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  • A Companion to African American Literature

    Edición de Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern dayExamines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery ... Leer más

    $44,586 CLP

  • How

    de Earvin Eugene ...
    Spreading the good word. WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHICH? HOW! Literary fiction of short stories and essays. Facts on the matter of good karma, betterment, and righteousness. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ... Leer más

    $845 CLP

  • A Violent Peace

    Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific

    Series series Post*45
    A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois discerned in domestic strategies to quell racial protests the same ... Leer más

    $32,004 CLP

  • Literary Feminist Ecologies of American and Caribbean Expansionism

    Errand into the Wilderness

    Series series Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
    This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulates as the "errand into the wilderness": the ethic of Puritanical expansionism at the heart of the U.S. empire that moved westward under Manifest Destiny to colonize Native Americans, non-whites, women, and the land.The project explores how the legacy of ... Leer más

    $58,918 CLP

  • African, American

    From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father – Africa in the US Imagination

    Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar ... Leer más

    $22,537 CLP

  • A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor WattsThe Brownies’ Book occupies a special place in the history of African American children’s literature. Informally the children’s counterpart to the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine, it was one of the first periodicals created ... Leer más

    $21,945 CLP

  • A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois

    Edición de Nick Bromell ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of the NAACP journal The Crisis, Du Bois has been widely studied for his profound insights on the politics of race and class in America. An activist as well ... Leer más

    $16,621 CLP

  • Second Skin

    Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface

    Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the turn of the twentieth century. Stepping outside of the platitudes surrounding this iconic figure, Anne A. Cheng argues that Baker's famous nakedness must be understood within larger philosophic and ... Leer más

    $21,225 CLP

  • The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader

    Series series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
    Many scholars have written about the white readers and patrons of the Harlem Renaissance, but during the period many black writers, publishers, and editors worked to foster a cadre of African American readers, or in the poet Sterling Brown's words, a “reading folk.” Black newspapers featured columns that reviewed the latest African American fiction. Magazines held writing contests to urge black ... Leer más

    $15,355 CLP

  • A Hatred So Deep The War on Black Women

    de Rachael Reed ...
    "They didn't just draft a policy manual. They designed a target on your back."America is undergoing a profound, fracturing transformation. Between the sweeping legislative mandates of Project 2025, the systemic dismantling of civil rights, and an aggressive AI revolution threatening to automate millions of jobs, the changing landscape isn't abstract or distant for Black women. It feels personal. ... Leer más

    $3,407 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Reading Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis / Liliths Brood

    de John Lennard ...
    Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The Notes cover Octavia Butler's life and work; the ... Leer más

    $7,102 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Black Lives Matter

    Is It Open Season on Killing and Mistreating Blacks In America

    Each day some black man, woman, or child has been killed or mistreated by police or by another black person. Black people in America should have always organized against injustices by police and other misguided blacks who are threats to their survival. I cannot understand how, after hundreds of years and comprehensive progress in civil and human rights, black people's lives are still not valued or ... Leer más

    $5,069 CLP

  • Animating Black and Brown Liberation

    A Theory of American Literatures

    Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool-ankhing-enables Michael Datcher to ... Leer más

    $32,873 CLP

  • Asylum Speakers

    Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse

    de April Shemak ...
    Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth value" associated with various modes of witnessing to explore the function of testimonial discourse in ... Leer más

    $55,769 CLP

  • The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings

    Series series Routledge Research in Women's Literature
    Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The ... Leer más

    $40,630 CLP

  • Black Bostonians and the Politics of Culture, 1920-1940

    In the 1920s and 1930s Boston became a rich and distinctive site of African American artistic production, unfolding at the same time as the Harlem Renaissance and encompassing literature, theater, music, and visual art. Owing to the ephemeral nature of much of this work, many of the era's primary sources have been lost.In this book, Lorraine Elena Roses employs archival sources and personal ... Leer más

    $16,817 CLP

  • 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

    $990 CLP

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E. Butler

    Edición de Tarshia L. Stanley ...
    Series Libro 160 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Octavia E. Butler's works of science fiction invite readers to consider the structures of power in society and to ask what it means to be human. Butler addresses social justice issues such as poverty, racism, and violence against women and connects the history of slavery in the United States with speculation on a biologically altered future world.The first section of this volume, "Materials," ... Leer más

    $34,748 CLP

  • Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions

    Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is conceived by an unrestrained imagination because it lives, despite every attempt at annihilation. This blackness amazes because it refuses the limits of anti-blackness. As put to work in this project, ... Leer más

    $25,567 CLP

  • The Marengo Jake Stories

    The Tales of Jake Mitchell and Robert Wilton Burton

    Between 1885 and 1894 The Montgomery Advertiser, The Birmingham-Age Herald, and The New Orleans Times Democrat featured a series of about 80 humorous black-dialect sketches by Robert Wilton Burton, a bookseller and writer from Auburn, Alabama. According to Burton, these tales were based on various characters in the black community of Auburn, and 36 of them were devoted exclusively to a character ... Leer más

    $21,909 CLP

  • Recovering Five Generations Hence

    The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

    Series Libro 120 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained ... Leer más

    $16,094 CLP

  • Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

    Two Haiku and a Microphone

    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or ... Leer más

    $38,818 CLP

  • Claude McKay

    The Making of a Black Bolshevik

    de Winston James ...
    Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History SocietyShortlisted, 2023 Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright FoundationOne of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay’s life and ... Leer más

    $36,568 CLP

  • The Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectualsPaul Laurence Dunbar (1873–1906) was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth century and one of the earliest African American writers to receive national recognition and ... Leer más

    $43,854 CLP