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Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn ……続きを見る

The definitive biography of a pivotal figure in American literary history A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recogni……続きを見る

Canadian Association for American Studies Robert K. Martin Book Prize Analyzing slave narratives, emigration polemics, a murder trial, and black-authored fiction, Andrea Stone highlights the central……続きを見る

‘ASHÉ: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity' is a collection of interdisciplinary essays contributed by international scholars and practitioners. Having distinguished themselves across s……続きを見る

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Toni Morrison. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Toni Morrison,……続きを見る

**The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword ……続きを見る

Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Bloodーnow available in paperbackーconstituted the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary ……続きを見る

August Strindbergs verk 'Hemsöborna och Skärkarlsliv' är en banbrytande och nyskapande roman som skildrar ett intrikat familjedrama på den fiktiva ön Hemsö. Genom Strindbergs skarpa observationer oc……続きを見る

I boken 'Prärielif: Sannsagor och lögnhistorier från vilda västern' tar Sigge Strömberg läsaren med på en resa genom det amerikanska vilda västerns mytomspunna landskap. Genom en unik berättarstil b……続きを見る

Precarious Passages unites literature written by members of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian," "Black British," ……続きを見る

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is con……続きを見る

**Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Muyumba, Bos……続きを見る

Finalist, Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellectual History Society Shortlisted, 2023 Historical Nonfiction Legacy Award, Hurston / Wright Foundation One o……続きを見る

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared ex……続きを見る

Through a cultural study of writings about slavery in the United States, Smooth Operating and Other Social Acts uncovers a mode of behavior adopted by African Americans for relief from the brutality……続きを見る

Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities begins with an overview of its theoretical framework, highlighting the intersectional relationship b……続きを見る

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultura……続きを見る

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national lifeーthe history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americans. Jacqueline Goldsby shows……続きを見る

Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant.……続きを見る

The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for “positive” or “negative” representations of Black people and Bl……続きを見る

Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African Americ……続きを見る

Behind James Baldwin’s uncanny ability to evoke a nation’s crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, Jam……続きを見る

The first book-length critical study of the black experience in the Vietnam War and its aftermath, this text interrogates the meaning of heroism based on models from African and African American exp……続きを見る

James Baldwin’s Later Fiction examines the decline of Baldwin’s reputation after the middle 1960s, his tepid reception in mainstream and academic venues, and the ways in which critics have often mis……続きを見る

Em "Negra Palmera, poesia, tambor y mar: de mãos dadas com Mary Grueso Romero" o chamado do autor é para: valorizar, ao conhecer a poeta afro, da região do Pacífico Colombiano, a produção marginaliz……続きを見る

In Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicagoーfrom the Great Migration to the present dayーas both a cradle of black intellect, art,……続きを見る

In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) en……続きを見る

In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have prope……続きを見る

Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that descri……続きを見る

Catholic themes and imagery in the work of writers including Toni Morrison, Leon Forrest, Phyllis Alesia Perry, and Charles Johnson  Sacraments of Memory is the first book to focus on Catholic them……続きを見る