Mama Stalks the Past
Title | Mama Stalks the Past PDF eBook |
Author | Nora DeLoach |
Publisher | Bantam |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2011-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307794938 |
When my mama receives an angry visit from Nat Mixon, she learns some startling news. Nat's mother and Mama's neighbor, spiteful recluse Hannah Mixon, has just died--and left a large parcel of land to Mama! Nat is convinced Mama stole his inheritance, and to save her reputation, Mama's determined to find out why Hannah named her in her will. And when it turns out Hannah was murdered, Mama needs to find more answers. With the help of three notorious local gossips--and me--Mama uncovers a long, bloody history of greed and family betrayal connected to the land Mama's inherited. And unless she discovers the truth about this plot of land, it may become her burial plot....
Diversity and Detective Fiction
Title | Diversity and Detective Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Gregory Klein |
Publisher | Popular Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780879727963 |
The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general readers."--BOOK JACKET.
American Mystery and Detective Novels
Title | American Mystery and Detective Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Landrum |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 1999-05-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0313003270 |
Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
The Mystery Readers' Advisory
Title | The Mystery Readers' Advisory PDF eBook |
Author | John Charles |
Publisher | American Library Association |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780838908112 |
Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.
African American Mystery Writers
Title | African American Mystery Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Frankie Y. Bailey |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2014-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0786452331 |
The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the notion of "doing justice," and the role of African American cultural vernacular in mystery fiction. A final section focuses on readers and reading, examining African American mystery writers' access to the marketplace and the issue of the "double audience" raised by earlier writers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Recovering the Black Female Body
Title | Recovering the Black Female Body PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Bennett |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813528397 |
Recovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.
The Hurt Business
Title | The Hurt Business PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Mayer |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | American drama |
ISBN | 1879691841 |