University Press of America
Pages: 60
Trim: 5¾ x 8½
978-0-7618-4312-2 • Paperback • November 2008 • $40.99 • (£32.00)
Loren L. Qualls has lectured and studied at the University of Akron, New Mexico State University, the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, University of Carthage in Tunisia and other academic institutes with fellowships at New York University and the Salzburg Institute in Austria. He is the author of Numbers in Ink, Immolation, and Chasing Magdalene. He currently teaches in the Writing Program at the University of California, Merced.
Chapter 1 1. In the Word
Chapter 2 2. Birth of Identity
Chapter 3 3. Speaking In Tongues
Chapter 4 4. Autonomy and Causation
Chapter 5 5. A Final Liberty
A poignant 'textual' reconfiguration of Paul Gauguin's painting.
— Raja Boussedra, Universite du 7 Novembre a Carthage, Institut Superieur des Langues de Tunis
Loren Qualls's Dark Language is a beautiful and powerful critique that engages themes of our history and nation through the eyes and voices of a post-civil rights generation. With a lyrical, intellectual, and often gripping style, Qualls brings to life compelling questions of authenticity and substance both central to mainstream America and outside it. Qualls captures an essence of our contemporary society that we need to feel and understand.
— Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside