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  • 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

    Var 35,00 kr 16,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • 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 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

  • Within the Circle

    An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

    Redigert av Angelyn Mitchell ...
    Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn ... Les mer

    314,59 kr

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    Serie serien Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Les mer

    379,00 kr

  • Easy Prey

    Devoured By a Black Man

    av Stacy Green ...
    Serie serien BMWW Romance Short Stories
    It is extremely hard to remain faithful especially when temptation is right in front of you. This is what caused one man to yield to temptation. He had always been faithful to his wife but just one touch from the perfect female made him lose his cool. She too was fighting her own set of demons. She was in love with a man who was still committed to another... ... Les mer

    27,69 kr

  • The Art and Life of Clarence Major

    Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet—as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has had fifteen one-man shows, and has published fourteen collections of poetry and nine works of fiction. The Art and Life of Clarence Major is the first critical biography of this innovative African ... Les mer

    305,20 kr

  • Understanding James Baldwin

    av Marc Dudley ...
    Serie serien Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An analysis of the groundbreaking author's vision and thematic concernsThe Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation and disconnection at both ... Les mer

    179,29 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • To Shape a New World

    Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Redigert av Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry ...
    “Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America’s most revered figures, yet despite his mythic stature, the significance of his political thought remains underappreciated. In this indispensable reappraisal, leading ... Les mer

    179,39 kr

  • Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft

    White Fragility in the Weird Tales

    Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction.Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," John Steadman argues that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and ... Les mer

    206,53 kr

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    Serie serien Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Les mer

    322,19 kr

  • The Truth About Awiti

    av CP Patrick ...
    There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Les mer

    27,69 kr

  • Writing for Justice

    Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

    In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Séjour penned La Tireuse de ... Les mer

    275,49 kr

  • Breaking the World

    Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

    Serie serien Black Feminism on the Edge
    In Breaking the World, Justin L. Mann argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the modern security ambitions of the United States. Foregrounding how the contemporary security state renders Black life insecure, Mann theorizes worldbreaking: speculative narrative, aesthetic, and ethical strategies that Black writers, musicians, and artists ... Les mer

    227,99 kr

  • The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship

    Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture

    Ubiquitous triple consciousness frameworks address the limitations of W.E.B Du Bois’ seminal double consciousness concept by emphasizing a third gendered lens, a definite consciousness that legitimizes the rich complexities of the black American female experience.In The Affirmative Discomforts of Black Female Authorship: Rethinking Triple Consciousness in Contemporary American Culture, the author ... Les mer

    326,05 kr

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 9 Issue 2: Special issue: Toni Morrison and the Curriculum, edited by Warren Crichton and Cameron McCarthy

    Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. ... Les mer

    447,49 kr

  • Picturing the New Negro

    Harlem Renaissance Print Culture and Modern Black Identity

    Serie serien CultureAmerica
    Winner: Vasari AwardDuring the 1920s and 1930s, black artists and writers achieved something totally unprecedented: they created a new image of African Americans that truly reflected their times as well as their history. In so doing, they set the artistic agenda of the Harlem Renaissance and gave form to some of its most compelling visions.This innovative study examines the efforts of Harlem ... Les mer

    393,59 kr

  • Scattered and Fugitive Things

    How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History

    av Laura Helton ...
    Serie serien 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... ... Les mer

    325,00 kr

  • Other Lovings

    An AfroAsian American Theory of Life

    av Seulghee Lee ...
    In Other Lovings, Seulghee Lee traces the presence and plenitude of love embedded in Black and Asian American literatures and cultures to reveal their irreducible power to cohere minoritarian social life. Bringing together Black studies, Asian American studies, affect theory, critical theory, and queer of color critique, Lee examines the bonds of love in works by Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, David ... Les mer

    290,99 kr

  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    Serie serien a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading ... Les mer

    314,59 kr

  • Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines

    A Roadmap for Readers

    av Keith Clark ...
    One of the South’s most revered writers, Ernest J. Gaines attracts both popular and academic audiences. Gaines’s unique literary style, depiction of the African American experience, and celebration of the rural South’s oral tradition have brought him critical praise and numerous accolades, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Book Critics Circle Award for ... Les mer

    184,79 kr

  • Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

    av Kiese Laymon ...
    Oversatt av Leonardo Taiuti ...
    Serie serien Americana
    Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio ... Les mer

    138,84 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus