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  • The Geographies of African American Short Fiction

    by Kenton Rambsy ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short story writers plotted a diverse range of characters across multiple locations—small towns, a famous metropolis, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • One Black Writer at a Time

    How Literary Coverage Shapes Reception

    by Professor Howard Rambsy, Professor Kenton Rambsy ...
    Explores the recurring pattern in media, academia, and publishing to elevate one Black writer at a time, often at the expense of hundreds of others whose works go underrecognized.Starting in the 1960s, African American writers and commentators began raising concerns that white media outlets consistently elevated only one Black writer at a time, thus limiting the broader success of multiple Black ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • An OutKast Reader

    Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South

    by Fredara Hadley, Michelle Hite, Langston C. Wilkins, Melissa Brown, Kaila Story, Birgitta J. Johnson, Charlie Braxton, James E. Ford III, Associate Professor Reynaldo Anderson, Susana M. Morris, Stacey Robinson, Ruth Nicole Brown, Jessica L. Robinson, Tiffany E. Barber, Howard Rambsy, Kenton Rambsy, Joycelyn Wilson, Akil Houston, Timothy Anne Burnside, Rashawn Ray, Wendy Marie (SunAh) Laybourn, Clinton R. Fluker Ph.D. ...
    Series Book 4 - Music of the American South
    OutKast, the Atlanta-based hip-hop duo formed in 1992, is one of the most influential musical groups within American popular culture of the past twenty-five years. Through Grammy-winning albums, music videos, feature films, theatrical performances, and fashion, André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton have articulated a vision of postmodern, post–civil rights southern identity that ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The African American Writer's Handbook

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  • Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature

    Edited by Shelby Wolf, Karen Coats, Christine Jenkins, Patricia Enciso ...
    This landmark volume is the first to bring together leading scholarship on children’s and young adult literature from three intersecting disciplines: Education, English, and Library and Information Science. Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and ... Read more

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  • A Concise Dictionary of Comics

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  • Contemporary African American Literature

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    Edited by Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

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  • From Cover to Cover

    Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Book

    by Kathleen T. Horning ...
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