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  • Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas

    From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson

    by Timothy J. Cox ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Unlike 19th century slave narratives, many recent novel-like texts about slavery deploy ironic narrative strategies, innovative structural features, and playful cruelty. This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, Cuba, abd Colombia from authors including Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Barnet, Toni Morrison, and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will KaufmanAmong the most "banned" books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life.The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s view of slavery. In fact, when he met ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Awiti

    by CP Patrick ...
    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 one of the darkest chapters of world history—the trans-Atlantic slave trade.Awiti’s destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with ... Read more

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  • The Signifying Monkey

    A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

    by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ...
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the ... Read more

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  • The Harris Men

    by RM Johnson ...
    RM Johnson's extraordinary novel is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death—and the three sons he abandoned so many years before.“Mr. Harris, I'm sorry, but you have cancer.” Although devastated to learn he has just one year to live, fifty-five-year-old Julius Harris has always known that the day would come when he would pay for walking out on his ... Read more

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  • Hardheaded Weather

    by Cornelius Eady ...
    From Cornelius Eady, one of America's most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet's universe and highlights the range of his considerable talents.Cornelius Eady’s poems show him in full control of his considerable talents and displaying a rich maturity as he enters midlife. His poems are sly, unsentimental, and witty, full of truths that ... Read more

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  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    by Mary Washington ...
    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Black Post-Blackness

    The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

    by Margo Natalie Crawford ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's call for blackness. We have failed to see the movement's anticipation of the "new black" and "post ... Read more

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  • Understanding Suzan-Lori Parks

    by Jennifer Larson ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    Exploration and analysis of the innovative screenplays and novels by an award-winning playwrightUnderstanding 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 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, a Whiting Writers Award, a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, two Obie ... Read more

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  • Representing the Race

    A New Political History of African American Literature

    by Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    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 book, Representing the Race, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the genealogy of this topic in order to develop an innovative political history of African American literature. Jarrett examines texts of every sort ... Read more

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  • American Socialist Triptych

    The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Mark Van Wienen ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s . . . challenges the intellectual and political legacy of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?, whose spirit still hovers over animated discussions about the 'failures' ... Read more

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  • Which Sin to Bear?

    Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes

    by David E. Chinitz ...
    Langston Hughes survived as a writer for over forty years under conditions that made survival virtually heroic. Determined on a literary career at a time when no African American had yet been able to live off his or her writing, Hughes not only faced poverty and racism but found himself pressed by the conflicting hopes, expectations, and demands of readers and critics. He relied on his skill as a ... Read more

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