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Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter: African American History and Representation by Andrew Dix 9780367359096
RRP: £135.00£117.28Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white... -
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era by Tiffany Austin 9780367276386
RRP: £135.00£117.28Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to... -
African American Writers and Classical Tradition by William W. Cook 9780226789972
RRP: £27.00£26.87Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue... -
The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-20 - "An Honest Man and a Good Writer" by Conseula Francis 9781571133250
RRP: £80.00£76.61James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a perennial favorite in literature anthologies, and all of his essay collections and novels are still in print. His first essay collection, Notes... -
Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert 9781479885688
RRP: £82.00£71.26Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute... -
Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery by Yogita Goyal 9781479829590
RRP: £74.00£25.46Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul... -
For Pleasure: Race, Experimentalism, and Aesthetics by Rachel Jane Carroll 9781479826728
RRP: £74.00£64.45Argues that aesthetic pleasure plays a key role in both racial practices and struggles against racist domination For Pleasure proposes that experimental aesthetics shaped race in the twentieth-century United States by creating transformative scenes of... -
Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place by Alice Sundman 9781032209159
RRP: £39.99£35.06How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison’s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It... -
The Epic Trickster in American Literature: From Sunjata to So(u)l by Gregory E. Rutledge 9781138107854
RRP: £43.99£38.84Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with... -
Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics by Yvette Christianse 9780823239160
RRP: £31.00£27.36Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. In foregrounding the ethics of fiction writing,... -
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century by Sara Blair 9780691130873
RRP: £55.00£43.31The Harlem riot of 1935 not only signaled the end of the Harlem Renaissance; it made black America's cultural capital an icon for the challenges of American modernity. Luring photographers interested in socially conscious, journalistic, and aesthetic... -
Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing by Katherine Clay Bassard 9780691016474
RRP: £38.00£30.01The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these... -
Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetic by Josef Sorett 9780190064228
RRP: £20.99£17.94Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force... -
Toni Morrison and the New Black: Reading God Help the Child by Jaleel Akhtar 9781138591387
RRP: £49.99£43.50Toni Morrison and the New Black examines how Morrison explores the concept of the new black in the context of post-soul, post-black and post-racial discourses. Morrison evolves the new black as symbolic of unprecedented black success in all walks of... -
Quicksand by Nella Larsen 9780837111278
RRP: £55.00£18.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837111278Author Nella LarsenFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and Art by Sarah Phillips Casteel 9780231211963
RRP: £117.00£90.93In a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration,... -
Criminal Genius in African American and Us Literature, 1793-1845 by Erin Forbes 9781421443768
RRP: £29.00£26.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421443768Author Erin ForbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Johns Hopkins University PressPublisher Johns Hopkins University Press -
See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition by Christopher Michael Brown 9781496848208
£33.95In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the... -
Black Women’s Literature of the Americas: Griots and Goddesses by Tonia Leigh Wind 9781032067162
RRP: £39.99£35.06Drawing on a range of historical and literary texts, this book examines how Black women under the yoke of slavery negotiated their sense of belonging and spirituality from a liminal position, stuck between a new life in the Americas, and their... -
Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground by Kinohi Nishikawa 9780226586885
RRP: £80.00£76.61The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives... -
Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory by Professor Mark Christian Thompson 9780226816418
RRP: £83.00£79.43This unorthodox account of 1960s Black thought rigorously details the field's debts to German critical theory and explores a forgotten tradition of Black singularity. Phenomenal Blackness examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key... -
Romance and Race - Coloring the Past by Margo Hendricks 9780866986946
RRP: £24.00£23.03This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. Romance and Race: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre. The scope of the study... -
The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works-novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night... -
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois 9780553213362
RRP: £5.95£4.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553213362Author W. E. B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams) 113g -
Omeros by Derek Walcott 9780374523503
RRP: £14.00£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523503Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature by Lloyd Pratt
RRP: £23.99£20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812224863Author Lloyd PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)... -
Black American Literature and Humanism by R. Baxter Miller
£24.08For Black writers, what is tradition? What does it mean to them that Western humanism has excluded Black culture? Seven noted Black writers and critics take up these and other questions in this collection of original essays, attempting to redefine... -
That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing by Julia S. Charles
£40.54In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves - a place she terms that middle world - and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the... -
Richard Wright and Transnationalism: New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature by Mamoun Alzoubi
RRP: £41.99£36.75Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in... -
Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation by Daniel McNeil
£71.79Thinking While Black brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and... -
Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy by Ernest L Gibson
RRP: £23.99£20.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496229052Author Ernest L GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa by John Cullen Gruesser
RRP: £64.95£34.58Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical... -
Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales by Keith Cartwright
£33.84The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B... -
The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes by R. Baxter Miller
£28.93A personalized travelogue, My World chronicles the inspiring story of a poor Kentucky boy who learned how to turn the rough grist of his life into the fine art of literature. Jesse Stuart's life centered on W-Hollow, Greenup County, Kentucky, and... -
Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject by Kevin Quashie
RRP: £31.00£27.36In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girlfriend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such... -
Pan-African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie Li
RRP: £124.00£107.04The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity means... -
Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print by Brigitte Fielder
£97.63The work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave narratives to digital databases. While the printed word can seem democratizing, it remains that the infrastructures of... -
Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century by Monica Michlin
£29.52Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought. Markers of identity are too often isolated and presented as... -
Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative by Yolanda Pierce
RRP: £24.95£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068596Author Yolanda PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g -
Richard Wright and Transnationalism: New Dimensions to Modern American Expatriate Literature by Mamoun F. I. Alzoubi
RRP: £135.00£117.28Richard Wright and Transnationalism sees Dr. Mamoun Alzoubi argue that renowned American Author, Richard Wright, transformed the way that we approach comparative literature by beginning to look at matters of American racism and Civil Rights in...