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Color Me English: Reflections on Migration and Belonging by Caryl Phillips 9781595588357
Booksplease Price: $40.66An "arresting . . . bracing and affecting volume" (Booklist) that "brims with curiosity and cosmopolitanism" (Publishers Weekly), Color Me English was hailed in the Guardian as one of the best books... -
Thinking Through Crisis: Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics by James Edward Ford 9780823286911
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.37Winner, 2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association Honorable Mention, MSA First Book Prize In Thinking Through Crisis, James Edward Ford III examines the works of Richard... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) 9781324091479
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.56Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691173290
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $49.16In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on... -
Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America by David G. Nicholls 9780472110346
Booksplease Price: $157.66Conjuring the Folk addresses the dynamic relation between metropolitan artistic culture and its popular referents during the Harlem Renaissance period. From Jean Toomer's conclusion that "the Negro... -
Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era by Brian Russell Roberts 9780813933689
Booksplease Price: $62.58During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked... -
Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America by Timothy Parrish 9781558499225
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who... -
Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era by Brian Russell Roberts 9780813933672
Booksplease Price: $133.69During the first generation of black participation in U.S. diplomacy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a vibrant community of African American writers and cultural figures worked... -
Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition by Kimberly Rae Connor 9780252025303
RRP: $66.30Booksplease Price: $62.50In this subtle and illuminating study, Kimberly Rae Connor surveys examples of contemporary literature, drama, art, and music that extend the literary tradition of African-American slave narratives... -
The Flood Year 1927: A Cultural History Susan Scott Parrish 9780691182940
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half... -
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The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804733991 [USED COPY]
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $2.44At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This... -
Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity by Peter Mallios 9780804783132
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his... -
African American Writing: A Literary Approach by Werner Sollors
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Werner Sollors' African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called "Negro literature." The essays collected here, ranging in topic from Gustavus Vassa/Olaudah Equiano to LeRoi... -
Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Carson McCullers 9780299164447
Booksplease Price: $33.23More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare , will be published for the first time. McCullers, one of the most gifted writers of... -
Toni Morrison and Mothers/Motherhood by Lee Baxter
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $43.50This collection of essays explores the gamut of Toni Morrison's novels from her earliest to her most recent. Each of the essays examines the various ways in which Morrison's work delineates and... -
Globalization and Entrepreneurship: Policy and Strategy Perspectives by Hamid Etemad 9781843760245
Booksplease Price: $226.55The contributors to this collection provide a wealth of new analyses of both traditional and emerging aspects of entrepreneurship, from a variety of national perspectives and from a variety of... -
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach 9780231145367
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $129.95Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first... -
The Letters of Sylvia Beach by Sylvia Beach 9780231145374
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first... -
The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 by William A. Gleason 9780804734349
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37At the turn of the last century, as routinized industrial labor made a mockery of the gospel of work, Americans increasingly sought fulfillment not on the job but in their leisure activities. This... -
New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein 9780195320879
Booksplease Price: $233.08Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser... -
Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire by Maria DeGuzman 9780816645282
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $40.95England and the Netherlands, Spain's imperial rivals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, imagined Spain as a land of cruel and degenerate barbarians of la leyenda negra (the Black Legend),... -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'One of the most important American novels of the twentieth century' The Times'It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves'Ralph Ellison's... -
Crossroads Modernism: Descent And Emergence In African-American Literary Culture by Edward M. Pavlic 9780816638925
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57An essential reconsideration of black literature and culture and its response to modernityIn the African American encounter with modernism, all was not confrontation. Rather, as Edward M. Pavlic... -
Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise Jamall A. Calloway 9780231209229
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $166.47A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the... -
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.76When 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... -
Imagining Eden: Black Theology and the Search for Paradise Jamall A. Calloway 9780231209236
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the... -
Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India Atreyee Gupta 9780300280883
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $114.17A revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art's role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South Modernism's peak in the interwar and postwar decades coincided with... -
So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic John E. Drabinski 9780810149557
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Rereading Baldwin's nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought James Baldwin's nonfiction offers some of the most important and challenging thinking on the experience of race,... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630345
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda 9781503630925
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23How Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism-with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness-has... -
So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic John E. Drabinski 9780810149564
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $149.57Rereading Baldwin's nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought James Baldwin's nonfiction offers some of the most important and challenging thinking on the experience of race,... -
Jim Crow America: A Documentary History by Catherine M. Lewis 9781557288950
Booksplease Price: $43.93This is an ideal resource on racism and segregation in American life. The term ""Jim Crow"" has had multiple meanings and a dark and complex past. It was first used in the early nineteenth century... -
The Big No by Kennan Ferguson 9781517909284
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $127.12What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no What does it mean to refuse? To not participate, to not build a better world, to not come up with a plan? To just say "no"? Against the... -
Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War by Andrew N. Rubin 9780691154152
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.43Combining literary, cultural, and political history, and based on extensive archival research, including previously unseen FBI and CIA documents, Archives of Authority argues that cultural... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $23.19While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
Making Liberalism New: American Intellectuals, Modern Literature, and the Rewriting of a Political Tradition by Ian Afflerbach 9781421440903
RRP: $155.03Booksplease Price: $112.13A revisionist history of American liberalism, from the Great Depression to the Cold War.Finalist of the MSA First Book Prize by The Modernist Studies AssociationIn Making Liberalism New, Ian... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503638648
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of mass homeownership. This book insistently tracks the inverse: the role of mass homeownership... -
This Here Is Love Princess Joy L Perry 9781324105978
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.341690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and taken by her masters to toil in the house, faces her mother's fury, learning that cruelty can come from any side. David, an enslaved child of... -
American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen by Gavin Cologne-Brookes 9780807169469
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $59.53American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen's writing, music, and performances... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett
RRP: $62.30Booksplease Price: $52.94Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough PrizeA prizewinning poet argues that Blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.Throughout US history, Black people have been...