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  • The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings

    Complete Psychological and Existential Works of 19th-Century Russia

    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett, C.J. Hogarth, Frederick Whishaw, Ethel Colburn Mayne, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, ... Read more

    Was R39,00 Now R19,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • James Baldwin: The Last Interview

    and other Conversations

    by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ... Read more

    R243,90

  • Big Book Of Butts (Adult Picture Book: Anaconda Edition)

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    A protruding posterior is considered attractive by guys for a variety of reasons. Primarily, evolution programmed men to prefer women with wide child-rearing hips, and a big butt represents this ideal mating quality. Plumpness also signifies youthfulness, which is a trait that males prefer. Finally, everyone likes something to hold onto during sex, and a little spanking never hurt either. ... Read more

    R57,15

  • Reading Black Books

    How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just

    by Claude Atcho ...
    Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Culture & the Arts)Midwest Book Review 2023****Gold Book Award Winner (Nonfiction - Religion/Philosophy)Learning from Black voices means listening to more than snippets. It means attending to Black stories. Reading Black Books helps Christians hear and learn from enduring Black voices and stories as captured in classic African American l... ... Read more

    R136,15

  • The Origin of Others

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series Book 56 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? ... Read more

    R350,97

  • In the Wake

    On Blackness and Being

    by Christina Sharpe ...
    In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of ... Read more

    R396,85

  • Mouth Full of Blood

    Essays, Speeches, Meditations

    by Toni Morrison ...
    “She was our conscience. Our seer. Our truth-teller. She was a magician with language, who understood the power of words.****” - Oprah WinfreyA vital non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered American writersSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of ... Read more

    R246,43

  • Easy Prey

    Devoured By a Black Man

    by Stacy Green ...
    Series series 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... ... Read more

    R57,15

  • The Truth About Awiti

    by 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 ... Read more

    R57,15

  • And Still I Rise

    by Dr Maya Angelou ...
    A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, ... Read more

    R259,77

  • Becoming Human

    Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

    by Zakiyyah Iman Jackson ...
    Series Book 53 - Sexual Cultures
    Winner, 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner, 2021 Harry Levin Prize, given by the American Comparative Literature AssociationWinner, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesArgues that B****lackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the humanRewriting the pernicious, enduring re... ... Read more

    R366,95

  • Writing Beyond Race

    Living Theory and Practice

    by bell hooks ...
    What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination.In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this new collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary ... Read more

    R666,80

  • Black Futurists In The Information Age: Vision Of A 21st Century Technological Renaissance

    by Khafra K Om-Ra-Seti, Timothy L. Jenkins ...
    Authors Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Om-Ra-Zeti are suggesting that many of our problems and our solutions can be found in the current Information Age Technological Revolution. As Black Futurists, they are seeking to raise our consciousness to the accelerating historic transformations that are taking place during the 1990s, in an effort to spotlight the significance of technological change as a ... Read more

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  • The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins

    by Jill Bergman ...
    Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length ... Read more

    R305,08

  • Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess

    by Kendra Y. Hamilton ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    R473,33

  • Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance

    A Biography

    by Wayne F. Cooper ...
    “Cooper paints a meticulous and absorbing portrait of McKay’s restless artistic, intellectual, and political odyssey... The definitive biography on McKay.”—ChoiceAlthough recognized today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century—the author of “If We Must Die,” Home to Harlem, Banana Bottom, and A Long Way from Home, among other works—Claude McKay (1890–1948) died ... Read more

    R305,08

  • The Contemporary African American Novel

    Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters

    by E. Lâle Demirtürk ...
    This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the “neo-urban novel,” and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in a racial context is important in considering diverse forms of the lived reality of black everyday ... Read more

    R683,09

  • Calls and Responses

    The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind

    by Tim A. Ryan ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses ... Read more

    R305,08

  • Redlining Culture

    A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction

    by Richard Jean So ...
    The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress—recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is this celebratory narrative borne out in the data?Richard Jean So draws on big data, literary history, and close readings to offer an ... Read more

    R458,61

  • The Afro-Latino Memoir

    Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

    by Trent Masiki ...
    Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki argues that these memoirs expand on the meaning of racial ... Read more

    R423,19

  • Dreaming the Present

    Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement

    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

    R362,47

  • Creolization and Transatlantic Blackness

    The Visual and Material Cultures of Slavery

    Edited by Charmaine A. Nelson ...
    Departing from more conscribed definitions, this book argues for an expansion of the concept of ‘Creolization’ in terms of duration, temporality, population, and importantly, in regional scope, which also impact climate and the practices of slavery that are typically included and excluded from consideration.Eschewing the normative focus on language and music, the authors instead center art and ... Read more

    R1 513,46

  • Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

    Origins

    by Justine Tally ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek and the Ancient Egyptian) as a challenge to the sterility of modernity. Moreover, this research explores the author’s specific use of Foucauldian theory as a vehicle for her narrative, which reclaims ... Read more

    R1 385,18

  • Recharting the Black Atlantic

    Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

    Edited by Annalisa Oboe, Anna Scacchi ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies
    This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. ... Read more

    R1 385,18