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The first book-length study of an influential voice in contemporary queer American literature

Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017931/Rhetorica-Rising
Advancing feminist rhetorical methods for social change

In a world marked by political polarization and racial, sexist, ableist, and class-based injustices, feminist rhetorical researc…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017908/Liberty-Street
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Purchasing a historic Savannah home unlocks the sweeping story of a Southern Jewish family

As Jason K. Friedman renovated his flat in a…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017904/Gender-and-Sexuality-in-Indigenous-North-America-1400-1850-updated-edition
Groundbreaking historical scholarship on the complex attitudes toward gender and sexual roles in Native American culture, with a new preface and supplemental bibliography

Prior to the a…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017799/Live-at-Jackson-Station
The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive late-night roadhous…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017746/Queering-Romantic-Engagement-in-the-Postal-Age
2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

Romantic letters are central to understanding…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017742/Understanding-John-Rechy
In this first book-length monograph on the Mexican American novelist, essayist, and playwright John Rechy, best known for his debut novel City of Night, María DeGuzmán offers a conceptually cl…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017727/Understanding-Randall-Kenan
The first book-length study of the life and writings of the critically acclaimed Southern writer

Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017726/Understanding-James-Baldwin
An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns

The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, JamesBaldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017661/The-Damned-Dont-Cry-They-Just-Disappear
A biography of an unconventional Southern writer who illuminated gay life in the South

In The Damned Don't Cry—They Just Disappear, literary historian and Lamba Award-winning novelist H…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700