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  • We're Alone

    Essays

    A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stageTracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James ... Leer más

    Antes $13.19 USD Ahora $10.39 USD

  • Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways

    Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority

    “We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • The Sisterhood

    How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

    Finalist, 2025 Frances Fuller Victor Award in General Nonfiction, Oregon Book AwardsHonorable Mention, 2024 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationOne Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • The Future of the Race

    Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relationship and its implications for the future of black ... Leer más

    $7.39 USD

  • Diverse Futures

    Science Fiction and Authors of Color

    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    Winner, 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book PrizeDiverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the contributions of late-twentieth- and twenty-first-century US and Canadian science fiction authors of color. By looking at the intersections among science fiction authors of multiple races and ethnicities, Joy Sanchez-Taylor seeks to explain how these ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Telling Narratives

    Secrets in African American Literature

    Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft

    White Fragility in the Weird Tales

    Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction.Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," John Steadman argues that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and ... Leer más

    $23.89 USD

  • The New Negro

    A History in Documents, 1887–1937

    An authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racismThis book brings together a wealth of readings on the metaphor of the “New Negro,” charting how generations of thinkers debated its meaning and seized on its potency to stake out an astonishingly broad and sometimes contradictory ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Cross-Cultural Harlem

    Reimagining Race and Place

    Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Harlem has been the capital of both Black America and a global African diaspora, an early home for Italian and Jewish immigrant communities, an important Puerto Rican neighborhood, and a representative site of gentrification. How do we understand the power of a place with so many claims and identifications? Drawing on fiction, sociology, ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Toni Morrison's Fiction

    Contemporary Criticism

    Edición de David L. Middleton ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture
    This collection of contemporary criticism explores her concern with racial and gender issues and analyzes her in relation to other major modern authors, her philosophical and religious speculations, and her preoccupation with the process of fiction-making.These classics provide a broad look at critical argument about Toni Morrison's meanings and significance during the past 10 years. From the ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Crossing the Line

    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    Series series New Americanists
    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

    de Alice Sundman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison’s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It analyses the author’s textual choices, her writerly strategies, and her process of writing, all combining in shaping her literary places.In a ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship

    Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture

    Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois’ seminal double consciousness concept by emphasizing a third gendered lens, a definite consciousness that legitimizes the rich complexities of the black American female experience.In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture, the author ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • Afrofuturism and World Order

    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    In Afrofuturism and World Order, Reynaldo Anderson delves into the evolution of Black speculative thought and Afrofuturism from the early twentieth century to the present day. By locating Afrofuturism within an African geography of reason, he situates the past, present, and future of people of African descent at the intersection of speculative philosophy, science fiction, futurology, artificial ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 9 Issue 2: Special issue: Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, edited by Warren Crichton and Cameron McCarthy

    Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Picturing the New Negro

    Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity

    Series series CultureAmerica
    Winner: Vasari AwardDuring the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance and gave form to some of its most compelling visions.This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Alice Walker's Metaphysics

    Literature of Spirit

    Catapulted to fame in 1982 with the publication of her third novel—the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple—Alice Walker has become one of America’s most celebrated and divisive authors. With books such as Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Walker’s writing has frequently been cited for messages in support of civil rights and feminism. Above all, however, Walker is a spiritual ... Leer más

    $33.19 USD

  • The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave

    The Ancestral Call in Black Women's Texts

    Explores Black women writers' treatment of the ancestor figure.The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Tananarive Due's The Between, and Julie Dash's film, Daughters of the Dust in orde... ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Habitations of the Veil

    Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature

    Series series SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
    A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois's use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in African American literature. She demonstrates how Olaudah Equiano, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences

    Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject

    de Terry Baxter ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches were commonly considered mere entertainment, in the same category as Barnum's circus acts? In answering this question, Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars

    A New Pandora's Box

    During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces—nationalism and Marxism—clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day.Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. It ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Black Hibiscus

    African Americans and the Florida Imaginary

    Edición de John Wharton Lowe ...
    Contributions by Simone A. James Alexander, José Felipe Alvergue, Valerie Babb, Pamela Bordelon, Taylor Hagood, Joyce Marie Jackson, Delia Malia Konzett, Jane Landers, John Wharton Lowe, Gary Monroe, Noelle Morrissette, Paul Ortiz, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Genevieve West, and Belinda WheelerThe state of Florida has a rich literary and cultural history, which has been greatly shaped by many ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Die wichtigsten Werke von Dostojewski

    Bereicherte Ausgabe. 5 Klassiker der russischen Literatur in einem Buch

    Die wichtigsten Werke von Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Leben und die Gedanken des berühmten russischen Schriftstellers des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dieser Band enthält einige seiner bekanntesten Romane wie 'Schuld und Sühne', 'Der Idiot' und 'Die Brüder Karamasow'. Dostojewskis literarischer Stil zeichnet sich durch seine tiefgreifende psychologische ... Leer más

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  • Journeys and Journals

    Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora

    de Carol Allen ...
    Series Libro 127 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black subject ... Leer más

    $102.49 USD