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Playing in the Dark

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner"[Morrison] boldly...reimagines and remaps the possibility of America."—Chicago TribuneMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence ... Read more

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Series series The New Southern Studies
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Series series Poets On Poetry
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Calls and Responses

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Series series Southern Literary Studies
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The Sonic Color Line

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by Jennifer Lynn Stoever ...

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The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on ... Read more

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Die toten Seelen - Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur (Kommentiert)

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by Nikolai Gogol, Nils Greve ...

Translated by Alexander Eliasberg, Peter Boklewski ...

Nikolai Gogols "Die toten Seelen" entfaltet in der scheinbar grotesken Reise des Tschitschikow durch die russische Provinz ein Panorama gesellschaftlicher, moralischer und administrativer Verwerfungen. Der Ankauf verstorbener, aber noch steuerlich geführter Leibeigener wird zur satirischen Versuchsanordnung, in der Besitzdenken, Bürokratie und Selbsttäuschung sichtbar werden. Gogols Stil verbindet ... Read more

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The Amen Corner

A Play

by James Baldwin ...

Series series Vintage International
From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront ... Read more

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From one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century—a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons."[Baldwin] uses words as the sea uses waves." —Langston HughesIn his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront
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James Baldwin: A Life in Four Acts: Volume 2: "The Paris Years" (1948-1957)

BEYOND THE VEIL: The Uncompromising Life of James Baldwin, #2

by David G. Stone ...

Series Book 2 - BEYOND THE VEIL: The Uncompromising Life of James Baldwin
What does it take to become the voice of a generation? Sometimes, you have to leave home to find it.In 1948, James Baldwin fled America—broke, unknown, and suffocating under the weight of racism and repression. He arrived in Paris with forty dollars and a dream: to write the truth about what it meant to be Black, queer, and American in the twentieth century.The Paris Years chronicles the ... Read more

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What does it take to become the voice of a generation? Sometimes, you have to leave home to find it.In 1948, James Baldwin fled America—broke, unknown, and suffocating under the weight of racism and repression. He arrived in Paris with forty dollars and a dream: to write the truth about what it meant to be Black, queer, and American in the twentieth century.The Paris Years chronicles the
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Reading Black Books

How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just

by Claude Atcho ...

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)Midwest Book Review 2023****Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy)Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American l... ... Read more

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Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture

by Koritha Mitchell ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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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
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Playing in the Dark

The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance

Orpheus in the Bronx

The Contemporary African American Novel

Calls and Responses

Redlining Culture

The Afro-Latino Memoir

Dreaming the Present

Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness

Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Recharting the Black Atlantic

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

The New Negro

Before Modernism

Racism is Expensive

The Indignant Generation

The Sonic Color Line

Die toten Seelen - Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur (Kommentiert)

The Amen Corner

James Baldwin: A Life in Four Acts: Volume 2: "The Paris Years" (1948-1957)

Reading Black Books

From Slave Cabins to the White House