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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Their Eyes Were Watching God tells you what you need to knowーbefore or after you read Zora Neale Hurston’s book. Crafted and edited with care……続きを見る

The renowned novelist and critic’s private journals, spanning from his years as a high school student in the Bronx to early adult life in San Francisco. For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated ……続きを見る

Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies. In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a colle……続きを見る

What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature ch……続きを見る

"We’re starting to see...diverse voices on the shelf, a wider variety of experiences on the page, and many different reasons for getting outside. -- Jaime Herndon, Book Riot Encompassing identity, i……続きを見る

De unge døde er en bok skrevet av Nordahl Grieg som inneholder essays om seks engelske lyrikere som alle døde i ung alder. Boken tar for seg livene og diktningen til disse lyrikerne, som har etterla……続きを見る

Into Konrad Inhan 'Maantiede ja löytöretket 1 : Vanha aika ja keski aika' käsittelee maantieteen ja löytöretkien kehitystä historiallisessa kontekstissa. Kirja tarjoaa syvällisen katsauksen antiikin……続きを見る

As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the West……続きを見る

Dissonant Voices uncovers the interracial collaboration at the heart of the postwar avant-garde. While previous studies have explored the writings of individual authors and groups, this work is amon……続きを見る

Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in text a……続きを見る

Le Nain Noir, écrit par l'auteur Walter Scott, est un roman historique captivant situé dans l'Écosse du XVIIIe siècle. L'Suvre se distingue par son utilisation habile de l'intrigue, des personnages ……続きを見る

Volume 05 of 'The World's Greatest Books' is a collection of classic fiction by various authors, carefully curated to provide readers with a diverse and comprehensive overview of literary masterpiec……続きを見る

This book explores literary representations of African immigrant experiences in Western countries, against the backdrop of colonial stereotypes and recent expressions of anti-immigrant sentiment in ……続きを見る

The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circlesーNew York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani d……続きを見る

In 'Charles Dickens and Music', James T. Lightwood explores the intricate relationship between the renowned author Charles Dickens and the world of music. Lightwood delves into Dickens' use of music……続きを見る

Clara Engelen's 'Indrukken van Finland' is a captivating travelogue that delves into the rich culture and stunning landscapes of Finland. Engelen's vivid descriptions and insightful observations pai……続きを見る

Henrik Ibsenin Pikku Eyolf -teos on jännittävä draama, joka kertoo tarinan perheestä ja sen kohtaamista haasteista. Kirjan rikas kerronta ja syvälliset hahmot tarjoavat lukijalle mahdollisuuden uppo……続きを見る

Julius Krohnin teos 'Kalevala katsottuna kaunotieteen kannalta' on merkittävä tutkielma kansalliseepoksestamme Kalevalasta. Krohn tarkastelee teosta kaunotieteen näkökulmasta ja analysoi runojen rak……続きを見る

This book views the history of African American slavery and its legacy. The author examines the misuse and abuse of white power in America and focuses on the treatment of African Americans within th……続きを見る

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most enduring works of southern fiction ever written. Although a literary phenomenon-tens of millions of copies sol……続きを見る

A fascinating look at a pivotal period in Zora Neale Hurston's life that reimagines her complicated legacy. Zora Neale Hurston, an anthropologist and writer best known for her classic novel Their Ey……続きを見る

Examining Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how and why Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be ……続きを見る

Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racia……続きを見る

Forget Every "Black" book you ever read; this Book is NOT "your black" book!This is the story of a first time author, who calls himself "Uncle Meshorn", as he debunks every label by which "uncle sam……続きを見る

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan’s Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and t……続きを見る

Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-centu……続きを見る

By most accounts, immigrant literature deals primarily with how immigrants struggle to adapt to their adopted countries. Its readers have come to expect stories of identity formation, of how immigra……続きを見る

Winner of the 2022 College Language Association Book Prize Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebeーauthor of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fictionーis considered the fat……続きを見る

Providing a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, Horror as Racism in H.P. Lovecraft focuses on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his ……続きを見る

THE UNVARNISHED PERSONAL JOURNEY OF ONE BLACK MAN, TOLD TO HIS LONG-DECEASED, WHITE BEST FRIEND. A NARRATIVE IN THE FORM OF A SERIES OF LETTERS, CHRONICLING FROM CHILDHOOD WHAT IT'S MEANT TO BE A BL……続きを見る