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  • 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

    Antes $38,861 CLP Ahora $34,748 CLP

  • Depictions of Home in African American Literature

    In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris ... Leer más

    Antes $30,673 CLP Ahora $26,588 CLP

  • Barbaric Culture and Black Critique

    Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic

    In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he discusses—Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart—engaged the concepts of democracy, ... Leer más

    Antes $34,769 CLP Ahora $31,089 CLP

  • Shadow Archives

    The Lifecycles of African American Literature

    Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and ... Leer más

    $36,568 CLP

  • The Commerce of Peoples

    Sadomasochism and African American Literature

    de Biman Basu ...
    Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, too, it is still persistently stigmatized. This marginalization, along with its ambivalently persecuted status, is a result, significantly, of a ... Leer más

    $91,610 CLP

  • Kinship in the Fiction of N. K. Jemisin

    Relations of Power and Resistance

    Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of critical kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effects of climate change, currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction, and where anti-democratic, racist, and misogynist movements are gaining ground in many societies, there is an urgent need to re-imagine ... Leer más

    $70,647 CLP

  • Using Critical Theory

    How to Read and Write About Literature

    de Lois Tyson ...
    Explaining both why critical theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces new students of literature to this often-daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured, with chapters based on major theories commonly covered in courses on literature and on critical theory.Key features include:• coverage of major theories including ... Leer más

    $58,918 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

  • Black Women, Writing and Identity

    Migrations of the Subject

    Black Women Writing and Identity is an exciting work by one of the most imaginative and acute writers around. The book explores a complex and fascinating set of interrelated issues, establishing the significance of such wide-ranging subjects as:* re-mapping, re-naming and cultural crossings* tourist ideologies and playful world travelling* gender, heritage and identity* African women's writing and ... Leer más

    $62,982 CLP

  • A Born Writer

    Juanita Harrison and Her Beautiful World

    The first biography of a best-selling travel writer dedicated to the pursuit of leisure, freedom, and experienceDespite the challenges she faced as an average southern Black woman of her time, Juanita Harrison transcended expectations, earning a unique place in African American and literary history. Over the course of more than four decades, she traveled constantly, first throughout the US and ... Leer más

    Antes $22,899 CLP Ahora $20,475 CLP

  • Legal Fictions

    Constituting Race, Composing Literature

    In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about ... Leer más

    Antes $24,502 CLP Ahora $21,909 CLP

  • Minor Moves

    Black Girls and Unruly Performance in Antebellum Narratives

    Scholars and critics have long understood the writing of nineteenth-century Black women as critiquing the figure of Topsy, an enslaved girl in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Many interpret the works of authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, and Hannah Crafts as rejecting Topsy and providing their own corrective representations of Black girls. Through close ... Leer más

    $28,947 CLP

  • Whitman Noir

    Black America and the Good Gray Poet

    de Ivy Wilson ...
    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    Walt Whitman’s now-famous maxim about “containing the multitudes” has often been understood as a metaphor for the democratizing impulses of the young American nation. But did these impulses extend across the color line? Early in his career, especially in the manuscripts leading up to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the poet espoused a rather progressive outlook on race relations within the ... Leer más

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  • Sticking It to the Man

    Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980

    Edición de Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette ...
    From civil rights and Black Power to the New Left and gay liberation, the 1960s and 1970s saw a host of movements shake the status quo. The impact of feminism, anticolonial struggles, wildcat industrial strikes, and antiwar agitation were all felt globally. With social strictures and political structures challenged at every level, pulp and popular fiction could hardly remain unaffected. Feminist, ... Leer más

    $8,830 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Belabored Professions

    Narratives of African American Working Womanhood

    According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, ... Leer más

    Antes $24,816 CLP Ahora $22,190 CLP

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

    Edición de Tracy Floreani ...
    Series Libro 177 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the entrenched racism in society, and his writing continues to inform national conversations in letters and ... Leer más

    Antes $38,861 CLP Ahora $34,748 CLP

  • George S. Schuyler

    Portrait of a Black Conservative

    George S. Schuyler was a journalist and cultural critic whose writings appeared in such diverse publications as Crisis, Nation, Negro Digest, American Mercury, and National Review. In the 1920s, Schuyler was a member of the American Socialist Party and espoused liberal views. By the 1950s, he had become an ardent supporter of U.S. Sen. Joseph P. McCarthy and touted himself as an American patriot, ... Leer más

    $24,120 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Salvific Manhood

    James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy

    Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, ... Leer más

    Antes $24,543 CLP Ahora $21,945 CLP

  • Black Women’s Literature of the Americas

    Griots and Goddesses

    Series series Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies
    Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their connections to their African ancestral roots and a wider diasporic community.The book investigates how Black women in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, the ... Leer más

    $60,949 CLP

  • The Sonic South

    Nineteenth-Century Plantation Literature

    Series series Sound in History
    An examination of the influence of white listening practices on literary representations of the plantation SouthEarly colonial histories of the plantation South often relied on multisensory descriptions to construct an image of the region as a “land of beauty.” While these early accounts are rich in visual and tactile imagery, aural impressions played an important role in constructing its ... Leer más

    $37,196 CLP

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  • Turn Where

    A Geography of Home

    A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study“In Chet’la Sebree’s sensitive and tender hands, this book’s quest (and question) of home is captivating. An intimate rendering of the life of a Black woman artist.”—Imani Perry, National Book Award winner and author of Black in BluesAt eighteen, ... Leer más

    $12,838 CLP

  • Gesammelte Werke

    Der letzte Mohikaner + Der Wildtöter + Der rote Freibeuter + Die Prärie + Die Wassernixe + Die Ansiedler und mehr

    Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Der letzte Mohikaner + Der Wildtöter + Der rote Freibeuter + Die Prärie + Die Wassernixe + Die Ansiedler und mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur ... Leer más

    $1,900 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Only in America

    Mama's Three Angels

    African American historical from a familys point of view that reflects life in the United States of America during the late 1950s to late 1960s. ... Leer más

    Antes $4,534 CLP Ahora $4,054 CLP

  • Those Who Walk in Darkness

    de John Ridley ...
    John Ridley, author of Love is a Racket, delivers an action-filled novel about a female cop facing off against strangely powerful enemies in a near-future Los Angeles.In the near future, the world has become home to certain people with amazing genetic structures—giving them powers that make them frighteningly superior to normal humans. The Night Watchman was the first. Somewhere in San Francisco, ... Leer más

    Antes $16,226 CLP Ahora $14,508 CLP