Focus: The New South? — November / December 2008
nina2022-06-25T21:23:52+00:00New independent small presses and new voices from the American South.
New independent small presses and new voices from the American South.
Contributions to the critical conversation about affect and emotion, and their place in the public sphere in cultures of the present and past.
French Caribbean authors tackle the complexity of their collective history, the alienating experience of assimilation, and the dangers of assuming familiarity.
Women of color founded independent presses to keep their work available in an American publishing market that was willing to ignore them or was actively violent to their interests.
The luminous qualities of art—including jazz and literature—are anything but time sensitive.
While the cultural and aesthetic standards behind these selections are historic, not transcendental, ABR's list of 100 best last lines provides an index to our culture's current taste and values.
Dangerous books force us to periodically reassess the scope and quality of our thoughts.
The problem of perpetual war is a problem of representation. Representations of governance have become disassociated from public agency.
Romanians excused their absence from the Cold War literature of protest by pointing to the greatness of their poetry.
The New Lyric is the Old Lyric refashioned, reconstructed, revitalized, rehabilitated, reimagined, reaffirmed, reincarnated, redeployed, renewed.
The cosmopolitan both presupposes and displaces its supranational framework in order to reframe it.
Anthologies provide a momentary vision of a continuously changing literary landscape.
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