wyszukanych pozycji: 18
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Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies
ISBN: 9780820497242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the field s leading scholars address a wide range of issues and primary materials: the role of slave narrative in shaping individual and collective identity; the long-recognized centrality of women writers, editors, and critics within the -New Negro- movement; the role of the visual arts and -popular- forms in the dialogue about race and cultural...
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high schoo...
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218,62 |
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Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies
ISBN: 9781433103919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the field s leading scholars address a wide range of issues and primary materials: the role of slave narrative in shaping individual and collective identity; the long-recognized centrality of women writers, editors, and critics within the -New Negro- movement; the role of the visual arts and -popular- forms in the dialogue about race and cultural...
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high schoo...
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481,62 |
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Africa: A Photographic Safari
ISBN: 9780595691883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ever since he was a teenager growing up in Houston, Texas, Carlyle Thompson wanted to visit Africa. In 2006, he got his chance. Thompson shares his incredible journey to one of the world's most mysterious countries in "Africa: A Photographic Safari."
Instead of traveling to Africa as a tourist, Thompson chose to go as a photographer. He explores the red soil of Africa for five days in the bush, and through the lens of his camera he is exposed to a completely different aspect of visiting a foreign country. From wildlife safaris to coming face-to-face with the Laikipia Masai and Samburu... Ever since he was a teenager growing up in Houston, Texas, Carlyle Thompson wanted to visit Africa. In 2006, he got his chance. Thompson shares his in...
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94,84 |
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Africa: A Photographic Safari
ISBN: 9780595443888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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56,83 |
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Black Outlaws; Race, Law, and Male Subjectivity in African American Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780820486376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In 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 people s enslavement and the days of Jim Crow segregation, Black males have been at odds with the legal and extra-legal restrictions that would maintain white supremacy and white male privilege. Grounded in the voices of Frederick Douglass and David Walker, who challenged hegemonic systems designed to socio-economically disenfranchise Black people, Black Outlaws examines legal aspects with...
In this provocative and original exploration of Black males and the legal establishment, Carlyle Van Thompson illuminates the critical issues defining...
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205,43 |
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The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970-2005
ISBN: 9780820488509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970 2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, which traced the representation of music in fiction from its mid-nineteenth-century roots in slave narratives through the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The Songs Became the Stories continues the historical, critical and musicological analyses of the first book through an examination of many of the major figures in African-American fiction over the past thirty-five years, including Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Nathaniel...
The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970 2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, whi...
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205,43 |
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Eating the Black Body; Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780820479316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of slavery and its aftermath. By looking at one poem and three novels Richard Wright s Between the World and Me, John Oliver Killens Youngblood, Gayl Jones Corregidora, and Octavia Butler s Kindred that examine slavery and the Jim Crow period, Thompson investigates...
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that...
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185,40 |
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Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in African American Literature
ISBN: 9781433105753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1 s -Divas Live- riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of the Black Diva. Tracing the trajectory of the Diva figure from the Italian castrati to Ntozake Shange s Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter suggests a way around staid and fixed stereotypes about Black womanhood. The Black Diva performs her demands as a quintessential act of survival in a hostile and racist world; she is both a product of and a mark against the male gaze, Black and white. Ultimately, Tipping on a Tightrope: Divas in...
When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1 s -Divas Live- riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of...
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521,69 |
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Black Children's Literature Got de Blues: The Creativity of Black Writers and Illustrators
ISBN: 9780820463322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Here is an innovative exploration of the blues aesthetic that reflects the literary work created by Black authors and illustrators for the Black child reader. This book examines literature written for Black children, using critical and creative writings by artists, scholars, and critics that define the blues within Black -adult- literature, poetry, and the visual arts. The book identifies Black children s literature published in the past forty years by authors and illustrators who can be classified as blues artists, and whose work reflects social, political, economical, and historical...
Here is an innovative exploration of the blues aesthetic that reflects the literary work created by Black authors and illustrators for the Black child...
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159,02 |
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Toni Morrison and the Bible; Contested Intertextualities
ISBN: 9780820469355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison's use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Ideal for courses on Morrison or on explorations of the intersection of religion and literature, this collection treats its topic with sophistication, considering religion in its broadest possible sense, and examining syncretic theologies as well as mainstream religions in its attempt to locate Morrison's work in a spiritual-theological nexus.
This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison's use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the ...
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185,40 |
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Reading Contemporary African American Drama; Fragments of History, Fragments of Self
ISBN: 9780820488868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Pearl Cleage find their creative inspiration in historical events from slavery to the civil rights movement. From the Emmett Till-inspired character in Baldwin s Blues for Mister Charlie to Parks s recreation of Lincoln and Booth, these playwrights show that history is the mirror that shapes the identities of African American writers and characters."
Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice...
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185,40 |
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Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Vol. 2
ISBN: 9780820478708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Volume 2 brings together scholars who research various theoretical approaches of the origin, characteristics, and development of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). The advantages of AAVE, codeswitching, dialect interference in writing, theories, and politics in AAVE, text analysis, and critical pedagogy all are discussed in this volume. Each article provides a different perspective attesting to the vitality and relevance of African American language as an academic, social, and cultural/linguistic entry...
Readings in African American Language: Aspects, Features, and Perspectives, Volume 2 brings together scholars who research various theoretical ...
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205,43 |
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Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity- An Anthology
ISBN: 9781433101588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. She has consistently resisted attempts by patriarchs and matriarchs alike to romanticize and redefine that biologically-based literary heritage. This volume of ten classic texts, including such nineteenth-century writers as Jarena Lee, Harriet Jacobs, and Angelina Grimke, documents for teachers and general readers how African American female self-portraits gradually crystallized over some three centuries of...
Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolut...
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567,85 |
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Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances
ISBN: 9780820467344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Black Women s Activism is the first book-length study of African American women s historical romances. This book examines romances written from 1989 to the present, and discusses their black heroines resistance at particular moments in history from the colonization movement to the Texas oil boom. Socio-historical perspectives, a womanist agenda, and an African-centered outlook inform the readings of female characters in the narratives of Francine Craft, Gay G. Gunn, Shirley Hailstock, Beverly Jenkins, and Anita Richmond Bunkley. Broadening the scope of the historical romance genre, and...
Black Women s Activism is the first book-length study of African American women s historical romances. This book examines romances written from...
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185,40 |
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Women, Violence & Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780820457512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Zora Neale Hurston produced some of the most provocative literature of the twentieth century. This book examines the numerous scenes of violence against women in her fictional works and the development of her feminist ideals. This groundbreaking book is the first full-length discussion of Hurston s repetitive rendering of violently controlled women. It gives significant insight into why Hurston s themes often questioned the power dynamics of heterosexual relationships. It also explores the effect of death and loss on Hurston s life and reveals intertwined relationships between writing and...
Zora Neale Hurston produced some of the most provocative literature of the twentieth century. This book examines the numerous scenes of violence again...
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145,83 |
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Race Riots & Resistance: The Red Summer of 1919
ISBN: 9781433100680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the -Red Summer- of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any particularity of cause, and in doing so calls into question many longstanding beliefs about racial violence. The book goes on to portray the riots as a phenomenon, documenting the number of incidents, describing the events in detail, and analyzing the patterns that emerge from looking at the riots...
Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the -Red Summer- of 1919 in which black commu...
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590,43 |
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The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781433176807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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238,91 |
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Nineteenth-Century Black Women's Literary Emergence: Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity- An Anthology
ISBN: 9781433101571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. She has consistently resisted attempts by patriarchs and matriarchs alike to romanticize and redefine that biologically-based literary heritage. This volume of ten classic texts, including such nineteenth-century writers as Jarena Lee, Harriet Jacobs, and Angelina Grimke, documents for teachers and general readers how African American female self-portraits gradually crystallized over some three centuries of...
Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolut...
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cena:
218,62 |