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In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works
ISBN: 9780821414224 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by William Dean Howells, was the first native-born African American poet to achieve national and international fame. While there have been many valuable editions of his works over time, gaps have developed when manuscripts were lost or uncollected works became difficult to access. In His Own Voice brings together new and previously uncollected short stories, essays, and poems. Significantly, this volume also establishes Dunbar's reputation as a dramatist who mastered standard English conventions and used dialect in musical comedy for...
Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by William Dean Howells, was the first native-born African American poet to achieve national a...
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117,25 zł |
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Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
ISBN: 9780822329138 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906 1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissance. Protege of Alain Locke, roommate of Wallace Thurman, and friend of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, the precocious Nugent stood for many years as the only African-American writer willing to clearly pronounce his homosexuality in print. His contribution to the landmark publication FIRE , Smoke, Lilies and Jade, was unprecedented in its celebration of same-sex desire. A resident of the notorious Niggeratti Manor, Nugent also...
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906 1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaissanc...
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111,56 zł |
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Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander
ISBN: 9780826214348 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I Wonder As I Wander (1956), Hughes's second volume of autobiography, is a continuation from The Big Sea, detailing his global travels to such areas as Cuba, Haiti, Paris, the Soviet Union, and the Far East. It culminates in his 1937 coverage for the Baltimore Afro-American of the Spanish Civil War. The travelogue highlights the beginning of Hughes's career as a journalist, a further realization of his goal to live as a professional writer. Furthermore, it shows the influence of legendary black educator Mary McLeod Bethune, who inspired Hughes to travel through the... I Wonder As I Wander (1956), Hughes's second volume of autobiography, is a continuation from The Big Sea, detailing his global trave... |
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298,41 zł |
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Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe
ISBN: 9780826514752 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a itheology of whitenessi from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one groupis economic strength at the expense of other groupsi access to dignity, compassion, and...
Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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545,52 zł |
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Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe
ISBN: 9780826514769 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a itheology of whitenessi from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one groupis economic strength at the expense of other groupsi access to dignity, compassion, and...
Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweis enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin...
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221,82 zł |
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Breathe
ISBN: 9780977181209 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set against the backdrop of contemporary city life and hip-hop culture, Breathe is a realistic portrayal of the isolation, angst, and mental turmoil of a young African-American male coping with his sexuality.
Set against the backdrop of contemporary city life and hip-hop culture, Breathe is a realistic portrayal of the isolation, angst, and mental turmoil o...
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57,61 zł |
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Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays
ISBN: 9781400096459 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations behind his books and his reasons for becoming a writer. Told in the simple and powerful prose that is a hallmark of his craft, these writings by Ernest J. Gaines faithfully evoke the sorrows and joys of rustic Southern life. From his depiction of his childhood move to California a move that propelled him to find books that conjured the sights, smells, and locution of his native Louisiana home to his description of the real-life murder case that...
In this collection of stories and essays, the beloved author of the classic, best-selling novel A Lesson Before Dying shares the inspirations b...
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69,36 zł |
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The Love Letter to the Black Woman: The Testament
ISBN: 9781410759719 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,97 zł |
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The White Wall
ISBN: 9781410785503 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,39 zł |
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bald ambition
ISBN: 9781420845860 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,10 zł |
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bald ambition
ISBN: 9781420845884 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,01 zł |
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Our Color Our Kind: a Male Bedside Reader
ISBN: 9781420865097 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,25 zł |
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Our Color Our Kind: a Male Bedside Reader
ISBN: 9781420865103 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,30 zł |
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A Dream So Far Away
ISBN: 9781432704322 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dream So Far Away A Dream So Far Away is a captivating, yet inspiring novel that chronicles the life of Tollie Jean Francis. Though encountering life pitfalls of love, deceit, and betrayal; she remains steadfast in her quest to appear at the Apollo Theatre and share her music with the world. A Dream So Far Away A Dream So Far Away is a captivating, yet inspiring novel that chronicles the life of Tollie Jean Francis. Though encounte... |
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99,05 zł |
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A Dream So Far Away
ISBN: 9781432708603 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dream So Far Away A Dream So Far Away is a captivating, yet inspiring novel that chronicles the life of Tollie Jean Francis. Though encountering life pitfalls of love, deceit, and betrayal; she remains steadfast in her quest to appear at the Apollo Theatre and share her music with the world. A Dream So Far Away A Dream So Far Away is a captivating, yet inspiring novel that chronicles the life of Tollie Jean Francis. Though encounte... |
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137,90 zł |
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When A Good Will Goes Bad
ISBN: 9781432713171 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When A Good Will Goes Bad! Betrayal, murder, and deceit surrounds this urban tale of William Ford, a young man living alone, unhappy, and hiding from his past for the last ten years. Then a letter arrives in the mail from his former high school inviting him to his reunion. All of sudden, William's memories of the past that he has conveniently tucked away in the dark corners of his mind, begin to creep back into his current consciousness. He has been keeping a dark secret all that time. He now realizes that he can no longer hide from the past. He decides that he must go to the reunion where he...
When A Good Will Goes Bad! Betrayal, murder, and deceit surrounds this urban tale of William Ford, a young man living alone, unhappy, and hiding from ...
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77,47 zł |
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Mixing It Up: Taking on the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
ISBN: 9781568583396 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence,
A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence...
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124,93 zł |
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A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
ISBN: 9781578068661 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a widely read chronicler of the African American gay experience. His novels Trouble the Water and Vanishing Rooms still receive considerable attention, as do his collections of poetry and his major work of criticism, Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-American Literature. In A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader, scholars Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride have collected, for the first time in a single... Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a wide... |
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185,73 zł |
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James Weldon Johnson: Writings (Loa #145): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man / Along This Way / Essays and Editorials / Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781931082525 / Angielski / Twarda / 828 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912), James Weldon Johnsons first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a groundbreaking and subtle account of racial passing, initially published as an anonymous memoir. Its veracitymany believed it to be a genuine autobiographyhas made it one of the undisputed masterpieces of African American literature and established Johnson in the African American literary vanguard of the first half of the twentieth century. He was also one of the central figures of the civil-rights struggle of his era, a tireless activist and...
"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" (1912), James Weldon Johnsons first book and the first modernist novel written by an African American, is a g...
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154,14 zł |
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781604730173 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison (b. 1931) was a new editor at Random House and a beginning novelist, to 2002 when she was a professor at Princeton University and Nobel Laureate. Even in the early days of her career, in between editing other writers, writing her own novels, and raising two children, she found time to speak out on subjects that mattered to her. From the reviews and essays written for major publications... What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison's writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The ... |
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83,04 zł |
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