African American & Black

In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252383Author Gary Edward HolcombFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive...

Throughout literary history, the figure of the mother has been the subject of much critical attention. While traditional studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Anne Doyle pairs literary movements not often considered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258132Author Zachary F PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

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...

In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, translator, avid international networker, and-perhaps above all-pan-Africanist. In Cultural Entanglements, Shane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255032Author Felice D BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 272g

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255445Author Stacie Selmon McCormickFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Origins of the Dream reveals the connection between Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and Langston Hughes's poetry. During his research for this book, W. Jason Miller discovered a longforgotten reel-to-reel tape of King's first...

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In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979336393Author W. E. B. Du BoisFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Frederick EllisPublisher Frederick EllisWeight(grams) 445g

During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered "un"-assimilable (from left-wing...

During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered "un"-assimilable (from left-wing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258491Author Jose O FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Love and Narrative Form in Toni Morrison's Later Novels, Jean Wyatt explores the interaction among ideas of love, narrative innovation, and reader response in Toni Morrison's seven later novels. Love comes in a new and surprising shape in each of the...

In Fingering the Jagged Grain, Keith E. Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from the ideological rigidity of the black arts movement that arose in the 1960s to create a more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257616Author Dana A WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250815Author Christina AccomandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

In his new book, Robert Reid-Pharr argues that black gender and sexuality have always played a crucial role in questions of black national identity. He identifies the origins of a "national" African American literature in the founding of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214770Author J J ButtsFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this "double consciousness" of African American life so faithfully. As her characters struggle to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253946Author Johari JabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 290g

Many of the most important black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century were perceived as secular, if not profane. When religion has figured into scholarly accounts of these moments, it has almost always appeared as tangential...

Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In this study, Ann duCille uses texts as diverse as William Well Brown's Clotel (1853) and Zora...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615190419Author C Rance RedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Southern Pleasures BooksPublisher Southern Pleasures BooksWeight(grams) 152g

At long last-a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black women writers to emerge in the 1970s. A Joyous...

Nelson provides a study of the ways in which white American authors constructed `race' in their works from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, including The Last of the Mohicans, Melville's...

Includes correspondence, poetry, short fiction, and essays.Book InformationISBN 9780195083293Author Jean ToomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 446g

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents...

Since Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, some scholars have privately suspected that King's "dream" was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry. Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and...

Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213865Author Felice D BlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 440g

This study of the construction of race in American culture takes its title from a central story thread in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck, who resolves to ""go to hell"" rather than turn over the runaway slave Jim,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809511877Author Francis JarmanFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 493g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809511884Author Francis JarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 341g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252895Author D Quentin MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253793Author Michael Derell HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...