The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated cities, from freedman villages to northern migrations for freedom, the nation’s landscape bears the detritus of diverse origins. Black landscapes matter because they tell the truth. In this vital new collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape.
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5389 (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5389)
18 Sept 2020
UVA Press Presents: Three Rings
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.
Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus��a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years—resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home.
https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626 (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5626)
11 Aug 2020
UVA Press Presents: Empire of Diamonds
In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria’s outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds. She tells the story of that ceremony as well as introducing us to South African Diamond mining, diamonds in literature, and the history of the diamond engagement ring.
9 Jul 2020
UVA Press Presents: Bad Men
How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature, and music.
In this episode, Rambsy introduces us to his new work with a powerful audio collage.
22 May 2020
UVA Press Presents: Traces of J.B. Jackson
J. B. Jackson transformed forever how Americans understand their landscape, a concept he defined as land shaped by human presence. In the first major biography of the greatest pioneer in landscape studies, Helen Horowitz shares with us a man who focused on what he regarded as the essential American landscape, the everyday places of the countryside and city, exploring them as texts that reveal important truths about society and culture, present and past. In Jackson’s words, landscape is "history made visible."
6 May 2020
UVA Press Presents: The Life of William Faulkner
Carl Rollyson has a new two volume biography of William Faulkner hot off the presses. Professor Emeritus Stephen Railton asks him about what drew him to Faulkner, what his biography brings to Faulkner scholarship, and the nature of biography and literary criticism.
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