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  • Early African American Print Culture

    Série série Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Přečtěte si více

    676,09 Kč

  • The Fabrication of American Literature

    Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

    podle Lara Langer Cohen ...
    Série série Material Texts
    Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine.Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, ... Přečtěte si více

    1 200,99 Kč

  • The Fabrication of American Literature

    Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

    podle Lara Langer Cohen ...
    Série série Material Texts
    Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine.Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, ... Přečtěte si více

    2 015,99 Kč

  • Early African American Print Culture

    Série série Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Přečtěte si více

    1 151,09 Kč

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  • The Delectable Negro

    Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

    Série Kniha 34 - Sexual Cultures
    A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation ... Přečtěte si více

    447,19 Kč nebo zdarma s Kobo Plus

  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Přečtěte si více

    295,19 Kč

  • Sites of Slavery

    Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

    podle Salamishah Tillet ...
    More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae ... Přečtěte si více

    473,19 Kč

  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Upravil: Ezra Tawil ...
    Série série Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Přečtěte si více

    590,29 Kč

  • Slavery in American Children's Literature, 1790-2010

    podle Paula T. Connolly ...
    Long seen by writers as a vital political force of the nation, children’s literature has been an important means not only of mythologizing a certain racialized past but also, because of its intended audience, of promoting a specific racialized future. Stories about slavery for children have served as primers for racial socialization. This first comprehensive study of slavery in children’s ... Přečtěte si více

    629,39 Kč

  • Chaotic Justice

    Rethinking African American Literary History

    podle John Ernest ...
    What is African American about African American literature? Why identify it as a distinct tradition? John Ernest contends that too often scholars have relied on naïve concepts of race, superficial conceptions of African American history, and the marginalization of important strains of black scholarship. With this book, he creates a new and just retelling of African American literary history that ... Přečtěte si více

    507,79 Kč

  • Specters of Democracy

    Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S.

    podle Ivy G. Wilson ...
    Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close readings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Walt Whitman (on aurality), and Herman Melville, William J. Wilson, and a host of genre painters (on visuality), the book ... Přečtěte si více

    758,79 Kč

  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

    America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers

    In 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in English, she was emancipated by her owners in recognition of her literary achievement. For a time, Wheatley was the most famous black woman in the West. But Thomas Jefferson, unlike his contemporaries Ben Franklin and George Washington, refused to acknowledge ... Přečtěte si více

    34,35 Kč