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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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Of Latitudes Unknown

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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 ... Read more

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Black Lives Under Nazism

Making History Visible in Literature and Art

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Series series 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 ... Read more

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Blind Ambitions

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From the author of Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part, a provocative, dynamic story about making it big in the city of desire.Hollywood. The place people go to fulfill their dreams. But its reality is a cruel one: Opportunities are few and the competition ruthless. Innocent hearts can suddenly turn dark, and the most loyal of friends can become bitter enemies.Desi, Sharon, and ... Read more

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From the author of Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part, a provocative, dynamic story about making it big in the city of desire.Hollywood. The place people go to fulfill their dreams. But its reality is a cruel one: Opportunities are few and the competition ruthless. Innocent hearts can suddenly turn dark, and the most loyal of friends can become bitter enemies.Desi, Sharon, and
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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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by Phillip Brian Harper ...

Series Book 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, ... Read more

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Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

by H. David Brumble ...

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 ... Read more

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Bigger

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by Trudier Harris ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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

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by Stephen Casmier ...

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 ... Read more

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Veil and Vow

Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture

by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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Before Equiano

A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

by Zachary McLeod Hutchins ...

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 ... Read more

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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 ... Read more

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The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

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Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
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African American Women Playwrights

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Series series 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 ... Read more

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Balancing the Books

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by Erik Dussere ...

Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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ASHÉ

Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression

Edited by Paul Carter Harrison, Pellom McDaniels III, Michael Harris ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives

by Md Abu Shahid Abdullahh &, Moutushi Islam ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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Die toten Seelen (Zusammengefasste Ausgabe)

Bereicherte Ausgabe. Satire über Korruption im Zarenreich: ein aufstrebender Beamter spekuliert mit Leibeigenen und entlarvt sozialen Verfall im 19. Jahrhundert.

by Nikolai Gogol, Oskar Meyer, Oskar Meyer ...

Translated by Alexander Eliasberg, Peter Boklewski ...

Die toten Seelen – Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur zeichnet als picaresker Gesellschaftsroman die Fahrt des Unternehmers Tschitschikow nach, der im Russland vor der Bauernbefreiung verstorbene Leibeigene ("Seelen") erwirbt, um Kredit zu erschleichen. In Besuchen bei Manilow, Korobotschka, Nosdrjow, Sobakewitsch und Pljuschkin entfaltet Gogol eine Menippea aus Groteske, Satire und barocker ... Read more

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Die toten Seelen – Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur zeichnet als picaresker Gesellschaftsroman die Fahrt des Unternehmers Tschitschikow nach, der im Russland vor der Bauernbefreiung verstorbene Leibeigene ("Seelen") erwirbt, um Kredit zu erschleichen. In Besuchen bei Manilow, Korobotschka, Nosdrjow, Sobakewitsch und Pljuschkin entfaltet Gogol eine Menippea aus Groteske, Satire und barocker
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Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

by Stephen Knadler ...

Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire ... Read more

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Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about an African American counter history in terms of race, democracy, and citizenship. Reframing 19th century and early 20th-century African-American cultural history from the borderlands of the U.S. empire
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Searching for Sycorax

Black Women's Hauntings of Contemporary Horror

by Kinitra D. Brooks ...

Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African ... Read more

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Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African
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Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance

Edited by Cary D. Wintz ...

Series series The Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940
First Published in 1996. One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its formative events was the 1926 attempt by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and other young writers to publish a literary magazine, FIRE!! This was the first of several efforts by black ... Read more

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First Published in 1996. One of the most interesting features of the Harlem Renaissance was the degree to which black writers and poets were involved in promoting and analyzing their own literary movement. One of its formative events was the 1926 attempt by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes and other young writers to publish a literary magazine, FIRE!! This was the first of several efforts by black
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Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma

Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students

by June Cara Christian, Mary Rogers-Grantham ...

Series series Critical Africana Studies
Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois’s unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black Reconstruction (1860 – 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most prescient ... Read more

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Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois’s unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black Reconstruction (1860 – 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most prescient
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The Sage in Harlem

H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s

by Charles Scruggs ...

Originally published in 1984. The Sage in Harlem establishes H. L. Mencken as a catalyst for the blossoming of black literary culture in the 1920s and chronicles the intensely productive exchange of ideas between Mencken and two generations of black writers: the Old Guard who pioneered the Harlem Renaissance and the Young Wits who sought to reshape it a decade later. From his readings of ... Read more

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Originally published in 1984. The Sage in Harlem establishes H. L. Mencken as a catalyst for the blossoming of black literary culture in the 1920s and chronicles the intensely productive exchange of ideas between Mencken and two generations of black writers: the Old Guard who pioneered the Harlem Renaissance and the Young Wits who sought to reshape it a decade later. From his readings of
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The Best Works of Joseph Conrad: [The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad/ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad/ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad]

by Joseph Conrad ...

Book 1: Immerse yourself in the world of espionage and political intrigue with “The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad.” Conrad's novel explores the shadowy realm of anarchism and terrorism in Victorian London. Filled with psychological depth and moral ambiguity, this work delves into the complexities of human nature and the consequences of political extremism.Book 2: Navigate the moral ... Read more

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Book 1: Immerse yourself in the world of espionage and political intrigue with “The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad.” Conrad's novel explores the shadowy realm of anarchism and terrorism in Victorian London. Filled with psychological depth and moral ambiguity, this work delves into the complexities of human nature and the consequences of political extremism.Book 2: Navigate the moral
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Playing in the Dark

Of Latitudes Unknown

Black Lives Under Nazism

Blind Ambitions

Shadow Archives

Abstractionist Aesthetics

Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

Bigger

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

Veil and Vow

Before Equiano

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

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

African American Women Playwrights

Balancing the Books

ASHÉ

Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives

Die toten Seelen (Zusammengefasste Ausgabe)

Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

Searching for Sycorax

Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance

Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma

The Sage in Harlem

The Best Works of Joseph Conrad: [The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad/ Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad/ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad]