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  • Mouth Full of Blood

    Essays, Speeches, Meditations

    by Toni Morrison ...
    “She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.****” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of ... Read more

    Was €9.99 Now €6.99

  • Begin Again

    James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

    by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...
    *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANSAmerica is at a crossroads.Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and... ... Read more

    €9.99

  • And Still I Rise

    by Dr Maya Angelou ...
    A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, ... Read more

    €3.99

  • Death Rights

    Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism

    by Deanna P. Koretsky ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and ... Read more

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  • Black Feminist Theories

    Transnational Approaches

    Edited by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Carole Boyce Davies, Janell Hobson, Angelique V. Nixon, Christen A. Smith ...
    An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in Black feminist theories across transnational contexts.Featuring ground-breaking new work alongside canonical essays from key thinkers, this book adopts a truly global approach to its subject. In doing so, it looks beyond North ... Read more

    €26.71

  • Nobody Knows My Name

    More Notes Of A Native Son

    by James Baldwin ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and ... Read more

    €6.99

  • The Truth About Awiti

    by CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

    €2.68

  • The Dark Fantastic

    Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games

    by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas ...
    Series Book 13 - Postmillennial Pop
    Winner, 2022 Children's Literature Association Book Award, given by the Children's Literature AssociationWinner, 2020 World Fantasy Awards***Winner, 2020 British Fantasy Awards, NonfictionFinalist, Creative Nonfiction IGNYTE Award, given by FIYACON for BIPOC+ in Speculative Fiction***Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack ... Read more

    €14.59

  • Bl@ck Girl Activist

    Changing The Narrative Of Black Women

    by Dr Pamela Gurley ...
    Being a Black girl activist is being an advocate for change when it comes to women of color and how we need our community to shift the way we think of ourselves to change the narrative about us. Society has a way of making black and brown women and girls feel unworthy based on hair texture, skin color, physical features, and at times even devalue the work we accomplished. What is fed into our ... Read more

    €4.99

  • الخيال العلمي

    مشاهدات علمية

    by ديفيد سِيد ...
    Translated by فريق الترجمة بمكتبة المشرق الإلكترونية ...
    في هذا الكتاب المثير من سلسلة "مشاهدات علمية"، يقودنا المؤلف ديفيد سيد في رحلة أدبية مثيرة إلى عالم الخيال العلمي، الذي يظل واحدًا من أكثر أنواع الأدب إثارة للجدل في عصرنا. يلقي الضوء على مفهوم الخيال العلمي وأهميته في الأدب، ولكن لا يقتصر تأثيره على هذا النطاق بل يمتد إلى الدراما والسينما أيضًا. يتناول المؤلف موضوعات رئيسية مثل العلوم والتكنولوجيا، والفضاء، والكائنات الفضائية، واليوتوبيا، ودور ... Read more

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  • Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

    by Sherita L. Johnson ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider ... Read more

    €62.21

  • Afro-Atlantic Flight

    Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic

    by Michelle D. Commander ...
    In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas ... Read more

    €23.99

  • Literacy in a Long Blues Note

    Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    by Coretta M. Pittman ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative writers, and classic blues singers sometimes utilize singular but other times overlapping forms of literacies ... Read more

    €17.19

  • Finché non ci ammazzano

    by Hanif Abdurraqib ...
    Translated by Federica Principi ...
    Series series Americana
    In questi saggi scritti tra il 2016 e il 2017, periodo cruciale per la storia politica e culturale degli Stati Uniti, Hanif Abdurraqib utilizza la musica e la cultura popolare come lenti attraverso cui osservare il mondo e raccontarci qualcosa di sé. Si reca a un concerto di Bruce Springsteen il giorno dopo aver visitato il memoriale per Michael Brown, ragazzo afroamericano assassinato dalla ... Read more

    €9.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radical Spiritual Motherhood

    Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women

    by Rosetta R. Haynes ...
    In this cutting-edge work, Rosetta R. Haynes explores the spiritual autobiographies of five nineteenth-century female African American itinerant preachers to discover the ways in which they drew upon religion and the material conditions of their lives to fashion powerful personas that enabled them to pursue their missions as divinely appointed religious leaders. Haynes examines the lives and ... Read more

    €17.12

  • Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

    Edited by Jennifer Ann Ho, James J. Donahue, Shaun Morgan ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory and critical race theory as applied to ethnic American literature, exploring the interpretive ... Read more

    €27.19

  • The Raceless Antiracist

    Why Ending Race Is the Future of Antiracism

    by Sheena Michele Mason ...
    Many scholars and activists argue that the practice of racialization and belief in race are necessary because even if race is not real, racism is. While such an approach might help lessen some effects of racism, it inevitably strengthens the very foundation of racism. As Sheena Michele Mason argues in The Raceless Antiracist, fighting racism by ignoring or upholding the idea of race and practice ... Read more

    €7.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calypso Jews

    Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination

    by Sarah Phillips Casteel ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar Caribbean fiction and poetry, Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations ... Read more

    €55.78

  • The Harris Men

    by RM Johnson ...
    RM Johnson's extraordinary novel is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death—and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.“Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.” Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his ... Read more

    €7.88

  • Collection of the Best Works of Henry James: [The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James/ Watch and ward by Henry James/ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James]

    by Henry James ...
    Book 1: Encounter the enigmatic forces shaping destiny in “The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James.” James, the master of psychological insight, crafts a haunting tale that explores the complexities of human relationships and the profound impact of missed opportunities. This novella invites readers to reflect on the unpredictable nature of fate.Book 2: Step into the world of societal expectations ... Read more

    €0.85 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Black Experience | Celebrating Black Excellence, The Past, Present, And Future

    by LYRIC HAWKINS ...
    THE BLACK EXPERIENCECELEBRATING BLACK EXCELLENCE, THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREDiscover the profound journey of African-American culture, history, and achievements in "The Black Experience". This compelling work delves into the rich tapestry of Black life, celebrating groundbreaking inventions, remarkable accomplishments, influential activists, and visionary leaders. It's a is a tribute to the ... Read more

    €8.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Clothed in Meaning

    Literature, Labor, and Cotton in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Sylvia Jenkins Cook ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton fields and producing cotton cloth in industrial mills faced a brutal reality of exploitation, servitude, and ... Read more

    €48.09

  • Toni Morrison's Black Liberal Humanism (and other excerpts)

    by William A. Jefferson ...
    Jefferson questions whether Morrison is as politically progressive as has been widely assumed and probes why politically-minded literary critics have not noted the reactionary elements in her work.He sees scholars as following Morrison's own theory of her work--that is, that it must be analyzed according to African American "structures" and linguistic forms to uncover Afro-American "values." This ... Read more

    €0.99

  • Black Feminist Mothering in 21st Century Literature

    I Am Not Your Mammy

    by Nicole Carr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African American Literature
    Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostile—with the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impact—we are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the remedy. This volume positions Black feminist mothering as much more than a biological or caregiving role. ... Read more

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