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  • Colson Whitehead

    The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature

    de Kimberly Fain ...
    From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural assumptions of his readers. His African American protagonists are well educated and upwardly ... Leer más

    $93.19 USD

  • Coloniality and Migrancy in African Diasporic Literatures

    Series series Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
    This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and America.The book deploys the concept of coloniality of migrancy to explore how global coloniality continues to shape the identities and lived experiences of African immigrants as represented ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Dreaming Out Loud

    African American Novelists at Work

    de Horace Porter ...
    Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also accomplished poets, essayists, and playwrights, this collection and the essays it contains remains focused on the ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD

  • Balancing the Books

    Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

    de Erik Dussere ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about how the legacies of slavery linger in the lives and actions of their characters, although the ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning

    Series series Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion
    Kendrick Lamar has established himself at the forefront of contemporary hip-hop culture. Artistically adventurous and socially conscious, he has been unapologetic in using his art form, rap music, to address issues affecting black lives while also exploring subjects fundamental to the human experience, such as religious belief. This book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary academic ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture

    Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois

    de David Withun ...
    W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociologist, historian, educator, author of several works of fiction, and one of the founding figures of Pan-Africanism. Du Bois's works are filled with allusions to the classical mythology, philosophy, and history that permeated his education. In the first ... Leer más

    $75.59 USD

  • Against Marginalization

    Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures

    In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • The Racial Unfamiliar

    Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture

    de John Brooks ...
    Series series Literature Now
    The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for “positive” or “negative” representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the “Black experience.” However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Hope Draped in Black

    Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress

    Series series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions—like those that suggested the passage into a postracial era following Barack Obama's election—gloss over the history of racial violence and oppression to create an imaginary and self-congratulatory world where painful memories are conveniently ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman

    Edición de Matthew Calihman, Gerald Early ...
    Series Libro 153 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today.This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • "I Am Not Your Black, America!"

    Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam" has branded him with, including "uncle tom"!If MeShorn is NOT "your black", America, then who is he?As soon as you think you can "box" MeShorn into "one of yours", you will have to embarrassingly pull ... Leer más

    $16.18 USD

  • New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers

    New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers. On the one hand, some Black women writers have been heavily anthologized, they have more often than not been restricted by critical metanarratives. Some of their works have been lionized while others ... Leer más

    $36.49 USD

  • Silent Interviews

    On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics

    Collected interviews featuring the Nebula Award–winning author and his thoughts on topics like literary criticism, comic books, race, and sexuality.For nearly three decades, Samuel R. Delany's science fiction has transported millions of readers to the fringes of time, technology, and outer space. Now Delany surveys the realms of his own experience as a writer, critic, theorist, and gay Black man ... Leer más

    $3.03 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Leer más

    $12.69 USD

  • The Rich Earth between Us

    The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770–1840

    In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyzes the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World, examining how their literary production informs “modes of being” that confronted violent colonial times. Johnson particularly assesses how these authors connected to places—whether real or imagined—and how those connections enabled them to make worlds in spite of the violence of ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • Modernism and the Middle Passage

    de Laura Winkiel ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Modernism is typically thought of as focusing on the new and now, not looking backward at historical catastrophes. Yet in many surprising, often submerged ways, the transatlantic slave trade shaped the works of both Black and white writers. This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage—and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Spectres from the Past

    Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature

    de Portia Owusu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Nothing Can Stop Miss Daisy - A Breast Cancer Survivor Story

    The Most Touching Cancer Survival Story You Will Ever Read on The Web!Get Your Copy of a Great Life Changing Story! From Miss Daisy!The book is dedicated to all those who have been affected by breast cancer; whether directly, as patients, or indirectly, as friends and relatives of those diagnosed.Nothing Can Stop Miss Daisy: A Breast Cancer Survivor Story is a motivational and uplifting read that ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • John Henry

    Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

    Edición de Seven C. Tracy ...
    Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time but have long been unavailable or extremely hard to find. In this unique collection, Steven C.Tracy has joined Bradford's seminal works in a new critical edition to help contextualize both the novel and play, making these vital texts widely ... Leer más

    $13.29 USD

  • The Death-Bound-Subject

    Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had witnessed nor his own existence as a product of racial violence. Abdul R. JanMohamed provides ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Black Literature and Literary Theory

    Edición de Henry Louis Gates, Jr ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not only has a complex formal relation to that canon, but tends to revise and reflect Western rhetorical strategies even more than it echoes black vernacular literary forms.This book, first published in ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Greatest Works of Washington Irving: [Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving/ The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving/ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving]

    Book 1: Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with “Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving.” Irving's collection transports readers to the warmth and nostalgia of an English Christmas. Filled with charming anecdotes and holiday traditions, this work captures the essence of Christmas in the 19th century.Book 2: Explore the diverse tales of “The Sketch-Book of ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Race, Theft, and Ethics

    Property Matters in African American Literature

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness

    The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery

    Edición de Charmaine A. Nelson ...
    Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ‘Creolization’ in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration.Eschewing the normative focus on language and music, the authors instead center art and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD