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New on the Smith College
Bookshelf
Oxford University Press
A new book by Cornelia Pearsall, associate professor
of English language and literature, explores Tennyson’s representation of rapture
as a radical mechanism of transformation -- theological, social, political or
personal -- and as a figure for critical processes in his own poetics. The poet’s
fascination with transformation reflects the genre he is credited with inventing:
the dramatic monologue. Offering a new approach to reading all Victorian dramatic
monologues, Tennyson’s Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue
argues against a critical tradition that sees speakers as unintentionally self-revealing
and ignorant of the implications of their speech.
Duke University Press
In her new book, Ginetta E. B. Candelario ’90,
associate professor of sociology and Latin American and Latina/o studies, offers
a historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity. She draws on extensive
observation in a Dominican beauty shop in Washington Heights, a New York neighborhood
with the oldest and largest Dominican community outside the Republic, as well as
interviews with Dominicans in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Santo Domingo.
Abingdon Press
According to Joel Kaminsky, professor of religion and
director of the program in Jewish studies, God’s larger plan for the world
is worked out through the three-way relationship between God, Israel and the nations
of the world. He offers examples from the Bible and familiar stories in Genesis to
help readers understand the idea of “chosenness” and explores what the
Bible says about how God chooses, how humans participate and how God’s intentions
are mapped out.
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Paula J. Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor
in Afro-American studies, began a national book tour in March, at the Jane Addams
Hull House in Chicago, to promote her new book Ida: A Sword Among Lions -- Ida
B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. The book is described by the publisher
as “a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader -- Ida B. Wells -- embroiled
in the struggle against lynching: a practice that imperiled not only the lives of
black men and women, but also a nation based on law and riven by race.” |
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