University of New Mexico Press Steinbeck’s Imaginarium
Essays on Writing, Fishing, and Other Critical Matters
ROBERT DEMOTT In Steinbeck’s Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck’s artistic career. DeMott positions Steinbeck not only as a major American novelist but also as a prophetic voice for today as much as he was for the Depression-era 1930s. DeMott’s essays explore the often unknown or unacknowledged elements of Steinbeck’s artistic career that deserve closer attention. He considers Steinbeck’s addiction to writing through the lens of the extensive, obsessive full-length diaries and journals that he kept while writing three of his best-known novels. Collectively, the chapters illuminate John Steinbeck as a fully conscious, self-aware, literate, experimental novelist who has not always been given proper credit for his achievements. His talents will continue to warrant study and admiration for years to come. Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio University in Athens. November 2022 205 pages Literary Criticism Rights: World
A Cross and a Star
Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile
MARJORIE AGOSÍN In this classic memoir which explores the Nazi presence in the south of Chile after the war, Marjorie Agosín writes in the voice of her mother, Frida, who grew up as the daughter of European Jewish immigrants in Chile in the World War II era. Woven into the narrative are the stories of Frida’s father, who had to leave Vienna in 1920 because he fell in love with a Christian cabaret dancer; of her paternal grandmother, who arrived in Chile later with a number tattooed on her arm; and of her great-grandmother from Odessa, who loved the Spanish language so much that she repeated its harmonious sounds even in her sleep. Agosín’s A Cross and a Star is a moving testament to endurance and to the power of memory and of words. This edition includes a collection of important new photographs, a new afterword by the author, as well as a foreword by Ruth Behar. Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism October 2022 184 pages Memoir Rights: World
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