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{"id":7396434903129,"title":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","handle":"la-rebelion-de-las-ninas-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3250,"price_min":3250,"price_max":3250,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3250,"compare_at_price_min":3250,"compare_at_price_max":3250,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590081359961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF412-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3250,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3250,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9788484898368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Rebelion de las ninas by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333103464537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396434018393,"title":"Lección Errante — Celis","handle":"leccion-errante-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":2600,"price_min":2600,"price_max":2600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2600,"compare_at_price_min":2600,"compare_at_price_max":2600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590080180313,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF411-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Lección Errante — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2600,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789945455687","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Leccion errante by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333099368537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396432969817,"title":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","handle":"muerte-de-utopia-carolyn-wolfenzon-niego","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590077853785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF410-Wolfenzon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789972515552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of book Muerte de Utopia by Carolyn Wolfenzon","id":24333093830745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6562112995417,"title":"I, Grape — Clarke","handle":"i-grape-clarke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-07T16:56:10-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-16T16:24:15-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39307063754841,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF365","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I, Grape — Clarke","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781946724366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction, by Brock Clarke","id":20350316085337,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543815704665,"title":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","handle":"apartheid-in-south-africa-gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-11T12:23:19-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-11T12:22:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":2415,"price_min":2415,"price_max":2415,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2415,"compare_at_price_min":2415,"compare_at_price_max":2415,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39268038213721,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF324-Gordon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2415,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2415,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781457665547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Apartheid in South Africa by David Gordon","id":20266267902041,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540473335897,"title":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","handle":"demography-in-the-age-of-the-postmodern-riley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:09-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2000,"price_min":2000,"price_max":2000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2000,"compare_at_price_min":2000,"compare_at_price_max":2000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260543254617,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF303-Riley","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2000,"inventory_quantity":7,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0521533643","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern by Nancy Riley","id":20249263472729,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538898964569,"title":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","handle":"forging-the-ideal-educated-girl-khoja-moolji","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:12-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":3495,"price_min":3495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3495,"compare_at_price_min":3495,"compare_at_price_max":3495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256730861657,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF285-Khoja-Moolji","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780520298408","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl by Shenila Khoja-Moolji","id":20239929770073,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538896113753,"title":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","handle":"time-use-of-mothers-connelly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:33-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:10-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1800,"price_min":1800,"price_max":1800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1800,"compare_at_price_min":1800,"compare_at_price_max":1800,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256708546649,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF284","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1800,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1800,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780880993685","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Time Use of Mothers by Rachel Connelly","id":20239906766937,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538892181593,"title":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","handle":"gendered-bodies-cui","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:01:20-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:00:03-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":5299,"price_min":5299,"price_max":5299,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":5500,"compare_at_price_min":5500,"compare_at_price_max":5500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256665817177,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF283-Cui","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":5500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780824840037","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Gendered Bodies by Shuqin Cui","id":20239877701721,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4785182965849,"title":"Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal","handle":"jim-crow-literature-and-the-legacy-of-sutton-e-griggs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/tchakkal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tess Chakkalakal faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-03T16:55:42-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-03T16:49:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2995,"compare_at_price_min":2995,"compare_at_price_max":2995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32371826229337,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF266-Chakkalakal","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sutton E. 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Griggs, edited by Tess Chakkalakal","id":7516082634841,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf266-chakkalakal-jim.jpg?v=1614030919","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/tchakkal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tess Chakkalakal faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs\u003c\/i\u003e examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4785166319705,"title":"The Labor of Faith — Casselberry","handle":"the-labor-of-faith-gender-and-power-in-black-apostolic-pentecostalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Labor of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed church only functions through the work of the church's women, who, despite making up three-quarters of its adult membership, hold no formal positions of power. Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power. She also emphasizes how their work in the church is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to their personhood, family, and community as their careers, home and family work, and community service are. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black female personhood, Casselberry reveals the ways twenty-first-century women's spiritual power operates and resonates with meaning in Pentecostal, female-majority, male-led churches.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-03T16:11:37-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-03T16:11:32-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2495,"compare_at_price_min":2495,"compare_at_price_max":2495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32371785465945,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF263-Casselberry","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Labor of Faith — Casselberry","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2495,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780822369035","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Labor of Faith by Judith Casselberry","id":7518548197465,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf263-casselberry-labor.jpg?v=1614104961","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Labor of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United States. This male-headed church only functions through the work of the church's women, who, despite making up three-quarters of its adult membership, hold no formal positions of power. Casselberry shows how the women negotiate this contradiction by using their work to produce and claim a spiritual authority that provides them with a particular form of power. She also emphasizes how their work in the church is as significant, labor intensive, and critical to their personhood, family, and community as their careers, home and family work, and community service are. Focusing on the circumstances of producing a holy black female personhood, Casselberry reveals the ways twenty-first-century women's spiritual power operates and resonates with meaning in Pentecostal, female-majority, male-led churches.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4670445355097,"title":"The Democratization of Invention — Khan","handle":"the-democratization-of-invention-patents-and-copyrights-in-american-economic-development-1790-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Zorina Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/bkhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zorina Khan Faculty Bio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Economics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies were the most liberal in the world toward inventors. Individuals who did not have the resources to directly exploit their inventions benefited disproportionately from secure property rights and the operation of efficient markets. When markets expanded, these inventors contributed to the proliferation of new technologies and improvements. In contrast to its leadership in the area of patents, the US copyright regime was among the weakest in the world, in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare. American patent and copyright institutions promoted a process of democratization that not only furthered economic and technological progress but also provided a conduit for the creativity and achievements of disadvantaged groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-06-30T09:53:00-04:00","created_at":"2020-06-30T09:52:59-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":3599,"price_min":3599,"price_max":3599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3599,"compare_at_price_min":3599,"compare_at_price_max":3599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32020273528921,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF247-Khan","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Democratization of Invention — Khan","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780521747202","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920 by B. Zorina Khan, Professor of Economics","id":7518590795865,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf247-khan-democ.jpg?v=1614106524","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Zorina Khan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/bkhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Zorina Khan Faculty Bio\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor of Economics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies were the most liberal in the world toward inventors. Individuals who did not have the resources to directly exploit their inventions benefited disproportionately from secure property rights and the operation of efficient markets. When markets expanded, these inventors contributed to the proliferation of new technologies and improvements. In contrast to its leadership in the area of patents, the US copyright regime was among the weakest in the world, in keeping with its utilitarian objective of promoting the general welfare. American patent and copyright institutions promoted a process of democratization that not only furthered economic and technological progress but also provided a conduit for the creativity and achievements of disadvantaged groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":89348418,"title":"Making Families Through Adoption — Riley \u0026 VanVleet","handle":"making-families-through-adoption","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Nancy E. Riley, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/n\/nriley\/\"\u003eProfessor of Sociology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and Krista E. Van Vleet, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/k\/kvanvlee\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Anthropology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis text provides both a comprehensive look at adoption practices in the United States and in other cultures, providing insights into the practices and ideology of kinship and family.  The subject of adoption allows a window into discussions of what constitutes family or kin; the role of biological connectedness; oversight of parenting practices by the state; and the role of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class in the building of families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2012-03-13T15:10:00-04:00","created_at":"2012-03-13T15:10:17-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2700,"price_min":2700,"price_max":2700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":208929692,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF206-Riley","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Making Families Through Adoption — Riley \u0026 VanVleet","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781412998000","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf206-riley-making.jpg?v=1614791716"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf206-riley-making.jpg?v=1614791716","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Making Families Through Adoption by Riley \u0026 Van Vleet","id":20239504605273,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf206-riley-making.jpg?v=1614791716"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf206-riley-making.jpg?v=1614791716","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Nancy E. Riley, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/n\/nriley\/\"\u003eProfessor of Sociology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e and Krista E. Van Vleet, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/k\/kvanvlee\/\"\u003eAssociate Professor of Anthropology\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis text provides both a comprehensive look at adoption practices in the United States and in other cultures, providing insights into the practices and ideology of kinship and family.  The subject of adoption allows a window into discussions of what constitutes family or kin; the role of biological connectedness; oversight of parenting practices by the state; and the role of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic class in the building of families.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":63386472,"title":"Horror after 9\/11 — Briefel","handle":"horror-after-9-11-world-of-fear-cinema-of-terrror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by Aviva Briefel, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/abriefel\/\"\u003eProfessor of English and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand Sam J. 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