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Dans 'Les opinions de M. Jérôme Coignard' d'Anatole France, le lecteur est emmené dans un récit complexe et subtil qui mélange l'humour et la satire sociale. Le livre est écrit dans un style littéra……続きを見る

Aleksis Kiven teos 'Nummisuutarit' on suomalaisen kirjallisuuden klassikko, joka kuvaa maaseudun elämää ja ihmisten välisiä suhteita 1800-luvun Suomessa. Kirjaa luonnehtii realistinen ja tarkkanäköi……続きを見る

Attracted to remote lands by his interest in the postcolonial struggle, Richard Wright (1908-1960) became one of the few African Americans of his time to engage in travel writing. He went to emergin……続きを見る

Anne Spencer’s identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world. During the New Negro Renaissance with which she is primarily associated, critics dismissed her writings on natur……続きを見る

Black Feminism and Traumatic Legacies in Contemporary African American Literature employs an analysis of select African American novels and applies trauma studies and Black Feminist Studies to expla……続きを見る

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 provide……続きを見る

A richly illustrated, deeply personal search for a poetic forebear by an acclaimed American poet. The second book in Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture series, showing off the series's range. A compellin……続きを見る

Kinship in the Fiction of N.K. Jemisin: Relations of Power and Resistance examines the work of N.K. Jemisin through the lens of critical kinship studies. In a world increasingly suffering the effect……続きを見る

I used to have a REALLY bad habit of writing impulse-letters based upon how I was feeling at that moment about a particular situation and sending them out before I had a chance to calm down and thin……続きを見る

First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with abilities that allo……続きを見る

'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to at……続きを見る

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s T……続きを見る

De kleine vossen is een baanbrekende roman geschreven door de Amerikaanse auteur Harriet Beecher Stowe. Het boek speelt zich af in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten voor de Burgeroorlog en behandel……続きを見る

Het boek 'Pisa' is een intrigerend werk dat zich afspeelt in het historische Pisa, Italië, en vertelt het verhaal van een jonge kunstenaar die worstelt met zijn identiteit en de verwachtingen van de……続きを見る

From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the b……続きを見る

This book gives the reader easy-to-understand study notes on six famous poems from American and English poets. Bat by D.H. Lawrence and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou are among this……続きを見る

Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels explores the ways in which Octavia Butler’s liminal protagonists undergo ritualized transformations while in……続きを見る

Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston’s literary authority should eclipse her anthropologi……続きを見る

Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious……続きを見る

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual……続きを見る

Williams analyses and compares the ways in which African Americans and the Welsh have defined themselves as minorities within larger nation states (the UK and US). The study is grounded in examples ……続きを見る

A fresh examination of Harper's body of work as an archive of Black life, thought, and culture The first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet's work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates Harpe……続きを見る

Jerry W. Ward Jr. (b. 1943) has published nonfiction, literary criticism, encyclopedias, anthologies, and poetry. Ward is also a highly respected scholar with a specialty in African American literat……続きを見る

In Annotations Nahum Dimitri Chandler offers a philosophical interpretation of W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1897 American Negro Academy address, “The Conservation of Races.” Chandler approaches Du Bois as a g……続きを見る

In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poeticsーin what forms, to what audiences,……続きを見る

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural convent……続きを見る

An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literature In Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines Black girlhood in American literature from the mid-……続きを見る

Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new ……続きを見る

“Marcus shows the ways in which Black activists and writers, in particular, have continued to express their political desires. In doing so, she draws our attention to the centrality of disappointmen……続きを見る

Mr. Hampton emails of continuous comments on sportswriter's/reporter's newspaper articles amused his friend. He also saw Hamp's raw talent of detailing facts or description of events. So much so tha……続きを見る