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Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9781479885732
Booksplease Price: $176.61Enlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr... -
A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism by Christopher Douglas 9780801477119
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09As an anthropology student studying with Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston recorded African American folklore in rural central Florida, studied hoodoo in New Orleans and voodoo in Haiti, talked with the... -
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel by Carla Cappetti 9780231081290
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91"Writing Chicago" uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of... -
African American Autobiographers: A Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson 9780313314094
Booksplease Price: $130.44There is growing popular and scholarly interest in autobiography, along with increasing regard for the achievements of African American writers. The first reference of its kind, this volume... -
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak by Frederick T. Griffiths 9781936235537
Booksplease Price: $159.61The 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... -
To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel by Jeff Abernathy 9780820352640
RRP: $189.05Booksplease Price: $170.49This study of the construction of race in American culture takes its title from a central story thread in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck, who resolves to ""go to... -
Epic and the Russian Novel from Gogol to Pasternak by Frederick T. Griffiths 9781618118141
Booksplease Price: $49.86Epic 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... -
Translating Cain: Emotions of Invisibility through the Gaze of Raskolnikov and Bigger by Samantha Joo 9781978709843
Booksplease Price: $178.21Unless we recognize the cultural context embedded in the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, the significance of Cain's rejection and consequent violence is often lost in translation. While many... -
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism Dr Jack Reynolds 9781350412569
Booksplease Price: $81.47This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying... -
Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin by Sarah Relyea 9780415867184
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $97.19Outsider Citizens examines a foundational moment in the writing of race, gender, and sexuality--the decade after 1945, when Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, and others sought to adapt... -
African-American Humanism by Norm R. Allen, Jr.
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $43.72This collection demonstrates the strong influence that humanism and freethought had in developing the history and ideals of black intellectualism. Most people are quick to note the profound... -
![The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-20 - "An Honest Man and a Good Writer" by Conseula Francis 9781571133250](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1864038/1863609/9781571133250__85594.1707254406.jpg?c=1 "The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-20 - "An Honest Man and a Good Writer" by Conseula Francis 9781571133250")
The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-20 - "An Honest Man and a Good Writer" by Conseula Francis 9781571133250
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $159.88James Baldwin is a widely taught and anthologized author. His short story "Sonny's Blues" remains a perennial favorite in literature anthologies, and all of his essay collections and novels... -
A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981 by Laurence G. Avery 9781469613734
Booksplease Price: $155.57This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern playwright to attract international acclaim for his... -
Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South by Conor Picken 9780807171738
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $72.31Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South... -
Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature by Caroline Chamberlin Hellman 9780813943596
Booksplease Price: $107.54Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman's new... -
And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses: Four Works by Zakes Mda 9781868142224
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48Two very different women meet during a long wait to buy subsidized rice and discover they have more in common than their poverty; an old man and child share a last, loving waltz; a cynical, disabled... -
To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel by Jeff Abernathy 9780820325781
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $49.88This study of the construction of race in American culture takes its title from a central story thread in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck, who resolves to "go to hell" rather than... -
Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the U.S. South by Charles Reagan Wilson 9780820338293
RRP: $259.25Booksplease Price: $151.30Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness. Charles Reagan Wilson sees... -
The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617033032
Booksplease Price: $104.29The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962)... -
Blues Poems by Kevin Young 9781841597584
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $17.20The blues has left an indelible mark on the work of a diverse range of poets: from "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes and "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden, to "Blues on Yellow" by Marilyn Chin and... -
Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers' Project by Sara Rutkowski 9781625347008
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $114.35Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the midst of the Great... -
Literature after 9/11 Ann Keniston 9780415883986
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $89.86Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses can be... -
Bigger: A Literary Life Trudier Harris 9780300269321
Booksplease Price: $39.47A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel... -
The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly by Douglas B. Chambers 9781617033049
Booksplease Price: $48.61The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962)... -
Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World by Yolanda Williams Page 9780313352034
Booksplease Price: $189.44The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Icons of... -
Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947 by Chris Vials 9781617038389
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.26Realism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake ""America."" The literary and artistic... -
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America by Joseph B. Entin 9780807858349
Booksplease Price: $74.24Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, ""Sensational Modernism"" uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by... -
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life by Christopher Freeburg 9780813940311
Booksplease Price: $128.27Christopher Freeburg's Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life offers a crucial new reading of a neglected aspect of African American literature and art across the long twentieth century. Rejecting... -
Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature by Caroline Chamberlin Hellman 9780813943602
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $22.35Taking its cue from Perry Miller's 1956 classic of American literary criticism, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman's new... -
Devil in a Blue Dress: A Novel by Walter Mosley 9780393028546
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $58.19Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the... -
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald by Michael Nowlin 9781108813907
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.42This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald's literary legacy. Gathering the... -
The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad 9780195146431
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.46February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised... -
Black Outlaws: Race, Law, and Male Subjectivity in African American Literature and Culture by Carlyle van Thompson 9780820486376
RRP: $56.94Booksplease Price: $52.94In this provocative and original exploration of Black males and the legal establishment, Carlyle Van Thompson illuminates the critical issues defining Black male subjectivity. Since the days of Black... -
Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone by William H. Bridges 9781498505475
Booksplease Price: $221.15Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese... -
Into the Light: The Photography of Jerome Brunet by Jerome Brunet 9781683836896
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $59.40Brunet got his start in the music world early, playing cello at four years old and continuing on to the guitar in his teens. His early passion for music translated easily to another artistic... -
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $78.59Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through... -
Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy by Robert Bernasconi
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of... -
Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition, The: How To Write, Teach, And Appreciate Haiku by Penny Harter
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.76The Haiku Handbook is the first book to give readers everything they need to begin appreciating, writing, or teaching haiku. In this groundbreaking and now-classic volume, the authors present haiku... -
David Gilmour: Luck and Strange Complete David Gilmour 9780500031063
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $55.38A unique photo chronicle by Polly Samson of the creation, recording and live performance of David Gilmour's album Luck and Strange. Featuring both colour and black-and-white photography by Polly... -
The Residential Is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership by Adrienne Brown 9781503636941
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91Housing 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...