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God Made My Face: a Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als (Editor); Stephen Best (Text by); Daphne A. Brooks (Text by); Teju Cole (Text by); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Text by); Barry Jenkins (Text by); Jamaica Kincaid (Text by); David Leeming (Text by); Darryl Pinckney (Text by)
Category: Culture
Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A ...Show more
The Handy Mythology Answer Book by David A. Leeming
Category: History
Stories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient, every culture has its myths. Mythology forms our understanding of our origin, history and traditions. They tell of our heroes and deities. Myths are vehicles for under ...Show more
World Mythology : a Very Short Introduction by David A. Leeming
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain univer ...Show more
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