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The Modern American Novel of the Left: A Research Guide by M. Keith Booker 9780313304705
Booksplease Price: $130.44Unique in its scope of coverage, this reference work provides students and scholars interested in researching modern American leftist and working-class culture with a convenient starting place for... -
Juneteenth Ralph Ellison 9780241215005
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Published after Ellison's death, this follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity. 'Words are your business, boy. Not just the Word. Words are everything'... -
The Wings of Atalanta - Essays Written along the Color Line by Mark Richardson 9781571132390
Booksplease Price: $69.07This book springs from two premises. The first is that, with a nod toward Marianne Moore, America is - has always been - an imaginary place with real people living in it. The second is that slavery... -
Flying Home And Other Stories by John Callahan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a... -
Fiction: A Pocket Anthology R. Gwynn 9780134053295
RRP: $152.08Booksplease Price: $137.55A perfect alternative to massive fiction anthologies, this brief, affordable collection of 44 short stories from the past three centuries provides a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the... -
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing by Wendy W. Walters
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Although he never lived in Harlem, Chester Himes commented that he experienced "a sort of pure homesickness" while creating the Harlem-set detective novels from his self-imposed exile in Paris... -
A People's History of Chicago by Kevin Coval 9781642591033
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $57.31Known variously as "'the Windy City,"' "'the City of Big Shoulders,"' or "'Chi-Raq,"' Chicago is one of the most widely celebrated, routinely demonized, and thoroughly... -
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy 9781496838728
Booksplease Price: $172.77Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African... -
America’s Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology by Cynthia H. Tolentino 9780816651115
Booksplease Price: $49.69During World War II, the rising visibility of anticolonial and antiracist movements exposed contradictions between the U.S. democratic mission in Europe and racist practices against people of color... -
Murder, in Fact: Disillusionment and Death in the American True Crime Novel by Lana A. Whited 9781476672243
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20With the 1965 publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote declared he broke new literary ground. But Capote's "nonfiction novel" belongs to a long Naturalist tradition originating in the work of... -
Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature by Ayesha K. Hardison 9780813935935
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $43.76In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s... -
Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature by Thadious M. Davis 9781469621951
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $61.64In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and... -
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith 9780813559674
RRP: $210.60Booksplease Price: $160.31During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it... -
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960 by Joseph Keith 9780813559667
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.09During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it... -
The Geographies of African American Short Fiction by Kenton Rambsy 9781496838735
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African... -
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man by Joshua Bennett 9780674271166
RRP: $33.05Booksplease Price: $28.80Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize"This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis,... -
Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa by John Cullen Gruesser
Booksplease Price: $68.52Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple... -
Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy by Dennis Looney 9780268160746
Booksplease Price: $172.11Freedom Readers: The African American Reception of Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy is a literary-historical study of the many surprising ways in which Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy have... -
The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 by Stephanie Brown 9781604739732
Booksplease Price: $88.35Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the... -
Conversations with Kiese Laymon by Constance Bailey 9781496858115
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews... -
Orienting of Attention by Richard D. Wright 9780195130492
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $88.08This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous... -
Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life by Christopher Freeburg 9780813940328
Booksplease Price: $50.93Christopher 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... -
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays by Matthew Teutsch 9781496827821
Booksplease Price: $172.77Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Masse, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson... -
The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges by Sarah Lowndes 9781138599000
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary... -
Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher by Marc C. Conner 9781604735062
Booksplease Price: $55.71Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading... -
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature by John K. Young 9781604735482
Booksplease Price: $55.71Jean 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... -
Memory and Narrative: The Weave of Life-writing by James Olney
Booksplease Price: $59.92Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form that took its origins in the... -
Living Jim Crow: The Segregated Town in Mid-Century Southern Fiction by Gavan Lennon 9781474461573
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $173.37Explores how novelists of the mid-century US South invented small towns to aesthetically undermine racial segregation Investigates the role of writing in the civil right movementExplores neglected... -
Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South: Resistance and Non-Violence by Professor Preston King 9780415463645
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23A new collection of philosophical biographies of key figures in Black Southern American social and political thoughtFrederick Douglass, Booker Washington and Ida Wells. Thurgood Marshall and Martin... -
Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America by Dohra Ahmad 9780195332766
Booksplease Price: $144.24Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and... -
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"The Inside Light": New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston by Deborah G. Plant 9780313365171
Booksplease Price: $91.75This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston's life and work draws on a wealth of newly discovered information and manuscripts that bring new dimensions of her writing to light. "The Inside Light": New... -
Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven by Sherman Alexie
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time:... -
Black Shack Alley by Joseph Zobel
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Following in the tradition of Richard Wright's Black Boy, Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy grappling with his... -
Teaching with Heart: Poetry that Speaks to the Courage to Teach Sam M. Intrator (Smith College) 9781118459430
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.43Each and every day teachers show up in their classrooms with a relentless sense of optimism. Despite the complicated challenges of schools, they come to and remain in the profession inspired by a... -
The Epic Trickster in American Literature: From Sunjata to So(u)l by Gregory E. Rutledge 9781138107854
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $87.93Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon... -
Conversations with Lenard D. Moore John Zheng 9781496853943
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $138.72Known internationally for his Japanese-style poetry, Lenard D. Moore (b. 1958) has published eight poetry collections over the course of his career. Moore has distinguished himself especially in such... -
Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era by Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff 9781469619064
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration - unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc - refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and... -
Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays by Matthew Teutsch 9781496827838
Booksplease Price: $55.71Contributions by Catherine L. Adams, Stephanie Brown, Gene Andrew Jarrett, John Wharton Lowe, Guirdex Masse, Anderson Rouse, Matthew Teutsch, Donna-lyn Washington, and Veronica T. Watson... -
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 by Timothy B. Spears
Booksplease Price: $55.67During the late nineteenth century, Chicago's population grew at an astonishing rate, with an estimated growth of 900,000 people between 1860 and 1890. Drawn to the opportunities generated by an... -
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 by Timothy B. Spears 9780226768731
Booksplease Price: $179.97During the late nineteenth century, Chicago's population grew at an astonishing rate, with an estimated growth of 900,000 people between 1860 and 1890. Drawn to the opportunities generated by an...