Resultaten voor 'vern'

1. Dorothy West

Where the Wild Grape Grows

"Mitchell and Davis's volume contributes to current reappraisals of West, expanding our knowledge of her work and her personal history in order to elevate her from bit player in the Harlem Renaissance to a more significant figure in 20th century African American literature. Answering some questions and leaving others open for interpretation, this treatment of West reconfigures that frustrating gap into an invitation for further study while pointing the way towards future considerations of West and her milieu."—Rychetta N. Watkins, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association "This collection of West's work will certainly help readers see that she did not simply 'fall silent' in the 1940s only to return to writing to complete The Wedding in the 1980s. This book enables us to see her as a more thoroughly accomplished writer. It is an important work that will lead to a serious revision of West's place in the canon of African American writers."—Joseph T. Skerrett, author of Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities"What a great idea to gather in one volume the many previously published and unpublished writings of Dorothy West! . . . This edition throws special light on West's talent and milieu, conveying a complex sense of her as a person in relationship to her family life and commitments, her artistic peers, and her intimate relationships. The editors' introduction and the biographical essay set the right tone for the project, appropriate for both the academic and the general reader."—Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader

1. Dorothy West

Where the Wild Grape Grows

"This collection of West's work will certainly help readers see that she did not simply 'fall silent' in the 1940s only to return to writing to complete The Wedding in the 1980s. This book enables us to see her as a more thoroughly accomplished writer. It is an important work that will lead to a serious revision of West's place in the canon of African American writers."—Joseph T. Skerrett, author of Literature, Race, and Ethnicity: Contesting American Identities "What a great idea to gather in one volume the many previously published and unpublished writings of Dorothy West! . . . This edition throws special light on West's talent and milieu, conveying a complex sense of her as a person in relationship to her family life and commitments, her artistic peers, and her intimate relationships. The editors' introduction and the biographical essay set the right tone for the project, appropriate for both the academic and the general reader."—Amritjit Singh, coeditor of The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader

Call and Response-ability

“Call and Response-ability is a stunning achievement and an invaluable contribution to the archive of Black Canadian literature and art. Offering a set of fresh, honest, provocative reflections, the book illuminates Black art as a deeply relational practice. It is a call to attunement to a different kind of sound and storytelling, an invitation to listen and listen well.” - Andrea Davis, author of Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation

1. Vernon L. , Kellogg

Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work

Vernon L. Kellogg's Herbert Hoover: The Man and His Work is an admiring yet documentary portrait of Hoover before the presidency, presenting him as engineer, organizer, and humanitarian administrator. Written in a lucid Progressive Era prose, the book emphasizes practical intelligence, moral efficiency, and public service, tracing Hoover's rise from mining engineer to leader of Belgian relief and American food conservation during the First World War. Its literary context is the early twentieth-century civic biography: less a private life than an account of character proven through public action. Kellogg was unusually well placed to write such a study. A distinguished Stanford biologist, educator, and public intellectual, he shared with Hoover both institutional connections and wartime administrative experience. His service in relief and food organizations gave him direct knowledge of the immense logistical and ethical pressures surrounding famine prevention, wartime scarcity, and international aid. These experiences shape the book's tone: informed, earnest, and convinced that competent organization could become a form of moral leadership. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Hoover before his later political controversies, as well as students of humanitarianism, Progressive reform, and wartime administration. It offers a valuable contemporary view of how Hoover's reputation was constructed around discipline, efficiency, and service.

1. Verne W , Newton

Cambridge Spies

Three British diplomats and spies, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Guy Burgess, did everything in their power to see to it that the Soviet Union prevailed in post-WWII clashes with the United States.

1. Vernon M O'Garra

Brilliant Minds, Ignorant Minds