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Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature by Lovalerie King 9780807132579
Booksplease Price: $80.45In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of... -
The Wanderer in African American Literature by Gena E. Chandler-Smith 9781621905295
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $83.79The Wanderer in African American Literature highlights an enduring feature of African American letters: "From the slave narrative to Afrofuturism, the literature is populated, driven, and emboldened... -
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature by Karla F. C. Holloway
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions... -
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature by Karla FC Holloway 9780822355816
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $162.52In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions... -
The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom James B. Haile, III 9780231216296
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $145.70An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary... -
The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches by Bernard W. Bell
Booksplease Price: $73.02In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition, a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. The book won... -
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics by Qiana Whitted
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $48.99Some comics fans view the industry's Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious... -
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak by Frederick T. Griffiths 9781618118141
Booksplease Price: $53.97Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak examines the origin of the nineteen- century Russian novel and challenges the Lukacs-Bakhtin theory of epic. By removing the Russian novel from its... -
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics by Qiana Whitted 9781978825024
RRP: $140.70Booksplease Price: $120.37Some comics fans view the industry's Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious... -
The Dark Delight of Being Strange: Black Stories of Freedom James B. Haile, III 9780231216302
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary... -
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak by Frederick T. Griffiths 9781936235537
RRP: $178.48Booksplease Price: $171.63The authors read some of the classics in the Russian novelistic tradition against a critique of the Lukacs-Bakhtin view of epic, all the while demonstrating the modernity of epic as a literary mode... -
Parliament and Congress: Representation and Scrutiny in the Twenty-First Century by William McKay 9780199655953
Booksplease Price: $134.95The constitutional background of both legislatures and their procedures are described and where possible compared. Currently unsolved problems often have much in common, in vexed areas such as ethics... -
The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles Duncan 9780821412398
Booksplease Price: $82.64As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now... -
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader by Stephen K. George 9780742532342
Booksplease Price: $118.99Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the... -
Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73'A devastating social parable brimming with humanity and heart...' Marlon JamesWhite skin, green eyes, red hair... BLACKASSFuro Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job... -
Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747 by Aparna Gollapudi
Booksplease Price: $154.75In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic... -
The SALT HOUR: POEMS by J. P. White 9780252069567
Booksplease Price: $47.08With this dazzling collection, J. P. White embarks on a windswept journey through seductive, treacherous waterways. Conveying a stormy sense of place defined less by geography than by the push and... -
Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Essential Short Stories by Andre Dubus III
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $40.05A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, "is a reader who is moved to... -
How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation by Aida Levy-Hussen 9781479884711
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large... -
To Know the Soul of a People: Religion, Race, and the Making of Southern Folk by Jamil W. Drake
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.18To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living... -
Language and Cultural Practices in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups by Inmaculada M. Garcia-Sanchez 9781138597884
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.13Drawing on sociocultural theories of learning, this book examines how the everyday language practices and cultural funds of knowledge of youth from non-dominant or minoritized groups can be used as... -
Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama by R. Barton Palmer 9783319409276
Booksplease Price: $226.82This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with... -
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Contacts in the Old World and the New by Werner Sollors 9780814781449
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $59.22A white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry... -
Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery by Arlene R. Keizer 9780801489044
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $43.87Writers as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Derek Walcott have addressed the history of slavery in their literary works. In this groundbreaking new... -
Black Love Letters by Cole Brown 9781638931201
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $29.09As seen on ABC's The View * One of W magazine's Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023"We reserve this space for our humanity in all of its fond, ironic, elated, grief-stricken, confused glory . . ... -
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius by Lawrence P. Jackson 9780820329932
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $85.64Author, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a pivotal figure in American literature and history and arguably the father of African American modernism. Universally acclaimed... -
Where Blackbirds Fly: A Novel Shann Ray 9781496243577
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82A novel in five novellas, Where Blackbirds Fly offers a prismatic deep dive into the human heart through fierce narratives of intimacy both lovely and heartbreaking. Countering social upheavals,... -
The Art and Life of Clarence Major by Keith Eldon Byerman 9780820349824
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $71.23Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist. He has been part of twenty-eight group exhibitions, has... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by CLR James 9781788737906
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.12The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against... -
The Truly Needy And Other Stories by Lucy Honig 9780822957812
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $35.13These nine stories are teeming with people on the margins, where destitute New Yorkers and determined immigrants are as much at the mercy of social services, media attention, opportunistic... -
A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection by Avram Alpert 9780231200028
RRP: $245.70Booksplease Price: $192.07In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other... -
A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection by Avram Alpert
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other... -
The Writer's Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.88NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and... -
Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections by George Yancy 9781498581042
Booksplease Price: $84.80The motivation behind this important volume is to weave together two distinct, but we think complementary, traditions - the philosophical engagement with race/whiteness and Buddhist philosophy - in... -
The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jonathan Rieder
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $48.89"You don't know me," Martin Luther King, Jr., once declared to those who criticized his denunciation of the Vietnam War, who wanted to confine him to the ghetto of "black" issues. Now, forty years... -
Fire Summer by Thuy Da Lam 9781597094641
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.07You can go home again. When twenty-three-year-old Maia Trieu, a curator's assistant at the Museum of Folklore & Rocks in Little Saigon, Orange County, is offered a research grant to Vietnam for the... -
The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck by Stephen K. George 9780810854413
Booksplease Price: $128.18More than any other author of the Modern period of American literature, John Steinbeck evidenced a serious interest and background in moral philosophy. His personal reading collection included works... -
A Woman of Endurance: A Novel Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa 9780063062238
Booksplease Price: $28.33Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison's Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory's A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa's groundbreaking novel illuminates a little... -
Theoretical Foundations of Homeland Security: Strategies, Operations, and Structures James D. Ramsay 9780367201708
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.82This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations, structures and strategies.Following the terrorist attacks of... -
Music of the Ghosts: A Novel by Vaddey Ratner 9781476795799
Booksplease Price: $29.40This "affecting novel filled with sorrow and a tender, poignant optimism" (USA TODAY) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals "the endless ways that families can be forged and...