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      Living Under the Threat of Nuclear War

      Derek C Maus

      Although opinions vary on how close anyone came to using nuclear weapons during the Cold War, there is little debate that anxiety about the possibility of nuclear war was one…

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      Greater Atlanta

      Argues that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama's election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. The book examines…

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      Greater Atlanta

      Argues that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama's election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. The book examines…

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      Jesting in Earnest: Percival Everett and Menippean Satire

      Derek C. Maus

      Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a variety of subjects and genres. Derek Maus…

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      Understanding Colson Whitehead

      Derek C. Maus

      In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Although Whitehead’s widely divergent books complicate overarching categorization, Derek Maus argues that they…

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      Understanding Colson Whitehead

      Derek C. Maus

      In 2020 Colson Whitehead became the youngest recipient of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Although Whitehead’s widely divergent books complicate overarching categorization, Derek Maus argues that they…

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      Conversations with Colson Whitehead

      Ranging from 2001 to 2016, the twenty-three interviews collected in Conversations with Colson Whitehead reveal the workings of one of America’s most idiosyncratic and most successful literary minds.

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      Conversations with Colson Whitehead

      Ranging from 2001 to 2016, the twenty-three interviews collected in Conversations with Colson Whitehead reveal the workings of one of America’s most idiosyncratic and most successful literary minds.

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      Angry Rain: A Brief Memoir

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      Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny’s growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.

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      Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights

      This collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. Contributors look at the ways in…

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      Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley’s Fiction

      Thirteen essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley’s distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Essays explore Mosley’s modes…

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      Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights

      From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle’s Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the…

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