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  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    Collection series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... En savoir plus

    9,36 €

  • THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

    Enriched edition. Novels, Short Stories & Autobiographical Writings (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov…)

    In 'The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky', readers are immersed in the deep psychological explorations and moral dilemmas that define Dostoyevsky's writing. From his exploration of existential themes in 'Crime and Punishment' to his critique of revolutionary ideologies in 'The Brothers Karamazov', this collection showcases the author's masterful storytelling and complex characters. Dostoyevsky ... En savoir plus

    2,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

    Exploring African American Creativity and Contribution in American Culture

    In "The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States," Benjamin Griffith Brawley embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted contributions of African Americans to the cultural landscape of the nation. Through a meticulous examination of literary and artistic expressions, Brawley offers readers a scholarly narrative that critiques prevailing racial stereotypes while celebrating ... En savoir plus

    0,49 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Heart of Darkness

    A Haunting Literary Classic of Imperialism, Morality, and the Human Soul

    par Joseph Conrad ...
    A journey into the Congo… and into the darkest corners of the human heart. When sailor Charles Marlow accepts a commission to captain a river steamer for a Belgian trading company, he sets off deep into the heart of the African Congo. Along the way, he hears whispers of the enigmatic ivory trader Mr. Kurtz—a man both revered and feared. What Marlow discovers is more than a story of colonial ... En savoir plus

    0,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Fire on the Water

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

    par Lenora Warren ...
    Collection 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 ... En savoir plus

    21,83 €

  • The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    15,65 €

  • The Convergence

    When Collegiate Black Men Meet African American Literary Studies

    Draws on twenty years of firsthand teaching experience, student stories, and campus data to show how culturally grounded reading and discussion can support intellectual growth and improve college success for African American men.The Convergence tells the inside story of a first-semester literature course for Black men at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, taught every fall since 2004. ... En savoir plus

    29,55 €

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  • Aunt Ester’s Children Redeemed

    Journeys to Freedom in August Wilson’s Ten Plays of Twentieth-Century Black America

    par Riley K. Temple ...
    August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves. All of his characters seek wholeness, identity, and reconstituted selves after the terror of 250 years chattel slavery and its terrifying legacy. Their history, culture, wisdom, joys, triumphs, pain, sufferings, victories, weaknesses, and strengths ... En savoir plus

    12,56 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941

    par Dr John Claborn ...
    Collection series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era's most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggle. Civil Rights and the ... En savoir plus

    28,31 €

  • Something Akin to Freedom

    The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women

    par Stephanie Li ...
    Examines why African American women would choose conditions of bondage over individual freedom.2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleWhy would someone choose bondage over individual freedom? What type of freedom can be found in choosing conditions of enslavement? In Something Akin to Freedom, winner of the 2008 SUNY Press Dissertation/First Book Prize in African American Studies, Stephanie Li ... En savoir plus

    28,73 €

  • Haunted Property

    Slavery and the Gothic

    Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book PrizeAt the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty ... En savoir plus

    18,74 €

  • Black to Nature

    Pastoral Return and African American Culture

    In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that depictions of protagonists who return to pastoral settings contest the violent and racist history that incentivized ... En savoir plus

    15,65 €

  • Paul Laurence Dunbar

    The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

    The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary historyA major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age ... En savoir plus

    18,53 €

  • New Strangers in Paradise

    The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction

    New Strangers in Paradise offers the first in-depth account of the ways in which contemporary American fiction has been shaped by the successive generations of immigrants to reach U.S. shores. Gilbert Muller reveals how the intersections of peoples, regions, and competing cultural histories have remade the American cultural landscape in the aftermath of World War II.Muller focuses on the ... En savoir plus

    33,36 €

  • Street Lit

    Representing the Urban Landscape

    Modifié par Keenan Norris ...
    Over the last few decades, the genre of urban fiction—or street lit—has become increasingly popular as more novels secure a place on bestseller lists that were once the domain of mainstream authors. In the 1970s, pioneers such as Donald Goines, Iceberg Slim, and Claude Brown paved the way for today’s street fiction novelists, poets, and short story writers, including Sister Souljah, Kenji Jasper, ... En savoir plus

    43,04 €

  • The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism

    par Joseph Darda ...
    Collection series Post*45
    How Americans learned to wait on time for racial changeWhat if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future ... En savoir plus

    18,74 €

  • Black Bourgeois

    Class and Sex in the Flesh

    Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged livesAt a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state and extralegal violence, Black Bourgeois is the first book to consider the contradiction of privileged, presumably protected black bodies that nonetheless remain racially vulnerable. Examining ... En savoir plus

    16,88 €

  • Preaching the Blues

    Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays

    par Maisha S. Akbar ...
    Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women’s performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology.Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching drama by examining plays that are contingent upon race-based settings in black households versus white households. She also discusses performances ... En savoir plus

    28,39 €

  • Between the Angle and the Curve

    Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison

    Collection series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the boundaries of the official canon. As Russell demonstrates, the unique depictions Cather and Morrison create of the American landscape challenge existing assertions about American fiction. Specifically, Russell argues that looking at the ... En savoir plus

    60,33 €

  • Liberating Literature

    par Maria Lauret ...
    Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices ... En savoir plus

    49,68 €

  • From Mammies to Militants

    Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

    Unmasking stereotypes and reclaiming identity of Black Womanhood in American Culture.Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in ... En savoir plus

    22,24 €

  • The Black Pacific Narrative

    Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars

    par Etsuko Taketani ...
    The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the “black Pacific”?the literary and cultural production of African American narratives in the face of America’s ... En savoir plus

    26,77 €

  • American Lazarus

    Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures

    par Joanna Brooks ...
    The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to transform their communities and the course of ... En savoir plus

    32,85 €

  • Conjuring Freedom

    Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army”

    par Johari Jabir ...
    Collection series Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
    Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious, political, and epistemological practice, Johari Jabir demonstrates how the musical performance allowed troop ... En savoir plus

    24,50 €