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Football and literature in South America / David Wood

Hayden Library - PQ7081.W66 2017




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Incomparable empires: modernism and the translation of Spanish and American literature / Gayle Rogers

Hayden Library - PQ6073.M6 R636 2016




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Postnational perspectives on contemporary Hispanic literature / edited by Heike Scharm and Natalia Matta Jara

Hayden Library - PQ7081.S318 2017




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Social life of literature in revolutionary Cuba: narrative, identity, and well-being / Par Kumaraswami

Hayden Library - PQ7378.K86 2016




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Re-mapping world literature: writing, book markets and epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South = Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global / edited by = editado por Gesine Müller, Jorge J.

Online Resource




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Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature: prostitutes, aging women and saints / Encarnación Juárez-Almendros

Online Resource




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The feeling child: affect and politics in Latin American literature and film / edited by Philippa Page, Inela Selimović, and Camilla Sutherland

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.C45 F44 2018




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Framing empire: postcolonial adaptations of Victorian literature in Hollywood / Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield

Hayden Library - PN1995.9.I42 H65 2018




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Theory of literature and other critical writings / Natsume Sōseki ; edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Atsuko Ueda, and Joseph A. Murphy

Natsume, Sōseki, 1867-1916




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Unveiling desire: fallen women in literature, culture, and films of the East / edited by Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow

Hayden Library - HQ29.U58 2018




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The vocation of writing: literature, philosophy, and the test of violence / Marc Crépon ; translated by D. J. S. Cross and Tyler M. Williams

Hayden Library - B105.V5 C7513 2018




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Imagined transnationalism [electronic resource] : U.S. Latino/a literature, culture, and identity / edited by Kevin Concannon, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Marc Priewe




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Doing a literature review : releasing the research imagination / Chris Hart

Hart, Chris, author




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: TONIGHT: NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Tuesday, September 24, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS: EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Author Edwidge Danticat will discuss her new short story collection, Everything Inside. This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets required; signed copies are also available for pre-purchase. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS: NOVEMBER TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Tickets are still available for these upcoming events in the National Book Festival Presents series:

Nov. 6 – Karen Armstrong discusses her new book, “The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts.” Armstrong is the author of numerous groundbreaking works on world religions and speaks often on how faith shapes civic conversation. Click here for ticket information.

 

Nov. 8 – Brad Meltzer & Chris Eliopoulos present their new PBS KIDS series, “Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum,” based on their books for children, “Ordinary People Change the World,” featuring the newest titles, “I Am Walt Disney” and “I Am Marie Curie.” The PBS KIDS series, premiering Nov. 11, will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. Click here for ticket information.

 

Nov. 13 – André Aciman discusses his new book, “Find Me,” the sequel to his bestselling “Call Me By Your Name,” which was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Click here for ticket information.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: NATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE INAUGURATION: JASON REYNOLDS on 1/16

Thursday, January 16, 10:30 AM
NATIONAL AMBASSADOR FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE INAUGURATION: JASON REYNOLDS

Award-winning author Jason Reynolds will be inaugurated as the 2020-2021 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the seventh writer to hold this position. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will lead a conversation with Reynolds during the ceremony, which will also include a special appearance by 2018-2019 National Ambassador Jacqueline Woodson.

Tickets are not required for this event, which is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed from both the Library's Facebook page and the Library's YouTube site (with captions).

Co-sponsored by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council, with additional support from Dollar General Literacy Foundation.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: (202) 707-5394

To learn more about Jason Reynolds and his activities as National Ambassador, visit his Library of Congress resource guide




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: National Ambassador Tour Proposal Process Now Open

The Library of Congress' partner, Every Child a Reader, is currently accepting proposal submissions from libraries, schools, community centers, and organizations interested in hosting an event with Jason Reynolds, the 7th National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

Reynolds will travel to rural/small underserved communities across the country during his two-year term to have meaningful discussions with young people. Through his platform, “GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story, he will connect with, listen to, and empower students to share their stories and start their journey as storytellers.

Organizations are encouraged to put together proposals that support and align with Jason's platform and the mission of the program. 

To learn more about the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature program click here. To learn more about Reynolds’ tenure as Ambassador click here.

Submit your proposal here: https://everychildareader.net/ambassador/




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: SPRING EVENT POSTPONEMENTS/CANCELLATIONS

On Thursday, March 12, the Library of Congress closed all Library buildings to the public until April 1. On Tuesday, March 17, the Library announced that all public events are canceled until May 11 to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19 coronavirus. Whenever possible, the Library will reschedule the public programs that have been canceled. Please read the Library's public statement, and see the Poetry and Literature Center's event updates below.

 

Thursday, March 19, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JEFFREY ROSEN AND DAHLIA LITHWICK

This event has been CANCELED.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Author Jeffrey Rosen will discuss his new book, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty and Law, with Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor at Slate. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Law Library of Congress and presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: LJ-119, first floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, April 2, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS RICHARD FORD

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, the Library of Congress will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

In an event titled “A Good Story Knows No Borders,” Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner Richard Ford will give a talk about the universality of fiction as well as participate in a discussion with his German translator, Frank Heibert. The discussion will be moderated by Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Tuesday, April 21, 7:00 PM
LIFE OF A POET: KIMIKO HAHN

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, Hill Center will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

Poet Kimiko Hahn will discuss her work with Ron Charles, book critic at The Washington Post. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by Hill Center and The Washington Post.

Location: Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital (921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE)
Contact: poetry@loc.gov 

 

Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JOY HARJO

This event has been CANCELED.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Joy Harjo will participate in her closing event as the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, which will include a moderated discussion and special musical performance. This event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Library’s American Folklife Center and Music Division, and presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Coolidge Auditorium, ground floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 7, 7:00 PM
NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL PRESENTS JOHN HESSLER

This event has been POSTPONED to a later date.
Note: Once a date has been confirmed, the Library of Congress will alert all those who registered for the original event date via their email addresses. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and look forward to seeing you, your family and friends very soon.

John Hessler, specialist in the Library of Congress’ Geography and Map division and author of the best-seller MAP: Exploring the World, will discuss his new book on pre-Columbian cultures, Collecting for the New World. This event is free and open to the public. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: LJ-119, first floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

For more information about upcoming events, please visit the Poetry and Literature Center's website. 




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Poetry & Literature: News & Events: UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS

Thursday, April 30, 7:00 PM
SPILLOVER: ANIMAL INFECTIONS AND THE NEXT HUMAN PANDEMIC

Prize-winning science writer David Quammen will discuss “Spillover,” in which he tracks the animal origins of human diseases through the centuries, with David Rubenstein. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 7, 7:00 PM
HOW ONE 21ST CENTURY PANDEMIC, SARS, PREDICTED ANOTHER, COVID-19

Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld will discuss his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with the Library of Congress’s Roswell Encina, chief of communications. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Friday, May 8, 5:00 PM
BEYOND SUNRISE, THERE IS A SONG WE FOLLOW: U.S. POET LAUREATE JOY HARJO IN CONVERSATION

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo will discuss her poetry and her work in the laureate position with Rob Casper, head of the Poetry and Literature Center. Co-sponsored by The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP).

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from AWP’s website, where it will also be archived.
Contact: juanita@awpwriter.org

 

Thursday, May 14, 7:00 PM
ONCE UPON A TIME I LIVED ON MARS: SPACE, EXPLORATION AND LIFE ON EARTH

NASA astronaut and scientist Kate Greene lived in a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai’i, where she spent several months in isolation, doing research. She will discuss the stress, loneliness and other challenges of sequestration with Library of Congress Literary Director Marie Arana. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

Thursday, May 21, 7:00 PM
WHY IT’S HARD TO KNOW THINGS, LATELY. AND HOW COVID-19 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY

Bestselling historian and Harvard professor Jill Lepore will discuss how the current pandemic, its effects and our reaction to them say something very real about America in this moment and in the historical record that will emerge from it with John Haskell, director of the John M. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Presented in partnership with National Book Festival Presents.

Location: Online only—this event will be streamed from both the Library's Facebook page and its YouTube site (with captions), and will be archived as a webcast on the Library’s website. Contact: specialevents@loc.gov

 

For more information about upcoming events, please visit the Poetry and Literature Center's website.




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Systematic approaches to a successful literature review / Andrew Booth, Anthea Sutton and Diana Papaioannou

Booth, Andrew, 1961- author




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Inter-tech(s): colonialism and the question of technology in Francophone literature / Roxanna Nydia Curto

Hayden Library - PQ3897.C87 2016




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Hunger and irony in the French Caribbean: literature, theory, and public life / Nicole Simek

Hayden Library - PQ3940.5.S56 2016




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Writing after postcolonialism: Francophone North African literature in transition / Dr Jane Hiddleston

Online Resource




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Writing after postcolonialism: Francophone North African literature in transition / Jane Hiddleston

Rotch Library - PQ3980.5.H47 2017




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The Cambridge companion to French literature / edited by John D. Lyons

Hayden Library - PQ103.L95 2016




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Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s.

Online Resource




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A new history of French literature / edited by Denis Hollier ; with R. Howard Bloch [and 7 others]

Online Resource




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Translating war: literature and memory in France and Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s / Angela Kershaw

Online Resource




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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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The politics of love: queer heterosexuality in nineteenth-century French literature / Maxime Foerster

Hayden Library - PQ293.M39 F64 2018




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Latest News: Reynolds New Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Jason Reynolds has been appointed as the seventh National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2020-2021. The Newbery Honor recipient succeeds Jacqueline Woodson, who served as National Ambassador in 2018-2019.

Reynolds is the author of 13 books for young people including his most recent, “Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks,” a National Book Award finalist, which was named a Best Book of 2019 by NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post and TIME. 

Click here for more information.




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Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature / Wenying Xu

Online Resource




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The border and the line: race, literature, and Los Angeles / Dean J. Franco

Hayden Library - PS153.M56 F725 2019




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The digital banal: new media and American literature and culture / Zara Dinnen

Hayden Library - PS169.T4 D56 2018




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Sacraments of memory: Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius

Hayden Library - PS508.N3 S25 2018




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Pan-African American literature: signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li

Dewey Library - PS153.N5 L472 2018




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Experimental: American literature and the aesthetics of knowledge / Natalia Cecire

Dewey Library - PS228.E95 C43 2019




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Teaching with digital humanities: tools and methods for nineteenth-century American literature / edited by Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain

Hayden Library - PS44.T43 2019




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Post-borderlandia: Chicana literature and gender variant critique / T. Jackie Cuevas

Hayden Library - PS153.M4 C84 2018




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Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature


 

A comprehensive introduction to ancient wisdom literature, with fascinating essays on a broad range of topics.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature is a wide-ranging introduction to the texts, themes, and receptions of the wisdom literature of the Bible and the ancient world. This comprehensive volume brings together original essays from established scholars and emerging voices to offer a variety of perspectives on the “wisdom” biblical



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[ASAP] Correlation between Surface Properties of Polystyrene and Polylactide Materials and Fibroblast and Osteoblast Cell Line Behavior: A Critical Overview of the Literature

Biomacromolecules
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00214




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African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

Online Resource




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Indigenous cosmolectics: kab'awil and the making of Maya and Zapotec literatures / Gloria Elizabeth Chacón

Hayden Library - PM3968.C43 2018




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Text analysis with R: for students of literature / Matthew L. Jockers, Rosamond Talken

Online Resource




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Romantic textualities [electronic journal] literature and print culture, 1780-1840.

Cardiff, Wales, U.K. : Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University




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Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures [electronic journal].




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Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature [electronic journal].

Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo




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Literacy : reading, writing and children's literature / Gordon Winch, Rosemary Ross Johnston, Paul March, Lesley Ljungdahl, Marcelle Holliday

Winch, Gordon, 1930- author




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Artful experiments: ways of knowing in victorian literature and science / Philipp Erchinger

Hayden Library - Q127.G4 E73 2018




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Routledge handbook of African literature / edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi and Carli Coetzee

Online Resource