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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon Modern American Literature 2022 Edition       Hispanic-American History & Literature   

Hispanic-American History      Century of the Wind, Eduardo Galeano       Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from the Colonial Period to the Present Era, Zaragosa Vargas      El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America, Carrie Gibson      The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, Miriam Pawel      The Latin … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon Modern American Literature 2022 Edition       Hispanic-American History & Literature   

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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon    Modern American Literature 2022 Edition Native American History and Literature

                            Native American History      500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians, Josephy      The Conquest of Paradise, Kirkpatrick Sale       Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, American West, Dee Brown       The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, David … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon    Modern American Literature 2022 Edition Native American History and Literature

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Soseki Natsume, on his birthday February 9 2026 revision

  Soseki Natsume, on his birthday February 9     His hilarious, odd, unclassifiable debut I Am A Cat, perhaps the most beloved work in Japanese literature, continues to delight and perplex. Filled with wordplay of the Joyce-Calvino bent, philosophical ruminations which reference Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, allusions to classical Chinese literature and a plot made of … Continue reading Soseki Natsume, on his birthday February 9 2026 revision

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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon Modern American Literature 2022 Edition African American History & Literature

African-American History      The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones      How We Fight White Supremacy, Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin (Editors)      Stamped from the Beginning, How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X Kendi      Creating Black America: African-American History and Its Meanings 1619 to the Present, Nell Irvin Painter      How … Continue reading Jay’s Revised Modern Canon Modern American Literature 2022 Edition African American History & Literature

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A Woman Reinvents Humankind: Gertrude Stein, on her birthday February 3  2026 revision

     Hers is the first revolution in which we all must fight; to seize ownership of ourselves and our autonomy, for each of us must reinvent how to be human.      Maps of the unknown, the works of Gertrude Stein act also as laboratory notebooks and record the experiments of her two great projects: to … Continue reading A Woman Reinvents Humankind: Gertrude Stein, on her birthday February 3  2026 revision

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James Joyce, on his birthday February 2 2022 revision

Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!” ― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake      Wonderful, hilarious, illuminating writing, still beyond the leading edge after  nearly a century. A visionary and masterful wordsmith, James Joyce’s stories are compelling, intriguing verbal puzzles. New ideas unfold every time you read them.      His reinvention … Continue reading James Joyce, on his birthday February 2 2022 revision