Black category: 406 books
by Sutton E. Griggs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century. Brought out by Griggs’s own Orion Publishing Company in three distinct...
Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2000
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...
The Burning House
Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers
In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity,...
The Death-Bound-Subject
Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
During the 1940s, in response to the charge that his writing was filled with violence, Richard Wright replied that the manner came from the matter, that the “relationship of the American Negro to the American scene [was] essentially violent,” and that he could deny neither the violence he had...
The Souls of Mixed Folk
Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders...
The Contemporary African American Novel
Multiple Cities, Multiple Subjectivities, and Discursive Practices of Whiteness in Everyday Urban Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This book examines the post-1990s African American novels, namely the “neo-urban novel,” and develops a new urban discourse for the twenty-first century on how the city, as a social formation, impacts black characters through everyday discursive practices of whiteness. The critique of everyday...
by Margaret Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Race Sounds
The Art of Listening in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
We live in a world of talk. Yet *Race Sounds *argues that we need to *listen *more—not just hear things, but actively listen—particularly in relation to how we engage race, gender, and class differences. Forging new ideas about the relationship between race and sound, Furlonge explores how...
Liberation Historiography
African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and the means for the liberation of the oppressed....
by Trudier Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a study by award-winning author Trudier Harris of King’s character and persona as captured and reflected...
by Douglas Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that...
by Wayne F. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1996
“Cooper paints a meticulous and absorbing portrait of McKay’s restless artistic, intellectual, and political odyssey... The definitive biography on McKay.”—Choice
Although recognized today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this century—the author of “If We Must...
Odysseys Home
Mapping African-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging passage through twelve essays presents a history of...
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home
African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers...