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  • Depictions of Home in African American Literature

    by Trudier Harris ...
    In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Bigger

    A Literary Life

    by Trudier Harris ...
    Series series Black Lives
    A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racismBigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • South of Tradition

    Essays on African American Literature

    by Trudier Harris ...
    With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays. Collectively, the essays show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of the twentieth century. But Harris-Lopez's readings of the various texts deliberately diverge from ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Scary Mason-Dixon Line

    African American Writers and the South

    by Trudier Harris ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the South. Harris explains ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    From Mammies to Militants

    Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

    by Trudier Harris ...
    Narrated by Diana Blue ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    From Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Black writers, some of whom worked as maids themselves, have manipulated the stereotype in a strategic way as a figure to comment on Black-white relations or to dramatize the conflicts of the Black protagonists. In fact, the characters themselves, like real-life maids, often use the stereotype to their advantage or ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls

    Watch It!

    by Trudier Harris, Karima K. Jeffrey ...
    Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It! examines depictions of African-descended women and girls in 20th and 21st-century filmmaking.Topics include a discursive analysis of stereotypes; roles garnered by Halle Berry, the only Black woman to receive an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role; the promise of characters, relationships, and scripts found in ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • From Mammies to Militants

    Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

    by Dr. Trudier Harris ...
    Unmasking stereotypes and reclaiming identity of Black Womanhood in American Culture.Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the domestic in ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ...
    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ...
    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature

    by Dr. Trudier Harris ...
    Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American cultureAfrican American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Stumbling Blocks and Other Unfinished Work

    by Delores Phillips, Trudier Harris ...
    Stumbling Blocks expands and contextualizes the unpublished works of the late African American writer Delores Phillips. Born in Cartersville, Georgia in 1950, Delores Faye Phillips spent much of her childhood in Georgia before moving to Cleveland, Ohio. Best known for her 2004 novel The Darkest Child, which follows the Quinn family as they attempt to survive and escape racism, lynchings, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Race and Displacement

    Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Walter Bosse, Ashon T. Crawley, Matthew Dischinger, Melanie Fritsch, Jonathan Glover, Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Delia Hagen, Deborah Katz, Kathrin Kottemann, Abigail G. H. Manzella, Yumi Pak, Lauren Vedal, Cassie Smith, Dr. Trudier Harris, Regina N. Bradley ...
    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 fixed racial definitions.The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement allows for nuanced discussions of race and displacement in expansive ways, exploring those issues in transnational ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD