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Book 1: Explore the philosophy of nature and walking with “Walking by Henry David Thoreau.” Thoreau's essay celebrates the act of walking as a form of connection with nature, reflection, and spiritu……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

In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of t……続きを見る

In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies……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

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, pra……続きを見る

The Essence bestselling author of Listening for God reveals the timeless connection between today's women and their biblical sisters--and how to live a better life because of it. 続きを見る

A history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American l……続きを見る

In Brave Humanism, Mollie Godfrey argues that long before the post-1960s critiques of Western humanism emerged, an earlier generation of Black women writers were committed to reclaiming and redefini……続きを見る

WINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies Association Reveals the ……続きを見る

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are……続きを見る

Stereotypical images of African American Christian spirituality eclipse the profound diversity of Black preaching. As a result, contemplative preaching has become one of the most overlooked streams ……続きを見る

During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to th……続きを見る

We as hyenas, one of the many more prominent species of both our original homeland of Africa and our so called, "Promised Land" of here in America are damn finally sick and tired of the quote unquot……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: Sister Carrie Jenni……続きを見る

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 ne……続きを見る

In many popular depictions of Black resistance to slavery, stereotypes around victimization and the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals abound. These ideas ignore the powers of ordinary ……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

The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert Murray This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, j……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

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

**Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book Prize Shortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner Award Honorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Out……続きを見る

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical atte……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

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A d……続きを見る

The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great debate among American writers, both black and white, from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. In his compelling new bo……続きを見る

For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for……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

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers wi……続きを見る

Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Bot……続きを見る