The Education Of Little Tree

A memoir of a Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s.

Huhndorf looks at modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans, showing how seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and oppression. --Timothy J. Reiss, New York University "Cultural Survival Quarterly"

This book is about transnational and transracial adoption in North American culture. It asks: to what extent does the process of international adoption reflect imperious inequalities around the world; or can international adoption and the personal experiences of international adoptees today be seen more positively as what has been called

Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity.

This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to

There is much discussion of multiculturalism in education. This is especially true of multicultural literature for children and young adults. The rise of multicultural literature is a political rather than a literary movement; it is a movement to claim space in literature and in education for historically marginalized social groups

The essays in The Story About the Story Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more profound role in how we think, read, live, and write. In the second volume of The Story

This book demystifies the portrayal of Native Americans on film and reveals a true and parallel history that is often misrepresented in various forms of media. The path to enlightenment begins with an open mind and an open heart: Empathy will lead the way and wisdom will follow. Katina M.

Josey Wales was the most wanted man in Texas. His wife and child had been lost to pre-civil War destruction and, like Jesse James and other young farmers, he joined the guerrilla soldiers of Missouri--men with no cause but survival and no purpose but revenge. Josey Wales and his Cherokee

Роман «Несказане» американки Селесте Інґ визнано найкращою книжкою року за версією Amazon, National Public Radio, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly та низки інших видань. Права на переклад роману придбали понад двадцять країн. Тематика художня література, трилер, сучасна американська проза, психологія, детектив. Про книжку Лідія — центр всесвіту сім’ї Лі. Довкола