著者:Neal A. Lester
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2010年06月21日
Once Upon a Time in a Different World, a unique addition to the celebrated Children’s Literature and Culture series, seeks to move discussions and treatments of ideas in African America Children’s l……続きを見る
著者:Elisabeth Petry
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年09月30日
Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity in America. Her novels The Street, Country Place, and The Narrows, along with a……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
著者:Daphne Lamothe
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年03月01日
It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur col……続きを見る
著者:Tania Friedel
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2010年06月21日
This book engages cosmopolitanismーa critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonalityーin order to examine its particular deployment in th……続きを見る
著者:Sheila J. Petty
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2008年01月08日
Created at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. Likewise, black dia……続きを見る
著者:Erik Dussere
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年05月24日
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
As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body st……続きを見る
著者:Justine Tally
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年11月18日
This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from the earliest civilizations (both the Classical Greek ……続きを見る
From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the le……続きを見る
著者:Aimé J. Ellis
出版社: Wayne State University Press
発売日: 2011年06月15日
Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
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著者:Nada Elia
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
Trances, Dances and Vociferations provides a compelling feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Assia Djebar, and Paule……続きを見る
'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the t……続きを見る
Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within ……続きを見る
著者:Carmen L. Phelps
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年12月28日
A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideologica……続きを見る
著者:bell hooks
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
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 ……続きを見る
著者:Jennifer Larson
出版社: University of South Carolina Press
発売日: 2012年11月15日
Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks is a critical study of a playwright and screenwriter who was the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Suzan-Lori Parks is also the rec……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年01月31日
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
著者:Charles W. Chesnutt
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年05月28日
The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in Evelyn's Husband, one of six manuscripts left unpublished when this highly regarded African……続きを見る
著者:Philip Levine
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年03月13日
The inspiration for the title poem of Philip Levine’s A Walk with Tom Jefferson is not the founding father and third president of the United States that most readers would imagine upon hearing the n……続きを見る
Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examin……続きを見る
Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authorsーand on twentieth-century American debates about raceーBeyond the Color Line and the Iron C……続きを見る
著者:Marta E. Sánchez
出版社: University of Texas Press
発売日: 2009年07月21日
The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new quest……続きを見る
著者:Caroline Brown
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年02月28日
This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within ……続きを見る
著者:Josephine Metcalf
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2012年06月22日
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--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani d……続きを見る
著者:Matthew Wilson
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2011年12月22日
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), critically acclaimed for his novels, short stories, and essays, was one of the most ambitious and influential African American writers of the late nineteenth and ear……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
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African Americ……続きを見る
In Whats a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through th……続きを見る