Although the animal may be, as Nietzsche argued, ahistorical, living completely in the present, it nonetheless plays a crucial role in human history. ...

The death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and ...

This new translation brings together two of Algerian author Maïssa Bey's important works for the first time in English. 'Do You Hear in the Mountains. ...

A scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends ...

Possessing one of the most vital voices in international letters, Maryse Condé added to an already acclaimed career the New Academy Prize in Literature ...

'The brain contains ten thousand cells,' wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, 'in each some active fancy dwells.' In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...

In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Cesaire, Maryse Conde, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in ...

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit ...

CULLED FROM the six volumes of 'i'The Diaries of George Washington'/i' completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers ...

William James has long been recognized as a central figure in the American philosophic tradition, and his ideas continue to play a significant role in ...