{"title":"Scott W. Stern","description":"\u003cp\u003eScott W. Stern’s works delve into the intricate layers of history and culture, offering readers thoughtful examinations through compelling narratives. With titles such as \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Margaret\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThere Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas\u003c\/em\u003e, his writing invites reflection on the intersections of art, identity, and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in both \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/strong\u003e themes, Stern’s books illuminate moments and figures that resonate beyond their time, blending scholarly insight with a rich literary sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"there-is-a-deep-brooding-in-arkansas-by-scott-w-stern-9780300273571","title":"There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas\u003c\/em\u003e by Scott W. Stern is a sweeping study of sexual assault trials in the Jim Crow South that details the racial and economic inequities of rape law and highlights the resistance of ordinary women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the twentieth century, Mississippi County, Arkansas, was both brutal and profitable. This region, home to starving, landless farmers, produced almost 2 percent of the world's cotton. It was also the site of two rape trials that garnered national attention: one involving an accusation against two Black men, almost certainly innocent, who were sentenced to death row; and another case involving two white men, almost certainly guilty, who were also sentenced to death but faced a very different fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStern braids these stories together to examine how the Jim Crow legal system selectively prosecuted rape to uphold the racial, gender, and economic hierarchies of the segregated South. Yet, Stern reveals that as much as rape law was a site of oppression, it was also an arena of fierce resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBased on deep archival research, this kaleidoscopic narrative presents new information about the early career of Thurgood Marshall, who described one of the Mississippi County trials as \"worse than any we have had as yet,\" and explores the anti-rape activism of Maya Angelou. Angelou, who came of age in Arkansas and chose to write about her own sexual assault, helped shape a burgeoning movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000812454124,"sku":"9780300273571","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24733453482294.jpg?v=1763306759"},{"product_id":"shakespeares-margaret-by-scott-w-stern-9781324076551","title":"Shakespeare's Margaret","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than King Lear's daughters. She is the only Shakespearean character, male or female, whose entire life—from youth to old age—appears on stage. She offers a wealth of insight into Shakespeare's understanding of, and influence on, ideas of gender and sexuality, and she speaks by far the most lines of any of his female characters. She has allowed the likes of Peggy Ashcroft, Helen Mirren, and Sophie Okonedo full range for their stunning talents. Yet today, most audiences have still never heard of Margaret of Anjou.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut who was Margaret? In the fifteenth century, she was a fourteen-year-old French princess married to an English king, soon thrust into command amid a bloody civil war. A hundred and fifty years later, she was resurrected on the Elizabethan stage in four of Shakespeare's earliest plays, \u003cem\u003eHenry VI, Parts 1, 2,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e3\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRichard III\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in every era since the Bard's, actors, directors, and producers have recast their own Margaret, slicing, dicing, and rearranging the original Shakespeare to highlight or diminish Margaret's role depending on the sensibilities of the time. It is this evolution of Margaret's portrayal that Charles O'Malley and Scott W. Stern track in \u003cem\u003eShakespeare's Margaret\u003c\/em\u003e, from Elizabethan boy-actors in wigs enacting misogynist fears of witchy women to feminist celebrations of Margaret's uninhibited grasp of power, and clever commentaries on global politics and world leaders such as Margaret Thatcher. Her story, as it has changed over the centuries across the page and on the stage, brings to life the evolution of theatre and shows how Shakespeare's plays have always been living collaborations among actors, directors, writers, critics, and history itself, still unfolding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47650579251436,"sku":"9781324076551","price":74.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781324076551-shakespeare-s-margaret.jpg?v=1779327955"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/scott-w-stern.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}