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Days of Dust [a novel]Halim Barakat, translated by Trevor Le Gassickwith an introduction by Edward Said Focusing on the interaction of finely portrayed characters from all elements of society, Days of Dust depicts the existential drama of the Six Days War as it was experienced on a personal level. The novel provides a remarkable perspective for comprehending Palestinian uprootedness and a people’s unceasing struggle for a homeland. First published in Arabic in 1969. This edition includes More > |  |
Men by WomenJanet Todd, editor |  |
Jose Martí: Major Poems [Bilingual Edition]José Martí, edited and with an introduction by Philip S. Foner and translated by Elinor Randall With an added introduction to place the work in context, this edition presents Cuban poet José Martí's (1853-1895) most famous poems in both Spanish and English.
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Conversations on the Dresden GalleryLouis Aragon and Jean Cocteau, translated by Francis Scarfe This handsome volume presents the complete transcript of a fascinating encounter that took place in 1956. On that occasion, two great French poets, Louis Aragon and Jean Cocteau, came together foran extended conversation on art, the artist, and the creative process itself.
The text is accompanied by full-color reproductions of seventy of the Dresden Gallery's most beautiful paintings and More > |  |
The Clubwoman As Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868 to 1914Karen J. Blair |  |
Europe's Economy in CrisisRalf Dahrendorf, editor |  |
The Fall of Fortress Europe 1943-1945Albert Seaton |  |
Heremakhonon [a novel]Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, journeys to West Africa in pursuit of her "identity." There, she becomes involved with a prominent political figure—and must find her way among the often misleading guises of ambition, idealism, and violence.
Conveying a mosaic of feelings (from childhood and adolescence in Guadeloupe, university days More > |  |
French Cities in the Nineteenth Century: Class, Power, and UrbanizationJohn M. Merriman, editor |  |
The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetryedited and translated by A.M. Elmessiri, illustrated by Kamal Boullata The poems in this powerful bilingual collection range from the rhetorical lyricism of Tawfiq Zayyad to the complex, cosmic imagery of Walid al-Halis, from the romantic idiom of Salma al-Jayyusi to the edgy, convoluted style of Tawfiq Sayigh, all evoking Palestine, the never-forgotten homeland.
The rich variety of the work is explored in Abdelwahab Elmessiri's extensive introduction and More > |  |