Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Although her work was long ignored, it is now widely studied and praised. Her most famous novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God", a classic in the African-American canon, depicts a woman's struggle for self-empowerment. Newly updated and featuring supplemental material such as a chronology, a bibliography, and an index, it is a keen critical look at Hurston's work and its influence on contemporary themes, such as race and gender in American society.

This is a comprehensive survey of mystery and detective fiction that covers more than 390 writers and includes overviews on more than three dozen aspects of the genre.Continuing the Salem Press tradition of "Critical Survey" series, "Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition" provides detailed analyses of the lives and writings of major contributors to the fascinating literary subgenre of mystery and detective fiction.

With the publication of her novel, "The Joy Luck Club", in 1989, Amy Tan was immediately recognized as a major contemporary novelist. Her work has received a great deal of attention and acclaim from feminist critics on issues of matrilineage and the ultimate triumph over female victimization. This addition to the "Bloom's Modern Critical Views" series is enhanced by a chronology, bibliography, notes on contributors, and a introductory essay by noted literature professor Harold Bloom.

This pilot volume launches the Critical Discourse Analysis series by setting out a new and distinctive theoretical grounding for the subject. The authors identify and set out to meet three contemporary challenges corresponding to the problems, issues, and struggles of contemporary life; to ground critical discourse analysis in a coherent social theory and theory of critical social scientific research; and to clarify its relationship to other types of social analysis and to linguistics.

Can discourse analysis techniques adequately deal with complex social phenomena? What does "interdisciplinarity" mean for theory building and the practice of empirical research? This volume provides an innovative and original debate on critical theory and discourse analysis, focussing on the extent to which critical discourse analysis can and should draw on the theory and methodology of a range of disciplines within the social sciences.