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So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism by Kenneth W. Warren 9780226873800
Booksplease Price: €28.41Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for... -
The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century by Marc C. Conner 9781496806796
Booksplease Price: €105.79Ralph Ellison once said, ""We're only a partially achieved nation."" In The New Territory, scholars show how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the... -
The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century by Marc C. Conner 9781496825643
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Contributions by Herman Beavers, Robert Butler, John Callahan, Marc C. Conner, Bryan Crable, Steven D. Ealy, Lena Hill, Lucas E. Morel, Timothy Parrish, Ross Posnock, Patrice Rankine, Grant Shreve,... -
A Study Guide for Ralph Ellison's King of the Bingo Game by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375383011
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €11.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375383011Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Gale, Study... -
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture by R. Purcell 9780230321434
Booksplease Price: €55.62While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' - that is, race as a biological and sociological... -
Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture by R. Purcell 9781349340439
Booksplease Price: €55.62While the arms race of the post-war period has been widely discussed, Purcell explores the under-acknowledged but critical role another kind of 'race' - that is, race as a biological and sociological... -
Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man by Lucas E. Morel 9780813123127
Booksplease Price: €42.46An important new collection of original essays that examine how Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible Man (1952), addresses the social, cultural, political, economic, and racial contradictions of... -
In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. 9780807178508
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.61With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its... -
Global Ralph Ellison: Aesthetics and Politics Beyond US Borders by Marc C. Conner 9781789974942
RRP: €66.16Booksplease Price: €59.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789974942Author Marc C. ConnerFormat HardbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic... -
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock by Terrence T. Tucker 9780813054360
Booksplease Price: €85.64In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in literature by George Schuyler and Ralph Ellison shortly after World War II. He examines its... -
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity by Daniel Kim
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It... -
On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley by Gregory Stephens 9780521643931
Booksplease Price: €38.22Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Bob Marley each inhabited the shared but contested space at the frontiers of race. Gregory Stephens shows how their interactions with mixed audiences made them... -
Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner by Randy Boyagoda
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.31Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy... -
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock by Terrence T. Tucker 9780813068268
Booksplease Price: €30.05A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique... -
The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s by Norman Podhoretz 9781416568308
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €24.34Norman Podhoretz "is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to the news as it pours from the press... -
Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner by Randy Boyagoda 9780415979849
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected lines of influence and sympathy... -
Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American Intellectual Life by Jerry Gafio Watts 9780807844779
Booksplease Price: €46.60Before and after writing Invisible Man , novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison fought to secure a place as a black intellectual in a white-dominated society. In this sophisticated analysis of Ellison's... -
Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature by Simon Cooper 9783030351977
Booksplease Price: €55.07This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry,... -
The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black Michael E. Sawyer 9781439925560
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €83.90In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being-and what existence in that future... -
The Door of No Return: Being-As-Black Michael E. Sawyer 9781439925577
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.78In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being-and what existence in that future... -
In Defence of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire Louisa Yousfi 9781804294420
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.87Is social integration all it's cracked up to be? Not in the defiant view of first-time French author Louisa Yousfi, who herself has North African roots. Taking its inspiration from the leading... -
The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages by Matthew X. Vernon 9783319910888
RRP: €107.09Booksplease Price: €61.68The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but... -
The Rinehart Frames by Cheswayo Mphanza 9781496225764
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.912021 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the... -
The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams 9781804270967
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40Max Reddick, a novelist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter, has spent his career struggling against the riptide of race in America. Now terminally ill, he has nothing left to lose. An expat... -
Through A Glass, Darkly: The Mirror Metaphor in Texts by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison by Barbara Roeckl 9783631592144
RRP: €59.86Booksplease Price: €50.25This study is concerned with the function of the mirror metaphor in texts by three modern African-American authors. Wright's photo-text 12 Million Black Voices, Baldwin's early essays, and Ellison's... -
Politics in the African-American Novel: James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison by Richard Kostelanetz 9780313274718
Booksplease Price: €73.34One of America's most distinguished independent artists/intellectuals, Richard Kostelanetz, has written a prescient volume that uses, as a starting point, the philosopher Robin Collingwood's notion... -
No Pain Like This Body by Harold Sonny Ladoo
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13'A masterpiece of hurt' New York TimesWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of the last century, a poor rice-growing family struggle to exist. Four siblings pass... -
![Ralph Ellison in Progress: From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . " by Adam Bradley 9780300171198](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5144513/5221775/9780300171198__99057.1724499988.jpg?c=1 "Ralph Ellison in Progress: From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . " by Adam Bradley 9780300171198")
Ralph Ellison in Progress: From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . " by Adam Bradley 9780300171198
Booksplease Price: €34.01A major reassessment of Ralph Ellison's literary legacy that explores the mysteries surrounding his unfinished second novel Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African-American author of the... -
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967 by Langston Hughes
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €22.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316380317Author Langston HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Little, Brown &... -
Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880-1996 by Daryl Michael Scott 9780807846353
Booksplease Price: €47.64For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage... -
Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett by Lesley Larkin 9780253017581
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €62.34What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature... -
Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America by David A Taylor 9781684425204
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425204Author David A TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Turner Publishing... -
Dark Symphony by James A. Emanuel 9780029095409
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.65This collection of the works from the nineteenth and twentieth century is filled with powerful, sensitive, and moving writings from the most notable Black writers in history.This anthology of Black... -
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present by Gloria Naylor 9780316599238
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316599238Author Gloria NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Little, Brown and... -
Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett by Lesley Larkin 9780253017871
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature... -
Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture by Badia Sahar Ahad 9780252035661
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.46This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard... -
Three Japanese Short Stories by 9780241339749
Booksplease Price: €3.57'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre... -
The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism by Walton M. Muyumba
Booksplease Price: €29.51Though often thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests, especially a passion for music. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their... -
Understanding John Updike by Frederic Svoboda 9781643360966
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74The winner of every major American literary prize, John Updike (1932-2009) was one of the most popular and prolific novelists of his time and a major cultural figure who traced the high point and... -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern...