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Playing in the Dark

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This book is about my love and passion for African Americans who as slaves, came to the shores of America in 1619 and although they are free citizens today, but their color has been associated with their slave mentality and it is with us and ongoing. We need to do something to bring equality of blacks and whites in our country so we can see everybody in the light of who they are, not what the ... Read more

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Fields Watered with Blood

Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

by Maryemma Graham, Tomeiko R. Ashford Carter, Jacqueline Miller Carmichael, Michelle Cliff, Esim Erdim, Minrose C. Gwin, Robert Harris, Amy Levin, Joyce Pettis, Hiroko Sato0, Melissa Walker Heidari1, Jerry W. Ward Jr.2, Bernice Lloyd Bell3, B. Dilla Buckner4, Eugenia Collier5, Ekaterini Georgoudaki6, Charlotte Goodman7, Florence Howe8, Phyllis R. Klotman9, James E. Spears0, Claudia Tate1, Eleanor Traylor2, Deborah Elizabeth Whaley3, R. Baxter Miller4 ...

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s ... Read more

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Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison

Fragmented Identities

by Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed ...

Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities begins with an overview of its theoretical framework, highlighting the intersectional relationship between postcolonial literature and comparative literature. Tracing selected novels by Naipaul and Morrison, the book takes, as a starting point, Fanon’s three-phase journey of the decolonizing process. ... Read more

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Abandoning the Black Hero

Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

by John C. Charles ...

Series series The American Literatures Initiative
Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly ... Read more

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Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly
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The Sound of Culture

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by Louis Chude-Sokei ...

The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian ... Read more

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The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian
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Who Writes for Black Children?

African American Children’s Literature before 1900

Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...

Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and
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Balancing the Books

Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

by Erik Dussere ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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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
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Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

by Donna L. Gilton ...

This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic ... Read more

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This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic
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Critical Appropriations

African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity

by Simone C. Drake ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these ... Read more

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From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding of a chronically marginalized demographic. In Critical Appropriations, Drake contends that these
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Fictions of Integration

American Children's Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education

by Naomi Lesley ...

Series series Children's Literature and Culture
This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability ... Read more

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This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability
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In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers
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Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black people. He argues that by narrowly conceptualizing civil rights in only racial terms and relying solely on a ... Read more

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Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black people. He argues that by narrowly conceptualizing civil rights in only racial terms and relying solely on a
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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

by Jill Bergman ...

Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length ... Read more

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Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length
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Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

by Kiese Laymon ...

Translated by Leonardo Taiuti ...

Series series Americana
Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio ... Read more

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Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio
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Black Resistance in the Americas

Edited by D.A. Dunkley, Stephanie Shonekan ...

All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in depth stories of resistance against slavery ... Read more

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All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in depth stories of resistance against slavery
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Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

A Roadmap for Readers

by Keith Clark ...

One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines’s unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South’s oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for ... Read more

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One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines’s unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South’s oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for
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Lyric Poems from Around the World: Epic Thinks Beyond Feelings

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by Festus Ogunbitan ...

Lyric poems from around the world is an adaptation of history into literature for further understanding and interpreting ancient and contemporary history. Adaptation of stories in this book is based on Aristotle’s Poetics—his purgation theory for intellectual and moral purification of the soul. The plot construction is characterized with cultural icons and symbolisms of religious and spiritual ... Read more

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Lyric poems from around the world is an adaptation of history into literature for further understanding and interpreting ancient and contemporary history. Adaptation of stories in this book is based on Aristotle’s Poetics—his purgation theory for intellectual and moral purification of the soul. The plot construction is characterized with cultural icons and symbolisms of religious and spiritual
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Bad Men

Creative Touchstones of Black Writers

by Howard Rambsy II ...

How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and ... Read more

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How have African American writers drawn on "bad" black men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy’s new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature and music. By focusing on how various iterations of the bad black man figure serve as creative muse and
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Heart of Darkness: A Joseph Conrad Trilogy

by Joseph Conrad ...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It ... Read more

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Fire on the Water

Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886

by Lenora Warren ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah ... Read more

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Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah
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The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

by Keith Clark ...

In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique.Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic ... Read more

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In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique.Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic
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Introduction to Afrofuturism

A Mixtape in Black Literature & Arts

by DuEwa M. Frazier ...

Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism’s origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of ... Read more

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Introduction to Afrofuturism delivers a fresh and contemporary introduction to Afrofuturism, discussing key themes, understandings, and interdisciplinary topics across multiple genres in Black literature, film, and music. From Afrofuturism’s origins to the present, this critical volume features scholarly works, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction which illuminates on the contributions of
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Playing in the Dark

The Pilgrimage

Fields Watered with Blood

Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison

Abandoning the Black Hero

The Sound of Culture

Who Writes for Black Children?

Balancing the Books

Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

Critical Appropriations

Fictions of Integration

Temática - Literatura - Renascimento

Writing through Jane Crow

Exodus Politics

The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

Black Resistance in the Americas

Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

Lyric Poems from Around the World: Epic Thinks Beyond Feelings

Bad Men

Heart of Darkness: A Joseph Conrad Trilogy

Fire on the Water

The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

Introduction to Afrofuturism