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Lafcadio Hearn, “Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave” (1890): The Color Line and Slave Resistance in the West Indies
In Youma, Lafcadio Hearn is exploring the affect of the color-line on the sustaining and collapse of West Indian slavery. The legacy of slavery, particularly the complex racial history of the island… more →
Neither Kings nor Americans
Lafcadio Hearn, "Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave" (1890): The Color Line and Slave Resistance in the West Indies
wrote 11 hours ago: In Youma, Lafcadio Hearn is exploring the affect of the color-line on the sustaining and collapse of … more →
Lafcadio Hearn, "Martinique Sketches" (1890)
wrote 17 hours ago: The second part of Lafcadio Hearn’s Two Years in the French West Indies is made up of fourteen … more →
Lafcadio Hearn, "Midsummer Trip to the Tropics" (1890)
wrote 3 days ago: Lafcadio Hearn published his Two Years in the French West Indies, of which “Midsummer Trip to … more →
Lafcadio Hearn, "Chita" (1889)
wrote 4 days ago: In the age of ecology and our current environmental problematic it is impossible to read lines like … more →
Lafcadio Hearn, "Some Chinese Ghosts" (1887) Transgressions in Chinese Folk Lore
wrote 4 days ago: Lafcadio Hearn was quite the wanderer in his life and like many of us living in this liquid world mo … more →
Lynd Ward's Six Novels in Woodcuts from Library of America
wrote 1 week ago: Lynd Ward is widely viewed as a pioneer of the graphic novel. He also worked as an illustrato … more →
Ambrose Bierce, "Bits of Autobiography" and "Selected Stories": Tocqueville in the Year 4930
wrote 1 week ago: Rounding out the Library of America volume collecting the majors works of Ambrose Bierce is his Bits … more →
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" (1881-1906): Cynicism Amok
wrote 1 week ago: I am sure that The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce is much better in its original form of … more →
Ambrose Bierce, "Can Such Things Be?" (1910): Ghosts, Death, and the Unfamiliar in Gilded Age America
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wrote 1 week ago: Can Such Things Be? is a collection of Ambrose Bierce’s supernatural stories, first collected … more →
Ambrose Bierce, "In the Midst of Life" (1887-1897): "Civilians"
wrote 1 week ago: The second half of In the Midst of Life is a bit more difficult to come to terms with because its th … more →
Ambrose Bierce, "In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians) Part 1 (1892): Jeffersonian Democracy at War
wrote 1 week ago: The stories in In the Midst of Life were published individually in the 1880s and 1890s, when the Uni … more →
Philip K. Dick, Conclusion
wrote 2 weeks ago: My series on Philip K. Dick is complete. There are a number of novels I did not touch and of course … more →
Philip K. Dick, "Dr. Futurity" (1960): Surrounded by Corpses
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wrote 2 months ago: Dr. Futurity is one of the final novels of Dick’s early period, before the success of The Man … more →
Philip K. Dick, "Introduction"
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wrote 2 months ago: As my readers know, this blog is my attempt to read through the American tradition, searching for le … more →
Lynd Ward, "Vertigo" (1937)
wrote 2 months ago: Lynd Ward’s final wood block novel, Vertigo, completes a series of statements on how capital h … more →
Lynd Ward, "Prelude to a Million Years" and "Song without Words"
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wrote 2 months ago: The second Lynd Ward volume from the Library of America contains two short works and his masterpiece … more →
Lynd Ward, "Wild Pilgrimage" (1932)
wrote 2 months ago: It was in the depths of the Great Depression that Lynd Ward created his the masterpiece of pictorial … more →
Caroline Fraser Video
wrote 2 months ago: Caroline Fraser being interviewed at Iowa City Public Library In my post about Caroline Fraser … more →
Lynd Ward, "Madman's Drum
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wrote 2 months ago: Lynd Ward’s second graphic novel Madman’s Drum explores the inheritance of a father … more →
