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Nobody Knows My Name

More Notes Of A Native Son

af James Baldwin ...

Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and ... Læs mere

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af Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Genevieve West ...

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af John C. Charles ...

Serier serie The American Literatures Initiative
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af George Elliott Clarke ...

Serier serie The Canada 150 Collection
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Redigeret af John Hope Franklin, John Whittington Franklin ...

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Serier serie Pine Street Books
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af Rolland Murray ...

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af Yu'wrian Rise ...

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af Sarah Phillips Casteel ...

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Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

af Ellen McLarney ...

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Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora

af Carol Allen ...

Serier Bog 127 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
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Of Latitudes Unknown

James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

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Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism.This volume joins recent critical collections in “un-fragmenting” Baldwin and establishing further conjunctions in his work: the essay ... Læs mere

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African American Folktales

af Thomas A. Green ...

Serier serie Stories from the American Mosaic
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af William A. Jefferson ...

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af Matt Richardson ...

Serier serie Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
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West of Harlem

African American Writers and the Borderlands

af Emily Lutenski ...

Serier serie CultureAmerica
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Sisters of the Spirit

Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century

Redigeret af William L. Andrews ...

"Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes . . . but he does not intrude on the text itself." —New York Times Book Review" . . . informative and inspiring reading." —The Journal of American HistoryJarena ... Læs mere

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uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade

af Conceição Evaristo ...

Com pioneirismo e inovação científica, Conceição Evaristo produziu, nos anos 1990, sua dissertação de mestrado sobre literatura negra, falando de si e de nós num ambiente que ainda não dava a devida importância à autoria negra, ou nem mesmo reconhecia essas produções como literatura.Em Literatura negra: uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade, a autora nutre o nascente conceito de Escrevivência, ao ... Læs mere

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Anne Spencer between Worlds

af Noelle Morrissette ...

Serier serie The New Southern Studies
Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975.Through its attentiveness to ... Læs mere

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Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during the Harlem Renaissance, Noelle Morrissette provides a new critical lens for interpreting Spencer’s expansive life and imagination through her archives, giving particular focus to her manuscripts authored from 1940 to 1975.Through its attentiveness to
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Nobody Knows My Name

You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Abandoning the Black Hero

Odysseys Home

My Life and An Era

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

Our Living Manhood

Belabored Professions

Dred

No Longer Giving a FCK! ( No More Hurt, No More Tears and No More Bull Sht )

Fields Watered with Blood

Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

Black Mothers and the National Body Politic

Black Lives Under Nazism

Black Arts, Black Muslims

Journeys and Journals

Of Latitudes Unknown

African American Folktales

Toni Morrison's Black Liberal Humanism (and other excerpts)

The Queer Limit of Black Memory

West of Harlem

Sisters of the Spirit

Literatura negra

Anne Spencer between Worlds