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  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Ellison

    Edición de Tracy Floreani ...
    Series Libro 177 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most important American authors and public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Ralph Ellison had a keen and unsentimental understanding of the relationship between race, art, and activism in American life. He contended with other writers of his day in his examination of the entrenched racism in society, and his writing continues to inform national conversations in letters and ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Edición de Susanna Ashton, Bill Hardwig ...
    Series Libro 149 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NAACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as ... Leer más

    $34.19 USD

  • The Dark Delight of Being Strange

    Black Stories of Freedom

    de James B. Haile III ...
    Winner, 2025 Hugh J. Silverman Book Prize, Association for Philosophy and LiteratureFinalist, 2025 PEN Open Book Award, PEN AmericaAn ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.In a series of stories and ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts

    The Case of John Edgar Wideman

    de Stephen Casmier ...
    For nearly 50 years, a trend in African American literary history quarantined the Black Arts era of the 1960s and 1970s, separating it from the brilliantly creative and aesthetically experimental writing that took off in the 1980s. According to that history, the new literature discarded and distanced the anti-aesthetic posture of the Black Arts moment which emphasized racial tension, strident ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • African, American

    From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father – Africa in the US Imagination

    de David Peterson del Mar ...
    Africa has long gripped the American imagination. From the Edenic wilderness of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan novels to the 'black Zion' of Garvey's Back-to-Africa movement, all manner of Americans - whether white or black, male or female - have come to see Africa as an idealized stage on which they can fashion new, more authentic selves. In this remarkable, panoramic work, David Peterson del Mar ... Leer más

    $22.19 USD

  • Each Hour Redeem

    Time and Justice in African American Literature

    de Daylanne K. English ...
    Each Hour Redeem advances a major reinterpretation of African American literature from the late eighteenth century to the present by demonstrating how its authors are centrally concerned with racially different experiences of time. Daylanne K. English argues that, from Phillis Wheatley to Suzan-Lori Parks, African American writers have depicted distinctive forms of temporality to challenge racial ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • American Slavery

    A Historical Exploration of Literature

    de Robert Felgar ...
    Series series Historical Explorations of Literature
    Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.Slavery is a central feature of American history, one with which the nation still has not come fully to terms. In this book, that seminal topic is examined in a fresh way—through literature. Organized ... Leer más

    $60.79 USD

  • Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature

    From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison

    de Geneva Cobb Moore ...
    An in-depth examination of Black women's experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American historyGeneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across ... Leer más

    $43.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Octavia E. Butler

    de Kendra R. Parker ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction authorOctavia E. Butler (1947–2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Butler's work blurs the boundaries of commercial genres, exploring themes of race, gender and sexuality, religion, politics, and environment. A recipient of the MacArthur ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Generations

    Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction

    de Ashraf H. A. Rushdy ...
    Slavery is America's family secret, a partially hidden phantom that continues to haunt our national imagination. Remembering Generations explores how three contemporary African American writers artistically represent this notion in novels about the enduring effects of slavery on the descendants of slaves in the post-civil rights era.Focusing on Gayl Jones's Corregidora (1975), David Bradley's The ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD

  • The Powers of Dignity

    The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

    de Nick Bromell ...
    In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had “elaborated a political philosophy” from his own “slave experience.” Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

  • Ghosts of the African Diaspora

    Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

    de Joanne Chassot ...
    The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    de Elizabeth McHenry, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series 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 ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Legal Fictions

    Constituting Race, Composing Literature

    de Karla FC Holloway ...
    In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Insensible of Boundaries

    Studies in Mary Ann Shadd Cary

    Edición de Kristin Moriah ...
    Series series Black Print and Organizing in the Long Nineteenth Century
    The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator whose achievements can be traced across Canada and the United States. Born in a border state in the antebellum era, Shadd Cary taught in schools in New ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Collection of the Best Works of Graf Leo Tolstoy: [Where Love is There God is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Graf Leo Tolstoy/ Master and Man by Graf Leo Tolstoy]

    de Graf Leo Tolstoy ...
    Book 1: Discover the transformative power of love with “Where Love Is, There God Is Also by Graf Leo Tolstoy.” Tolstoy's short story follows the humble cobbler Martin, whose life takes a profound turn when he experiences a divine revelation. Filled with themes of compassion and spiritual awakening, this tale invites readers to contemplate the intersection of love, faith, and the divine in the ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Greatest Works of Washington Irving: [Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving/ The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving/ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving]

    de Washington Irving ...
    Book 1: Immerse yourself in the festive spirit with “Old Christmas: from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving by Washington Irving.” Irving's collection transports readers to the warmth and nostalgia of an English Christmas. Filled with charming anecdotes and holiday traditions, this work captures the essence of Christmas in the 19th century.Book 2: Explore the diverse tales of “The Sketch-Book of ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Educators Edition

    de Hermene Hartman, David Smallwood ...
    Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years. ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: African American Icons of Contemporary History

    de Hermene Hartman, David Smallwood ...
    Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years. ... Leer más

    $45.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Finché non ci ammazzano

    de Hanif Abdurraqib ...
    Traducido por Federica Principi ...
    Series series Americana
    In questi saggi scritti tra il 2016 e il 2017, periodo cruciale per la storia politica e culturale degli Stati Uniti, Hanif Abdurraqib utilizza la musica e la cultura popolare come lenti attraverso cui osservare il mondo e raccontarci qualcosa di sé. Si reca a un concerto di Bruce Springsteen il giorno dopo aver visitato il memoriale per Michael Brown, ragazzo afroamericano assassinato dalla ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010

    An Honest Man and a Good Writer

    de Conseula Francis ...
    James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a perennial favorite in literature anthologies, and all of his essay collections and novels are still in print. His first essay collection, Notes of a Native Son, is a seminal work that led a new generation of African American writers from beneath the shadow of Richard Wright. The Fire Next Time is ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Sound of Culture

    Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

    de Louis Chude-Sokei ...
    The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

  • The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home

    African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion

    de John Cullen Gruesser ...
    In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history ... Leer más

    $24.69 USD

  • The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry

    de Keith Clark ...
    In his in-depth analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908--1997), Keith Clark moves beyond assessments of Petry as a major mid-twentieth-century African American author and the sole female member of the "Wright School of Social Protest." He focuses on her innovative approaches to gender performance, sexuality, and literary technique.Engaging a variety of disciplinary frameworks, including gothic ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD