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Chester Himes: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313283963 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his celebrated colleagues about black protagonists doomed by white racisim and self-hate. Among his writings is a series of hard-boiled detective novels featuring black detectives and a host of Harlem hustlers. The acclaimed Harlem series and much of his later work were written in France where Himes lived as an American expatriate from 1953 until his death in 1984. Exhaustively researched and well constructed, this comprehensive bibliography clears up mysteries and... A contemporary of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes wrote with perhaps more angry fire than his celebrated colleagues... |
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298,24 zł |
The French Critical Reception of African-American Literature: From the Beginnings to 1970 an Annotated Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313253683 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first real reviewing of African-American literature in France began in 1844, when audiences welcomed the romantic dramas of Victor Sejour. With the passing of time, African-American works have become increasingly known in France, where they are now translated almost as soon as they come out in the United States. This bibliography charts the French critical response to African-American literature from the 19th century to 1970. The bulk of the items selected were published between 1900 and 1970, and all were printed in French. The selection has been limited to responses to the works... The first real reviewing of African-American literature in France began in 1844, when audiences welcomed the romantic dramas of Victor Sejour. With... |
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331,38 zł |
Richard Wright: Books and Writers
ISBN: 9781604731965 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This bibliography of Richard Wright's library and reading serves as a key to understanding the development, philosophies, and aesthetics of this great writer and provides accurate information for the study of intertextuality in his works.
Richard Wright, born in Mississippi in 1908, was largely self-taught. His only formal schooling was high school. As he recounts in Black Boy, he used a white friend's library card at the Memphis Public Library, where blacks were not allowed. That books were almost -living companions- for Wright is easily understandable. Through books and, later,... This bibliography of Richard Wright's library and reading serves as a key to understanding the development, philosophies, and aesthetics of this great...
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159,18 zł |
The World of Richard Wright
ISBN: 9781604730128 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as -an outsider between two cultures, - a man searching.
In these twelve essays written over the last two decades Michel Fabre, Wright's biographer, follows Wright's search in an investigation of the novelist's life and career. Although the essays were not originally intended as a collection, their organization her underscores Wright's literary and intellectual development. The essays range in time from a bibliographical study of Wright's first scanty personal library to his interest at the end of his life in Negritude and... Richard Wright, the Mississippi-born black writer, saw himself as -an outsider between two cultures, - a man searching.
In these twelve essays writ... |
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159,18 zł |
Conversations with Chester Himes
ISBN: 9780878058198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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189,76 zł |
Conversations with Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780878056330 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Native Son (1940), and Black Boy (1945), next as a famous expatriate recently arrived and lionized in postwar Paris, and finally as the seasoned writer of a dozen books. At the end of his life the young man from Mississippi had become a well-traveled intellectual deeply interested in the social and political as well as literary and racial issues of the Old, the New, and the Third World.
Conversations with Richard Wright... For more than two decades Richard Wright was interviewed by the American and foreign press, first as the author of Uncle Tom's Children (1938),...
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189,76 zł |