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The Homewood Trilogy
John Edgar Wideman
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"Master of language" (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman's
first-ever collection of his most revered works--two novels and
story collection all set in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood
where he grew up. Damballah, Hiding Place, and Sent for You
Yesterday provide a stunning introduction to the uncompromising
work of John Edgar Wideman, whose literary achievements have
inspired The New York Times to name him "one of America's premier
writers of fiction." Damballah's narratives examine the vexed
history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood whose
origins are rooted in a time when slavery was still legal in the
United States of America. The novels Hiding Place and Sent for You
Yesterday personalize and interrogate that history's presence in
the contemporary lives of Homewood people and all Americans. Deeply
concerned that designations such as "economically oppressed" or
"Black" continue to dismiss and marginalize rather than embrace
communities like the one in which he was raised, John Edgar
Wideman--employing words on the page as his weapon--has dedicated
himself to recording the weight, beauty, complexity, and justice
that he believes Homewood's voices, stories, and lives have earned
and deserve. In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of
a major voice in American literature. Forty years later, this
edition of the Trilogy celebrates Wideman's ongoing contribution by
offering these masterworks to a new generation of readers.
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the
novel, published by Archibald Constable in London in 1897 and
chosen by the editors in order to give readers-insofar as such a
thing is possible-a more historically authentic reading experience
than has been generally available. Arcane words and usages are
footnoted at first appearance. Editorial matter by John Edgar
Browning and David J. Skal. Eight background pieces, five of them
new to the Second Edition, on Count Dracula specifically and
vampires more generally; seven reviews and reactions to Dracula's
publication, five of them new to the Second Edition; and six
selections, two of them new to and two others updated for the
Second Edition, on Dracula's many dramatic and filmic variations.
Eleven critical essays on Dracula's central themes, six of them new
to the Second Edition. A selected bibliography. About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton
Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for
undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text,
contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyse
and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of
teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in
digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources
students need.
Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the
thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference
guide. Monsters from major as well as minor horror films are
brought back to life through domestic and international posters,
movie stills, and publicity shots. Engaging commentary from leading
horror fiction writers, editors, anthologists, and scholars
accompany more than 400 movie posters and publicity stills from the
early 20th century through to the present day. Not only will you
revisit such iconic movies as The Shining, Child's Play, Halloween,
Godzilla, and Jaws, to name just a few, you will also learn about
the cultural and technological developments that have played a role
in the history of the indelible movie monster. Whether you're a
screenwriter, producer, director, actor, or just a fan, this
reference guide is an invaluable resource about one of our greatest
movie genres.
'This is truly inimitable storytelling' Observer '[A] master of
language' New York Times A boy stands alone, unable to enter the
room in which his grandfather's coffin lies. Freddie Jackson's song
'You Are My Lady' plays on the car radio as a son is brought to a
prison cell in Arizona. A narrator contemplates the Atlanta child
murders from 1979. Look For Me and I'll Be Gone is vital reading
for anyone interested in the state of America today. Historical and
contemporary, intimate and expansive, the stories here represent a
pioneering writer whose innovation, form and imagination know no
bounds.
In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman. His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black. Spiraling outward from the core image of a cattle killing--the Xhosa people's ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator's search for meaning and love into the America, Europe and South Africa of yesterday and today.
Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk"
pervades not only popular culture but also public policy through
film and other media, this book is a "one-stop shop" of sorts for
students and instructors employing various approaches and media in
the study of "teratologies," or discourses of the monstrous.
Despite its apparently monolithic definition, "teratology" (from
the Greek word teras, meaning "monster," and the Latin logia, which
is derived from the Greek logos, meaning "a speaking, discourse,
treatise, doctrine, theory, science") seems infinitely malleable,
flourishing in various rhetorical environments. Teratologies are
more than a bestiary: a catalogue of "freaks" designed to celebrate
the "normal." Rather, teratologies illustrate how humor, horror,
fantasy, and the "real" cross-fertilize each other, resulting in
the possibility of new worlds, ethics, and narratives emerging. As
a general anthology of teratologies, this book simply maps what, in
many ways, has already been occurring across several fields, as it
tracks the expansion of this term, creating lacunae that form
connections across multiple interpretive communities. It is a cross
section of how "monster narratives" intersect with "outsider"
positions, from different perspectives - such as those of literary
critics, film critics, criminologists, law professors, historians,
philosophers - and looks into various strategies of destabilizing
normative binaries.
Many animators and designers would like to supplement their Maya
learning with a less-technical, more helpful book. This new
self-study manual is both a general guide for understanding 3-D
computer graphics and a specific guide for learning the
fundamentals of Maya: workspace, modeling, animation, shading,
lighting, and rendering.
This well-integrated and produced volume covers these
fundamentals in each chapter so that readers gain increasingly
detailed knowledge. After an initial 'concepts' section launches
each chapter, hands-on tutorials are provided, as well as a chapter
project that progressively adds newly learned material and
culminates in the final animated short. This is the first book on
Maya that teaches the subject using a sensible, proven methodology
for both novices and intermediate users.
Topics and features: * Proven method that emphasizes
preliminaries to every chapter * Integrates the "why" concepts of
3-D simultaneously with the "how-to" techniques * Skills reinforced
with tutorials and chapter projects * Real-world experience
distilled into helpful hints and step-by-step guides for common
tasks * CD-ROM with practice animations, case studies and
additional methods
The book, suitable for novices or intermediate users, presents
all the basic 3-D animation concepts and Maya software background
needed for learning animation techniques and creating
sophisticated, state-of-the-art animations. It is an essential
resource for animators, game developers, effects specialists, and
computer graphic artists, as well as an ideal self-study guide for
students or individuals pursuing interests in graphics or
animation.
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Black Boy (Paperback)
Richard Wright; Foreword by John Edgar Wideman; Afterword by Malcolm Wright
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In this new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the
historical and the imaginary, the personal and the political, to
invent complex, charged stories about love, death and struggle.
With a cast of real and fictional characters as diverse as
Frederick Douglass, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Wideman's own family,
it is a journey through the soul of America. In 'JB & FD'
Wideman imagines conversations between white anti-slavery crusader
John Brown and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In 'Williamsburg
Bridge' a man contemplates his life as he sits on the edge of the
bridge, meaning to jump. In 'Maps and Ledgers' a brother and sister
ponder their father's killing of another man. In these and the
other stories in this collection, Wideman navigates an
extraordinary range of subject and tone. He delivers individual
narratives both emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating,
and an extended meditation on family, history and loss. American
Histories demonstrates a master at his absolute best.
A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Forty years after John
Edgar Wideman's first book of stories, comes this stunning
collection that is vital reading for anyone interested in the state
of America today. Its subjects range from Michael Jordan to Emmett
Till, from distrust of authority to everyday grief, from childhood
memories to the final day in a prison cell. A boy stands alone in
his grandmother's house, unable to enter the room in which his
grandfather's coffin lies, afraid the dead man may speak, afraid he
won't speak. Freddie Jackson's song 'You Are My Lady' plays on the
car radio as a son is brought to a prison cell in Arizona. A
narrator contemplates the Atlanta child murders from 1979. Never
satisfied to simply tell a story, Wideman continues to push form,
with stories within stories, sentences that rise like a jazz solo
with every connecting clause, voices that reflect who he is and
where he's from, and an exploration of time that entangles past and
present. Whether historical or contemporary, intimate or expansive,
the stories here represent a pioneering American writer whose
innovation and imagination know no bounds.
The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the
intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience's
experience of being in the world at a particular historical and
cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which
to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the
changes wrought by technological development in creation,
production, and distribution, as well as the ways in which those
who are traditionally underrepresented positively within the genre-
women, LGBTQ+, indigenous, and BAME communities - are finally being
seen and finding space to speak.
When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling
at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a
flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett's
father, Louis, had also been killed - court-martialled and hanged.
Though the circumstances could hardly have been more different,
behind both deaths stood the same crime, of being black. In Writing
to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman, born the same year as Emmett
Till, investigates the tragic fates of father and son. Mixing
research, memoir and imagination, this book is an essential
commentary on racism in America - illuminating, humane and
profound.
These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and
artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of
memory. A re-imagined conversation takes place between white
anti-slavery crusader John Brown and black abolitionist Frederick
Douglass. A man sits on the edge of Williamsburg Bridge,
contemplating suicide. The author considers the deaths of his
brother, uncle, mother and niece. John Edgar Wideman's fiction
challenges the boundaries of the form. Emotionally precise and
intellectually stimulating, this is Wideman at his best.
Zombie Talk offers a concise, interdisciplinary introduction and
deep analytical set of theoretical approaches to help readers
understand the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary and modern
culture. With essays that combine Humanities and Social Science
methodologies, the authors examine the zombie through an array of
cultural products from different periods and geographical
locations: films ranging from White Zombie (1932) to the pioneering
films of George Romero, television shows like AMC's The Walking
Dead, to literary offerings such as Richard Matheson's I am Legend
(1954) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
(2009), among others.
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3D Printing Projects (Paperback)
Brook Drumm, James Floyd Kelly, Matt Stultz, Rick Winscot, John Edgar Park, …
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Even if you've never touched a 3D printer, these projects will
excite and empower you to learn new skills, extend your current
abilities, and awaken your creative impulses. Each project uses a
unique combination of electronics, hand assembly techniques, custom
3D-printed parts, and software, while teaching you how to think
through and execute your own ideas. Written by the founder of
Printrbot, his staff, and veteran DIY authors, this book of
projects exemplifies the broad range of highly personalized,
limit-pushing project possibilities of 3D printing when combined
with affordable electronic components and materials. In Make: 3D
Printing Projects, you'll: Print and assemble a modular lamp that's
suitable for beginners--and quickly gets you incorporating
electronics into 3D-printed structures. Learn about RC vehicles by
fabricating--and driving--your own sleek, shiny, and fast Inverted
Trike. Model a 1950s-style Raygun Pen through a step-by-step primer
on how to augment an existing object through rapid prototyping.
Fabricate a fully functional, battery-powered screwdriver, while
learning how to tear down and reconstruct your own tools. Get
hands-on with animatronics by building your own set of life-like
mechanical eyes. Make a Raspberry Pi robot that rides a monorail of
string, can turn corners, runs its own web server, streams video,
and is remote-controlled from your phone. Build and customize a
bubble-blowing robot, flower watering contraption, and a DIY camera
gimbal.
This anthology comprises essays that study the form, aesthetics and
representations of LGBTQ+ identities in an emerging sub-genre of
film and television that we term 'New Queer Horror.' New Queer
Horror designates horror that is crafted by directors/producers who
identify as gay, bi, queer or transgendered, or works that feature
homoerotic or explicitly homosexual narratives with 'out' LGBTQ+
characters. Unlike other studies, this anthology argues that New
Queer Horror projects contemporary anxieties within LGBTQ+
subcultures onto its characters and into its narratives, building
upon the previously figurative role of Queer monstrosity in the
moving image. New Queer Horror thus highlights the limits of a
metaphorical understanding of queerness in the horror film in an
age where its presence has become more unambiguous. Ultimately,
this anthology aims to show that 'New Queer Horror' has in recent
years turned the focus of fear on itself, on its own communities
and subcultures.
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