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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

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Series series SUNY series, Literature... in Theory
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Series series Studies in Modern Drama
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Series series Routledge Series on Identity Politics
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New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers

by Venise Nichole Adjibodou, Professor Cynthia Davis, Shahara'Tova Dente, Ebony Gibson, Lana N. Lockhart, Carissa McCray, Michael C. Montesano, Georgene Bess Montgomery, Linda Jummai Mustafa, Anna Schmidt, R. Nicole Smith, RaShell R. Smith-Spears, Jasmine Wade, Nagueyalti Warren, Marta Werbanowska ...

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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

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According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth,
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A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

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Love Letters to the Black Woman

by John Williamson ...

Inside this book I address you as Queen and Goddess. Two titles I feel you have earned and deserve. Within these pages there is nothing but positive reinforcement and encouragement for you, the black woman.Through personalized letters drenched with affection and respect. I deliver you powerful lessons of love, perseverance and self worth, as well as offer you jewels of wisdom that you can ... Read more

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Inside this book I address you as Queen and Goddess. Two titles I feel you have earned and deserve. Within these pages there is nothing but positive reinforcement and encouragement for you, the black woman.Through personalized letters drenched with affection and respect. I deliver you powerful lessons of love, perseverance and self worth, as well as offer you jewels of wisdom that you can
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Hell Without Fires

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by Yolanda Pierce ...

Series series The History of African American Religions
Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a “New Jerusalem,” a place they could call home.Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed “personal ... Read more

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Hell Without Fires examines the spiritual and earthly results of conversion to Christianity for African-American antebellum writers. Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a “New Jerusalem,” a place they could call home.Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed “personal
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James Baldwin's Turkish Decade

Erotics of Exile

by Magdalena J. Zaborowska ...

Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. Turkey was a nurturing space for the author, who by 1961 had spent ... Read more

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Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. Turkey was a nurturing space for the author, who by 1961 had spent
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The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

by D. Quentin Miller ...

Series series Routledge Introductions to American Literature
The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics ... Read more

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The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics
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Soul Sounds

The Afterlife in African American Literature and Music

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A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and cultureDespite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has been surprisingly neglected in Black literary and music studies. Soul Sounds addresses this gap by locating in spiritualist narratives, narratives by the formerly enslaved, contemporary Black poetry ... Read more

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A timely, accessible, and empowering analysis of the afterlife, offering an important corrective to assaults on Black life, art, and cultureDespite its recurrent representation, a literal afterlife has been surprisingly neglected in Black literary and music studies. Soul Sounds addresses this gap by locating in spiritualist narratives, narratives by the formerly enslaved, contemporary Black poetry
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A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

The Green Depression

Rethinking Racial Uplift

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

Venus in the Dark

Belabored Professions

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Love Letters to the Black Woman

Hell Without Fires

James Baldwin's Turkish Decade

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

Soul Sounds