wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday
ISBN: 9780345449733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our time and also one of the most elusive. Because of who she was and how she chose to live her life, Lady Day has been the subject of both intense adoration and wildly distorted legends. Now at last, Farah Jasmine Griffin, a writer of intellectual authority and superb literary gifts, liberates Billie Holiday from the mythology that has obscured both her life and her art.
An intimate meditation on Holiday s place in American culture and history, If You Can t Be Free, Be A Mystery... More than four decades after her death, Billie Holiday remains one of the most gifted artists of our time and also one of the most elusive. Because of...
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72,22 |
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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative
ISBN: 9780195088960 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor,...
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. ...
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356,07 |
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Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative
ISBN: 9780195088977 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. Who Set You Flowin'? examines the impact of this dislocation and urbanization, identifying the resulting Migration Narratives as a major genre in African-American cultural production. Griffin takes an interdisciplinary approach with readings of several literary texts, migrant correspondence, painting, photography, rap music, blues, and rhythm and blues. From these various sources Griffin isolates the tropes of Ancestor,...
Twentieth-century America has witnessed the most widespread and sustained movement of African-Americans from the South to urban centers in the North. ...
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cena:
229,46 |
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
ISBN: 9780393651904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
105,63 |
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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780393355772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
76,02 |
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Country Place
ISBN: 9780810139763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Originally published in 1947, Ann Petry's classic Country Place depicts a predominantly white community disillusioned by the indignities and corruption of small-town life. Accompanied by a new foreword from Farah Jasmine that builds on the legacy of a literary celebrity and one of the foremost African American writers of her time.
Originally published in 1947, Ann Petry's classic Country Place depicts a predominantly white community disillusioned by the indignities and corruptio...
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71,54 |
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
ISBN: 9781324022046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
64,43 |
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon
ISBN: 9780520280649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
119,53 |