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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 ... Les mer

    194,70 kr

  • 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 ... Les mer

    35,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Signifying Monkey

    A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the ... Les mer

    129,58 kr

  • We're Alone

    Essays

    A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stageTracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James ... Les mer

    116,71 kr

  • Notes of a Native Son

    av James Baldwin ...
    A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when ... Les mer

    129,67 kr

  • Africana Critical Theory

    Reconstructing The Black Radical Tradition, From W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral

    Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's ... Les mer

    634,50 kr

  • Sacred Fire

    The QBR 100 Essential Black Books

    "QBR's evolving canon is a splendid way to begin honoring black artists." -Charles Johnson, from the Foreword"From critiques of W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America to Alex Haley's Roots to Langston Hughes's The Ways of White Folks, these short, trenchant essays stimulate and challenge."-Booklist"A celebration of black literature. . .insightful commentary."-Ebony"A rich and ... Les mer

    148,11 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • African Americans and Jungian Psychology

    Leaving the Shadows

    African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the little-known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.G. Jung’s analytical psychology. In this unique book, Fanny Brewster explores the culture of Jungian psychology in America and its often-difficult relationship with race and racism.Beginning with an examination of how Jungian psychology initially failed to ... Les mer

    696,16 kr

  • Black Venus 2010

    They Called Her "Hottentot"

    Redigert av Deborah Willis ...
    As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman’s distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific ... Les mer

    306,69 kr

  • Approximate Gestures

    Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett

    In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett’s fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the ... Les mer

    184,79 kr

  • To Float in the Space Between

    A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight

    Serie serien Bagley Wright Lecture Series
    A richly illustrated, deeply personal search for a poetic forebear by an acclaimed American poet.The second book in Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture series, showing off the series's range.A compelling investigation of the life of Etheridge Knight, an influential but often enigmatic American poet.A personally grounded account of contemporary African-American arts and poetry, from the Black Arts ... Les mer

    203,79 kr

  • Trances, Dances and Vociferations

    Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives

    av Nada Elia ...
    Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule Marshall. Nada Elia explores the way in which black women characters use conjuring, double entendre, and song to empower, liberate and determine their own female insurgency. She also explains how ... Les mer

    546,96 kr

  • The Aesthetic Astronaut

    sonnets by Roger Armbrust

    One hundred twenty-two sonnets that touch on contemporary American popular culture, social trends, and personalities. Poet Roger Armbrust is described by some as a mystic, by others as a spiritualist, and by yet others as a guy who toys with really big thoughts, making them objects both of serious study and of humor. His sonnets will push you to laughter and meditation: a satisfying literary ride ... Les mer

    92,62 kr

  • SNCC's Stories

    The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South

    Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by young people. For Howard Zinn in 1964, SNCC members were “new abolitionists,” but SNCC pursued radical initiatives and Black Power politics in addition to reform. It was committed to grassroots organizing in towns and rural communities, facilitating ... Les mer

    1 203,66 kr

  • Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance

    Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, culminating in his paradigm changing book The Sage of Sugar Hill. Continuing in the vein of his ever questioning the conventions of “race melodrama” through the lens of which so much American cultural history and storytelling has been filtered, Ferguson ... Les mer

    162,69 kr

  • (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels

    (Inter)racial Relationships as Accompaniment in Twenty-First Century African American Novels explores the acts of accompaniment to disrupt the embodied discursive practices of whiteness and Black vulnerability as a way to change social relations across racial difference in the novels. The novels analyzed in the book explore those Black male characters, who work through the norms of whiteness in ... Les mer

    881,32 kr

  • Toni Morrison's Spiritual Vision

    Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature

    av Nadra Nittle ...
    When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from a Black, female perspective and for others who shared her identity. But just as much as she was an African American writer, Toni Morrison was a woman of faith.Morrison filled her novels with biblical ... Les mer

    222,21 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865

    From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both sides of that racial demarcation.Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded ... Les mer

    296,40 kr

  • A Philosophy of Struggle

    The Leonard Harris Reader

    Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought.Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark ... Les mer

    307,98 kr

  • Approaches to Teaching Baraka's Dutchman

    Redigert av Matthew Calihman, Gerald Early ...
    Serie Bok 153 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today.This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical ... Les mer

    351,97 kr

  • Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

    Through the Unusual Door

    Redigert av Stephen C. Wicks ...
    Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door examines the thirty-eight-year relationship between painter Beauford Delaney (born in Knoxville, 1901; died in Paris, 1979) and writer James Baldwin (born in New York, 1924; died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1987) and the ways their ongoing intellectual exchange shaped each other’s creative output and worldview. This full-color ... Les mer

    93,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

    Serie serien The New Southern Studies
    Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to be the “cradle of Black culture” in the United States.Romancing the Gullah seeks to fill a gap and correct the maps. While there is a veritable industry of books on literary Charleston and on ... Les mer

    286,67 kr

  • Against Epistemic Apartheid

    W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology

    In this intellectual history-making volume, multiple award-winning W. E. B. Du Bois scholar Reiland Rabaka offers the first book-length treatment of Du Bois's seminal sociological discourse: from Du Bois as inventor of the sociology of race to Du Bois as the first sociologist of American religion; from Du Bois as a pioneer of urban and rural sociology to Du Bois as innovator of the sociology of ... Les mer

    599,31 kr