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  • Positive Obsession

    The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

    A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an ... Leer más

    $319 MXN

  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

    de John Lennard ...
    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Leer más

    $121 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cross of Redemption

    Uncollected Writings

    de James Baldwin ...
    **From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume.“An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books**James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common ... Leer más

    $166 MXN

  • And Still I Rise

    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, ... Leer más

    $235 MXN

  • Card Carrying Ace of Spades

    Series Libro 8 - Rise of the Hystericals
    We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquote, "Dominant"'s insipid bullshit. We will no longer sit up here and be squashed like cockroaches beneath the feet of the ignorant, slaughtered like cattle of a fresh kill. Because if it's one true thing ... Leer más

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Leer más

    $218 MXN

  • Of Latitudes Unknown

    James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

    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 ... Leer más

    $637 MXN

  • Black Lives Under Nazism

    Making History Visible in Literature and Art

    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 ... Leer más

    $545 MXN

  • Shadow Archives

    The Lifecycles of African American Literature

    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 ... Leer más

    $622 MXN

  • Abstractionist Aesthetics

    Artistic Form and Social Critique in African American Culture

    Series Libro 5 - NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
    An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive cultureIn a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, ... Leer más

    $427 MXN

  • Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

    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 ... Leer más

    $378 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts

    The Case of John Edgar Wideman

    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 ... Leer más

    $480 MXN

  • Veil and Vow

    Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture

    Series series Gender and American Culture
    In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, music by Anita Baker, and films such as The Best Man. Seeking to move beyond simple assessments of marriage as “good” or “bad” for African Americans, Henderson ... Leer más

    $361 MXN

  • Before Equiano

    A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

    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 ... Leer más

    $443 MXN

  • Black Women Can Change Directions by Changing Conditions ( The Message, the Struggle and the Strength of Black Women )

    Every day is a triumph and challenge for black women, and they embrace both of them with courage and faith that embody their character. As black women rise, many of them continue to struggle with common problems that debilitate their vigor to make positive changes to their lives. From relationships, education, marriage, employment or being on government assistance, black women are the essential ... Leer más

    $86 MXN

  • The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

    de Paolo Pitari ...
    Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
    This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wallace wanted to confront despair through art, but he remained trapped, and his entrapment originates in the "existentialist contradiction": the impossibility of affirming the meaningfulness of life and an ethics of compassion while believing in free will.To substantiate this thesis ... Leer más

    $1,124 MXN

  • African American Women Playwrights

    A Research Guide

    Edición de Christy Gavin ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture
    This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black ... Leer más

    $1,280 MXN

  • Balancing the Books

    Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery

    de Erik Dussere ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    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 ... Leer más

    $1,280 MXN

  • ASHÉ

    Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expression

    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 ... Leer más

    $1,055 MXN

  • Empowering Black Women through Female Solidarity in Selected Black Female Narratives

    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 ... Leer más

    $35 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • 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.

    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 ... Leer más

    Antes $39 MXN Ahora $19 MXN

  • Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

    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 ... Leer más

    $1,280 MXN

  • Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $4,600 MXN

  • Understanding the Black Flame and Multigenerational Education Trauma

    Toward a Theory of the Dehumanization of Black Students

    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    Unlike any text to date, this revolutionary study surveys Black research and literature to determine the processes formal education uses to dehumanize Black students. This is a socio-historical analysis of the Black Flame trilogy (BFT), W. E. B. Du Bois’s unparalleled, thirty-year study of Atlanta, Georgia from Black Reconstruction (1860 – 1880) to 1956. W.E.B. Du Bois is one of the most prescient ... Leer más

    $1,747 MXN