Collects the sixty-nine reviews of seventy-six books that were published between 1942 and 1984 by the well-regarded author

Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and literary issues of our past and present. Defining the landscape of the New American literary history, these essays are united by three interrelated concerns: ideas of origin (where does "American literature" begin?), ideas of nation (what does "American literature" mean?), and ideas of race and gender (what does "American literature" include and exclude and how?). Work by writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Frances Harper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Bharati Mukherjee, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Américo Paredes, and Toni Morrison are discussed from several theoretical perspectives, using a variety of methodologies. Issues of the "frontier" and the "border" as well as those of coloniality and postcoloniality are explored. In each case, these essays emphasize the ideological nature of national identity and, more specifically, the centrality of race and gender to our concept of nationhood. Collected from recent issues of American Literature, with three new essays added, Subjects and Citizens charts the new directions being taken in American literary studies. Contributors. Daniel Cooper Alarcón, Lori Askeland, Stephanie Athey, Nancy Bentley, Lauren Berlant, Michele A. Birnbaum, Kristin Carter-Sanborn, Russ Castronovo, Joan Dayan, Julie Ellison, Sander L. Gilman, Karla F. C. Holloway, Annette Kolodny, Barbara Ladd, Lora Romero, Ramón Saldívar, Maggie Sale, Siobhan Senier, Timothy Sweet, Maurice Wallace, Elizabeth Young

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.

Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.

"Reviled by the critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critcal interest. In The Myth of Superwoman Resa Dudovitze looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study including interviews with publishers, literatry agents, and bestselling authors, gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced, marketed, and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the international bestsellers of the 1980s to writers like Judith Krantz, Colleen McCullough, and Barbara Taylor Bradford ... Dudovitz shows how women's best selling fiction has, over the last two hundred years, kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women, culminating in the myth of superwoman in women's bestsellers of the 1980s."--Back cover.

Reference book with essential information for the expatriate on living and working in The Netherlands with more than 250 full colour ill.

Tent.cat. bij de gelijknamige tent. (Le Botanique, Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussel). Met bijdragen van meerdere auteurs, rijk geill. in z-w en kleur.

French edition of the exhibition catalogue (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles) with 253 catalogue numbers, most of them ill. in b/w and colour.

Nederlandse vertaling van oorspronkelijk Duits handboek, verschenen in 1969.

Zeldzame tent.cat. verschenen t.g.v. de gelijknamige tent. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) met bijdragen in het Frans van meerdere auteurs; DE publicatie over leven en werk van deze Frans surrealistische schrijver en theoreticus.

Countless fossilized remains of dinosaurs are buried throughout the U.S. and Canada--and plenty of places invite you to act like an archaeologist and search for them. Sift through the pages of "Dinosaur Digs" for information on joining a dinosaur dig and touring fossil sites, background information and expert insight on paleontological science and speculation, excavation techniques, and more. More than 250 full-color images, including specially commissioned maps and evocative illustrations are included.

In de moderne geneeskunde gaat het in beginsel om de trits en 'klacht-diagnose-therapie'. In de dagelijkse praktijk is het tegenwoordig echter niet altijd zo eenduidig: aan de handelingen van artsen en tandartsen liggen in het huidige 'posttraditionele tijdperk' steeds vaker allerlei andere en complexe overwegingen ten grondslag. De patiënt, die op basis van de televisie, de kranten en het internet steeds meer op de hoogte is van medische problemen en mogelijke oplossingen, en wiens rechten tegenwoordig veel meer vastliggen, onderhandelt op de markt van welzijn en geluk, en verlangt soms dingen die niet zonder meer in het rijtje klacht-diagnose-therapie passen. Daarbij gaat het dan om vragen waaraan bijvoorbeeld het verlangen naar zekerheid over de eigen gezondheid, meer mogelijkheden tot zelfontplooiing, of esthetische overwegingen ten grondslag liggen; maar ook kan het gaan om meer laag-bij-de-grondse overwegingen als gemak of financieel gewin. Een arts die in zulke gevallen van oordeel is dat er geen sprake is van een abnormale of ziekelijke toestand die om geneeskundig handelen vraagt, of denkt (of wéét) dat het uitgesloten is dat de klacht door de interventie zal verminderen, of - erger nog - dat die interventie waarschijnlijk tot meet of andere klachten zal leiden, moet daarop dan reageren en met de patiënt onderhandelen. Omdat hierbij niet-medische overwegingen aan de orde komen, voelen artsen zich in zulke situaties vaak enigszins ongemakkelijk. In 'Onderhandelen in de spreekkamer' wordt deze problematiek besproken aan de hand van casuïstiek uit de huisartsengeneeskunde, de tandartspraktijk, de orthodontie, de dermatologie, de plastische chirurgie, de kaakchirurgie, de psychiatrie, en de alternatieve geneeskunde. Naast het perspectief van verschillende medisch en tandheelkundige specialisten komt ook dat van de patiënt en de wetgever aan de orde

Examines whether, and, to what extent, national health reform policies have to take into account EC competition rules, which ensure supervision of the activities of undertakings on the market and which are designed to control anti-competitive behaviour.