wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Generations in Black and White: Photographs from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection
ISBN: 9780820346175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Vechten, a longtime patron of black writers and artists, took these photographs over the course of three decades primarily as gifts to his subjects, such luminaries as W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Joe Louis, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, and James Earl Jones. The photographs Rudolph P. Byrd has selected for this volume come from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro... This portfolio of eighty-three photographs constitutes a stunning celebration of African American achievement in the twentieth century. Carl Van Ve... |
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I Am Your Sister
ISBN: 9780195341485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice. Lorde embraced difference, and at each turn she emphasized the importance of using it to build shared strength among marginalized communities. I Am Your...
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches ...
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209,28 zł |
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780199846450 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the arts, parenting, and resistance, and they have served as a transformative and important foundation for theorists and activists in considering questions of power and social justice. Lorde embraced difference, and at each turn she emphasized the importance of using it to build shared strength among marginalized communities. I Am Your...
Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches ...
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139,94 zł |
Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff
ISBN: 9780820337777 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Jean Toomer (1894-1967) earned his place in American literary history with Cane (1923), a brilliant modernist collage of fiction, poetry, and drama about black life in rural Georgia and the urban North. Although Toomer continued to write prodigiously, his work went largely unpublished as he turned away from an exploration of his African American roots he had employed so powerfully in Cane. Rudolph P. Byrd examines the central reason behind Toomer's literary decline: his enthusiasm for the theories of George Gurdjieff, a contemporary Russian psychologist, philosopher, and mystic. As Toomer's...
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) earned his place in American literary history with Cane (1923), a brilliant modernist collage of fiction, poetry, and drama ab...
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153,09 zł |
Traps
ISBN: 9780253214485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-known scholars, and activists in the academy." --Darlene Clark Hine "After looking carefully at Traps' selections, I have to confess that I'm both excited and satisfied by what Rudolph Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall have assembled here from the 19th century to the present. Educators genuinely need a text like this for opening their classroom to critical discussions on the well-worn subjects of race and gender." Traps is the first anthology of writings by 19th- and 20th-century African American men... "This is a valuable project. The editors are excellent, well-known scholars, and activists in the academy." --Darlene Clark Hine "After looki... |
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176,70 zł |
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
ISBN: 9780812975321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd."
-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of the NAACP, and the first African American to hold a diplomatic post as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. This comprehensive volume of Johnson's works includes the seminal novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, poems from God's Trombones, essays on cultural and political topics, selections from... "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd."
-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Re... |
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95,63 zł |