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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “carmen gillespie”
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  • Toni Morrison

    Forty Years in The Clearing

    Edited by Carmen Gillespie ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison’s imagination. Toni Morrison: ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • African American Arts

    Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity

    by Sharrell D. Luckett, Carrie Mae Weems, Carmen Gillespie, Rikki Byrd, Amber Lauren Johnson, Doria E. Charlson, Florencia V. Cornet, Daniel McNeil, Lucy Caplan0, Genevieve Hyacinthe1, Sammantha McCalla2, Nettrice R. Gaskins3, Abby Dobson4, J. Michael Kinsey5, Shondrika Moss-Bouldin6, Julie B. Johnson7, Jasmine Eileen Coles8, Tawnya Pettiford-Wates9, Rickerby Hinds0 ...
    Series series The Griot Project Book Series
    Signaling such recent activist and aesthetic concepts in the work of Kara Walker, Childish Gambino, BLM, Janelle Monáe, and Kendrick Lamar, and marking the exit of the Obama Administration and the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, this anthology explores the role of African American arts in shaping the future, and further informing new directions we might take ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Gilbert and Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic after Thirty Years

    Edited by Annette R. Federico ...
    When it was published in 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationwas hailed as a pathbreaking work of criticism, changing the way future scholars would read Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, the Brontës, George Eliot, and Emily Dickinson. This thirtieth-anniversary collection adds both valuable reassessments and ... Read more

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  • Reading Octavia E. Butler: Xenogenesis / Liliths Brood

    by John Lennard ...
    Octavia Butler's premature and sudden death in 2006 has been very widely lamented, unhappily confirming her influence as a vital African-American and female pioneer in SF. Xenogenesis (retitled Lilith's Brood in 2000) is one of Butler's most important works, and comprises the novels Dawn (1987), Adulthood Rites (1988), and Imago (1989). The Notes cover Octavia Butler's life and work; the ... Read more

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  • Seduction and Betrayal

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    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol Oates)The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America’s most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women ... Read more

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  • Once Iron Girls

    Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women

    Edited by Hui Wu ...
    Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. ... Read more

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  • Venus in the Dark

    Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

    by Janell Hobson ...
    In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women’s beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus" and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.In 1810, Sara Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was ... Read more

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  • Mama's Gun

    Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

    by Marlo D. David ...
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  • A Female Poetics of Empire

    From Eliot to Woolf

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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    The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

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  • Toni Morrison

    Memory and Meaning

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    Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author’s literary production and including her very latest works—the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential ... Read more

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