Archive for 'Literature'
E. Patrick Johnson on today’s State of Things
On WUNC’s (91.5 FM Chapel Hill) The State of Things today at noon, Frank Stasio and a panel of guests will be discussing the legal and religious meanings of marriage in light of the passage of Prop 8 in California and similar amendments in other states.
Guests will include UNC Press author E. Patrick Johnson, professor [...]
Posted: November 18th, 2008 under African American Studies, Civil Rights, Gay / Lesbian Studies, Gender Studies, History, Law / Legal History, Podcasts, Politics, Religion, TSoT, Theatre, UNC Press News.
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Christensen, Shelby, Hogan earn awards
Three UNCP authors deserve special cheers for winning awards recently:
Rob Christensen, author of The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics, has been awarded the 2008 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. The successor to the organization’s Mayflower Cup, the Ragan Old North State Award honors Sam Ragan: [...]
Posted: October 28th, 2008 under African American Studies, American History, Appalachian Studies, Awards, Civil Rights, Fiction, History, Juvenile, North Carolina, Politics, UNC Press News.
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Deaf Awareness Week
I took some sign language classes about twenty years ago and had some interaction with the deaf community at the time, but when the classes ended, I didn’t keep it up. I remember little more than the American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet, plus a few things like “more,” “thank you,” and “finished,” which I learned [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2008 under African American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Disability Studies, Literature, North Carolina.
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Weekend Roadtrip #7: Roanoke and Ocracoke
Don’t worry, just because I had another post this morning doesn’t mean I forgot that this is Thursday, the highly anticipated day of the weekend roadtrip post! Fear not, dear Tar Heel roadtrippers, we’ve got a special “oke”-alicious lineup for this last segment of our Beach Book Grab Bag series. We’re featuring two Outer Banks [...]
Posted: July 31st, 2008 under American History, History, Native American Studies, North Carolina, Theatre, Travel.
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Wall Street fiction(?)
With the real-life dramas unfolding on Wall Street these days, it’s only a matter of time before we witness a bumper crop of novels and thrillers set in the high-stakes financial world. David Zimmerman has written about the connections between novels and markets in an earlier period of American history
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under American History, Business, Current Events, Economics, History, Literature.
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Insight on the ethics of torture
Fatemeh Keshavarz, author of Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, has an article on Counterpunch in which she finds lessons on the ethics of torture in the writings of thirteenth-century Iranian poet Sa’di.
Posted: July 11th, 2008 under Literature, Middle Eastern Studies.
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Introducing a new weekly feature: Weekend Roadtrip!
Once a week the UNC Press blog will feature a tantalizing and adventuresome “Weekend Roadtrip” to a place featured in a UNC Press book. We’ll post them on Thursdays, so there’s still time to make last-minute weekend plans if you feel inspired. Mountains, Piedmont, Coast; hiking, birding, swimming, playing, learning; half-day trips, weekend [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Literature, North Carolina, Travel.
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