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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones by Amiri Baraka
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $23.90The complete autobiography of a literary legend.Reviews"The story of Baraka's metamorphosis is itself part of the story of contemporary literature's development." -- Publishers Weekly"Always a nuance... -
Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction by Keith Eldon Byerman 9780820337760
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $42.58In 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... -
White Teeth, Red Blood: Selected Vampiric Verses Various Authors 9781805332640
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.63Poems to make your blood run cold. Poems to make your heart beat faster. Poems to sink your teeth into... Three centuries of vampiric verse. Seductively sinister, both frightening and... -
Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. Foner 9781608463282
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $15.88Here are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard and Fred Hampton, along with Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women. They tell of the party's court battles and acquittals;... -
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West 9781625346469
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $75.65Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of... -
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. by E. James West
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of... -
Dark Matter by Sheree R. Thomas 9780446677240
Booksplease Price: $20.91An important new anthology, the first of it's kind, Dark Matter explores a century of fantastic fiction by pre-eminent and emerging luminaries of the African Diaspora. A richly vibrant collection of... -
West of the West: Imagining California by Leonard Michaels 9780520201644
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.59Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, "West of the West" offers a vivid and diverse collection of writings on the state where extremes of every sort are dramatically... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465292
Booksplease Price: $59.70Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
Struggle and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960 W. Lawrence Hogue 9781839997945
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.45In belonging to an oppressed/colonized racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased,... -
Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance by James J. Donahue 9780813936826
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $58.51In Failed Frontiersmen, James Donahue writes that one of the founding and most persistent mythologies of the United States is that of the American frontier. Looking at a selection of... -
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight Betye Saar 9781646570423
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $22.81Luminous and tranquil, Saar's newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum's commissioned... -
Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t by Mary C. Foltz 9783030465322
Booksplease Price: $59.70Contemporary American Literature and Excremental Culture: American Sh*t analyzes post-1960 scatological novels that utilize representations of human waste to address pressing issues, including... -
The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study by Robert E. Crafton 9780786499380
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged by African-American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially... -
Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination by James de Jongh 9780521123303
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $50.58Harlem, a quintessentially black city in the midst of a great modern metropolis, has piqued the imagination of writers and artists since the turn of the century. Its subsequent history as a legendary... -
Cross-rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature by Keren Omry 9781441102959
Booksplease Price: $52.62Cross-Rhythms investigates the literary uses and effects of blues and jazz in African-American literature of the twentieth century. Texts by James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale... -
Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit by Sami Ludwig 9780299325404
RRP: $82.56Booksplease Price: $66.95In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in... -
Postwar Academic Fiction: Satire, Ethics, Community by Kenneth Womack 9780333918821
Booksplease Price: $116.82As a literary genre, academic fiction has emerged in recent years as one of the most popular modes for satirizing the cultural conflicts and sociological nuances inherent in campus life. Drawing upon... -
Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum by Robert E. Fox 9780313292965
Booksplease Price: $78.75Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface... -
Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure by Monique Guillory 9780814730850
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31No other word in the English language is more endemic to contemporary Black American culture and identity than "Soul". Since the 1960s Soul has been frequently used to market and sell music, food,... -
Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure by Monique Guillory 9780814730843
Booksplease Price: $117.22No other word in the English language is more endemic to contemporary Black American culture and identity than "Soul". Since the 1960s Soul has been frequently used to market and sell music, food,... -
Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit by Sami Ludwig 9780299325442
Booksplease Price: $26.86In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in... -
The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 by Before Columbus Foundation 9780393308334
RRP: $37.41Booksplease Price: $34.30Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of mainstream American literature to reflect this country’s multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial... -
Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax by Awol Erizku 9781597115469
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $51.34Mystic Parallax is the first major monograph by rising interdisciplinary artist Awol Erizku. Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, his work references and re-imagines... -
Mode of Address: The Modernist Novel and Theory After Postmodernism by Davis Smith-Brecheisen 9798855806526
Booksplease Price: $114.46Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured both reading practices and our understanding of the novel as art.Despite claims... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.55In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art by Peter Erikson 9781403970558
Booksplease Price: $59.70Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our... -
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel by Preston Park Cooper 9781433130069
RRP: $85.01Booksplease Price: $76.17Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern... -
Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art by Peter Erikson 9781403970541
Booksplease Price: $60.29Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our... -
Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions by A. Robert Lee 9781578066452
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the... -
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities by Rychetta Watkins 9781617031618
Booksplease Price: $128.26Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The ""guerilla"" figure--taking the form of the black-leather-clad... -
Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson 9781617037559
Booksplease Price: $128.26In Beyond ""The Chinese Connection,"" Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so,... -
Slavery and the Literary Imagination by Deborah E. McDowell
Booksplease Price: $35.36Seven noted scholars examine slave narratives and the topic of slavery in American literature, from Frederick Douglass's Narrative (1845)-- treated in chapters by James Olney and William L. Andrews--... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel by Maryemma Graham 9780521016377
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $29.57The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe... -
Artificial Africas Ruth Mayer 9781584651925
Booksplease Price: $41.67"Africa is an artificial entity," notes Ruth Mayer, "invented and conceived by colonialism." In this wide-ranging study, Mayer explores the ways in which Western, and especially American, popular... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel by Maryemma Graham 9780521815741
RRP: $130.29Booksplease Price: $124.09The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe... -
Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities by Rychetta Watkins 9781617039485
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The ""guerilla"" figure--taking the form of the black-leather-clad... -
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780367246518
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during... -
Fourteen Days: A unique collaborative novel from a star-studded cast of writers by Margaret Atwood 9781784745455
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05A BBC, Financial Times and Cosmopolitan What to Read in 2024 pickSet in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this... -
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by John K. Young 9781604735482
Booksplease Price: $41.14Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as ""a book about Negroes by a Negro,"" despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larsen switched the title of her second novel from...