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Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

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The Cross of Redemption

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The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

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The Rich Earth between Us

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The Afro-Latino Memoir

Dreaming the Present

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Laughing Fit to Kill

Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

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Turn Where

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art