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quentin CrisP
1908 – 1999, american
(b. england)
The Naked Civil Servant
Preface by Michael Holroyd
Crisp describes his life with uninhibited
exuberance in this classic autobiography.
He came out as a gay man in 1931,
when the slightest sign of homosexuality
shocked public sensibilities, and he
did so with provocative flamboyance,
determined to spread the message that
homosexuality did not exclude him or
anyone else from the human race.
224 pp. 978-0-14-118053-3 $16.00
sor juana inés
de la Cruz
1648 – 1695, Mexican
Poems, Protest, and a Dream
Selected Writings
Translated with Notes by Margaret Sayers
Peden and an Introduction by Ilan Stavans
La Respuesta a Sor Filotea, the most
famous prose work of Sor Juana Inés de la
Cruz, is a passionate defense of the rights
of women to study, teach, and write. Also
included in this bilingual collection by
Latin America’s finest baroque poet is the
epistemological poem “Primero Sueño,”
as well as autobiographical sonnets,
religious poetry, secular love poems,
playful verses, and lyrical tributes to New
World culture.
304 pp. 978-0-14-044703-3 $16.00
quobna ottobah
Cugoano
c.1757 – unknown, african – British
Thoughts and Sentiments
on the Evil of Slavery
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by
Vincent Carretta
Thoughts and Sentiments, the most
radical assault published by a writer
of African descent on slavery, was
Cugoano’s response to the hypocrisy
of Enlightenment Europe’s attitude
toward slavery. This is the only available
edition of a neglected classic and includes
Cugoano’s correspondence with Edmund
Burke, King George III, and William Pitt.
224 pp. 978-0-14-044750-7 $14.00
“a masterful achievement . . . Carretta’s
edition restores this important, but little
known, author to his rightful place as a
central figure in the Black atlantic tradition of
the eighteenth century.”
—henry l o u i s gates, jr.
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