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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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

    Was R666,80 Now R589,84

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    R455,39

  • 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

    R726,28

  • 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

    R302,67

  • 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

    R1 128,62

  • 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

    R458,72

  • 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

    R382,25

  • 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

    R504,49

  • 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

    R569,24

  • 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

    R595,57

  • 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

    R412,84

  • 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

    R535,31