Told in verse, fourth grader Trudie Hamburger feels out of place in 1962 America due to her immigrant father and Jewish identity, until a new classmate and an accident help her embrace her differences.
In July 1956, Marilyn Monroe arrived in London, on honeymoon with her husband Arthur Miller, to make The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier. It was meant to be a happy time, but it didn't turn out that way.
Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory. This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation ...