Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P696
ISBN: 9780881469301
Price: $35.00
How does psychoanalysis animate racial passing and how does racial passing inspire psychoanalysis? Despite long-held beliefs that the two have nothing in common, Donavan L. Ramon poses that psychoanalysis is relevant for understanding the reasons behind jumping the color line. The monograph concludes with a meditation on today's ineffective language of race, which hinders racial progress.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1045
ISBN: 9780881469349
Price: $25.00
During the summer of 1958, a local church burned to the ground in a small town in central Virginia. While the details of what happened that early June morning were lost over the decades, Mansion Springs still has descendants who knew the people and the places involved. This classic Don Reid book observes the culture, music, lifestyle, warmth, and realism of that era.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1046
ISBN: 9780881469363
Price: $26.00
Stella Bankwell and the gang are back, and this time there's a murder. It couldn't have happened in a more beautiful place than the historical Georgia barrier island of Sapelo, where wildlife flourishes and the ocean vistas are both breathtaking and calming.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P698
ISBN: 9780881469400
Price: $20.00
WOFFORD'S BLOOD, an epic family saga saturated in Cherokee and North Georgia history, is based on the true history of James Daugherty Wofford, who led a detachment on the Trail of Tears and was one of the main informants for Smithsonian ethnologist James Mooney.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P699
ISBN: 9780881469424
Price: $20.00
John Wesley O'Toole, a disbarred attorney-turned art dealer, continues to struggle in his effort to rebuild his shattered life after his release from prison. Having fallen in love with his girlfriend, Jenna, he quietly makes plans to propose marriage to her while on a romantic trip to Spain, surrounded by classical art in Madrid's Prado museum.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P700
ISBN: 9780881469462
Price: $28.00
Edgar Allan Poe's legacy continues to thrive more than 175 years since his mysterious death. Poe's ubiquitous presence is evident not only in literature but also in film, television, music, visual arts, the tourism industry, and other fields. The essays collected here feature creators who have direct knowledge of his significance for contemporary U.S. culture.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P705
ISBN: 9780881469561
Price: $25.00
During the past forty years, Dana Gioia has had as transformative an impact on American literature as any living author. A major poet, creative visionary, and forthright critic, he has played a pivotal role in the field by arguing for more honest reviewing, questioning the isolated state of American poetry, and advocating for the return to form and narrative. This collection of twenty essays is the first multi-author critical effort to explore the extent of Gioia's influential presence on the literary world.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P707
ISBN: 9780881469448
Price: $20.00
Holly Haworth "trace[s] the moon through the traceless sky" in a meditation on time's cyclical nature and how it slips away--and on writing as a way of time-keeping, poetry a tool for etching memory. Mournful lament and exuberant praise, THE WAY THE MOON compels us to stop in our tracks and savor even the losses.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P701
ISBN: 9780881469486
Price: $30.00
William Homestead takes readers inside the classroom, where lost students mingle with students who think they are "found." Most are following the dictates of market-model education--interwoven with the cult of consumerism, techno-addictions, and the understandable need to get a job--rather than exploring their inner lives and responding to our collective lostness in an age of climate crisis.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P702
ISBN: 9780881469509
Price: $26.00
Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic themes and figures. Just as biblical prophets emerge at the dawn of ancient Israel, Hawthorne's prophets emerge in stories of the beginnings of America.
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