In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's construction……続きを見る
著者:Barbara Foley
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2010年12月03日
In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also o……続きを見る
著者:Trudier Harris
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2014年11月15日
Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American cult……続きを見る
著者:Eric Lott
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blac……続きを見る
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the m……続きを見る
Jefferson questions whether Morrison is as politically progressive as has been widely assumed and probes why politically-minded literary critics have not noted the reactionary elements in her work.
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In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in rela……続きを見る
著者:Robin Chanel
出版社: Robin Chanel Publishing
発売日: 2014年12月24日
Jadon “Don” Jackson was born and raised in South Central, California. Born into a gang-infested neighborhood with a missing father, Jadon yearns for more, at any cost. ……続きを見る
著者:Michael S. Collins
出版社: University of South Carolina Press
発売日: 2013年01月23日
Understanding Etheridge Knight introduces readers to a majorーbut understudiedーAmerican poet. Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) survived a shrapnel wound suffered during military service in Korea, as we……続きを見る
Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and……続きを見る
著者:Suryia Nayak
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年09月04日
Beginning from the premise that psychology needs to be questioned, dismantled and new perspectives brought to the table in order to produce alternative solutions, this book takes an unusual transdis……続きを見る
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upo……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Warnes
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2007年01月24日
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profou……続きを見る
Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the ……続きを見る
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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison's construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central……続きを見る
A protruding posterior is considered attractive by guys for a variety of reasons. Primarily, evolution programmed men to prefer women with wide child-rearing hips, and a big butt represents this ide……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
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive exc……続きを見る
Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S. progressive history and about……続きを見る
著者:Veronica T. Watson
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年08月22日
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction a……続きを見る
Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's ……続きを見る
Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks ……続きを見る
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do u……続きを見る
Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelingsーor so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite……続きを見る
出版社: The Kent State University Press
発売日: 2010年08月10日
An anthology of the best scholarship on the celebrated African American writer
A prolific nineteenth-century author, Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national recogni……続きを見る
In the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs……続きを見る
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of……続きを見る
著者:Carter Mathes
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2015年03月20日
The post–Civil Rights era was marked by an explosion of black political thought and aesthetics. Reflecting a shifting horizon of expectations around race relations, the unconventional sounds of free……続きを見る
Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minor……続きを見る
著者:Roark Bradford
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2008年09月25日
Roark Bradford's 1931 novel and 1939 play dealing with the legendary folk-hero John Henry (both titled John Henry) were extremely influential in their own time, but have since then been nearly forgo……続きを見る