee?s roles as a South African intellectual and a novelist; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR9369.3.C58 Z54 2006 AVAILABLE
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
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retold by Friederun Reichenstetter ; illustrated by Silke LefflerPublication Details
BookNorth-South2007Description
From well-known classics like The Little Match Girl and The Emperor’s New Clothes, to fairytale treasures yet to be discovered, Silke Leffler’s enchanting illustrations capture the time-less magic of Andersen’s tales. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 398.2 An545a AVAILABLE
The Snoring Bird : My Family’s Journey Through A Century Of Biology
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Bernd HeinrichPublication Details
Book1st edEcco2007Description
From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father’s life, his family’s past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) QH31.H356 A3 2007 AVAILABLE
Writing Manhood In Black And Yellow : Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, And The Literary Politics Of Identity
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Daniel Y. KimPublication Details
BookStanford University Press2005Links
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This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. In comparing African American and Asian American writings, this book offers the first scholarly account of how black and yellow conceptions of masculinity are constructed in relation to each other. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3553.H4897 Z74 2005 AVAILABLE
Five Days In Philadelphia : The Amazing "We Want Wilkie!" Convention Of 1940 And How It Freed FDR To Save The Western World
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Charles PetersPublication Details
Book1st edPublic Affairs2005Description
There were four strong contenders when the Republican party met in June of 1940 in Philadelphia to nominate its candidate for president: the crusading young attorney and rising Republican star Tom Dewey, solid members of the Republican establishment Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, and dark horse Wendell Willkie, utilities executive, favorite of the literati and only very recently even a Republican. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E811 .P47 2005 AVAILABLE
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