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Neither Fugitive nor Free

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

by Edlie L. Wong ...

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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Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary

Edited by Dr. William E. Dow, Professor Alice Mikal Craven, Dr. Yoko Nakamura ...

In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other.The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks ... Read more

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In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other.The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen

Edited by Jacquelyn Y. McLendon ...

Series Book 138 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials," of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen's ... Read more

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Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials," of Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen, the editor surveys the canon of Larsen's
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W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

by Stephanie J. Shaw ...

Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century ... Read more

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In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century
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The Souls of Black Folk

by W.E.B. Du Bois ...

One of the most widely read and influential works in African American literature, "The Souls of Black Folk" is W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays in which he details the state of racism and black culture at the beginning of the 20th century. Often autobiographical, "The Souls of Black Folk" takes the reader on a history lesson of race relations and the state of the African American from ... Read more

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One of the most widely read and influential works in African American literature, "The Souls of Black Folk" is W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays in which he details the state of racism and black culture at the beginning of the 20th century. Often autobiographical, "The Souls of Black Folk" takes the reader on a history lesson of race relations and the state of the African American from
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Liberating Literature

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Salvific Manhood

James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy

by Ernest L. Gibson III ...

Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, ... Read more

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2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships,
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Conversations with Percival Everett

Edited by Joe Weixlmann ...

Series series Literary Conversations Series
For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. ... Read more

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For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps.
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Light and Legacies

Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation

by Janaka Bowman Lewis ...

Series series Cultures of Resistance
An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literatureIn Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of ... Read more

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An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literatureIn Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The representation of Black girlhood in contemporary literature has long remained underexplored. Through this literary history of "Black Girl Magic," Lewis offers one of
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Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

by Christel N. Temple ...

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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Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

by W. Lawrence Hogue ...

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural ... Read more

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Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural
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Black Bourgeois

Class and Sex in the Flesh

by Candice M. Jenkins ...

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 ... Read more

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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
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The Sage in Harlem

H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s

by Charles Scruggs ...

Originally published in 1984. The Sage in Harlem establishes H. L. Mencken as a catalyst for the blossoming of black literary culture in the 1920s and chronicles the intensely productive exchange of ideas between Mencken and two generations of black writers: the Old Guard who pioneered the Harlem Renaissance and the Young Wits who sought to reshape it a decade later. From his readings of ... Read more

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Originally published in 1984. The Sage in Harlem establishes H. L. Mencken as a catalyst for the blossoming of black literary culture in the 1920s and chronicles the intensely productive exchange of ideas between Mencken and two generations of black writers: the Old Guard who pioneered the Harlem Renaissance and the Young Wits who sought to reshape it a decade later. From his readings of
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Dreaming the Present

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by Irvin J. Hunt ...

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces “cooperatives,” ... Read more

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This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces “cooperatives,”
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Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature

Urban Writing/Dwelling

by Mattius Rischard ...

Series series Routledge Studies in African American Literature
Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three chapters, this text analyzes the content, style, and ethics of “street” narrative through a discursive/rhetorical lens, exploring the development of street ... Read more

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Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three chapters, this text analyzes the content, style, and ethics of “street” narrative through a discursive/rhetorical lens, exploring the development of street
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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

A Critical Reader

Edited by Marilisa Jiménez García, Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez ...

Series series SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures
Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited volume, Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color scholars and practitioners to make a case for ... Read more

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Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited volume, Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color scholars and practitioners to make a case for
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Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Edited by Lynn Domina ...

Series Book 176 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues ... Read more

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One of the most commonly taught slave narratives, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is rightly celebrated for its progressive and distinctive appeals to dismantle the dehumanizing system of American slavery. Depicting the abuse Jacobs experienced, her years in hiding, and her escape to the North, the work evokes sympathy for Jacobs as a woman and a mother. Today, it continues
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Freedom's Witness

The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner

by Henry McNeal Turner ...

Series series Regenerations
In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, DC, and later, as one of the Union army’s first Black chaplains.In the halls of Congress, Turner witnessed the debates surrounding emancipation and ... Read more

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In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, DC, and later, as one of the Union army’s first Black chaplains.In the halls of Congress, Turner witnessed the debates surrounding emancipation and
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The Great Migration of Black Women Educators from Segregation to Integration

by Obiora N Anekwe ...

The Great Migration of Black Women Educators from Segregation to Integration documents the real-life journey of Black women educators who migrated North in order to obtain their advanced academic degrees. Remarkably, these women did not remain in the North. Instead, they returned to their communities in the South in order to educate Black children. Dr. Obiora N. Anekwe uses photographic images, ... Read more

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The Great Migration of Black Women Educators from Segregation to Integration documents the real-life journey of Black women educators who migrated North in order to obtain their advanced academic degrees. Remarkably, these women did not remain in the North. Instead, they returned to their communities in the South in order to educate Black children. Dr. Obiora N. Anekwe uses photographic images,
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The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

by 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 ... Read more

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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
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Scattered and Fugitive Things

How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

by Laura Helton ...

Series series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
Winner: St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Arline Custer Memorial Book AwardHonorable Mention: Lawrence W. Levine Award, S-USIH Annual Book PrizeFinalist: ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and CultureShortlisted: Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, MLA Prize for a First BookDuri... ... Read more

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Winner: St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize, Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award, Arline Custer Memorial Book AwardHonorable Mention: Lawrence W. Levine Award, S-USIH Annual Book PrizeFinalist: ASALH Book Prize for Best New Book in African American History and CultureShortlisted: Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize, MLA Prize for a First BookDuri...
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Tragico controvoglia

Studi e interventi 1968-2022

by Mario Isnenghi ...

Mario Isnenghi ha insegnato italiano e storia nelle scuole medie superiori ed è stato poi professore di Storia contemporanea e di Storia del giornalismo nelle Università di Padova, Torino e Venezia. Sono rappresentati in questa raccolta- fra letteratura e storia, ricerca e impegno civile – i vari generi di scrittura con cui si è misurato: saggi, relazioni a convegni, prefazioni , recensioni, ... Read more

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Mario Isnenghi ha insegnato italiano e storia nelle scuole medie superiori ed è stato poi professore di Storia contemporanea e di Storia del giornalismo nelle Università di Padova, Torino e Venezia. Sono rappresentati in questa raccolta- fra letteratura e storia, ricerca e impegno civile – i vari generi di scrittura con cui si è misurato: saggi, relazioni a convegni, prefazioni , recensioni,
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Writing Black Panther

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles

by Professor Howard Rambsy ...

Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic coincided with ongoing and multifaceted debates ... Read more

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A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's presence in comic books from 2015-2023, focusing on his contributions as the writer for Black Panther. His ambitious 50-issue run of the Marvel comic coincided with ongoing and multifaceted debates
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Colson Whitehead Beyond the Novel

Literary Authority, Authorial Performance, and Canonization

by Valentina López Liendo ...

Series series Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Colson Whitehead Beyond the Novel: Literary Authority, Authorial Performance, and Canonization traces this author's remarkable trajectory from an acclaimed yet little-known writer to cultural force, examining the workings of contemporary literary authority.By 2026, Whitehead is a household name: his novels have attained a large readership, are enshrined within the literary canon, and have been ... Read more

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Colson Whitehead Beyond the Novel: Literary Authority, Authorial Performance, and Canonization traces this author's remarkable trajectory from an acclaimed yet little-known writer to cultural force, examining the workings of contemporary literary authority.By 2026, Whitehead is a household name: his novels have attained a large readership, are enshrined within the literary canon, and have been
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Neither Fugitive nor Free

Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary

Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Nella Larsen

W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

The Souls of Black Folk

Liberating Literature

Salvific Manhood

Conversations with Percival Everett

Light and Legacies

Transcendence and the Africana Literary Enterprise

Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives

Black Bourgeois

The Sage in Harlem

Dreaming the Present

Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature

Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

Approaches to Teaching Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Freedom's Witness

The Great Migration of Black Women Educators from Segregation to Integration

The Problem of Free Will in David Foster Wallace

Scattered and Fugitive Things

Tragico controvoglia

Writing Black Panther

Colson Whitehead Beyond the Novel