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An Echo Of Swelling Voices, A Meta-Fictional Novella, Adolfo Danilo Lopez
An Echo Of Swelling Voices, A Meta-Fictional Novella, Adolfo Danilo Lopez
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Horacio P. is an exiled Nicaraguan American poet living and teaching in Austin, Texas since the 1970s. Despite his enormous reputation and highly supportive wife, he feels incapable to write his last, and best, novel. This novel is about the life of Asdreni, an Albanian poet who was also exiled in Romania during the time before World War II, and his quest to find out who sent him a mysterious box containing the unpublished manuscripts of an unknown poet. One day, Horacio himself also receives a mysterious box containing the unpublished manuscripts of an unknown poet. His novel and his …
Orbic Bards: Religious Liberalism And The Problems Of Representation In The Postbellum Works Of Walt Whitman And Herman Melville, Anthony Gus Cohen
Orbic Bards: Religious Liberalism And The Problems Of Representation In The Postbellum Works Of Walt Whitman And Herman Melville, Anthony Gus Cohen
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In an attempt to reconcile the critical camps that attempt either to christianize or otherwise, "scripturize" nineteenth century literary texts with the converse, which attempts to paint them cynically as "infidel countertexts" this project seeks to find a middle ground. The works of Herman Melvile and Walt Whitman steeped in the increasingly liberal religious atmosphere of New York City following the Civil War, both strive to offer up an impressively accurate historical and poetical record, free from the problems of hearsay that nagged the deists and transcendentalists, and instead attempted to offer something that instead was nearer to reason, and …
Fake Empire, Dennis Wilfredo Gonzalez
Fake Empire, Dennis Wilfredo Gonzalez
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This a collection of short stories based in my experience as a Peruvian American Writer
A Son Of Mercy, Un Hijo De Misericordia, Carlos Fidel Espinoza
A Son Of Mercy, Un Hijo De Misericordia, Carlos Fidel Espinoza
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A Son of Mercy is a novella that follows Charlie Cantero as he struggles to find his role in the Cantero family after the death of the family's patriarch, Braulio "Pepper" Cantero. A Son of Mercy is set along the El Paso/Juarez border and deals with issues of language, racism and sexuality.