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The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation • The electrifying collected works of “one of the most innovative and prominent avant-garde poe...
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The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature AssociationWinner, 2020 World Fantasy AwardsWinner,...
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Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest...
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Ballads of the Lords of New Spain: The Codex Romances de los Senores de la Nueva Espana
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Compiled in 1582, Ballads of the Lords of New Spain is one of the two principal sources of Nahuatl song, as well as a poetical window into the mi...
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Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Gerald Vizenor, the most prolific Native American writer of this century, has produced more than twenty-five books in genres as varied as fiction...
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The Epic of Gilgamesh / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic ...
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Before Night Falls
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human tes...
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One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist p...
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In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays On The Bondwoman's Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Two years ago, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discovered an unpublished manuscript, The Bondwoman's Narrative, By Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Recently Esca...
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The Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a ...
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters d...
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Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineTurns to the written record to re-examine the building blocks of a nationPicking up where most hi...
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By Your Side: The First 100 Years of Yuri Anime and Manga
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Untold Story of Lesbian Love in Japanese Anime and Comics This landmark work is an accessible, educational, and exciting collection of essay...
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My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Twice during the last decade of his life, in 1934 and 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald proposed a collection of his personal essays to Maxwell Perkins, ...
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Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In his books The Great Plains, The Great Frontier, and The Texas Rangers, historian Walter Prescott Webb created an enduring image of fearless, ...
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A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all th...
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F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $33.00 - Original price $33.00Original price $33.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How FBI surveillance influenced African American writingFew institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's...
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In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The most comprehensive collection of perspectives on translation to date, this anthology features essays by some of the world's most skillful wri...
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A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guid...
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Ovid: Heroides: Select Epistles / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In this volume, Professor Knox provides the first full-scale commentary in English in this century on a selection from Ovid's Heroides, a collect...
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Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work. Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectiv...
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Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times is the provocative story of an upperclass white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him—wi...
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Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volu...
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