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Cho A.'s poetry wonders at small everyday delights. Sean Cho A.'s debut poetry chapbook directs a keen eye on everyday occurrences and how these small events shape us as individuals. This collection is filled with longing for love, understanding, and simplicity. But these poems also express great pleasure in continued desire. With exuberant energy that flows through the collection, the speaker announces: "I won't apologize for the smallness of my delights." Filled with questions and wonder, these poems revel in the unknowing and liminal spaces, and we as readers are invited to join in this revelry. Cho A.'s poetry reminds and allows us to pause, to wonder, and enjoy our many pleasures. American Home was selected by Danusha Lameris for the 2020 Autumn House Chapbook Prize. .
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On his way to his wedding, with his friends as attendants, a civet cat meets with extraordinary and unexpected delays.

A Liberian folktale about the animal's war against a monster. A strange animal called the Vingananee beats up all the other animals and eats their stew until the tiny Tree Toad offers to fight him.

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

• Writers and politics
• The "wholesome calamity"
• Hawthorne : lonely dissenter
• Whitman : the "parturition years"
• Melville : the conflict of convictions
• Henry Adams
• Henry James
• William Dean Howells
• Mark Twain
• Gentlemen of peace and war
• John W. DeForest
• Ambrose Bierce
• Albion W. Tourgée
• Stephen Crane and Harold Frederic
• Writers in the Confederacy
• The unwritten novel
• Sidney Lanier
• George Washington Cable
• The neo-Confederates
• William Faulkner.

Here, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why there is still no ""masterpiece"" of Civil War fiction. In his portraits and analyses of 19th- and some 20th-century writers, Aaron distinguishes between those who dealt with war only marginally - Henry Adams, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain - and those few who sounded the war's tragic import - Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. He explores the extent to which the war changed the direction of American literature and how deeply it entered the consciousness of American writers. Aaron also considers how writers, especially those from the South, discerned the war's moral and historical implications.
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Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.
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• Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Selections by Edward Lewis Wallant Award-Winning Authors; 1 Sex on the Brain; 2 Purim Night; 3 The Smoothest Way Is Full of Stones; 4 From Pictures at an Exhibition; 5 The Bris; 6 Six Days; 7 The True World; 8 The Baghdadi; 9 From The World to Come; 10 That'll Be Two Dollars and Fifty Cents, Please; 11 Dinosaurs; 12 The Day the Brooklyn Dodgers Finally Died; 13 The Afterlife of Skeptics; 14 Mandelbaum, the Criminal; 15 The Two Franzes; 16 Dedicated to the Dead; 17 Heaven Is Full of Windows.

• 18 Electricity19 Say It Isn't So, Mr. Yiddish; Part II: The New Diaspora; 20 Nathan Leopold Writes to Mr. Felix Kleczka of 5383 S. Blackstone; 21 From A Curable Romantic; 22 Here We Aren't, So Quickly; 23 Free Fruit for Young Widows; 24 Oslo; 25 My Brother Eli; 26 Yom Kippur in Amsterdam; 27 Zayin the Profane; 28 Deir Yassin; 29 The Counterpart; 30 Pity; 31 Minyan; 32 There Are Jews in My House; 33 From Apikoros Sleuth; 34 Mr. Mitochondria; 35 The Argument; 36 Letters from Doreen; Appendix: History of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award; Contributors; Acknowledgments.

• The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway?
• Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant
• Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness
• Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem"
• The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz
• The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.

What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America. In attempting to locate a place for Jewish identity at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, American Jewish writers look to an imaginary "memory" to reengage a defining, central Jewish history that has, post-World War II, become diluted in American culture.
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