Long before the current interest in gerontology came about, Myerhoff challenged us to listen to what the elderly had to say. Before her death at a tragically young age, the anthropologist created a bounty of work; her studies, her writings, and her Academy Award-winning documentary Number Our Days have definitely left a mark on this world. In Remembered Lives, Myerhoffs longtime friend and colleague Kaminsky assembles her most important essays on the subject of aging and the aged in American society.
Journalists offer a daily dose of commentary sizing up the presidents successes and failures, profoundly influencing the publics perceptions of presidential performance. In The Press and the Ford Presidency, Rozell investigates the national press coverage of the Ford administration: how leading journalists developed their perceptions of Gerald Ford, the criteria they employed in evaluating his presidency, and the nature and impact of their assessments of his leadership.
Lamming, a leading Caribbean writer, is a towering figure in 20th-century literature. He is one of the fathers of modern Caribbean writing and, as a voice for the colonial and post-colonial experience, has been hailed by W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and a host of other world figures.
Through a series of interrelated essays, The Pleasures of Exile explores the cultural politics and relationships created in the crucible of colonization. Natives of My Person creatively reconstructs the symbolic middle passage of the Europeans who sailed the slave ships on the triangular route to Africa, Europe and the Caribbean in the 16th and 17th centuries. Through this novel, Lamming asserts that the colonial experience is not only that of the colonized, but also the intense psychological experiences of the colonizers themselves.
Berrys work is a wide-ranging and provocative study tracing Steins production of avant garde texts, radically disrupting traditional notions of how fiction should be defined, valued and read. As the first sustained reading of Steins novels to combine feminist and postmodern perspectives, the book reveals new facets of Steins work by placing her within an expanded definition of the postmodern.