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  • Positive Obsession

    The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

    A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer. With her deft pen, she created stories speculating the devolution of the American empire, using it as an ... Leer más

    $317 MXN

  • And Still I Rise

    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, ... Leer más

    $233 MXN

  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Leer más

    $216 MXN

  • The Cross of Redemption

    Uncollected Writings

    de James Baldwin ...
    **From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century—a collection of essays, articles, reviews, and interviews that have never before been gathered in a single volume.“An absorbing portrait of Baldwin’s time—and of him.” —New York Review of Books**James Baldwin was an American literary master, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common ... Leer más

    $177 MXN

  • The Psychic Hold of Slavery

    Legacies in American Expressive Culture

    What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a postracist America? Or could the psychic hold of slavery be understood as a tool, helping us get a grip on the systemic racial inequalities and restricted liberties that persist in the present day ... Leer más

    $457 MXN

  • Pan–African American Literature

    Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century

    de Stephanie Li ...
    2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means. Pan-African American Literature is dedicated to charting the contours of literature by African born or ... Leer más

    $486 MXN

  • James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked

    de Kim McLarin ...
    Series Libro 12 - Bookmarked
    “Lucid, candid reflections on Black identity.”—KIRKUSSet mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin’s 1962 novel, Another Country, is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality.In her volume in Ig’s acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of ... Leer más

    $237 MXN

  • Kindred Spirits

    Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison

    Winner—2022 College Language Association Book PrizeFinalist—2024 African Literature Association's Best Scholarly Book AwardNigerian novelist Chinua Achebe—author of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fiction—is considered the father of modern African literature. The equally revered Toni Morrison, author of masterworks such as Beloved and one of only four Americans to ... Leer más

    $694 MXN

  • Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several cutting-edge theoretical perspectives -- psychoanalytic, neurobiological, and ... Leer más

    $389 MXN

  • Calls and Responses

    The American Novel of Slavery since Gone with the Wind

    de Tim A. Ryan ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses ... Leer más

    $389 MXN

  • In the Shadow of the Black Beast

    African American Masculinity in the Harlem and Southern Renaissances

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Andrew B. Leiter presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast," as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Leiter, the black beast theme served as a fundamental link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social ramifications. Indeed, Leiter asserts that ... Leer más

    $389 MXN

  • In the Shadow of Invisibility

    Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy

    With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression. ... Leer más

    $389 MXN

  • Captive City

    Meditations on Slavery in the Urban South

    Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tick draws blood from its host, to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson’s anti-urban polemics, which might have ... Leer más

    $717 MXN

  • Shadow Archives

    The Lifecycles of African American Literature

    Recasting the history of African American literature, Shadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts—including Claude McKay’s Amiable with Big Teeth—to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers, including McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and ... Leer más

    $532 MXN

  • A Philosophy of Struggle

    The Leonard Harris Reader

    Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought.Harris' writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His timely and urgent responses to structural racism and structural violence mark ... Leer más

    $513 MXN

  • Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition

    The Invention of an Aesthetic

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning author's novels (up to Home), as well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories, this book ... Leer más

    $555 MXN

  • Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940

    Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its case, this daring book dissects eight notable texts: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and My ... Leer más

    $1,558 MXN

  • Cosmopolitanism in the Fictive Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois

    Toward the Humanization of a Revolutionary Art

    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    This booktraces W.E.B. Du Bois’s fictionalization of history in his five major works of fiction and in his debut short story The Souls of Black Folk through a thematic framework of cosmopolitanism. In texts like The Negro and Black Folk: Then and Now, Du Bois argues that the human race originated from a single source, a claim authenticated by anthropologists and the Human Genome Project. This book ... Leer más

    $1,620 MXN

  • A Bristol, Rhode Island, and Matanzas, Cuba, Slavery Connection

    The Diary of George Howe

    de Rafael Ocasio ...
    Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
    In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commercial relationship between Cuba and the Rhode Island coastal town of Bristol. The citizens of Bristol were heavily involved in the slavery trade and owned sugarcane plantations in Cuba and also served as staff workers at ... Leer más

    $670 MXN

  • Otherworldly Mothering

    The Maternal Grammar of Black Women’s Writing, 1970–1990

    Otherworldly Mothering argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America. By refiguring materials drawn from the tradition of slave narratives, ... Leer más

    $325 MXN

  • Conversations with Kiese Laymon

    Edición de Constance Bailey ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews capture surprising insights into Laymon’s life and craft. Within these pages, Laymon talks about his engagement with other writers, including Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. These ... Leer más

    $309 MXN

  • Frederick Douglass’s Newspapers

    Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

    Series series Black Print and Organizing in the Long Nineteenth Century
    The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizingA robust body of work has established the importance of print in general, and newspapers in particular, to African American culture in the 1800s. Such work regularly acknowledges Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) as one of the most influential newspaper editors of the nineteenth century, a ... Leer más

    $638 MXN

  • Understanding Edward P. Jones

    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writerIn Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his fiction.Though Jones's first ... Leer más

    $518 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Walter Mosley

    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A survey of an award-winning author's extensive corpus written across a broad range of genresWalter Mosley is perhaps best known for his first published mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress, which became the basis for the 1995 movie of the same name featuring Denzel Washington. Mosley has since written more than forty books across an impressive expanse of genres including, but not limited to, nonfiction ... Leer más

    $370 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus