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By:Amy S. Gottfried
Published on 1998-01-01 by Praeger Pub Text

Interpreting five contemporary novels that document suppressed histories of violence and abuse, including Toni Morrison's Beloved and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, the author then examines the disturbing connections between violence and art.

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By:Gavin McCrea
Published on 2015-10-13 by Catapult

Very little is known about Lizzie Burns, the illiterate Irishwoman who was the longtime lover of Frederick Engels, co-author ofThe Communist Manifesto. In Gavin McCrea's first novel, she is finally given a voice, one that won't easily be forgotten. Lizzie is a worker in the Manchester, England, cotton mill that Frederick owns. When they move to a posh townhouse in London to be closer to Karl Marx and his family, she must learn to navigate Victorian society. We are privy to Lizzie's intimate, wry, and astute views of Marx and Engels's mission to spur revolution among the working classes, and to her ambivalence toward her newly luxurious circumstances. Haunted by her first love (a revolutionary Irishman), burdened by a sense of duty to right past mistakes, and torn between a desire for independence and the pragmatic need to be taken care of, Lizzie knows, as she says, that the world doesn't happen how you think it will. The secret is to soften to it, and to take its blows.” Despite or because of their differencesin nationality, class, education, and religionLizzie and Frederick remain drawn to each other, making Mrs. Engels, among other things, a complex and high-spirited love story.

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By:Susan Holloway Scott
Published on 2017-09-26 by Kensington

In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza—a fascinating, strong-willed heroine in her own right and a key figure in one of the most gripping periods in American history. “Love is not easy with a man chosen by Fate for greatness . . .” As the daughter of a respected general, Elizabeth Schuyler is accustomed to socializing with dignitaries and soldiers. But no visitor to her parents’ home has affected her so strongly as Alexander Hamilton, a charismatic, ambitious aide to George Washington. They marry quickly, and despite the tumult of the American Revolution, Eliza is confident in her brilliant husband and in her role as his helpmate. But it is in the aftermath of war, as Hamilton becomes one of the country’s most important figures, that she truly comes into her own. In the new capital, Eliza becomes an adored member of society, respected for her fierce devotion to Hamilton as well as her grace. Behind closed doors, she astutely manages their expanding household, and assists her husband with his political writings. Yet some challenges are impossible to prepare for. Through public scandal, betrayal, personal heartbreak, and tragedy, she is tested again and again. In the end, it will be Eliza’s indomitable strength that makes her not only Hamilton’s most crucial ally in life, but also his most loyal advocate after his death, determined to preserve his legacy while pursuing her own extraordinary path through the nation they helped shape together.

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By:Irving Stone
Published on 1995-09-01 by N A L Trade

A fictional profile of the painter traces his life and career at the center of a circle of artists who founded Impressionism

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By:Rose Arny
Published on 1997-06 by

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By:M. Jordan
Published on 2004-08-20 by Springer

In African-American Servitude and Historical Imaginings Margaret Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African American presence in American literature. Twentieth-century retrospective fiction is the site for this compelling investigation about how African American servants and slaves have enormous utility as cultural artifacts, objects to be acted upon, agents in place, or agents provocateurs. Jordan argues that those who even those seemingly innocuous, infrequently visible, or silent servants are vehicles through which history, culture and social values and practices are cultivated and perpetuated, challenged and destabilized. Jordan demonstrates how African American servants and servitude are strategically deployed and engaged in ways which encourage a rethinking of the past. She examines the ideological underpinnings of retrospective fiction by writers who are clearly social theorists and philosophers. Jordan contends that they do not read or misread history, they imagine history as meditations on social realties and reconstruct the past as a way to confront the present.

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By:Sylvia Ruts
Published on 2013 by

The purpose of this study was to examine how authors of African-American literature combine elements of gothic fiction, historical metafiction, magic realism and African-American culture to represent ghosts. These ghosts are symbols for the past of African-American slave experience and this will be analysed by drawing on three case studies, namely The Known World, John Henry Days and The Cattle Killing. In order to address this research question, my thesis consists of a long introductory chapter and three main parts in which I analyze each novel separately. The introductory chapter explains the origin of ghosts and haunting in African-American literature and consists of four subparts namely, African-American literature, history, gothic fiction and ghosts and magic realism. To concretize all the discussed elements in this chapter, the African-American novel Beloved by Toni Morrison functions as the example novel. The first part of the analysis starts with The Known World by Edward P. Jones. It outlines the importance of storytelling in order to remember and keep the dead alive and shows various instances of spirits inhabiting the world of the living. The second part explores John Henry Days by Colson whitehead. The legend of John Henry as well as characters functioning as a symbolical John Henry are discussed here. Further, the haunting effect of Talcott, Virginia on the main character will be thoroughly investigated. The third part analyzes The Cattle Killing by John Edgar Wideman. In this novel, storytelling is extremely important as a means to heal people but also as a means to remember the dead. Further the historic Xhosa Cattle Killing and ghostly characters are discussed. My thesis concludes that ghosts are indeed an indispensable part of African-American literature and that they are indeed a mixture of elements of gothic fiction, historical metafiction, magic realism and African-American culture. Ghosts are integrated not purely to represent the African-American slave experience but also African-American culture in general. The representation of ghosts in this kind of literature is a means to remember what has long been forgotten.

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