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  • And Still I Rise

    podle Dr Maya Angelou ...
    A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, ... Přečtěte si více

    283,59 Kč

  • The Souls of White Folk

    African American Writers Theorize Whiteness

    podle Veronica T. Watson ...
    Série série Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American writers retreated from issues of “race” when they wrote about whiteness, Veronica T. Watson instead ... Přečtěte si více

    450,69 Kč

  • A Human Necklace

    The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall's Fiction

    podle Moira Ferguson ...
    Argues that Paule Marshall's work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall's novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ... Přečtěte si více

    675,09 Kč

  • The Racial Unfamiliar

    Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture

    podle John Brooks ...
    Série série 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 ... Přečtěte si více

    525,69 Kč

  • All Stories Are True

    History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman

    Série série Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored ... Přečtěte si více

    901,39 Kč

  • Toni Morrison

    Memory and Meaning

    Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author’s literary production and including her very latest works—the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential ... Přečtěte si více

    450,69 Kč

  • Anne Spencer between Worlds

    podle Noelle Morrissette ...
    Série série The New Southern Studies
    Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975.Through its attentiveness to ... Přečtěte si více

    581,19 Kč

  • Black Reason, White Feeling

    The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

    podle Hannah Spahn ...
    Série série Jeffersonian America
    The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson’s ideasThe lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set of ideas in the eighteenth century. As Hannah Spahn argues in this important book, no group had a more ... Přečtěte si více

    610,39 Kč

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    In light of accumulating significant debts, Arthur Shelby, a farmer from Kentucky, finds himself on the verge of losing his entire estate. Despite his and his wife's compassionate treatment of their slaves, Shelby is compelled to sell two of them to Mr. Haley, a rugged slave trader, to raise the necessary funds. Uncle Tom's Cabin is a timeless masterpiece that showcases the harsh realities of ... Přečtěte si více

    112,69 Kč

  • To Tell a Black Story of Miami

    podle Tatiana D. Tatiana ...
    How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and cultureIn this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city’s material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise. McInnis discusses how this favorable “melting pot” narrative depends on the obfuscation ... Přečtěte si více

    563,39 Kč

  • No More Worlds to Conquer

    The Black Poet in Washington, DC

    podle Brian Gilmore ...
    A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourseWashington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American literary community, despite often being overshadowed by the literary worlds of New York and Chicago. In No More Worlds to Conquer, the local poet Brian Gilmore uncovers the buried legacy of Black poets in ... Přečtěte si více

    593,69 Kč

  • From Slave Cabins to the White House

    Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

    podle Koritha Mitchell ...
    Série série New Black Studies Series
    Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place."Tracing how African ... Přečtěte si více

    374,89 Kč

  • Richard Wright Writing America at Home and from Abroad

    Upravil: Virginia Whatley Smith ...
    Contributions by Robert J. Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John ZhengCritics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright's mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection ... Přečtěte si více

    450,69 Kč

  • Walking Harlem

    The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America

    podle Karen Taborn ...
    With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York’s most distinctive neighborhoods; it’s also one of the most walkable.This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical sites. Alongside major tourist destinations like the Apollo Theater and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime ... Přečtěte si více

    272,39 Kč

  • Freedom Time

    The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing

    podle Anthony Reed ...
    Série série The Callaloo African Diaspora Series
    Experimental poetry and prose by black writers rejects traditional interpretations of social protest and identity formation to reveal radical new ways of perceiving the world.Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language AssociationStandard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of ... Přečtěte si více

    478,29 Kč

  • A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage

    Upravil: Jocelyn L. Buckner ...
    A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work.The collection contains chapters on each of her major works, and includes a special three-chapter section devoted ... Přečtěte si více

    1 624,23 Kč

  • Ethnicity and Gender Debates

    Cross-Readings of American Literature and Culture in the New Millennium

    The contributions in this collection underline the vibrancy as well as complexity that characterizes the study of American literature and culture in the twenty-first century with regard to the exploration and understanding of ethnicity and gender. The book aims at contributing to the research already taking place within American Studies, while opening up the texts discussed to further literary and ... Přečtěte si více

    1 276,99 Kč

  • Barbaric Culture and Black Critique

    Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic

    podle Stefan M. Wheelock ...
    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, ... Přečtěte si více

    638,49 Kč

  • Black on Black

    Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa

    Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's ... Přečtěte si více

    657,29 Kč

  • At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe

    A Journey Between Worlds: Exploring Identity and Culture in America and Europe

    podle Margaret Fuller ...
    In "At Home and Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe," Margaret Fuller presents a rich tapestry of her experiences and reflections while traversing both American and European landscapes in the mid-19th century. Written in a personal yet analytical style, the book melds travelogue with philosophical discourse, articulating her observations on culture, politics, and gender. Fuller ... Přečtěte si více

    49,00 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma

    Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature

    podle Eden Wales ...
    Winner of the 2020 Eudora Welty PrizeTheorists emphasize the necessity of writing about—or witnessing—trauma in order to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women and adds insight into the ... Přečtěte si více

    450,69 Kč

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    podle Bright Summaries ...
    Série série BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Their Eyes Were Watching God with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, which follows the beautiful, intelligent Janie as she attempts to find love and freedom in the Southern USA of the early 20th century. Her first two marriages, to the much older ... Přečtěte si více

    279,81 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • His-Story is My Story's Mystery

    podle Ralph B. Cooper ...
    The Power "2b" (to be) or become is most certainly a divine right. Those who are direct decendants of the slave ships, jim crow south and institutionalized racism that is still causing inequality...it is to these matters that inspired me to share my thoughts of outrage from a first hand viewpoint. ... Přečtěte si více

    145,85 Kč

  • After Winter

    The Art and Life of Sterling A. Brown

    John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his continuing importance for a contemporary audience. Exploring new directions in the study of Brown's life and work, After Winter includes new and previously published essays that sum up contemporary ... Přečtěte si více

    788,59 Kč