Black category: 406 books
Uncle Tom's Cabins
The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of...
The Ethnic Avant-Garde
Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called "the magic pilgrimage" to the...
Reading Percival Everett
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
African-American writers willingly attend European symposiums dealing with their work because scholars here focus on textual aspects American readers frequently leave aside. The essays collected here arose on the occasion of such a symposium sponsored by the Conseil Scientifique de l'Université François-Rabelais...
In the Name of the Mother
Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
In the Name of the Mother examines the cultural relationship between African American intellectuals and Italian American writers and artists, and how it relates to American blackness in the twentieth century. Samuele Pardini links African American literature to the Mediterranean tradition of the Italian...
The Epic Trickster in American Literature
From Sunjata to So(u)l
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Just 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 the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...
Women's Work
Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Looking at contemporary novels by African American women, Courtney Thorsson finds that the work women do in these texts defines both a cultural nationalism that remains relevant and a distinct literary and aesthetic movement.
by Brent Hayes Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Brent Hayes Edwards writes. He explores this fertile interface through case studies in jazz literature—both writings informed by music and the surprisingly large body of writing by jazz musicians themselves.
by James Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Elderly gentleman Mister Lawrence is grief stricken by the death of his mother. While reminiscing about the good times he had with her, Mister Lawrence could not get over what he regretted most about his relationship with his mom. He wished that he could remember what his mom looks like. He has always...
African Heartbeat
Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book critically examines classic works of literature and film to suggest ways in which study of fictional characters, cultural themes, and vivid imagery helps us to grapple with, understand, and find resolutions for, problems that seriously concern Americans, including uniformed officers and...
Race and Upward Mobility
Seeking, Gatekeeping, and Other Class Strategies in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle...
by Dr Rachel Lister
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Since its publication in 1982, The Color Purple has polarized critics and generated controversy while delighting many readers around the world. Rachel Lister offers a clear, stimulating and wide-ranging exploration of the critical history of Alice Walker's best-selling novel, from contemporary reviews...
The Souls of White Folk
African American Writers Theorize Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness is the first study to consider the substantial body of African American writing that critiques whiteness as social construction and racial identity. Arguing against the prevailing approach to these texts that says African American...
Ghosts of the African Diaspora
Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff,...
Of Latitudes Unknown
James Baldwin's Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism.
This volume joins recent...