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If you’ve read “The Secrets They Kept” then you already know how it started. The journey was crazy chaotic and filled with dangerous controversies that all but completely destroyed Khalynn’s life. ……続きを見る

Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fix……続きを見る

Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishi……続きを見る

One of the most extensive studies of class in nineteenth-century African American literature to date, Dividing Lines unveils how black fiction writers represented the uneasy relationship between cla……続きを見る

Callie a young woman who dreams of being a writer, longs to break free of the small town of Bend, Oregon. But it won't be easy and is tied to family strife that plagues her mind and leads her down a……続きを見る

Rachel lives in sorrow most of her life, which began when her father left them for his mistress. Years have passed but she is still strongly affected whenever she recalls that dark moment in her lif……続きを見る

Behind Every Good Woman puts you in the passenger seat of the bumpy ride through Teal and Tyrone's loving yet sometimes volatile relationship. One minute every woman envies Teal and only dreams of h……続きを見る

Although born with it, it seems as though it takes a lifetime to discover beauty within one's self. How does one even begin to define it? The simple appreciation of beauty is another feat in itself.……続きを見る

Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the st……続きを見る

A dazzling collection of poems exploring the mental landscape of our moment Maureen N. McLane’s Some Say revolves around a dazzling “old sun.” Here are poems on sex and death; here are poems testing……続きを見る

Africana literary critic and cultural theory scholar, Christel N. Temple, whose groundbreaking books, Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introducti……続きを見る

Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space f……続きを見る

Frederick Douglass was a runaway slave who fled north and overcame incredible adversity and extreme hardships to become one of the greatest abolitionists of his time. Douglass, who was best known fo……続きを見る

Here is Americana at its best--the WWII years. America is doggedly hanging on, awaiting the return of her heroes, knowing there will be parades for some and processions for others. The author, an ac……続きを見る

Earnest Bracey is a man who loves music. He played his jazz trumpet at several venues in Japan, as well as at the One Step Down jazz club in Washington, D.C. He was a jazz trumpet soloist in the acc……続きを見る

Selected poems of Maureen N. McLane More Anon gathers a selection of poems from Maureen N. McLane’s critically acclaimed first five books of poetry. McLane, whose 2014 collection This Blue was a fin……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its sc……続きを見る

Silver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Philosophy category In 1848, almost a year and a half before Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of forty, his book Eureka was publishe……続きを見る

After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature?, Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American literature may be much more than literat……続きを見る

Cries From Quarantine is a tender, insightful book of poetry about love of all kinds. From the unconditional type of familial love to the unconventional type of romantic love, the verses curated for……続きを見る

Poems from the Garden (Poemas do Jardim) is a collection of bilingual poems written side-by-side in English and Portuguese. Conceived of in English and crafted to be read in Portuguese, these poems ……続きを見る

New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers is a collection of critical and pedagogical essays that shed new light on the creative depths of Black women writers. On……続きを見る

Although born with it, it seems as though it takes a lifetime to discover beauty within one's self. How does one even begin to define it? The simple appreciation of beauty is another feat in itself.……続きを見る

If you've ever loved a narcissist and know that you've given your entire self, while their love was paltry, you're not alone and you're not crazy. This book of poems is living proof that narcissists……続きを見る

Dr. Nay’s unique conversational-style poetry fosters women empowerment in a motivational and personalized manner. She creatively addresses the female experience in an interactive approach, that allo……続きを見る

La Jaula es un texto configurado como poemario y fue escrito en el sur de Chile. Involucra en una abstracción sumergida, donde el significado del tiempo, amor y muerte se turnan protagonismo, manife……続きを見る

National Book Award finalist Maureen N. McLane stuns with a precise, perceptive book of poetic meditations. In her first book of poems since the scintillating More Anon: Selected Poems, Maureen N. M……続きを見る

***Wildflowers Rising in the Boneyard***is an elegiac collection of poetry by James Wicklund. A career educator, James also wrote poetry throughout his life and this volume - mainly compiled before ……続きを見る

Explore the depths of the human psyche with this collection of dark poetry. From hauntingly beautiful odes of melancholia to more intense explorations of the inner landscape, this book takes readers……続きを見る

Taking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for disc……続きを見る