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  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s VultureIntroduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zo... ... Læs mere

    180,56 kr.

  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels

    Timeless Classics from a Literary Genius

    Discover the Masterpieces of Fyodor Dostoyevsky - All in One Collection! Immerse yourself in the profound world of Fyodor Dostoyevsky with "The Complete Novels Collection." This eBook brings together ten of his most influential works, offering an unparalleled literary journey through the mind of one of history's greatest authors. From the poignant realism of "Poor Folk" to the philosophical depths ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Nobody Knows My Name

    More Notes Of A Native Son

    af James Baldwin ...
    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and ... Læs mere

    94,63 kr.

  • Of Latitudes Unknown

    James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

    Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism.This volume joins recent critical collections in “un-fragmenting” Baldwin and establishing further conjunctions in his work: the essay ... Læs mere

    262,41 kr.

  • Black Lives Under Nazism

    Making History Visible in Literature and Art

    Serier serie Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the ... Læs mere

    280,54 kr.

  • 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 ... Læs mere

    320,63 kr.

  • Abstractionist Aesthetics

    Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

    Serier Bog 5 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
    An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive cultureIn a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, ... Læs mere

    208,46 kr.

  • Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

    Down the ages warriors have told the stories about their powers and their deeds. And some of their stories have made it into print––those of Black Elk, a Sioux shaman; Two Leggings and Plenty Coups, Crow Indians; Wolf Chief, the eagle hunter; Tukup and Tariri, shrinkers of heads; and others from North America, New Guinea, the island of Alor, the highlands of Luzon and even a Bedouin.H. David ... Læs mere

    206,99 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Bigger

    A Literary Life

    Serier serie Black Lives
    A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racismBigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of ... Læs mere

    177,24 kr.

  • African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts

    The Case of John Edgar Wideman

    For nearly 50 years, a trend in African American literary history quarantined the Black Arts era of the 1960s and 1970s, separating it from the brilliantly creative and aesthetically experimental writing that took off in the 1980s. According to that history, the new literature discarded and distanced the anti-aesthetic posture of the Black Arts moment which emphasized racial tension, strident ... Læs mere

    198,02 kr.

  • Veil and Vow

    Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture

    Serier serie Gender and American Culture
    In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as “good” or “bad” for African Americans, Henderson ... Læs mere

    178,75 kr.

  • Before Equiano

    A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

    In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre’s development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod ... Læs mere

    220,00 kr.

  • Black Women Can Change Directions by Changing Conditions ( The Message, the Struggle and the Strength of Black Women )

    Every day is a triumph and challenge for black women, and they embrace both of them with courage and faith that embody their character. As black women rise, many of them continue to struggle with common problems that debilitate their vigor to make positive changes to their lives. From relationships, education, marriage, employment or being on government assistance, black women are the essential ... Læs mere

    40,09 kr.

  • Soul Sounds

    The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music

    A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and cultureDespite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has been surprisingly neglected in Black literary and music studies. Soul Sounds addresses this gap by locating in spiritualist narratives, narratives by the formerly enslaved, contemporary Black poetry ... Læs mere

    240,45 kr.

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  • The Melancholy of Race

    Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief

    Serier serie Race and American Culture
    In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial ... Læs mere

    513,05 kr.

  • To After That (TOAF)

    af Renee Gladman ...
    A warm-spirited elegy to an abandoned work, brilliantly comic and wryly contemplative, by one of the great artist-investigators of our time.Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing—somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy—that Renee Gladman has continued to explore in books like Calamities and My Lesbian ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

  • The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

    af Paolo Pitari ...
    Serier serie Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the "existentialist contradiction": the impossibility of affirming the meaningfulness of life and an ethics of compassion while believing in free will.To substantiate this thesis ... Læs mere

    516,51 kr.

  • One Black Writer at a Time

    How Literary Coverage Shapes Reception

    Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began raising concerns that white media outlets consistently elevated only one Black writer at a time, thus limiting the broader success of multiple Black ... Læs mere

    164,73 kr.

    FORUDBESTIL

  • The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes

    af R Miller ...
    Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters.Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming ... Læs mere

    240,53 kr.

  • African American Women Playwrights

    A Research Guide

    Redigeret af Christy Gavin ...
    Serier serie Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture
    This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black ... Læs mere

    602,61 kr.

  • Balancing the Books

    Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

    af Erik Dussere ...
    Serier serie 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 ... Læs mere

    602,61 kr.

  • La Guerre et la Paix - L'intégrale: Tome 1, 2 et 3

    Édition enrichie. Épopée russe napoléonienne : réalisme, destin et profondeurs de l'âme humaine

    Oversat af Irène Paskévitch ...
    Dans 'La Guerre et la Paix - L'intégrale', Léon Tolstoï offre une description détaillée et nuancée de la société russe pendant l'époque napoléonienne. Son style littéraire se caractérise par sa profondeur psychologique et son réalisme remarquable, qui plongent le lecteur au cœur des conflits internes et externes des personnages. À travers ses personnages bien développés et ses thèmes universels, ... Læs mere

    Før 15,00 kr. Nu 8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • ASHÉ

    Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression

    Serier serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    ‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners.Having distinguished themselves across such disciplines as Anthropology, Art, Music, Literature, Dance, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology and conjoined to construct a defining approach to the study of Aesthetics throughout the African ... Læs mere

    473,45 kr.

  • Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives

    This book attempts to identify the subversive writing techniques adopted by the black female authors to empower their black female protagonists. Maryse Condé in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, Gloria Naylor in Mama Day, Alice Walker in The Color Purple, Ntozake Shange in Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and Toni Morrison in Beloved demonstrate how their victimised black female protagonists unify ... Læs mere

    16,04 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus