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
著者:Veronica T. Watson
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年08月23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
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture
In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate abo……続きを見る
Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African ……続きを見る
Dieses eBook: "Dickens Klassiker für die Weihnachtszeit: Der Weihnachtsabend, Doktor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Klein-Dorrit, David Copperfield, Der Kampf des Lebens und viel mehr" ist mit einem detail……続きを見る
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, a……続きを見る
著者:CP Patrick
出版社: Field Order Press
発売日: 2015年12月22日
There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by o……続きを見る
This booktraces W.E.B. Du Bois’s fictionalization of history in his five major works of fiction and in his debut short story The Souls of Black Folk through a thematic framework of cosmopolitanism. ……続きを見る
John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C. Tracy have brought together for the first time a book-length collection of critical and theoretical writings about Sterling A. Brown that recovers and reasserts his ……続きを見る
著者:Peter Randolph
出版社: West Virginia University Press
発売日: 2016年02月01日
This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black abolitionist, pastor, and community leader.
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著者:Robert S. Levine
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 2016年01月07日
Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. N……続きを見る
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely ……続きを見る
著者:Ivy G. Wilson
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close reading……続きを見る
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipa……続きを見る
A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”ーNew York Times
Every Tongue Got to Confess is an exten……続きを見る
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipa……続きを見る
著者:Ivy G. Wilson
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Specters of Democracy examines how figurations of blackness were used to illuminate the fraught relationship between citizenship, equality, and democracy in the antebellum U.S. Through close reading……続きを見る
In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveals how their treatment of food deeply embeds concerns ……続きを見る
A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism,……続きを見る
This book examines the post-9/11 African American novels, developing a new critical discourse on everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday life in the racial context of po……続きを見る
Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators – past and present. As t……続きを見る
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, a……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年06月20日
Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve, ……続きを見る
What would it mean to “get over slavery”? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining ……続きを見る
著者:James W. Coleman
出版社: University of South Carolina Press
発売日: 2016年07月15日
A comprehensive survey of the works of an acclaimed African American writer
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones's award-winning works as well as the significant influen……続きを見る
著者:Josef Sorett
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年08月01日
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demo……続きを見る
著者:Maureen Honey
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2016年08月31日
The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at ……続きを見る
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2016年06月27日
Contributions by Robert J. Butler, Ginevra Geraci, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Floyd W. Hayes III, Joseph Keith, Toru Kiuchi, John Lowe, Sachi Nakachi, Virginia Whatley Smith, and John Zheng
Critics in this……続きを見る
Many people consider Morrison’s novels difficult to read. Most of her readers have at least one book on their shelves that they couldn’t finish or, when they did finish one, just scratched their hea……続きを見る
The imaginative literature of African and Afro-American authors writing in Western languages has long been seen as standing outside the Western literary canon. In fact, however, black literature not……続きを見る