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Category Archives: American literature
AHA Virtual Exhibit
in american history, American literature, Virtual Exhibit
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Welcome to the University of Illinois Press’s virtual exhibit for the 2021 American Historical Association extended conference! We hope you’ll step inside our virtual booth and browse new books, journal articles, author interviews, and more. Be sure to use promo … Continue reading
Q&A with Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo
in American literature, authors, biography, interviews, literary studies, new books, Q&A, science fiction
Tagged Becoming Ray Bradbury, Bradbury, interviews, literature, Q&A, Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury Unbound, science fiction, UIP authors
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Jonathan R. Eller, author of Bradbury Beyond Apollo, the final book in his trilogy biography of Ray Bradbury, answers questions about his reasoning for writing a trilogy, academic and literary influences, and all-things science fiction. Q: Why did you decide … Continue reading
So You Want to Read Joanna Russ: Reading Guide by Gwyneth Jones
in American literature, author commentary, authors, science fiction
Tagged How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ, Reading Guide, Start here, The Female Man
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Experimental, strange, and unabashedly feminist, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking science fiction grew out of a belief that the genre was ideal for expressing radical thought. Her essays and criticism, meanwhile, helped shape the field and still exercise a powerful influence in … Continue reading
Linda A. Morris on “What is Personal about Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc?”
in American literature, author commentary, journals, literary studies
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Linda A. Morris is a Professor of Emeritus at UC Davis. Her current research is on gender play in the works of Mark Twain. Her earlier published work focused primarily on women’s humor in nineteenth-century America. Her teaching and research … Continue reading
Rediscovering the Black Arts Movement, Jonathan Fenderson on Hoyt Fuller
in African American Studies, american history, American literature, authors, black studies, culture, new books, Q&A
Tagged Black Arts Movement, Hoyt Fuller
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Jonathan Fenderson is an assistant professor of African and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He recently answered some questions about his new book Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s. … Continue reading
Q&A with Joseph Vogel, author of “James Baldwin and the 1980s”
in African American Studies, american history, American literature, author commentary, authors, new books, Uncategorized
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Joseph Vogel is an assistant professor of English at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson. He recently answered some questions about his new book, James Baldwin and the 1980s: … Continue reading
6 Books on the Black Chicago Renaissance
in African American Studies, american history, American literature, black studies, Uncategorized
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The Chicago Black Renaissance was a time of growth and innovation for Chicago’s Black artistic community. During the early to mid 20th century, Chicago was the place where poets and musicians like Gwendolyn Brooks and Nat King Cole flourished. Here are … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Take a Ride on the Reading
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Tagged prisoners, Reading, reading groups, reading machines, self-help books, women writers
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As main man LeVar Burton can attest, you can go twice as high if you take a look, it’s in a book. Reading, though an essential skill to anyone outside politics, is also a topic of intense literary interest. Scholars across … Continue reading
200 Years of Illinois: Death of a science fiction master
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Tagged 200 Years of Illinois, Philip José Farmer, science fiction
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On February 25, 2009, science fiction master Philip José Farmer—author of the Riverworld series and the Hugo-winning To Your Scattered Bodies Go—departed our reality at age 91. When it happened I wondered, How did Philip José Farmer end up in Peoria? But it turned out he … Continue reading
Octavia Butler and a new direction
in African American Studies, American literature, science fiction
Tagged African American literature, Gerry Canavan, literature, modern masters of Science Fiction, Octavia E. Butler, women writers
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Octavia Butler accomplished many near-impossibles. She succeeded as a woman in science fiction. She succeeded as an African American woman in science fiction. She also broke out of the genre’s restraints to earn attention in the American literary sphere. It … Continue reading