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Cane by Jean Toomer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work-part drama, part poetry, part fiction-powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic,... -
Cane by Jean Toomer 9780143133674
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.80Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature due to its distinct structure and... -
Cane: A Norton Critical Edition Jean Toomer 9781324088059
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).A revised and expanded introduction,... -
In Search of Our Mother's Gardens Alice Walker 9780753819609
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer.This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially... -
Black Poets of the United States: From Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes by Jean Wagner
Booksplease Price: $28.03Acclaimed upon its initial American release, Black Poets of the United Statescontinued to spark comment and analysis for years afterward. Jean Wagner's masterpiece delves into the vital union of... -
The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 by Henry Louis Gates
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.82When 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... -
Tropic Death by Eric Walrond 9780871403353
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.92Eric Walrond (1898–1966), in his only book, injected a profound Caribbean sensibility into black literature. His work was closest to that of Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston with its striking use... -
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction by Barbara C. Foley 9781501722882
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development... -
The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Cheryl A. Wall 9780199335558
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that... -
The Rabbit Between Us Victor Menza 9780857427977
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.05One morning as they parted, Victor Menza's young daughter handed him a bunny postcard. This gift made him wonder anew why rabbits were their symbol of visitation: "How did this kind of creature... -
God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence by Michael Cobb 9780814716687 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.112007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title At the funeral of Matthew Shepard-the young Wyoming man brutally murdered for being gay-the Reverend Fred Phelps led his parishioners in protest, displaying... -
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture by Siobhan B. Somerville 9780822324072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $115.24Booksplease Price: $11.52Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a... -
Horsepower: Poems by Joy Priest 9780822966197
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23Priest's debut collection, Horsepower, is a cinematic escape narrative that radically envisions a daughter's waywardness as aspirational. Across the book's three sequences, we find the black-girl...