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  • Are You Alright Mister Lawrence?

    by James Alexander ...
    Elderly gentleman Mister Lawrence is grief stricken by the death of his mother. While reminiscing about the good times he had with her, Mister Lawrence could not get over what he regretted most about his relationship with his mom. He wished that he could remember what his mom looks like. He has always had a sense of what she is like from his youth before going blind, but no mental image to hold on ... Read more

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  • Big Book Of Butts (Adult Picture Book: Anaconda Edition)

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    A protruding posterior is considered attractive by guys for a variety of reasons. Primarily, evolution programmed men to prefer women with wide child-rearing hips, and a big butt represents this ideal mating quality. Plumpness also signifies youthfulness, which is a trait that males prefer. Finally, everyone likes something to hold onto during sex, and a little spanking never hurt either. ... Read more

    ₹288.14

  • Greatest Works of Jack London: [The Sea-Wolf by Jack London/ White Fang by Jack London/ The call of the wild by Jack London]

    by Jack London ...
    Book 1: Set sail into the tempestuous seas of adventure with “The Sea-Wolf by Jack London.” London's gripping tale unfolds as Humphrey Van Weyden becomes embroiled in a maritime struggle for survival against the ruthless Wolf Larsen. This seafaring epic delves into the complexities of power, humanity, and the unforgiving nature of the sea.Book 2: Journey into the heart of the wild with “White Fang ... Read more

    ₹57.82 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹375.46

  • Best Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: [The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky/ White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky/ The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky]

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Book 1: Immerse yourself in the world of innocence and idealism with “The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.” Dostoyevsky's novel follows the enigmatic Prince Myshkin as he navigates the complexities of Russian society. This introspective work explores themes of morality, mental illness, and the clash between genuine goodness and societal norms.Book 2: Explore the depths of human emotions with “White ... Read more

    ₹57.82 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origin of Others

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series Book 56 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? ... Read more

    ₹1,719.84

  • Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways

    Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority

    by Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
    “We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the ... Read more

    ₹3,164.51

  • Writing for Inclusion

    Literature, Race, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and the United States

    by Karen Ruth Kornweibel ...
    Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and ... Read more

    ₹3,152.83

  • Alice Walker's Metaphysics

    Literature of Spirit

    by Nagueyalti Warren ...
    Catapulted to fame in 1982 with the publication of her third novel—the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Color Purple—Alice Walker has become one of America’s most celebrated and divisive authors. With books such as Meridian and The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Walker’s writing has frequently been cited for messages in support of civil rights and feminism. Above all, however, Walker is a spiritual ... Read more

    ₹2,712.81

  • Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku

    Merging Traditions

    by Ce Rosenow ...
    Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore's ... Read more

    ₹5,420.08

  • Colson Whitehead

    The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature

    by Kimberly Fain ...
    From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural assumptions of his readers. His African American protagonists are well educated and upwardly ... Read more

    ₹6,874.43

  • ONE BLACK MAN

    Growing Up - For John

    by Chad Church ...
    THE UNVARNISHED PERSONAL JOURNEY OF ONE BLACK MAN, TOLD TO HIS LONG-DECEASED, WHITE BEST FRIEND. A NARRATIVE IN THE FORM OF A SERIES OF LETTERS, CHRONICLING FROM CHILDHOOD WHAT IT'S MEANT TO BE A BLACK MAN GROWING UP IN AMERICA OVER FIFTY-PLUS YEARS. THIS SOMETIMES HEART-WRENCHING YET COMICAL MEMOIR SHARES THE AUTHOR'S BARE TRUTHS OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO ENJOY PRIVILEGE AND EXPERIENCE PREJUDICE ... Read more

    ₹962.51

  • Postracial America?

    An Interdisciplinary Study

    by Márcia Agustini, Joshua Brewer, Mary Jo McCloskey, Cherise A. Pollard, Whitney Shepard, Éva Tettenborn, Spring Ulmer, James Ziegler ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    The concept of a “postracial” America —the dream of a nation beyond race — has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden the application of this idea by situating it in contexts that demonstrate how the idea of the postracial ... Read more

    ₹3,446.41

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin (Illustrated + Audiobook Download Link + Active TOC)

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    FEATURES:• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations• A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book• Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book• Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standardsCheck out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, ... Read more

    ₹105.98

  • The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction

    by Darryl Dickson-Carr ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945
    From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that ... Read more

    ₹8,135.14

  • Modernism and the Middle Passage

    by Laura Winkiel ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Modernism is typically thought of as focusing on the new and now, not looking backward at historical catastrophes. Yet in many surprising, often submerged ways, the transatlantic slave trade shaped the works of both Black and white writers. This book reveals how modernists turned to the Middle Passage—and, in so doing, upended Western ideas about time and space, race and gender, and the category ... Read more

    ₹2,996.60

  • Spectres from the Past

    Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature

    by Portia Owusu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and ... Read more

    ₹6,636.15

  • Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad's Harrowing Journey into the Savage Core of Civilization

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    A voyage into the jungle. A descent into the soul. Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's unforgettable novella about imperialism, obsession, and the blurred line between civilization and savagery. Told through the eyes of seaman Charles Marlow, it recounts his mission up the Congo River to locate the elusive ivory trader Kurtz—an enigmatic figure who has gone mad with power deep in the African ... Read more

    ₹119.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat

    Edited by Professor Jana Evans Braziel, Professor Nadège T. Clitandre ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Edwidge Danticat's prolific body of work has established her as one of the most important voices in 21st-century literary culture. Across such novels as Breath, Eyes, Memory, Farming the Bones and short story collections such as Krik? Krak! and most recently Everything Inside, essays, and writing for children, the Haitian-American writer has throughout her oeuvre tackled important contemporary ... Read more

    ₹3,549.66

  • Nothing Can Stop Miss Daisy - A Breast Cancer Survivor Story

    by Kristi E. Moore ...
    The Most Touching Cancer Survival Story You Will Ever Read on The Web!Get Your Copy of a Great Life Changing Story! From Miss Daisy!The book is dedicated to all those who have been affected by breast cancer; whether directly, as patients, or indirectly, as friends and relatives of those diagnosed.Nothing Can Stop Miss Daisy: A Breast Cancer Survivor Story is a motivational and uplifting read that ... Read more

    ₹167.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Marilisa Jiménez García, Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez ...
    Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
    Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited volume, Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color scholars and practitioners to make a case for ... Read more

    ₹3,250.18

  • What is African American Literature?

    by Margo N. Crawford ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature?The idea of African American literature may be much more than literature written by authors who identify as "Black". What is African American Literature? focuses on feeling as form in order to show that African American literature is an archive of feelings, a tradition of ... Read more

    ₹3,325.00

  • Spiritual Interrogations

    Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing

    by Katherine Clay Bassard ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people.Katherine Clay ... Read more

    ₹2,684.49

  • Conjugal Union

    The Body, the House, and the Black American

    by Robert F. Reid-Pharr ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    In Conjugal Union, Robert F. Reid-Pharr argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular ... Read more

    ₹1,210.43