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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

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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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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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by Phillip Brian Harper ...

Series Book 5 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
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Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

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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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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

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by Aneeka Ayanna Henderson ...

Series series Gender and American Culture
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Before Equiano

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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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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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ASHÉ

Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression

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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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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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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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Desegregating Comics

Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

by Qiana Whitted, Qiana Whitted, Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blair Davis, Eli Boonin-Vail0, Carol L. Tilley1, Brian Cremins2, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd3, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham4, Jacque Nodell5, Julian C. Chambliss6, Mike Lemon7 ...

**Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner AwardHonorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association**Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to ... Read more

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**Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner AwardHonorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association**Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to
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In the Name of the Mother

Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen

by Samuele F. S. Pardini ...

In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in ... Read more

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In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian immigrants and examines both against the white intellectual discourse that defines modernism in
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Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

by Timothy Parrish ...

Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who only published one major work of fiction and a black intellectual out of touch with his times. In this book, Timothy Parrish offers a fundamentally different assessment of Ellison's legacy, describing ... Read more

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Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who only published one major work of fiction and a black intellectual out of touch with his times. In this book, Timothy Parrish offers a fundamentally different assessment of Ellison's legacy, describing
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The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

by Emily Ruth Rutter ...

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artistsThe Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly—and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout ... Read more

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A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artistsThe Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry focuses on five key blues musicians and singers—Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly—and traces the ways in which these artists and their personas have been invoked and developed throughout
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Playing in the Dark

Of Latitudes Unknown

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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

Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance

Desegregating Comics

In the Name of the Mother

Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

The Blues Muse