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  • “Let Miss Jane tell the story”

    Lectures critiques de The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Cahiers de recherches afro-américaines : Transversalités
    The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) est l'ouvrage le plus connu et le plus lu de l'écrivain louisianais Ernest J. Gaines (1933- ), également auteur de cinq autres romans et d'un recueil de nouvelles. Les huit articles réunis dans ce volume répondent aux questions que pose cette autobiographie fictionnalisée d'une ex-esclave dont le récit de vie, s'étendant sur plus de 100 ans, coïncide ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • الخيال العلمي

    مشاهدات علمية

    في هذا الكتاب المثير من سلسلة "مشاهدات علمية"، يقودنا المؤلف ديفيد سيد في رحلة أدبية مثيرة إلى عالم الخيال العلمي، الذي يظل واحدًا من أكثر أنواع الأدب إثارة للجدل في عصرنا. يلقي الضوء على مفهوم الخيال العلمي وأهميته في الأدب، ولكن لا يقتصر تأثيره على هذا النطاق بل يمتد إلى الدراما والسينما أيضًا. يتناول المؤلف موضوعات رئيسية مثل العلوم والتكنولوجيا، والفضاء، والكائنات الفضائية، واليوتوبيا، ودور ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You’Re an African American, so Why Are You Talking Like a White Person?

    African Americans Must Become a Code Switching Culture

    In this book, I will show African Americans how and why they speak the way they do. Many cultural factors play a significant role in how African Americans develop their linguistic patterns. I am more concerned with the way African Americans speak today. Although the histories of African American linguistic patterns are essential, I am more focused on the here and now. Therefore, I will direct my ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yours for Humanity

    New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s VultureIntroduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr.Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zo... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

    Series series American Philosophy
    The acclaimed scholar and author of Beyond This Narrow Now presents a provocative new reading of W.E.B. Du Bois with far-reaching implications.X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought offers an original account of matters African American, and by implication the African diaspora in general, as an object of discourse and knowledge. It likewise challenges the conception of analogous ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing through Jane Crow

    Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature

    In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

    by Carol Bailey ...
    Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Writing Queer Women of Color

    Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives

     Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this book addresses the imbalanced representation of queer women of color in graphic narratives and fiction and explores ways of rewriting queer women of color ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Writing for Justice

    Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

    In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Séjour penned La Tireuse de ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Writing for Inclusion

    Literature, Race, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and the United States

    Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Writing Blackness

    John Edgar Wideman's Art and Experimentation

    One of the most critically acclaimed yet least recognized contemporary writers, African American author John Edgar Wideman creates work often described as difficult, even unfathomable. In Writing Blackness, James Coleman examines Wideman's prolific body of work with the goal of making his often elusive imagery and dense style more accessible and thus broadening his readership.More so than for most ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Writing Beyond Race

    Living Theory and Practice

    by bell hooks ...
    What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination.In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this new collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Writing across the Color Line

    U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920

    Series series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
    The turn of the twentieth century was a period of experimental possibility for U.S. ethnic literature as a number of writers of color began to collaborate with the predominantly white publishing trade to make their work commercially available. In this new book, Lucas A. Dietrich analyzes publishers' and writers' archives to show how authors—including María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Charles W. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Wrestling with the Muse

    Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press

    And as I groped in darknessand felt the pain of millions,gradually, like day driving night across the continent,I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall (1914–2000) wrote "The Ballad of Birmingham" in response to the bombing of a church in Alabama that killed four young black girls, and "Dressed All in ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Wrestling with the Left

    The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    by Barbara Foley ...
    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Word by Word

    Emancipation and the Act of Writing

    Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Women's Work

    Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels

    In Women’s Work, Courtney Thorsson reconsiders the gender, genre, and geography of African American nationalism as she explores the aesthetic history of African American writing by women. Building on and departing from the Black Arts Movement, the literary fiction of such writers as Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison employs a cultural nationalism ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction

    The Language of Acknowledgment

    by Greg Chase ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein
    The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by questioning language’s capacity to picture the world accurately. But, even as modernist novels move away from a view of language as a means of gaining knowledge, they also underscore its capacity to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Within the Circle

    An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

    Edited by Angelyn Mitchell ...
    Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now

    by Brian Yothers ...
    Series series Studies in American Literature and Culture
    This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays

    **2022 Whiting Award Winner for NonfictionFinalist • National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism)Best Books of the Year: TIME, Kirkus Reviews"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." —Zadie SmithA supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.**Ranging ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Who Can Afford to Improvise?

    James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners

    by Ed Pavlić ...
    More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin and their relationship to the lyric tradition in black music, from gospel and blues to jazz ... Read more

    $23.99 USD