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"Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for youn
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Introduction: bringing back theory / Schemas and scripts: cognitive instruments and the representation of cultural diversity in children's literature / Journeying subjects: spatiality and identity in children's texts / Local and global: cultural globalization, consumerism, and children's fiction / Monstrous women: gothic misogyny in Monster House / Splitting the difference: pleasure, desire, and intersubjectivity in children's literature and film / Children as ecocitizens: ecocriticism and environmental texts / From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': adaptation theory and young adult fiction / All that matters: technoscience, critical theory, and children's fiction
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A comparative analysis of The Brownies' book and contemporary African American children's literature written by Patricia C. McKissack / "The random brushing of birds" : representations of African American women in biographies / Following tradition : young adult literature as neo-slave narrative / Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, and the roots of African American children's literature / A triumphant mulatto : racial construction in Mildred Taylor's The land / Historical fiction and cultural evocations in a community-based literary club / My boys and my books : engaging African American young men in emancipatory reading / Reader responses to African American children's literature : a sociolinguistic perspective / Reading our richly diverse world : conceptualizing a response development zone / African American children's literature in rural schools / Where life and children's literature meet : African American males in the elementary grades / Fences, physical and proverbial : pre-service teachers' engagement with The other side by Jacqueline Woodson
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McNair, Jonda C., 1970-
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edited by Wanda M. Brooks, Jonda C. McNair ; foreword by Rudine Sims Bishop.
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Victorian women writers and the woman question
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
Responding to the woman questions : rereading noncanonical Victorian women novelists / Marriage and the antifeminist woman novelist / Breaking apart : the early Victorian divorce novel / Phantasies of matriarchy in Victorian children's literature / Gendered observations : Harriet Martineau and the woman question / Maximizing Oliphant : begging the question and the politics of satire / Literary women of the 1850s and Charlotte Mary Yonge's Dynevor Terrace / Portraits of the artist as a youg woman : representations of the female artist in the new woman fiction of the 1890s / Lady in green with novel : the gendered economics of the visual arts and mid-Victorian women's writing / Ouida and the other new woman / Organizing women : new woman writers, new woman readers, and suffrage feminism / Shot out of the canon : Mary Ward and the claims of conflicting feminism / E. Nesbit and the woman question / An old-fashioned young woman : Marie Corelli and the new woman
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Nicola Diane Thompson -- Valerie Sanders -- Anne Humpherys -- Alison Chapman -- Alexis Easley -- Monica Cohen -- June Sturrock -- Lyn Pykett -- Dennis Denisoff -- Pamela Gilbert -- Ann Ardis -- Beth Sutton-Ramspeck -- Amelia A. Rutledge -- Annette R. Federico.
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"Mother's voice" -- having her say: storytelling in articulating black women's diaspora identity / Pushing back with our souls intact: young black mother's resistance to marginalization / Transnational mothering: the meaning of African immigran women's lives / Motherhood and empowerment in West Africa: the case of Buchi Emecheta / Everybody's mama now: Gloria Naylor's Mama Day as discourse on the black mother's identity / Re-envisioning black motherhood: the performance poetics of Gwendolyn Brooks and Lucille Clifton / Mothering, mothers and the historic representations of black motherhood in fiction: Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings / Birthing black motherhood: a short history of how race shapes childbirth as a rite of passage / Black motherhood as a metaphor of Christanity in missionary photography / Black mothers' messages of pride to their adolescent daughters / Getting the parts straight: the psychology of hair combing interaction between African-American mothers and daughters / Closing thoughts, mothering the girls we were then: prose and promises
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Helen Crump -- Karen T. Craddock -- Florence Kyomugisha -- Delphine Fongang -- Rashelle Smith-Spears -- Celeste Doaks -- Lisa Elwood -- Tyralynn Frazier -- Emilie Gangnat -- Tracy Nichols and Regina McCoy -- Marva L. Lewis -- Karen T. Craddock with Tracy Robinson-Wood.
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The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These
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Edge, critical studies in educational theory.
Introduction : critical educational theory in unsettling times / Education in unsettling times : public intellectuals and the promise of cultural studies / Pulp fictions? education, markets, and the information superhighway / Citizens or consumers? continuity and change in contemporary education policy / Respondent: "distressed worlds" : social justice through educational transformations / Becoming right : education and the formation of conservative movements / On shaky grounds : constructing white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Self and education : reversals and cycles / Respondent: self education : identity, self, and the new politics of education / Danger in the safety zone : notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence, and suburban security / Fiction, fantasy, and femininities : popular texts and young women's literacies / Image is nothing : struggling to unsettle basal readers and more / Respondent: loose change : the production of texts / On the limits to empowerment through critical and feminist pedagogies / Who will survive America? pedagogy as cultural preservation / Global politics and local antagonisms : research and practice as dissent and possibility / Respondent: pedagogy for an oppositional community
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Apple, Michael W.
Dennis Carlson and Michael W. Apple -- Henry A. Giroux -- Jane Kenway -- Geoff Whitty -- Madeleine Arnot -- Michael W. Apple and Anita Oliver -- Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, and Judi Addelston -- Philip Wexler -- Dennis Carlson -- Cameron McCarthy [and others] -- Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Patrick Shannon and Patricia Crawford -- William G. Tierney -- Jennifer M. Gore -- Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Peter McLaren and Kris Gutierrez -- Kathleen Weiler.
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Sage focus editions ;
The black woman : a historical overview / Some demographic characteristics of the black woman : 1940 to 1975 / Black fertility : recent demographic and sociological influences / The black woman and family roles / The black woman and child rearing / She who is black and mother : in sociology and fiction, 1940-1970 / "The means to put my children through" : child-rearing goals and strategies among black female domestic servants / Black mothers and the extended family support network / Marital interaction goals of black women : strengths and effects / On marital relations : perceptions of black women / Role transition in early adulthood : orientations of young black women / Black female professionals : dilemmas and contradictions of status / Dilemmas of black females in leadership / "Holding back the ocean with a broom" : black women and community work / Political behavior of American black women : an overview / Dialectics of black male-female relationships / Depression in black women : a theoretical appraisal / Black female suicides : is the excitement justified? / The women's liberation movement : understanding black women's attitudes / The self/group actualization of black women
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La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- Christina Brinkley-Carter -- Carrie Allen McCray -- Janice Hale -- Gloria Wade-Gayles -- Bonnie Thornton Dill -- Harriet Pipes McAdoo -- Essie Manuel Rutledge -- Lena Wright Myers -- Eleanor Engram -- Cheryl Bernadette Leggon -- Rhetaugh Graves Dumas -- Cheryl Townsend Gilkes -- Jewel L. Prestage -- La Frances Rodgers-Rose -- Chrisitine H. Carrington -- Delores P. Aldridge -- Willa Mae Hemmons -- Geraldine L. Wilson.
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"From the start of the series in 1976, the editors of The Pushcart Prize have celebrated all sorts of poetry, from the traditional to the experim
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Power / Peace in the Near East / Griots who knew Brer Fox / Spring / Variations on A mound of corpses in the snow / Musical shuttle / end of science fiction / Rabbit trace / sage of Apple Valley on love / We free singers be / All kinds of caresses / sleep / breaker / West Virginia sleep song / Everyone knows whom the saved envy / There is a dream dreaming us / From Sweeney Astray / Conversation by the body's light / Snow owl / Running away from home / Pig 311 / From Laughing with one eye / ritual of memories / Quinnapoxet / otter / Young women at Chartres / I remember Galileo / Portrait of the artists with Li Po / Breath / By the pool / Cantina music / Lagoon / Waiting in line / Floor / For Elizabeth Bishop / World breaking apart / I sing the body electric / From my window / journey / southern cross / Europa / snakes of September / Moles / I knew I'd sing / Procession / man of many L's / reedbeds of the Hackensack / That bright grey eye / Consolation / power of toads / trickle-down theory of happiness / explosion / Ground Zero / Ukiyo-E / fundamental project of technology / Birthday star atlas / Vesper sparrows / Rain country / poem with no ending / Wilderness / Turtle, swan / throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly / Don't go to the barn / noise the hairless make / Delfina Flores and her niece Modesta / I send moma home / Poland of death / That they were at the beach -- Aeolotropic series / garden of earthly delights / Le Petit Salvie / Four from the Bandelaire series / Lament for the makers / Cheer / Justice without passion / Tenderness / Miller epithalamium / May, 1986 / little death / Sequence / Interpretation of a poem by Frost / For you / love of travelers / Furious versions / Incident at Imuris / Miles weeping / Listening / Post-Larkin Triste / Ascension on Fire Island / vacant lot / Dying in Massaschusetts / Sesame / White boot / Sun spots / Seeing you / Mighty forms / Voigt woman who weeps / From the meadow / To a wren on calvary / I would call it derangement / My father's body / Reading with the poets / Ray / Note I left for Gerald Stern / Old Testament / In the land of the lotus eaters / A. M. : the hopeful monster / Coleman Valley Road / Guilt trip / Suite for Emily / portrait of the self as nation, 1990-1991 / Lost brilliance / Twice removed / Salt / Song / Something like happiness / Film noir : train trip out of metropolis / deconstruction of Emily Dickinson / Sadness, an improvisation / Anna Liffey / history of paisley / wood near Athens / dog was crying tonight in Wicklow also / button box / Japan / Aliens / Below Fourteenth Street / No turn on red / Karma lollipop / For the young men who died of AIDS / What the animals teach us / Black legs / Vous Etes Plus Beaux Que Vous Ne Pensiez / lectures on love / book of the dead man #87 / Histories of bodies / Like God / Once a shoot of heaven / cup / Mitch / Gravitas / Also love you / sky blue dress / Sand, flies & fish / All the aphrodisiacs / My dead dad / Biblical also-rans / workforce / Penumbra / To grasp the nettle / Jasper, Texas, 1998 / Memory / short history of the shadow / Inheritance / Limen / Beetles / Inventory / Cock Robin / church of omnivorous light / Red berries / Sonnet / part of the bee's body embedded in the flesh / Autochthonic song / Primer of words / dragon / Commerce / Is / Cain's legacy / Adept / Wonder : red beans and Ricely / Landscape with hungry gulls / Horseflies / My brother, Antonio, the baker / Can't you hear the wind howl? / Beetle orgy / Rose of Sharon / Best and only / Mediterranean / Bright world / Elevens / On the reality of the symbol
Murray, Joan.
Pushcart Press.
Adrienne Rich -- Gerald Stern -- Colleen J. McElroy -- Michael Hogan -- Stephen Berg -- Harvey Sharpio -- Lisel Mueller -- Jarold Ramsey -- Edward Field -- Etheridge Knight -- John Ashbery -- Philip Dacey -- Naomi Clark -- Ruthellen Quillen -- James Galvin -- Norman Dubie -- Seamus Heaney -- Jane Cooper -- Dave Smith -- Carolyn Kizer -- Margaret Ryan -- Gjertrude Schnackenberg -- Tess Gallagher -- Stanley Kunitz -- Seamus Heaney -- James Wright -- Gerald Stern -- Charles Wright -- Heather McHugh -- Allen Grossman -- Derek Walcott -- Joseph Brodsky -- William Stafford -- C. K. Williams -- Sandra McPherson -- Louise Gluck -- Philip Levine -- C. K. Williams -- James Wright -- Charles Wright -- Derek Walcott -- Stanley Kunitz -- Mary Oliver -- Heather McHugh -- Philip Booth -- Maxine Kumin -- Amy Clampitt -- Hilda Morley -- Daniel Berrigan -- Pattiann Rogers -- Philip Appleman -- Susan Mitchell -- William Stafford -- Siv Cedering -- Galway Kinnell -- Charles Simic -- Deborah Digges -- John Haines -- Philip Levine -- Vern Rusala -- Mark Dory -- Denis Johnson -- Tom Sleigh -- Stephen Dobyns -- Herbert Morris -- Marilyn Nelson -- Allen Grossman -- Leslie Scalapino -- Czeslaw Milosz -- C. K. Williams -- Michael Palmer -- Robert Pinsky -- Laura Jensen -- Jane Hirshfield -- Stephen Dunn -- Leslie Adrienne Miller -- Sharon Olds -- Arthur Smith -- Marilyn Nelson -- Thylias Moss -- Jim Moore -- Angela Jackson -- Li-Young Lee -- Alberto Rios -- Michael Waters -- David Mura -- Mary Kerr -- Henri Cole -- Gibbons Ruark -- Donald W. Baker -- Jack Marshall -- Michael McClure -- Christopher Buckley -- Jean Valentine -- Brenda Hillman -- Ellen Bryant Voigt -- Peter Everwine -- Larry Levis -- Gerald Stern -- William Matthews -- Stanley Plumly -- Hayden Carruth -- William Matthews -- Philip Levine -- Tony Hoagland -- Alice Fulton -- Gerald Stern -- David Lehman -- Lynda Hull -- Marilyn Chin -- Rita Dove -- Ralph Angel -- Linda Gregerson -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Stephen Dunn -- Lynn Emanuel -- Galway Kinnell -- Donald Justice -- Eavan Boland -- Aga Shahid Ali -- Thom Gunn -- Seamus Heaney -- Grace Schulman -- Billy Collins -- Kim Addonizio -- Gerald Stern -- Richard Jackson -- Albert Saijo -- Julia Vinograd -- Chard de Niord -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Kenneth Koch -- Edward Hirsch -- Marvin Bell -- Mariko Nagai -- Lynn Emanuel -- Beckian Fritz Goldberg -- Katrina Roberts -- Robert Creeley -- Elizabeth Alexander -- Reginald Shepherd -- Cathy Song -- Mong-Lan -- Cathy Hong -- David Kirby -- Charles Harper Webb -- James Tate -- Betty Adcock -- Eamon Grennan -- Lucille Clifton -- Anthony Hecht -- Charles Wright -- Kwame Dawes -- Natasha Trethewey -- Steve Kowit -- Eamon Grennan -- Miranda Field -- Bobcat Wrigley -- Jane Hirshfield -- Karen Volkman -- Carol Frost -- Rebecca Seiferle -- David Baker -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Michael Waters -- Bruce Beasley -- Richard Jackson -- Dana Levin -- Sydney Lea -- Lance Larsen -- Robert Wrigley -- Philip Levine -- Frank X. Gaspar -- Benjamin Scott Grossberg -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- Andrew Feld -- Rosanna Warren -- Carl Phillips -- Stanley Plumly -- Geoffrey Hill.
edited by Joan Murray with the Pushcart Prize poetry editors.
2006
The Pushcart book of poetry : the best poems from three decades of the Pushcart Prize
1996.
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The life of a girl who drops out of a religious school to work in a porn movie house. She lives in a hotel for transients and her only friend is
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Live girls : a novel
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A Christian fundamentalist group kidnaps children to raise them in Christian homes in this tale of religious intolerance in a future America. The
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Parable of the talents : a novel
Butler, Octavia E.
Octavia E. Butler.
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Parable of the talents : a novel
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The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic fat
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Penguin Group USA,
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Moshfegh, Ottessa.
Ottessa Moshfegh.
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Eileen
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Count Dmitri Remizov returns from exile to find his daughter has been raised as a peasant. Meanwhile, Sergei and Anna contemplate coming out of h
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Heirs of the motherland
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Pella, Judith.
Judith Pella.
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The death of her beloved grandfather forces bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn to return to her childhood home in upstate New York to confront the grand
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Solstice Wood
McKillip, Patricia A., author.
Patricia A. McKillip.
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Solstice Wood