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Notes of a Native Son

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A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writerSince its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when ... Read more

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Blake; or, The Huts of America

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Straight from the Gutta

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Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
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The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

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Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
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Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short story writers plotted a diverse range of characters across multiple locations—small towns, a famous metropolis,
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Series series Black Literary and Cultural Expressions
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Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

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The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

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The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles—New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a “shocking and galvanic book”—and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s. The memoirs showcased tales of violent confrontation and territorial belonging but also offered ... Read more

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Post-Soul Satire

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From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expression for a generation of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual/conceptual ... Read more

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In Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture, author Stefanie K. Dunning considers both popular and literary texts that range from Beyoncé’s Lemonade to Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones. These key works restage Black women in relation to nature. Dunning argues that depictions of protagonists who return to pastoral settings contest the violent and racist history that incentivized
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A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

Edited by Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair ...

Series series Children's Literature Association Series
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Contributions by Jani L. Barker, Rudine Sims Bishop, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Paige Gray, Dianne Johnson-Feelings, Jonda C. McNair, Sara C. VanderHaagen, and Michelle Taylor WattsThe Brownies’ Book occupies a special place in the history of African American children’s literature. Informally the children’s counterpart to the NAACP’s The Crisis magazine, it was one of the first periodicals created
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Africana Womanism

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by Clenora Hudson (Weems) ...

The sixth edition of Africana Womanism provides important updates to the classic text in which Clenora Hudson (Weems) sets out a paradigm for women of African descent. Differentiating itself from the problematic theories of Western feminisms, Africana Womanism allows an establishment of cultural identity and relationship directly to ancestry and land.Introduced in the mid-1980s, Africana Womanism ... Read more

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The sixth edition of Africana Womanism provides important updates to the classic text in which Clenora Hudson (Weems) sets out a paradigm for women of African descent. Differentiating itself from the problematic theories of Western feminisms, Africana Womanism allows an establishment of cultural identity and relationship directly to ancestry and land.Introduced in the mid-1980s, Africana Womanism
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Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

by Kiese Laymon ...

Translated by Leonardo Taiuti ...

Series series Americana
Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio ... Read more

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Nei tredici saggi che compongono questa raccolta Kiese Laymon sonda la propria vita personale trattando questioni legate a razza, famiglia, violenza e successo e mettendole in relazione alla cultura e alla società americana. Ricostruisce il dilagare della pandemia mettendo in luce la nostra incapacità di prenderci cura gli uni degli altri; ripercorre il processo di revisione del suo esordio
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by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács ...

Series series Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The ... Read more

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Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing and art history books influenced Wharton’s representations of architectural and natural spaces. The
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Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

by H. David Brumble ...

Down the ages warriors have told the stories about their powers and their deeds. And some of their stories have made it into print––those of Black Elk, a Sioux shaman; Two Leggings and Plenty Coups, Crow Indians; Wolf Chief, the eagle hunter; Tukup and Tariri, shrinkers of heads; and others from North America, New Guinea, the island of Alor, the highlands of Luzon and even a Bedouin.H. David ... Read more

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Down the ages warriors have told the stories about their powers and their deeds. And some of their stories have made it into print––those of Black Elk, a Sioux shaman; Two Leggings and Plenty Coups, Crow Indians; Wolf Chief, the eagle hunter; Tukup and Tariri, shrinkers of heads; and others from North America, New Guinea, the island of Alor, the highlands of Luzon and even a Bedouin.H. David
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Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...

Series series 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 ... Read more

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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
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The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

Southern Literature, Cold War Culture, and the Making of Modern America

Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden

Conversations with Percival Everett

The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer

The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

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Black to Nature

A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies’ Book

Africana Womanism

Come uccidersi e uccidere in America

The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings

Street-Gang and Tribal-Warrior Autobiographies

Early African American Print Culture