A collection honoring the experience of human connection. Inspired by classic Motown and the Midwest's rich history of social poetics, Andrew Collard's poetry collection asks readers to trust their bodies and the experience of human connection in a society that alienates us from our handiwork and from each other. Set largely in Southeast ......
Exploring the people and contexts that imbue Jewish material culture with its meaning. In museums, synagogues, antique stores, and personal collections, Jewish objects are gathered, studied, and passed down as material representations of a culture and faith. What defines these items as "Jewish," and how does an item acquire or lose this ......
Jewish Women, Old San Francisco, and American Literary Culture
Blending history, collective biography, and literary criticism, author Lori Harrison-Kahan repositions the American West as a generative space for turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish womens literature.
An illustrated retrospective on the life and work of the colorful Detroit artist. Barbara Greene Mann was a force-gritty, loud, messy, and unapologetic. Her life was a maelstrom of creation, destruction, survival, and reinvention. She was witness to and an architect of Detroit's Cass Corridor art scene during the '70s and '80s, and her work ......
A compilation of personal photographs, historical images, and written excerpts illuminating Ernest Hemingway's significant ties to northern Michigan.In the early 1900s, the Little Traverse Bay area in northern Michigan was transitioning from a sparsely populated lumber region to a hotspot for tourists. Looking to enhance dwindling freight ......
A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds. Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation ......
A collection that proves Jewish humor knows no geographic bounds. Searching for some well-traveled humor? Look no further than this innovative collection, which investigates Jewish humor in television, film, comedy performance, and literature spanning Canada, the US, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. This wide-ranging compilation ......
An Oral History of Detroit's African American Community, 1918-1967
An oral history of more than one hundred Detroiters and their experiences in the city through the early and mid-twentieth century. Over one hundred Detroit residents share personal stories of everyday life spanning from 1918 to 1967--families, neighborhoods, school, work, religious life, and community. Their accounts also reflect extraordinary ......
Rediscovering a momentous cinema movement, its canonization, and its recasting through global discourse. The last of the so-called new waves in film, New German Cinema of the 1970s and early 1980s represents much more than a national phenomenon; it impacted and was influenced by films from around the world. Filmmakers such as the famous troika ......
