In his wide-ranging studies of poetic borrowing, Serrano uncovers the heterogeneity of influences in canonical texts from Arabic, Chinese and French traditions: Buhturi (821-97) and the Qur'an (7th ce
This book examines the complex and dynamic relationship between the Qur’an and Arabic poetry.Its four case studies focus on anomalies and contradictions within the Qur’ano-Arabic literary tradition in
This is a paperbound edition of a 2007 book. Serrano presents a provocative argument that most attempts to use postcolonialism to account for francophone writers reveal more about the critics' assumpt
In this provocative book Serrano argues that most attempts to use postcolonialism to account for francophone writers reveal more about the critics' assumptions than about the writers' work. He also as
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Richard A. Serrano's new book American Endurance: The Great Cowboy Race and the Vanishing Wild West is history, mystery, and Western all rolled into one. I
In the late 1950s, as America prepared for the Civil War centennial, two very old men lay dying. Albert Woolson, 109 years old, slipped in and out of a coma at a Duluth, Minnesota, hospital, his memor
James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the
A lost history of racial discrimination in America's capital punishment system revealed by seventeen lives lived in the Fort Leavenworth military prisonBetween 1955 and 1961, seventeen condemned soldi
On April 19, 1995, terrorism struck the heartland of America: A cataclysmic explosion destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, took the lives of 168 people, and injured more than 500 others. It w
