The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 9780826357687
ISBN-13 : 0826357687
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones by : Billy J. Stratton

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre.

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones
Author :
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9780826357694
ISBN-13 : 0826357695
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones by : Billy J. Stratton

Even as Stephen Graham Jones generates a dizzying range of brilliant fiction, his work remains strikingly absent from scholarly conversations about Native and western American literature, owing in part to his unapologetic embrace of popular genres such as horror and science fiction. Steeped in dense narrative references, literary and historical allusions, and experimental postmodern stylings, his fiction informs a broad array of literary and popular conversations. The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones is the first collection of scholarship on Jones’s ever-expanding oeuvre. The diverse methodologies that inform these essays—from Native American critical theory to poststructuralism and gothic noirism—illuminate the unique complexity of Jones’s narrative worlds while positioning his works within broader conversations in literary studies and popular culture. Jones challenges at every turn the notions of what constitutes Native American literature and what it means to be a Native American writer. Contributing editor Billy J. Stratton foregrounds these heavily contested questions and their ongoing relevance to readers and critics alike.

Mapping the Interior

Mapping the Interior
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Publisher : Tordotcom
Total Pages : 72
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ISBN-10 : 9780765395092
ISBN-13 : 0765395096
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Mapping the Interior by : Stephen Graham Jones

"Brilliant." —The New York Times Mapping the Interior is a horrifying, inward-looking novella from Stephen Graham Jones that Paul Tremblay calls "emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant." Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella. Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew. The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Bird is Gone

The Bird is Gone
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781573661096
ISBN-13 : 1573661090
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Bird is Gone by : Stephen Graham Jones

A novel unlike any previous work of Native American fiction.

Demon Theory

Demon Theory
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Publisher : MP Publishing
Total Pages : 461
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ISBN-10 : 9781596929784
ISBN-13 : 1596929782
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Demon Theory by : Stephen Graham Jones

When med student Hale is called home by his ailing mother on Halloween night, he and a group of friends are trapped in an inescapable cycle of violence.

Tiny Nightmares

Tiny Nightmares
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Publisher : Catapult
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781948226622
ISBN-13 : 1948226626
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Tiny Nightmares by : Lincoln Michel

A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches. But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck. Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack. Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more!

The Weird

The Weird
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 2482
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ISBN-10 : 9781466803190
ISBN-13 : 1466803193
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Weird by : Jeff VanderMeer

From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Mongrels

Mongrels
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 247
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780008182441
ISBN-13 : 0008182442
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Mongrels by : Stephen Graham Jones

A spellbinding and surreal coming-of-age story about a young boy living on the fringe with his family – who are secretly werewolves – and struggling to survive in a contemporary America that shuns them.

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

After the People Lights Have Gone Off
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Publisher : Open Road Media
Total Pages : 223
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ISBN-10 : 9781504096287
ISBN-13 : 1504096282
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis After the People Lights Have Gone Off by : Stephen Graham Jones

From the award-winning author, “the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream” (Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence). Winner of the This Is Horror Award Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award This is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevered imagination and crafted them into pieces of literary genius. If the absolute fear doesn’t sweep you away, his lyrical and haunting prose will. As Joe R. Lansdale states in the introduction, “You need this book. If you like anything close to horror, and also like your stories to have elements other than just standing in the darkness with a bloody knife, you have the right book. Enjoy.” Does holding your breath for two minutes during the scariest part of a horror movie invite the terror in? Just ask the kids who go to the local theater in “Thirteen.” In “Doc’s Story,” even the most beloved family tales have teeth—that’s what happens when you’re born into a werewolf pack. And a father doesn’t have to think twice when he’s given one chance to make the ultimate sacrifice in “Snow Monsters.” In these fifteen stories, Jones coaxes our greatest fears from the shadowy corners of our minds, and we can’t turn away. “With razor-sharp prose . . . he pummels us in a full-court press of discomfort, paranoia, and a desire to keep the lights on.” —Pantheon Magazine “Jones is a true master of the horror short story. Inventive, quirky, unexpected and masterful.” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times–bestselling author

Fictions of Western American Domesticity

Fictions of Western American Domesticity
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Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages : 355
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780826359193
ISBN-13 : 0826359191
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Fictions of Western American Domesticity by : Amanda J. Zink

This work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional? Amanda J. Zink argues that white writers like Ferber and Willa Cather avoided the subject of their own domestic labor by writing about the performance of domestic labor by “others,” showing that American print culture, both in novels and through advertisements, moved away from portraying women as angels in the house and instead sought to persuade other women to be angels in their houses. Zink further explores lesser-known works such as Mexican American cookbooks and essays in Indian boarding school magazines to show how women writers “dialoging domesticity” exemplify the cross-cultural encounters between “colonial domesticity” and “sovereign domesticity.” By situating these interpretations of literature within their historical contexts, Zink shows how these writers championed and challenged the ideology of domesticity.