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Presents the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century. It offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres.

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill the tradition of witnessing often manifested in contemporary poets such as Garous Abdolmalekian and Ilya Kaminsky, but they extend that tradition by the medium through which they witness: the technical and the technological. Here, the camera, the closed-circuit TV, cinematographic techniques, and the cyborg are trusted for truth-telling. Reality is represented in footage seen through the eyes of multifaceted speakers. In Abu Bakr Sadiq's exploration of northern Nigeria in speculative poetry, the lyrical meets the chronicle. In this fusion of Afrofuturism with experimental poetic techniques, the reader witnesses a country ravaged by terrorism and the consequences of war, as well as the effects of these on those who survive. While the tone is grave with concern and conscience, the poems do not take the easy route of sentiment. Instead, attention is paid to structure--from the erasure poems that are informed by the theme of disappearance to the contrapuntal poems that are influenced by the testaments of leaving.

The quick spread of posthumanism and of critiques of anthropomorphism in the past few decades has resulted in greater attention to concrete objects in critical theories and in philosophy. This new materialism or new object philosophy marks a renewal of interest in the existence of objects. Yet while their mode of existence is independent of human cognition, it cannot erase the relation of subject to object and the foundational role of our experience of things in our mental activity. These developments have important implications for narratology. Traditional conceptions of narrative define its core components as setting, characters, and plot, but nonhuman entities play a crucial role in characterizing the setting, in enabling or impeding the actions of characters, and thus in determining plot. Marie-Laure Ryan and Tang Weisheng combine a theoretical approach that defines the basic narrative functions of objects with interpretive studies of narrative texts that rely more closely on ideas advanced by proponents of new object philosophy. Object-Oriented Narratology opens new theoretical horizons for narratology and offers individual case studies that demonstrate the richness and diversity of the ways in which narrative, both Western and non-Western, deals with humans' relationships to their material environment and with the otherness of objects.

Treats many dualities of particular interest in women's writing, among them youth versus aging, marriage or domesticity versus career and self-realization, and conventional sexuality versus a greater sexual equality. This work explores a woman's fears of being abandoned, of being alone, and of dying.

Blending the analysis of individual Apache lives with the analysis of their culture, this study tells of the ceremonies, religious beliefs, social life, and economy of the Chiricahua Apache. It traces how a person "becomes an Apache", beginning with conception, marriage, domestic and military duties and concluding with the rites surrounding death.

A memoir by the author who presents an account of the horrifying moment in July 1942 when her father, the rabbi of a small synagogue, was dragged by police from the family home on Rue Ordener in Paris, then transported to Auschwitz. It recounts the horrors of her childhood.

Draws on Curt Smith's extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the ""most American"" sport, and the US presidency.

A fitful interloper among the Surrealists, the author rejected all forms of dogmatic thought, whether religious, philosophical, aesthetic, or political. He combined his skepticism about Western metaphysics with mystic's effort to maintain intense wakefulness to the present moment and to the irreducible particularity of all objects and experience.

Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, he grows restless, that he reignites love affair with sweetheart of his youth, Irish actress Hilda Borgoyne.

Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. These tales were originally published in 1918. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov.

When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-years-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man calling himself Lagrand, actually be her disheveled white brother?