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Amy Tan

Amy Tan

Mary Ellen Snodgrass

McFarland Co Inc
2004
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In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan's work--once pigeonholed as ethnic literature--resonates with universal themes that cross cultural and ideological boundaries, and prove wildly successful with readers of all stripes. Tender, sincere, complex, honest and uncompromising in its portrayal of Chinese culture and its affect on women, Amy Tan's work earned her both praise and excoriation from critics, adoration from fans, and a place as one of America's most notable modern writers. This reference work introduces and summarizes Amy Tan's life, her body of literature, and her characters. The main text is comprised of entries covering characters, dates, historical figures and events, allusions, motifs and themes from her works. The entries combine critical insights with generous citations from primary and secondary sources. Each entry concludes with a selected bibliography. There is also a chronology of Tan's family history and her life. Appendices provide an overlapping timeline of historical and fictional events in Tan's work; a glossary of foreign terms found in her writing; and a list of related writing and research topics. An extensive bibliography and a comprehensive index accompany the text.
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Amy Butler's Little Stitches for Little Ones

Amy Butler's Little Stitches for Little Ones

Amy Butler

Chronicle Books
2008
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In this lavishly illustrated collection, designer Amy Butler presents 20 charming, contemporary projects for the nursery and beyond. There's a snuggly wrap blanket, imaginative plush toys, bright diaper bags, handy travel bibs, and much more. Our innovative packaging makes for easy use7 pattern sheets are neatly tucked into a folder on the inside cover while lay-flat, spiral binding makes for easy reference while sewing. Beautiful photos inspire, while illustrations and simple instructions explain the techniques. Amy also shares tips on choosing baby-friendly fabrics and includes a comprehensive techniques section, glossary, and resource guide. With her eye for detail and her signature fine craftsmanship, Amy has created a delightful offering of handcrafted keepsakes sure to be cherished by generations to come.
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Amy Schumer and Philosophy

Amy Schumer and Philosophy

Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
2018
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Why read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be enlightening. Amy Schumer is one of a handful of contemporary comedians filling the role of public philosopher. To be clear, Amy herself does not claim to be offering wisdom. This volume contains seventeen fun-filled chapters. One author makes the case that Amy uses humor to encourage her audience to consider important questions, for example, she does this when she discusses the trial of Bill Cosby while evoking fond memories of The Cosby Show. She essentially asks her audience to consider whether they give priority to unconflicted entertainment over justice for rape victims. In another chapter, the author casts a philosophical eye toward the action-comedy film Snatched and finds that it raises questions about responsibility: Is Schumer’s character, Emily, responsible for getting kidnapped in Ecuador? Is Emily responsible for the death of one of her kidnappers? Another author asks whether Snatched can be a great comedy and still get negative reviews? What is the role of art and who determines whether a work of art is good or beautiful? What do Amy Schumer and Friedrich Nietzsche have in common? Is Amy a “sex comic” or an “issue comic”? With her typical self-deprecating comedic style, Amy makes jokes by highlighting the absurd, the illogical, and the hypocritical in gender relations, notions of masculinity and femininity, and superficial values. But the main reason to read Amy Schumer and Philosophy is that it a pretty awesome read and laughter will most definitely ensue.
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The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-89

The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-89

Amy Levy

University Press of Florida
1993
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Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide in 1889 at the age of 28. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels and three collections of poetry, but none of them is in print today. To correct this situation and set the stage for a generous selection of her work, Melvyn New introduces Amy Levy as an unmarried Victorian woman and an urban intellectual, disillusioned by the mores of her culture, yet unable to abandon her identification with the English Jews who embodied so much of what she scorned. He reconstructs her world in 1880s England - a time when the president of the British Medical Association warned his colleagues that educated women would become ""more or less sexless"" - raising questions that lead to the tortured heart and mind of this ""found"" writer. Of the novels, ""Reuben Sachs"", which generated strong negative feelings in London's Jewish community, is considered one of the first realistic examinations of assimilated Jewry in 19th century England. ""The Romance of a Shop"" looks at working women in late Victorian society and offers a glimpse of the bohemian world of artists. The shorter fiction ranges from a story about an Anglo-Jewish Cambridge student (who commits suicide) to the portrait of a women turned bitter and cynical by the courtship rituals of the age. The selection of nearly 50 poems includes a dramatic monologue in which Socrates' ""shrewish"" wife explains the world from her own perspective. The essays include sketches on Jewish life in London and a blistering attack on the pomposities of Henry James and his circle.
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Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

Matthew Lippman

University Press of Florida
2025
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The first book to document the story of Amy Mallard, who bravely sought justice for the lynching of her husband and became anadvocate for civil rights In this book, Matthew Lippmandetails the little-known story of Amy Mallard, a schoolteacher from ruralGeorgia who, after the lynching of her husband, Robert "Duck" Mallard, in 1948, courageously sought justice through the legal system. Lippman explores Mallard'strajectory from a victim to a civil rights activist. Thestory begins with Amy Mallard's arrest for her husband's murder. Makingextensive use of primary and secondary sources, including historical andcurrent news articles, Mallard's interviews, and the NAACP Papers, Lippmanchronicles her journey from her exoneration and testimony at the trial to heractivism at the national level. A founding member of the Sojourners for Truthand Justice, she also worked with the Civil Rights Congress, where she assistedwith three pivotal civil rights cases and helped submit the famous "We ChargeGenocide" petition to the United Nations. Animportant addition to the history of African American women, racial violence inGeorgia, and justice in the post-World War II South, Amy Mallard and RacialJustice situates Mallard's story within social and legal history. This bookoutlines how the American legal system failed in its promise of deliveringjustice and accountability to Mallard and many other Black Americans likeher. Publication of this work madepossible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grantfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

Matthew Lippman

University Press of Florida
2025
pokkari
The first book to document the story of Amy Mallard, who bravely sought justice for the lynching of her husband and became anadvocate for civil rights In this book, Matthew Lippmandetails the little-known story of Amy Mallard, a schoolteacher from ruralGeorgia who, after the lynching of her husband, Robert "Duck" Mallard, in 1948, courageously sought justice through the legal system. Lippman explores Mallard'strajectory from a victim to a civil rights activist. Thestory begins with Amy Mallard's arrest for her husband's murder. Makingextensive use of primary and secondary sources, including historical andcurrent news articles, Mallard's interviews, and the NAACP Papers, Lippmanchronicles her journey from her exoneration and testimony at the trial to heractivism at the national level. A founding member of the Sojourners for Truthand Justice, she also worked with the Civil Rights Congress, where she assistedwith three pivotal civil rights cases and helped submit the famous "We ChargeGenocide" petition to the United Nations. Animportant addition to the history of African American women, racial violence inGeorgia, and justice in the post-World War II South, Amy Mallard and RacialJustice situates Mallard's story within social and legal history. This bookoutlines how the American legal system failed in its promise of deliveringjustice and accountability to Mallard and many other Black Americans likeher. Publication of this work madepossible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grantfrom the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Amy Lowell, American Modern

Amy Lowell, American Modern

Rutgers University Press
2004
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For decades, the work of one of America’s most influential poets, 1925 Pulitzer Prize–winner Amy Lowell (1874–1925), has been largely overlooked. This vigorous, courageous poet gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility. Cigar-smoker, Boston Brahmin, lesbian, impresario, entrepreneur, and prolific poet, Lowell heralded the rush of an American poetic flowering. A best-selling poet as well as a wildly popular lecturer (autograph-seeking fans were sometimes so boisterous that she required a police escort), she was a respected authority on modern poetry, forging the path that led to the works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Yet, since her death, her work has suffered critical neglect.This volume presents an essential revaluation of Lowell, and builds a solid critical basis for evaluating her poetry, criticism, politics, and influence. Essays explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist, and a significant force of the literary debates of early twentieth-century poetics. In addition to placing Lowell in her proper historical context, contributors demonstrate her centrality to current critical and theoretical discussions: feminist, gay and lesbian, and postcolonial, in as well as in disability, American, and cultural studies. The book includes a transatlantic group of literary critics and scholars.Amy Lowell, American Modern offers the most sustained examination of Lowell to date. It returns her to conversation and to literary history where she belongs.
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Amy Levy

Amy Levy

Linda Hunt Beckman

Ohio University Press
2000
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After a century of critical neglect, poet and writer Amy Levy is gaining recognition as a literary figure of stature. This definitive biography accompanied by her letters, along with the recent publication of her selected writings, provides a critical appreciation of Levy's importance in her own time and in ours. As an educated Jewish woman with homoerotic desires, Levy felt the strain of combating the structures of British society in the 1880s, the decade in which she built her career and moved in London's literary and bohemian circles. Unwilling to cut herself off from her Jewish background, she had the additional burden of attempting to bridge the gap between communities. In Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters Linda Hunt Beckman examines Levy's writings and other cultural documents for insight into her emotional and intellectual life. This groundbreaking study introduces us to a woman well deserving of a place in literary and cultural history.
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Amy Levy

Amy Levy

Linda Hunt Beckman

Ohio University Press
2000
pokkari
After a century of critical neglect, poet and writer Amy Levy is gaining recognition as a literary figure of stature. This definitive biography accompanied by her letters, along with the recent publication of her selected writings, provides a critical appreciation of Levy's importance in her own time and in ours. As an educated Jewish woman with homoerotic desires, Levy felt the strain of combating the structures of British society in the 1880s, the decade in which she built her career and moved in London's literary and bohemian circles. Unwilling to cut herself off from her Jewish background, she had the additional burden of attempting to bridge the gap between communities. In Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters Linda Hunt Beckman examines Levy's writings and other cultural documents for insight into her emotional and intellectual life. This groundbreaking study introduces us to a woman well deserving of a place in literary and cultural history.
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Amy Levy

Amy Levy

Ohio University Press
2010
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Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy’s texts, the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewish identity, to consider her literary and political identifications, to assess her representations of modern consumer society and popular culture, and to place her life and work within late-Victorian cultural debate. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students offering both a comprehensive literature review of scholarship-to-date and a range of new critical perspectives. Contributors: Susan David Bernstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Gail Cunningham, Kingston University Elizabeth F. Evans, Pennslyvania State University–DuBois Emma Francis, Warwick University Alex Goody, Oxford Brookes University T. D. Olverson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lyssa Randolph, University of Wales, Newport Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University
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Amy Levy

Amy Levy

Ohio University Press
2010
pokkari
Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy’s texts, the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewish identity, to consider her literary and political identifications, to assess her representations of modern consumer society and popular culture, and to place her life and work within late-Victorian cultural debate. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students offering both a comprehensive literature review of scholarship-to-date and a range of new critical perspectives. Contributors: Susan David Bernstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Gail Cunningham, Kingston University Elizabeth F. Evans, Pennslyvania State University–DuBois Emma Francis, Warwick University Alex Goody, Oxford Brookes University T. D. Olverson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lyssa Randolph, University of Wales, Newport Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University
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Amy Biehl's Last Home

Amy Biehl's Last Home

Steven D. Gish

Ohio University Press
2018
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In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and women's rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africa's most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amy's parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported amnesty for her killers and hired two of the young men to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation. The Biehls were hailed as heroes by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and many others in South Africa and the United States—but their path toward healing was neither quick nor easy. Granted unrestricted access to the Biehl family's papers, Steven Gish brings Amy and the Foundation to life in ways that have eluded previous authors. He is the first to place Biehl's story in its full historical context, while also presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death across two continents.
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Amy of the Necromancers

Amy of the Necromancers

Jimena I Novaro

Jimena I. Novaro
2021
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A dead girl who won't talk. A living girl with death in her bloodline.Amy's family isn't like other people. Amy's mother has an almost magical ability to ease the pain of the dying. Every full moon, her aunt sits in a graveyard and talks to ghosts. Her sister Sarah can predict how someone will die.And Amy-well, she can raise the dead.Until now, Amy has only ever brought back pets and wild animals. But on the night before starting junior year in high school, she brings back something new: a little girl.As Amy searches for the child's identity, she begins to suspect the girl's death wasn't an accident. Where is her family? Why won't she speak? Why is she so frightened to leave Amy's side?But while the mystery grows more complex, Amy's life brings more turmoil. Her crush, the beautiful and mysterious Toni Davis, has secrets of her own. Amy's powers-and her chronic depression-become tougher to hide from her friends. And worst of all, she finds it harder than ever to connect with her family, the only people who could understand the strange position she occupies in the balance between life and death.Amy of the Necromancers is a novel about dark magic, love in all its complex forms, and the cost of discovering your identity.
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