Where much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies, this book seeks to broaden the conversation through a wider range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre. With particular attention to the ways Mairs shapes her essays around a variety of "unspeakables"--such as depression, female sexuality and infidelity, mortality and death, or the struggle for faith in a post-modern world--this collection demonstrates Mairs's provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.

Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics.

A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America
Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage
Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection
A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents
Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay

An introduction synthesizes the latest anthropological, archaeological, historical, and sociological scholarship and the 95 carefully edited selections provide students with an overview of Native American history from the earliest migrations to the present.
The volume includes a chronology, glossary, and bibliography, making it a valuable teaching tool.

Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. * A new edition of this classic textbook, which ties movies into the broader narrative of US and film history * This fifth edition contains nine new chapters, with a greater overall emphasis on recent film history, and new primary source documents which are unavailable online * Entries range from the first experiments with motion pictures all the way to the present day * Well-organized within a chronological framework with thematic treatments to provide a valuable resource for students of the history of American film