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Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this body of work, and models a critical approach to such narratives that demonstrates the distinctive
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In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other.The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks ... Read more

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Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women's Writing

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Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
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In what innovative ways do novels by diasporic Black women writers experiment with the representation of Black subjectivity? This collection explores the inventiveness of contemporary Black women writers – Black British, African, Caribbean, African American – who remake traditional understandings of blackness. As the title word “experimental” signals, these essays foreground the narrative form and
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Toni Morrison's Fiction

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Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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Imagine the Sound

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The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"

Print-Based Activism Against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829-1851

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Series series Material Texts
Historians and literary historians alike recognize David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829-1830) as one of the most politically radical and consequential antislavery texts ever published, yet the pamphlet's significant impact on North American nineteenth-century print-based activism has gone under-examined. In The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal" Marcy J. Dinius ... Read more

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Oshun's Daughters

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The Nadir and the Zenith

Temperance and Excess in the Early African American Novel

by Anna Pochmara ...

The Nadir and the Zenith is a study of temperance and melodramatic excess in African American fiction before the Harlem Renaissance. Anna Pochmara combines formal analysis with attention to the historical context, which, in addition to postbellum race relations in the United States, includes white and black temperance movements and their discourses. Despite its proliferation and popularity at the ... Read more

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This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews here is Danticat's expressed determination not only to reveal Haitian immigrant experience, but ... Read more

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This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews here is Danticat's expressed determination not only to reveal Haitian immigrant experience, but
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Moving Home

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by Sandra Gunning ...

Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned ... Read more

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In Moving Home, Sandra Gunning examines nineteenth-century African diasporic travel writing to expand and complicate understandings of the Black Atlantic. Gunning draws on the writing of missionaries, abolitionists, entrepreneurs, and explorers whose work challenges the assumptions that travel writing is primarily associated with leisure or scientific research. For instance, Yoruba ex-slave turned
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Mastering Slavery

Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives

by Jennifer B. Fleischner ...

In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally ... Read more

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In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally
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Women's Work

Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels

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In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism ... Read more

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In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism
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Shadow Archives

The Lifecycles of African American Literature

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Whitman Noir

Black America and the Good Gray Poet

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Collection of the Best Works of Arthur Conan Doyle: [The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle/ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle/ The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle]

by Arthur Conan Doyle ...

Book 1: Embark on a thrilling detective adventure with “The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.” Doyle's novel follows the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they investigate a complex mystery involving stolen treasure, betrayal, and a secret pact. Filled with clever deductions and suspenseful twists, this work showcases Doyle's mastery of the detective genre.Book 2: ... Read more

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Book 1: Embark on a thrilling detective adventure with “The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle.” Doyle's novel follows the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they investigate a complex mystery involving stolen treasure, betrayal, and a secret pact. Filled with clever deductions and suspenseful twists, this work showcases Doyle's mastery of the detective genre.Book 2:
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Playing in the Dark

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Imagine the Sound

The Textual Effects of David Walker's "Appeal"

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Blood at the Root

From Toussaint to Price-Mars

Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?

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Slavery, Capitalism, and Women's Literature

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