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Anger, Emily. Cartomancy and Tarot in Film 1940-2010. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2016. 384pp, including index. One of the most prolific Tarot scholars known to the universe, Anger here has meticulously researched chapters exploring topics such as trumps, cards and cartomancy, the Golden Dawn, popularization and commodification, how cartomancers and querents (readers and those going for readings) appear in films as characters, ethnicity and the supernatural, the mystic, the narrative roles of cartomancy and tarot scenes, seven appendices, a list of sources for films, novels, graphic novels, video games, and the decks cited...who could ask for anything more! A perfect gift for anyone in the field.
Bluebird, Gayle. You're Pretty When You Smile. Charleston, SC. 2016, 65pp. These poems pay tribute to the author's grandmother, as she explains in the preface, but are also about herself.
Carrington, Andre M. Speculative Blackness.- The Future of Race in Science Fiction. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 282pp, including index. Black womanhood, associations with, interpretations and performance of, are all categories in the index, and feminist theorists are used, so this volume should be of definite interest to our readers. Black feminist critique is explored. Janice Radway's readings of women's romance and Joanna Russ's conceptualizing of narrative possibilities beyond the stepping stones of patriarchal texts are starting points rather than tagged-on; shows promise!
Castro, Nivea and Geny Cabral, (eds.) Out Latina Lesbians. Sinister Wisdom, A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Arts Journal., vol. 97. 222pp. Fifty-four authors weigh in on themes such as the body, the straight lesbian experience, vulvas, memory, friendship, night, burning, shadow boxing, the sea, parades and brothers.
Clarke, Cheryl. Living as a Lesbian. 1986, (republished 2014). ISBN. 987-1-938334-06-1. A Sapphic Classic from Midsummer Night's Press and Sinister Wisdom this beautiful reprint of Clarke's original collection offers contemporary readers a chance to discover or re-discover a powerful collection of work, now also enhanced by Clarke's own endnotes about literary and personal influences. In these forty-six poems, arranged by theme into eight sections, Clarke explores themes such as racial suppression and familial turmoil in a way that acknowledges lesbian experience without skipping or sugar-coating its everyday struggles.
Cosgrave, Sandy. Writes of Passage: Poetiy and Prose. Charleston, SC. 2016. Sandy dedicates this volume of 38 pages...