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An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke . . . let the...

Provides a comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fiction.About the AuthorJonathan Ellis, Reader in American Literature, University of Sheffield.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136217Author Amy GerstlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison (b. 1931) was a new editor at Random House and a...

Leslie Fiedler's radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as...

It is impossible to hold patently contradictory beliefs in mind together at once. Why? Because we know that it is impossible for both to be true. This impossibility is a species of rational necessity, a phenomenon that uniquely characterizes the relation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726286Author Raymond CarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944211585Author Dave EggersPage Count 170Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 159mm *...

For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and travel narratives that document the impact this sense...

A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend memory and movement in an innovative choreo-text of...

Reflections on the profound influence of poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks through examinations of her life and work. Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman...

Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America's most gifted writers. This volume, culling work from the photo-text...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990082191Author Rj JosephFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Seventh TerracePublisher Seventh TerraceWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture-its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history...

When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging...