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The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance

The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance

Maxine Lavon Montgomery

But what truly distinguishes this volume is its engagement with African American vernacular forms and twentieth-century political movements.
Constructs of "home" in Gloria Naylor's Quartet

Constructs of "home" in Gloria Naylor's Quartet

Claudia Drieling

In Conversations with Gloria Naylor, edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery, 105– 10. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. Bonetti, Kay. “An Interview with Gloria Naylor.” In Conversations with Gloria Naylor, edited by Maxine ...
Black American Literature Forum

Black American Literature Forum

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A Pilgrimage to the Origins: The Apocalypse as Structure and Theme in Toni Morrison's Sula Maxine Lavon Montgomery The destruction of the Bottom, a Black community located in the hills above the fictional town of Medallion, Ohio, is a ...
The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction

The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction

Maxine Lavon Montgomery

Finally, since portions of this book have appeared elsewhere as articles, I wish to thank the editors of College Language Association Journal and Black American Literature Forum for permission to reprint. Chapter 2, "Richard Wright, Native ...
Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

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Maxine Lavon Montgomery / 2016 Conducted February 2016. Published with permission by Edwidge Danticat. Long before I had the honor of meeting Edwidge Danticat years ago at a campus lecture where she read from her 2013 novel, ...
Conversations with Gloria Naylor

Conversations with Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor Maxine Lavon Montgomery. Books by Gloria Naylor The Women of Brewster Place. New York: Viking Penguin, 1982. Linden Hills. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1985. Mama Day. New York: Vintage Book, 1988. Bailey's Cafe.
Percy Lavon Julian: Pioneering Chemist

Percy Lavon Julian: Pioneering Chemist

Darlene R. Stille

Percy Lavon Julian is a Capstone Press publication.
Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery

This beautiful gift book is a must-have for all Montgomery fans, lovers of Canadian history, and scrapbook enthusiasts.
Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion

Maxine Hong Kingston: A Critical Companion

E. D. Huntley

Examines the fiction and role in introducing the Asian American experience to mainstream readers through Maxine Hong Kinston and her three narrative works.
Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000

Faye Hammill

7 Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, The Fragrance of Sweet Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992): 13. 1983, Mary Rubio had a grant application to edit Montgomery's L.M. Montgomery and ...
I Love a Broad Margin To My Life

I Love a Broad Margin To My Life

Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston, author of such seminal works as The Woman Warrior and China Men, is one of the most important American writers of her generation.
On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston

On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston

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This book is a collection of recent scholarship on Maxine Hong Kingston, gathered on the occasion of the very first conference ever devoted exclusively to Kingston and to celebrate her opera omnia.
Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston

Maxine Hong Kingston

In this collection of interviews Kingston talks about her life, her writing, and her objectives. From the first, her books have hovered along the hazy line between fiction and nonfiction, memoir and imagination.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review

Benjamin Lefebvre

“Who Do We Think You Are?” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly; Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery's Photography and Visual Imagination, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly;  ...
The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, ...

The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The PEI Years, ...

Mary Henley Rubio

L.M. Montgomery's record of her life is published now for the first time without abridgement.
The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery

The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery

Irene Gammel

This is the first book to investigate Montgomery's personal writings, which filled thousands of pages in journals and a memoir, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photography.
The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

The Annotated Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

This edition also contains a chronology of Montgomery's life, an extensive bibliography, songs and poems that appear in the text, and a selection of original reviews of the book.
The Great White Shark Scientist

The Great White Shark Scientist

Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen report on this thrilling turning point in marine research and travel to Guadeloupe, Mexico, to get up close and personal with the sharks.
Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery's Photography and ...

Through Lover's Lane: L.M. Montgomery's Photography and ...

Elizabeth R. Epperly

Elizabeth Rollins Epperly's Through Lover's Lane is the first book to examine Montgomery's photography in any depth; it is also the first study to connect Montgomery's photography with her fiction and other writing.
The Story Girl

The Story Girl

L. M. Montgomery

Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks.
Rainbow Valley

Rainbow Valley

L. M. Montgomery

Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems. Because many of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, Canada and the Canadian province became literary landmarks.
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations ...

Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations ...

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these barriers. Someone studying Montgomery from an academic viewpoint could also benefit from this access. As Elizabeth Rollins Epperly noted in “ Revisiting Archives,” a lecture she gave at a conference devoted to Montgomery held at the ...
Anne Around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic

Anne Around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic

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Globe and Mail, 3 November 1977, located in the as yet uncatalogued Mary Henley Rubio Collection at the University of Guelph. Montgomery, Selected journals, 3:55 (entry of 22 May 1922). Stuart's account to me gave me the impression that ...
Anne of Windy Poplars

Anne of Windy Poplars

Lucy Maud Montgomery

This early work by Lucy Maud Montgomery was originally published in 1936 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Miles families: primarily of Montgomery County, Maryland, ...

Miles families: primarily of Montgomery County, Maryland, ...

William Neal Hurley

Descendants of Charles Miles of Montgomery County. H1146HB - $29.50
The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print

The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume One: A Life in Print

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This volume – and the Reader as a whole – adds tremendously to our understanding and appreciation of Montgomery's legacy as a Canadian author and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.
L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

Elizabeth R. Epperly

Contributors from a wide range of disciplines explore L.M. Montgomery's writing and its relation to Canadian nationalism, including regionalism, canon formation, and Canadian-Amerian cultural relations.

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