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V&R Unipress Different Voices: Gender and Posthumanism
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon New Readings in the Literature of British India,
Book SynopsisThe contributions to this book amply demonstrate the richness, vitality, and complexity of the colonial transactions between Britain and India over the last two centuries, and they do so by approaching the topic from a specific perspective: by interpreting the rubric 'new readings' as broadly, creatively, and productively as possible. They cover a wide range of literary responses and genres: eighteenth-century drama, the gothic novel, verse, autobiography, history, religious writing, journalism, women's memoirs, travel writing, popular fiction, and the modernist novel. Brought together in one volume, these essays offer a small, but representative sample of the multifaceted literary and cultural traffic between Britain and India in the colonial period. In the richness and diversity of the various contributors' strategies and interpretations, these new readings urge us to return once again to texts that we think we know, as well as to explore those that we do not, with a freshly renewed sense of their complexity, immediacy, and relevance.Trade ReviewA diverse and interesting set of studies ranging widely over the period by a prominent group of experts in the field. -- Elleke Boehmer, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Shafquat Towheed 1. Colonialism, Slavery, and Religion on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists, the Hastings Trial, and the Making of British India, by Marianna D'Ezio 2. India as Gothic Horror: Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Images of Juggernaut in Early Nineteenth-Century Missionary Writing, by Andrew Rudd 3. Intrepid Traveller, "She-Merchant," or Colonialist Historiographer: Reading Eliza Fay's Original Letters, by Nira Gupta-Casale 4. The British Woman Traveller in India: Cultural Intimacy and Interracial Kinship in Fanny Parks's Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, by Nandini Sengupta 5. Inconsequential Lives: The Voyage Out and Anglo-Indian Fictions of Voyaging and Domesticity, by Pia Mukherji 6. Remade Womanhoods, Refashioned Modernities: The Construction of "Good Womanhood" in Annisa, an Early Twentieth-Century Women's Magazine in Urdu, by Rekha Pande, K. C. Bindu, Viqar Atiya 7. Abu'l A'la Mawdudi: British India and the Politics of Popular Islamic Texts, by Masood Ashraf Raja 8. Memoirs of Maharanis: The Politics of Marriage, Companionship, and Love in Late-Colonial Princely India, by Angma Dey Jhala 9. The Reception of Marie Corelli in India, by Prodosh Bhattacharya 10. "The Sahib try to kiss me": The Construction of the Queer Subaltern in J. R. Ackerley's Hindoo Holiday, by Shafquat Towheed 11. Cultural Contestations in the Literary Marketplace: Reading Raja Rao's Kanthapura and Aubrey Menen's The Prevalence of Witches, by Ruvani Ranasinha 12. Casualty of War, Casualty of Empire: Mulk Raj Anand in England, by Kristin Bluemel Contributors
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Dealing with Evils: Essays on Writing from Africa
Book SynopsisIn a collection of sixteen essays, Gagiano addresses over twenty texts from various African regions and periods. The works discussed here range from transcriptions of ancient (Khoikhoi / San) folktales to some of the classic texts of the African English literary canon and include recent writing about urgent contemporary social and gender issues. As the title indicates, Annie Gagiano's focus is on the way these texts engage with the forces that damage and threaten life and quality of life in various African contexts. She pays tribute -- by means of carefully argued analyses -- to the authors' political courage and social concern and to their subtle delineations of their African character' experiences. Central to her focus is the verbal artistry of these authors' memorable and complex representations. Her collection as a whole insists on the philosophical and aesthetic importance of African texts of the kind discussed here -- to the global reading public as much as to the 'real world' of their original contexts. Along with a new preface, several new essays have been added to the new 2014 edition to bring the collection up to date with the latest developments in the field of study.Trade Reviewthe different essays are always informative, perceptive and full of the humility that insists that a critic should read a text on the terms of the writer of it, and not with a fully scripted already written agenda. -- Research in African Literatures 40.4 (Winter 2009)a valuable collection of essays not only because it confronts the social and political themes which African writers have addressed in troubling times, but also because the articles convey a brilliant sense of the genres, nuanced language and originality of the writers who are represented here. -- Journal of the African Literature Association 3.1 (Winter 2008/Spring 2009)"Incisiveness, innovation, multi-layered contextualization and meticulous referencing are what one has learned to expect from Annie Gagianos literary analyses, and this volume delivers no less."Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.3-4 (2010)"Gagiano's skills as a close reader are admirable. [] Gagiano's vein of inquiry is strikingly original, intelligent and rewarding."Scrutiny 2 15.1 (2010)"This collection of essays by one of South Africa's most admired postcolonial critics collects a range of discrepant engagements with literary texts. [] The essays without exception are persuasive, each combining a close reading of the intersection of text and context []."Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 47.1 (2010)
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PHI Learning English Social And Cultural History: An
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Alms In The Name Of A Blind Horse
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Kitab Bhavan Letters of Al-Ghazzali
Book SynopsisImam Ghazzali, a Sufi philosopher and reformer, advised those straying from religious, political, and social paths. Through letters to authorities, he aimed to change exploitative behaviors and motives of those in power.
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Kitab Bhavan Selected Poems from the Divani Shamsi Tabriz
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Prestige Books Cross Cultural Transactions in Multi-ethnic
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Sharada Publishing House Indus Script and Its Language: Structural
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Readworthy Publications Pvt Ltd Status of Hindi in India
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Stories of the Walled City
Book SynopsisStories of the Walled City uncover the subtleties of life through love, faith and human relationships. They take the reader to a distant land -- a faraway world where every character breathes the life of an ordinary person. The human flaws in them are surprisingly familiar in any setting. The charm of the stories does not lie only in the pretended moral acts of the characters but also in the delusional life of perfection. They give a glimpse of the desired balance between both the worlds that pierce through the questions of spirituality in selfish or selfless acts. Ali Ayçil is successful in portraying a dynamic cultural and spiritual blend in his stories that end with a note of morality. His style of writing in the lyrical prose of Turkish language attracts readers of all genres.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Toni Morrison: Literary Perspectives and Critical
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, Toni Morrison: Literary Perspectives and Critical Interpretations, presents insightful critiques and commentaries by renowned academicians, researchers and scholars.
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Akademica Publishing Globalization in Literature
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University Press of Southern Denmark Danish literature from 1000 to 1900
Book SynopsisDanish literature from 1000 to 1900 is an account of Danish literature from the earliest period to the modern breakthrough of the late 19th century. Together with Danish literature in the 20th and the early 21st century this volume forms a complete history of Danish-language literature. At a time when information about individual authors and their works is only a quick click away and constantly updated, it can be an advantage to gather together this myriad of information and place it in coherent order particularly for readers unable to read Danish. That is the basis for these two volumes on Danish literature. They provide a framework within which the richness of information about authors and their works can be appreciated as forming a rich, connected and connecting narrative. Danish Literature from 1000 to 1900 is an inclusive and networked literary history that does not turn literary texts into mute museum pieces. The volume includes an analysis of the world famous Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus of the middle ages as well as a presentation of the renaissance masterpiece, Memoirs, by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt. The writings of the leading enlightenment author, Ludvig Holberg, are also introduced and the romanticist novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, the fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen and the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard are key figures of the historic exposition. The volume is concluded by an introduction to the authors of the modern breakthrough. Central international contributions to literary studies and extensive discussion on periodization is included in Danish Literature from 1000 to 1900 so that readers may relate this periodization to the periodization of other national literatures. The volume also includes chronological overviews and notes on literary studies discussion of historiography and influential recent research and approaches to Danish literature.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Shame on You: A literary perspective on shame and
Book SynopsisShame and guilt are quintessential human emotions. They are reflective emotions and also what we might call social feelings; they affect individuals as well as collective cultures. Shame and guilt are similar in that they both reveal a failure of the self in regard to common norms. However, shame concerns the self and a persons self-identity, whereas guilt is linked to specific actions towards others. SHAME ON YOU explores shame and guilt in a Western and Scandinavian context focusing on a wide range of authors: from 19th century writers such as Carlo Collodi and Henrik Ibsen through modernist writers such as Frans Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes and Marguerite Duras to contemporary writers such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Charlotte Roche and Yahya Hassan. The individual chapters focus on the cultural alteration of shame and guilt an alteration that is indicated for example by pointing out the contrast between the repression of sexuality that has historically been prevalent and the demand for enjoyment today. This development also implies a change in the position of the subject. Hence, the focus on shame reveals a change in the subjects relation to him- or herself. The book has a mainly literary perspective, but the first three chapters open with theoretical and historical assessments of shame and guilt.
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University Press of Southern Denmark The Princess in the Tower Revisited: Four
Book SynopsisEver since the discovery of Leonora Christinas Jammers Minde in the nineteenth century, its author has been the subject of an increasing number of controversial debates, historical treatises, and creative exploitation. When Leonora Christinas written account of the more than two decades she spent imprisoned in the Blue Tower in Copenhagen was published in 1869, her name was, indeed, already shrouded in legend, an outcome due in no small part to the work of Ludvig Holberg and Hans Christian Andersen among others. Yet the dissemination of Jammers Minde and its self-portrayal of Leonora Christina as an envied, superior martyr, renewed interest in this notorious noblewoman and led to the creation of a multitude of artistic, literary, and historical portrayals. This study examines the image Leonora Christina created of herself through Jammers Minde and the texts interplay with her other writings. Furthermore, Helene Peterbauer chronicles the adoption of the multifarious elements of this image in the scholarly, historical, and literary imagination of this woman.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Three Crowns and Eleven Tears: East Norse
Book SynopsisThis past decade or so, the study of East Norse philology has been experiencing something of a renaissance. This volume contains twelve articles written by international scholars from seven different countries. Based on papers given at the Fourth International Conference for East Norse Philology held in Cologne in June 2019, this volume presents the latest research within areas such as Text Witness and Linguistics, Paleography as well as Codicology, Transmission, Adaptation, and Media Change. Three Crowns and Eleven Tears: East Norse Philology from Cologne is the fourth volume published by Selskab for Østnordisk Filologi Sällskap för östnordisk filologi, founded in Uppsala in 2013.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Crime & Fantasy in Scandinavia: Fiction, Film &
Book SynopsisScandinavian popular novels and films have seen an efflorescence in the last thirty years. In Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia, Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture have been at the heart of the development of heterogeneous publics in Scandinavia, in opposition to the homogenising influence of the post-World War II welfare state. The book provides significant insight into the changing nature of civil society under the Scandinavian welfare state through the lens of popular culture. Nestingen develops his argument through the examination of genres where the central theme is individual transgression of societal norms. Among the internationally known artists discussed are Henning Mankell, Aki Kaurismäki, Lukas Moodysson, and Lars von Trier.
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Copenhagen Bohun Manuscripts: Women,
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Aarhus University Press In the Beginning Was the Pun: Comedy & Humour in
Book SynopsisTatiana Chemi''s book is consistent in its argumentation and comprehensive in regards to the subject it deals with. It results in an original contribution, as it brings together the different aspects of the comic experience Samuel Beckett had, discussing them at the different stages of his literary, dramatic, and cinematographic production. -- Giancario Alfano, Associate Professor in Literature, Second University of Napoli, Italy
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Aarhus University Press Terminus: The End in Literature, Media & Culture
Book SynopsisIn Roman religion, Terminus was an agrarian god who protected boundary markers. Stones were often used to provide an effective means for marking these boundaries, although a stump or a tree sometimes served to demarcate adjacent properties. The need to demarcate boundaries and define ends continues to shape our way of thinking at the most fundamental level. The articles in this book investigate among other things developments in literature, film, historiography and new digital entertainment to see how they reflect cultural anxieties about ''the end'' and/or how they are determined by the need to mark boundaries. The contributions in the present volume are organised so that they reflect thematic, national and chronological perspectives. But they also show that it is possible to identify several threads of continuity in the way that ''the end'' has been conceptualised. A collection of essays on terminus is to make a beginning. By examining ideas of culmination, conclusion, closure, finale and termination from the perspective of a number of various genres, cultural formations and historical contexts, the purpose is to discuss how endings are carriers of meaning in social and cultural contexts.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Et opmærksomt blik: Litteratur, sprog og historie
Book SynopsisText in Danish. Per Øhrgaard''s ability to look attentively upon the borders of the domestic area -- the borders of our own language, our own culture, our profession and institution, all in all, our own world -- has in the course of the years been a source of inspiration to many people. In this festschrift, German and Danish humanists turn their attention to some of these borders to celebrate Per Øhrgaard on the occasion of his 60th birthday the 6th February 2004. The articles cover a wide field: from translation to music, from Goethe to Grass, from Danish fiction to German history and from language to education. The festschrift thus reflects the comprehensiveness and the many facets in Per Øhrgaard''s own work.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Hans Christian Andersen: Between Children's
Book SynopsisOn the occasion of Hans Christian Andersen''s bicentenary the theme chosen was Hans Christian Andersen between Children''s Literature and Adult Literature. At previous conferences focus had been exclusively on Andersen as poet and writer for adults, in which capacity he wrote novels, theatre plays, poems, and travel books, just as his fairy tales and stories were meant for all ages. But faced with the world-wide celebration in 2005 it seemed proper to include the child aspects of his works in the scholarly discussion. In its wide range of themes dealing with both adult and child aspects of Andersen''s texts, this volume, consisting of papers read at the Odense Conference in 2005, endeavours to do justice to the whole of Andersen, whose immortal genius has a message for young and old all over the world.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Between Positivism & T S Eliot: Imagism & T E
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U Press George Brandes' Main Currents: A Companion
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Casa Editrice Leo S.Olschki Far Other Worlds, and Other Seas : Thinking with Literature in the Twenty-First Century
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Onomatopee Of Dogs and Daughters
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Writing the City:: Looking Within, Looking
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Epic in India
Book SynopsisThrough Indian life and culture, the epics of the subcontinent flow like the subterranean River Saraswati. Like Yuddhishthira, who is faced with the puzzling questions posed to him by the enigmatic Yaksha in the Mahabharata, the Indian Everyman, conscious of dharma and niti, is expected to find answers to ethical and existential dilemmas. While the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and Silappadikaram are the best known of the sacred narratives of the past, there exists a vast reservoir of other epicsmany still in the oral tradition.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. 50 Greatest Letters
Book Synopsis50 Greatestetters brings to youetters sent throughout history that have proven to be enduring symbols ofove, sincerity, anger or of intense historical value. Theoveetters by Henry VIII, Beethoven, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allen Poe and more impress upon us theonging and the desperation of theseove-stricken people in the throes of desire. The innocence of children, such as Grace Bedell''s childish suggestion that ended up creating one of the most iconic American images, of the young Helen Keller''s determination and optimism in trying to achieve what others thought was impossible, of the twelve-year-old Fidel Castro''s cheekyetter to Roosevelt asking for ten dollars or ofittle Phyllis''s innocent question of whether scientists prayed to God. All these and more are present in this volume to give you a flavour of the time, and the mood the authors of theseetters wereiving in. It also becomes an exercise inooking at the economy of words and information that these people of the past employed, something that we in our present moment can afford toearn.
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Unknown Remnants of Rebellion
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Epitome Books Tiny Individuals in the Fiction of Doris Lessing
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Mind Melodies Poetics East and West
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Roman Books The Cult of Elizabeth & Its Textuality
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Assembly of Rivals: Delhi Lucknow and the Urdu
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Milestones in Gujarati Literature
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Gefen Publishing House Israel for Perplexed Beginners
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Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Alexander Pushkin -- Fiction
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. It is a profound, honest and serious exploration of the truth, an analysis of the contradictions of eternal existence," Alexander Pushkin said of his prose work. In the prose, Russia's most famous poet found space to study specific social phenomena that face the universal laws of human life. Over the centuries, critics have called them "ever-contemporary", shaped by an unmatched formulation of harmony, cohesion, and beauty.
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Academic Studies Press World Literature in the Soviet Union
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.Trade Review"World Literature in the Soviet Union demonstrates persuasively that World Literature can be productively conceptualised and analysed as a set of discrete grand projects, each with its own historically and culturally specific institutional and ideological underpinnings. The volume explores in both breadth and depth how Soviet projects of World Literature developed in tandem with the evolution of the Soviet Union’s more general politico-cultural positioning in the world. It at the same time provides important insights into the role that the idea of World Literature played in Soviet constructions of both internationalism and multiculturalism."— Professor Andy Byford, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGalin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery 1. World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological HorizonsGalin Tihanov 2. On the Worldliness of Russian LiteratureAnne Lounsbery 3. Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping it in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist ContextsSusanne Frank 4. The Roles of "Form" and "Content" in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post-Revolutionary Years Katerina Clark 5. “The Treasure Trove of World Literature”: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia Maria Khotimsky 6. The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet HistorySergey Tyulenev 7. International Literature: A Multi-Language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR Elena Ostrovskaya, Elena Zemskova, Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov 8. Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the WestEdward Tyerman 9. World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist RealismSchamma Schahadat 10. Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association (1958–1991) and Its Literary Field Rossen Djagalov 11. Can “Worldliness” Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature Maria Rubins ContributorsIndex
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Academic Studies Press Pushkin
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Academic Studies Press Israeli Documentary Poetry
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Academic Studies Press Leo Tolstoy
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Academic Studies Press Leo Tolstoys Writings for Young Children
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HarperCollins Who Is Mark Twain
Book SynopsisWhen Mark Twain died in 1910, he left behind the largest collection of personal papers created by any nineteenth-century American author. This title includes twenty-four remarkable pieces by the American master.Trade Review"Who Is Mark Twain? is a refreshing reintroduction to both [Twain's] critical analytical thought and his playful sense of humor." -- Los Angeles Times "Twain's wit and lethally precise powers of description are on full display in Who Is Mark Twain?" -- Maud Newton "More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern...Ninety-nine years after his death, Twain still manages to get the last laugh." -- Vanity Fair "[Twain] was, in the phrase of his friend William Dean Howells, 'the Lincoln of our literature'...At the heart of his work lies that greatest of all American qualities: irreverence." -- Washington Post "As funny and insightful as any of [Twain's] published and well-known works, these essays take on the federal government, religion, race, fame, and even the literary canon with a sharp-eyed clarity we can chuckle over as we read while feeling uncomfortable knowing that they feel all too contemporary." -- Walter Mosley
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