1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465928403321

Autore

Miles Emma Bell <1879-1919, >

Titolo

The common lot and other stories : the published short fiction, 1908-1921 / / Emma Bell Miles ; edited by Grace Toney Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Swallow Press : , : Ohio University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8040-4074-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

813.0108

Soggetti

Short stories, American

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Published Short Stories of Emma Bell Miles,1908-21, by Grace Toney Edwards; Gallery; 1: The Common Lot; 2: The Broken Urn; 3: A Dark Rose; 4: The Home-Coming of Evelina; 5: Mallard Plumage; 6: The Dulcimore; 7: The Breaks of Caney; 8: Flyaway Flittermouse; 9: Three Roads and a River; 10: Flower of Noon; 11: At the Top of Sourwood; 12: Enchanter's Nightshade; 13: Thistle Bloom; 14: A Dream of the Dust; 15: Love o' Man; 16: The White Marauder; 17: Turkey Luck; Suggestions for further reading and research

Sommario/riassunto

The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles's singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453866603321

Autore

Hamilton Russell G

Titolo

Voices from an empire [[electronic resource] ] : a history of Afro-Portuguese literature / / Russell G. Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1975

ISBN

0-8166-6279-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Collana

Minnesota monographs in the humanities ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

869/.09

Soggetti

African literature (Portuguese) - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-433) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE. ANGOLA; PART TWO. MOZAMBIQUE; PART THREE. THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS; PART FOUR. SÃO TOMÉ AND PRÍNCIPE; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The literature of the various regions of Lusophone Africa has received relatively little critical attention compared with that which has been focused on the work of writers in the English- and French- speaking countries of Africa. With the profound change