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The Case of California (New Edition)

Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, Marilyn Monroe, milk-carton images of missing children, orgies, Mickey Mouse, zombies, teenage slang, ...

“FOLLOW THE PERSON”: Archival Encounters

Poet, novelist, translator, scholar, and critical essayist extraordinaire, Ammiel Alcalay’s intrepid work has always moved across geographic, chronological, political, and linguistic borders. "FOLLOW THE PERSON": Archival Encounters gathers a dizzying array of texts by Alcalay ...

Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life

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Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life, Erica Delsandro and Jennifer Mitchell anatomize the many positions that readers embody, willfully perform, fall into unthinkingly, and are compelled to assume. Such postures shape the ...

Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice

Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice is a series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue. Romanian poet Alta Ifland writes first in French, ...

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