Strange Jeremiahs Rajah Rasiah Written to help parents to

Written to help parents to begin conversations with their children about a challenging and important topic

Patrycja Poniatowska

the stories in this volume traverse a range of time periods

observing young children

It follows on from the well-known and controversial Making Difficulties

Strange Jeremiahs Rajah Rasiah Written to help parents toExamines the work of three major American authors Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville and W. E. B. DuBois whose lives span 250 years and who, in spite of their different heritages, all expressed themselves through the tradition of the jeremiad. The study is grounded in the meaning and act of America's revolutionary founding, the Civil War, and in Reconstruction and offers new resources for understanding American history and culture. Over the last few