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Neither Fugitive nor Free

Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

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Series Book 8 - America and the Long 19th Century
Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders ... Read more

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Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders
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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel, Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith, and Nancy Prince.
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Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

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Series series Critical Africana Studies
Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source ... Read more

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Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source
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Race, Theft, and Ethics

Property Matters in African American Literature

by Lovalerie King, Fred Hobson ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as ... Read more

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In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as
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Collection of the Best Works of Henry James: [The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James/ Watch and ward by Henry James/ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James]

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Book 1: Encounter the enigmatic forces shaping destiny in “The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James.” James, the master of psychological insight, crafts a haunting tale that explores the complexities of human relationships and the profound impact of missed opportunities. This novella invites readers to reflect on the unpredictable nature of fate.Book 2: Step into the world of societal expectations ... Read more

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Captivation of A Thug 2

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The iridescent Mackenzie finds herself completely submerged in a sea of uncertainty. Faced with the harsh and heartbreaking reality that she could lose both of her parents; she begins to try to find a way to make it. The journey that she embarks on is reputable. She learns the importance of honoring your mother and father.Tranquil and ever so humble Borne morphs into a savage Hulk. With his ... Read more

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The iridescent Mackenzie finds herself completely submerged in a sea of uncertainty. Faced with the harsh and heartbreaking reality that she could lose both of her parents; she begins to try to find a way to make it. The journey that she embarks on is reputable. She learns the importance of honoring your mother and father.Tranquil and ever so humble Borne morphs into a savage Hulk. With his
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Commerce in Color

Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933

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Series series Class : Culture
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played in the marketing of Harlem Renaissance literature, Henry James’s critique of materialism in The ... Read more

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Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played in the marketing of Harlem Renaissance literature, Henry James’s critique of materialism in The
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Fifties Ethnicities

The Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury

by Tracy Floreani ...

Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
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Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.Fifties Ethnicities brings together a variety of texts to explore what it meant to be American in the middle of "America's Century." In a series of comparative readings that draws on novels, television programs, movie magazines, and films, Tracy Floreani crosses generic boundaries
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Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States

Edited by Jennifer Ann Ho, James J. Donahue, Shaun Morgan ...

Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of essays devoted to studying the intersection of race/ethnicity and narrative theories. Each chapter offers a sustained engagement with narrative theory and critical race theory as applied to ethnic American literature, exploring the interpretive ... Read more

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The Critical Life of Toni Morrison

by Susan Neal Mayberry ...

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet ... Read more

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Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet
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Understanding John Edgar Wideman

by D. Quentin Miller ...

Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
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Annotations

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In Annotations Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1897 American Negro Academy address, “The Conservation of Races.” Chandler approaches Du Bois as a generative and original philosophical thinker-writer on the status and historical implication of matters of human difference, both the fact of and the very idea thereof. Chandler proposes both a close ... Read more

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In Annotations Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1897 American Negro Academy address, “The Conservation of Races.” Chandler approaches Du Bois as a generative and original philosophical thinker-writer on the status and historical implication of matters of human difference, both the fact of and the very idea thereof. Chandler proposes both a close
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The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

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From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the color line. In the oratory
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Black Regions of the Imagination

African American Writers between the Nation and the World

by Eve Dunbar ...

Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Chester Himes were all pressured by critics and publishers to enlighten mainstream (white) audiences about race and African American culture. Focusing on fiction and non-fiction they produced between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement, Eve Dunbar’s important book, Black Regions of the Imagination, examines how these African ... Read more

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Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Chester Himes were all pressured by critics and publishers to enlighten mainstream (white) audiences about race and African American culture. Focusing on fiction and non-fiction they produced between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement, Eve Dunbar’s important book, Black Regions of the Imagination, examines how these African
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Chicago Renaissance

Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

by Liesl Olson ...

A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century, ... Read more

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A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago’s cultural development from the 1893 World’s Fair through mid-century,
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Cultura Afro-americana o cultura anglo-americana?

by Francesco Prandi ...

Un popolo, selvaggiamente sfruttato per secoli, massacrato nel corpo e nello spirito, si risolleva, acquisendo potere e visibilità, fino al punto di portare un suo figlio a ricoprire la carica piú alta del suo Paese, diventando, pertanto, l'uomo piú potente del pianeta: Il Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America. ... Read more

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Un popolo, selvaggiamente sfruttato per secoli, massacrato nel corpo e nello spirito, si risolleva, acquisendo potere e visibilità, fino al punto di portare un suo figlio a ricoprire la carica piú alta del suo Paese, diventando, pertanto, l'uomo piú potente del pianeta: Il Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America.
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Rediscovering Frank Yerby

Critical Essays

Edited by Matthew Teutsch ...

Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. WatsonRediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby’s life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances; ... Read more

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Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Massé, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. WatsonRediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays is the first book-length study of Yerby’s life and work. The collection explores a myriad of topics, including his connections to the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances;
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Captive City

Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South

by Jennie Lightweis-Goff ...

Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tick draws blood from its host, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson’s anti-urban polemics, which might have ... Read more

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Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tick draws blood from its host, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson’s anti-urban polemics, which might have
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The Veiled Definition And The Door Of No Return

A Compilation of Letters and Notes

by Barbara Cotton ...

The Veiled Definition And The Door Of No Return is a spiritually insightful tool for deprogramming racist strongholds. These strongholds, once identified and described, may readily become subject to 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. In this light, the descriptions in this book seize the attention and engage the memory. Do you identify with the Abolitionist or the Captor? May your breakthrough be blessed with ... Read more

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The Veiled Definition And The Door Of No Return is a spiritually insightful tool for deprogramming racist strongholds. These strongholds, once identified and described, may readily become subject to 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. In this light, the descriptions in this book seize the attention and engage the memory. Do you identify with the Abolitionist or the Captor? May your breakthrough be blessed with
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A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection

The Diary of George Howe

by Rafael Ocasio ...

Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as staff workers at ... Read more

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In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as staff workers at
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American Slavery

A Historical Exploration of Literature

by Robert Felgar ...

Series series Historical Explorations of Literature
Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.Slavery is a central feature of American history, one with which the nation still has not come fully to terms. In this book, that seminal topic is examined in a fresh way—through literature. Organized ... Read more

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Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.Slavery is a central feature of American history, one with which the nation still has not come fully to terms. In this book, that seminal topic is examined in a fresh way—through literature. Organized
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Bodily Evidence

Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison

by Geneva Cobb Moore ...

An exploration of the Nobel Prize-winning author's use of parody, semiotics, and allegory to portray Black life in the United StatesThe first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison ... Read more

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An exploration of the Nobel Prize-winning author's use of parody, semiotics, and allegory to portray Black life in the United StatesThe first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated women writers in the world. In Bodily Evidence: Racism, Slavery, and Maternal Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Geneva Cobb Moore explores how Morrison
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Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright

The Poetics and Politics of Modernism

by M. Lynn Weiss ...

After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris.“I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minority group.”The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright's visit to ... Read more

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After the Second World War, Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris.“I've got to help him,” she said. “You see, we are both members of a minority group.”The brief, little-noted friendship of Stein and Wright began in 1945 with a letter. Over the next fifteen months, the two kept up a lively correspondence which culminated in Wright's visit to
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