A study of the Big Drum dance rite on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, this book introduces 120 ceremonial song texts and dances that reflect African-Caribbean religion as practiced by enslaved people in the early 1700s as well as the Carriacou religious experience today.
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Through a detailed examination of a wide range of texts, this book reclaims Edith Wharton’s writings from World War I and places Wharton in the company of other "Great War" writers.
This book tells how dedicated members of one of the oldest and most prominent Black religious institutions created a forceful presence within the American American community in Florida after the Civil War.
In this survey of foundational theory on James Joyce's Ulysses, seasoned Joyceans introduce the methodologies that have made significant contributions to understanding the novel.
This collection of early work, college writing, newspaper pieces, and stories of life in Florida by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is an intimate glimpse into the artistic development of a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Through a wide variety of essays on language, history, politics, and culture in the works of James Joyce, this book celebrates the transformative effects of the city of Trieste on Joyce's writing
This book explores Thomas Edison's activities and influence in Fort Myers, Florida, over 45 years, an important facet of Edison's life that is largely unknown.
James Michener's first novel, Tales of the South Pacific, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and the Pulitzer-winning Broadway musical it inspired, South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
Through a trove of World War II letters written by a pilot in the Solomon Islands campaign, this book offers a glimpse of what life was like for a soldier caught up in the war of his generation.
Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and including her art historical discoveries, her political writings, and her travel writing, the essays in this volume explore Wharton's diverse, complex, and sometimes problematic relationship to a cosmopolitan vision.