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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Heart of Darkness: A Joseph Conrad Trilogy

    de Joseph Conrad ...
    With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It ... Leer más

    $1.18 USD

  • Fire on the Water

    Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886

    de Lenora Warren ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

    de Keith Clark ...
    In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique.Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Convergence

    When Collegiate Black Men Meet African American Literary Studies

    Draws on twenty years of firsthand teaching experience, student stories, and campus data to show how culturally grounded reading and discussion can support intellectual growth and improve college success for African American men.The Convergence tells the inside story of a first-semester literature course for Black men at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, taught every fall since 2004. ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

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  • Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed

    Journeys to Freedom in August Wilson’s Ten Plays of Twentieth-Century Black America

    August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era's most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Something Akin to Freedom

    The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women

    de Stephanie Li ...
    Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleWhy would someone choose bondage over individual freedom? What type of freedom can be found in choosing conditions of enslavement? In Something Akin to Freedom, winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Stephanie Li ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Haunted Property

    Slavery and the Gothic

    Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book PrizeAt the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Conversations with Edwidge Danticat

    Edición de Maxine Lavon Montgomery ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews here is Danticat's expressed determination not only to reveal Haitian immigrant experience, but ... Leer más

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  • Black to Nature

    Pastoral Return and African American Culture

    In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that depictions of protagonists who return to pastoral settings contest the violent and racist history that incentivized ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar

    The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

    The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • New Strangers in Paradise

    The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction

    New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II.Muller focuses on the ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Street Lit

    Representing the Urban Landscape

    Edición de Keenan Norris ...
    Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction—or street lit—has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors. In the 1970s, pioneers such as Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Claude Brown paved the way for today’s street fiction novelists, poets, and short story writers, including Sister Souljah, Kenji Jasper, ... Leer más

    $48.59 USD

  • The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism

    de Joseph Darda ...
    Series series Post*45
    How Americans learned to wait on time for racial changeWhat if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Black Bourgeois

    Class and Sex in the Flesh

    Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged livesAt a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state and extralegal violence, Black Bourgeois is the first book to consider the contradiction of privileged, presumably protected black bodies that nonetheless remain racially vulnerable. Examining ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • Before Harlem

    An Anthology of African American Literature from the Long Nineteenth Century

    Despite important recovery and authentication efforts during the last twenty-five years, the vast majority of nineteenth-century African American writers and their work remain unknown to today’s readers. Moreover, the most widely used anthologies of black writing have established a canon based largely on current interests and priorities. Seeking to establish a broader perspective, this collection ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Preaching the Blues

    Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays

    Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women’s performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology.Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching drama by examining plays that are contingent upon race-based settings in black households versus white households. She also discusses performances ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Between the Angle and the Curve

    Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison

    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American landscape challenge existing assertions about American fiction. Specifically, Russell argues that looking at the ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Liberating Literature

    de Maria Lauret ...
    Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • From Mammies to Militants

    Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

    Unmasking stereotypes and reclaiming identity of Black Womanhood in American Culture.Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Black Pacific Narrative

    Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars

    The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black Pacific”?the literary and cultural production of African American narratives in the face of America’s ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • American Lazarus

    Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures

    de Joanna Brooks ...
    The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of ... Leer más

    $37.79 USD

  • Conjuring Freedom

    Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army”

    de Johari Jabir ...
    Series series Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious, political, and epistemological practice, Johari Jabir demonstrates how the musical performance allowed troop ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD