SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 60) history • literature New in Paper Justice Cover Sketch Rev. 8/31/04 Black / PMS 2728C CARIBBEAN GENESIS Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds Jana Evans Braziel Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre. By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid’s writings, this book reveals her work’s transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in the Caribbean. Jana Evans Braziel examines Kincaid’s preoccupation with genealogy, genesis, and genocide in the Caribbean; her adaptations of biblical texts for her literary oeuvre; and her authorial deployments of the diabolic as frames for both rethinking the boundaries of genre and altering notions of subjectivity, objectivity, self, and other. Jana Evans Braziel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati and author of Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora. JANuARy • 256 pp $75.00 jacketed hc 978-0-7914-7653-6 Winner of the 2005 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives The War � thatWasn’t Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865–1900 THE WAR THAT WASN’T Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865–1900 Benjamin Justice An ambitious and timely look at the role of religion in New York State’s early public schools. Benjamin Justice “…Benjamin Justice’s The War That Wasn’t … provides an original interpretation of the role of religion in American public schools and offers bountiful evidence to support this new analysis. Justice is to be commended for the contribution he has made to religion and education history. Simply put, the book is a must read.” — Teachers College Record JANuARy • 285 pp • 12 tables, 11 figures $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-6212-6 Weir 4, pms 122 and process black. Font: Koch Antiqua e decadent culture in the united states DECADENT CuLTuRE IN THE uNITED STATES Art and Literature against the American Grain, 1890–1926 David Weir The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s. art and literature american grain, 1890–1926 against the e directtext dt www.sunypress.edu david Weir “…this book is more expository than analytical, but the absence of previous scholarly attention to these issues makes it necessarily so. Weir’s engaging writing style makes the book broadly accessible … Highly recommended.” — CHOICE JANuARy • 233 pp 7 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 8 figures $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7278-1 60 e P http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60996 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61728 http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61534
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