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  • Summary and Analysis of Invisible Man

    Based on the Book by Ralph Ellison

    av Worth Books ...
    Serie serie Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Invisible Man tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ralph Ellison's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter ... Läs mer

    29,00 kr eller gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Notes of a Native Son

    av James Baldwin ...
    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 ... Läs mer

    119,66 kr

  • Abandoning the Black Hero

    Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel

    Serie serie The American Literatures Initiative
    Abandoning the Black Hero is the first book to examine the postwar African American white-life novel—novels with white protagonists written by African Americans. These fascinating works have been understudied despite having been written by such defining figures in the tradition as Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ann Petry, and Chester Himes, as well as lesser known but formerly ... Läs mer

    256,51 kr

  • Odysseys Home

    Mapping African-Canadian Literature

    Serie serie The Canada 150 Collection
    Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of the literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke ... Läs mer

    334,63 kr

  • My Life and An Era

    The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin

    “My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience—freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”—John Hope FranklinBuck Colbert Franklin (1879–1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, ... Läs mer

    202,77 kr

  • Our Living Manhood

    Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

    When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their political radicalism and potency. While many observers have criticized the misogyny in this preoccupation, few ... Läs mer

    484,20 kr

  • Belabored Professions

    Narratives of African American Working Womanhood

    According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, ... Läs mer

    251,63 kr

  • Dred

    A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

    Harriet Beecher Stowe’s second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective.Through the compelling stories of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, a black revolutionary, Stowe ... Läs mer

    328,27 kr

  • No Longer Giving a F*CK! ( No More Hurt, No More Tears and No More Bull Sh*t )

    av Yu'wrian Rise ...
    Black women are in charge. They are in charge of their dreams, goals, and self-worth. They are no longer giving a F*CK, if a man leaves them, they still have a family, and career to hold down. Due to the overwhelming call for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency medical technician, black soundly crying, BLACK LIVES MATTER! Sure, they want love, but no ... Läs mer

    92,16 kr

  • Fields Watered with Blood

    Critical Essays on Margaret Walker

    Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood—now available in paperback—constituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s ... Läs mer

    403,85 kr

  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Serie Bok 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Läs mer

    349,58 kr

  • Black Mothers and the National Body Politic

    The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present

    Black Mothers and the National Body Politic: The Narrative Positioning of the Black Maternal Body from the Civil War Period through the Present focuses on the struggles and triumphs of black motherhood in six works of narrative prose composed from the Civil War period through the present. Andrea Powell Wolfe examines the functioning of the black maternal body to both define and undermine ideal ... Läs mer

    908,09 kr

  • Black Lives Under Nazism

    Making History Visible in Literature and Art

    Serie serie Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the stories of these forgotten victims of the Third Reich. Their works illuminate the ... Läs mer

    316,51 kr

  • Black Arts, Black Muslims

    Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle

    Serie serie Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
    In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur’an, and Arabic script, as well as symbols like the crescent star and depictions of Islamic architecture and clothing. They ... Läs mer

    276,44 kr

  • Journeys and Journals

    Women's Mystery Writing and Migration in the African Diaspora

    av Carol Allen ...
    Serie Bok 127 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    Using literary criticism, theory, and sociohistoric data, this book brings into conversation black migrations with mystery novels by African American women, novels which explore fully the psychic, economic, and spiritual impact of mass migratory movements. Diaspora travel has been forced and selected and has extended from the Slave Trade through the contemporary moment, causing the black subject ... Läs mer

    983,35 kr

  • Of Latitudes Unknown

    James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

    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 ... Läs mer

    353,82 kr

  • African American Folktales

    Serie serie Stories from the American Mosaic
    African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales. Written for students and general readers, this volume gathers a sampling of the most important African American folktales. Included are nearly 50 tales grouped in thematic chapters on origins; heroes, heroines, villains, and fools; society and conflict; and the supernatural. Each tale begins with an introductory headnote, and the book ... Läs mer

    510,27 kr

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

    Jefferson questions whether Morrison is as politically progressive as has been widely assumed and probes why politically-minded literary critics have not noted the reactionary elements in her work.He sees scholars as following Morrison's own theory of her work--that is, that it must be analyzed according to African American "structures" and linguistic forms to uncover Afro-American "values." This ... Läs mer

    8,97 kr

  • The Queer Limit of Black Memory

    Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

    Serie serie Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
    The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and African diaspora cultural criticism. It argues that Black lesbian texts celebrate both the strategies of resistance used by queer Black subjects and the spaces for grieving the loss of queer Black ... Läs mer

    454,73 kr

  • West of Harlem

    African American Writers and the Borderlands

    Serie serie CultureAmerica
    Finalist, Weber-Clements PrizeLuminaries of the Harlem Renaissance—Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others—are associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the story of these New York writers unexpectedly extends to the American West. Hughes, for instance, grew up in Kansas, Thurman in Utah, and Bontemps in Los Angeles. Toomer traveled often to New Mexico. Indeed, ... Läs mer

    227,47 kr

  • Sisters of the Spirit

    Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century

    Redigerad av 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 ... Läs mer

    Var 109,38 kr Nu 95,91 kr

  • Literatura negra

    uma poética de nossa afro-brasilidade

    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 ... Läs mer

    85,00 kr

  • Anne Spencer between Worlds

    Serie 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 ... Läs mer

    297,14 kr