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In His Own Words: The Writings, Speeches, and Letters of George Henry White
ISBN: 9780595320868 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In His Own Words: The Writings, Speeches, and Letters of George Henry White, 1881-1918" offers a comprehensive view of the career of an African American political pioneer. The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress in the twentieth century, George Henry White was also a renowned American orator and public servant for nearly four decades.
Editor Benjamin Justesen, author of "George Henry White: An Even Chance in the Race of Life-the first full-length biography of White" (2001)- compiled this exhaustive supplementary collection. Known best for his 1901 "farewell speech" to... "In His Own Words: The Writings, Speeches, and Letters of George Henry White, 1881-1918" offers a comprehensive view of the career of an African Ameri...
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100,49 zł |
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Voices from a Black Heart Speak: A Compilation of Poems, Essay, and Short Stories
ISBN: 9780595356058 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expressed through poetry, essays, and short stories, "Voices from a Black Heart Speak" examines deep-seated beliefs, perspectives, and emotional feelings derived from the cultural development of black people in the United States. We live in a world where television tells us what to want, how we want to live, and what we want to do. We live in a world where fear of the unknown is to be feared and that's considered normal. It may be considered normal and acceptable, but it's totally irrational as our entire lives and world is based on the unknown. We slide through life on a hope and wish that...
Expressed through poetry, essays, and short stories, "Voices from a Black Heart Speak" examines deep-seated beliefs, perspectives, and emotional feeli...
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61,08 zł |
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Voices from a Black Heart Speak: A Compilation of Poems, Essay, and Short Stories
ISBN: 9780595672431 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expressed through poetry, essays, and short stories, "Voices from a Black Heart Speak" examines deep-seated beliefs, perspectives, and emotional feelings derived from the cultural development of black people in the United States. We live in a world where television tells us what to want, how we want to live, and what we want to do. We live in a world where fear of the unknown is to be feared and that's considered normal. It may be considered normal and acceptable, but it's totally irrational as our entire lives and world is based on the unknown. We slide through life on a hope and wish that...
Expressed through poetry, essays, and short stories, "Voices from a Black Heart Speak" examines deep-seated beliefs, perspectives, and emotional feeli...
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104,86 zł |
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The New Negro
ISBN: 9780684838311 / Angielski / Miękka / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W.E.B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new negro, the changing African American finding his place in the ever shifting sociocultural landscape that was 1920s America. With poetry, prose, and nonfiction essays, this collection is widely...
From the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Ren...
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105,08 zł |
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The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938
ISBN: 9780691126524 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. By challenging stereotypes of the Old Negro, and declaring that the New Negro was capable of high achievement, black writers tried to revolutionize how whites viewed blacks--and how blacks viewed themselves. Nothing less than a strategy to re-create the public face of "the race," the New Negro became a dominant figure of racial uplift between Reconstruction... When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a... |
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121,74 zł |
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The Black Woman: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780743476973 / Angielski / Miękka / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers
When it was first published in 1970, The Black Woman introduced readers to an astonishing new wave of voices that demanded to be heard. In this groundbreaking volume of original essays, poems, and stories, a chorus of outspoken women -- many who would become leaders in their fields: bestselling novelist Alice Walker, poets Audre Lorde and Nikki Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, activist Grace Lee Boggs, and musician Abbey Lincoln among them -- tackled issues surrounding race... A collection of early, emerging works from some of today's most celebrated African American female writers
When it was first published in 1970, <... |
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96,29 zł |
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Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
ISBN: 9780767910415 / Angielski / Miękka / 828 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars.
Not since Terry McMillan s" Breaking Ice" have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume. A stellar collection of works from more than fifty hot names in fiction, "Gumbo" represents remarkable synergy. Edited by bestselling luminaries Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, this collection spans new and previously published tales of love and luck, inspiration and violation, hip new worlds and... A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well ...
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140,11 zł |
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The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780807856659 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connection to one another: they all hailed from the state of North Carolina. This collection of poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays showcases some of the best work of eight influential African American writers from North Carolina during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In his introduction, William L. Andrews... The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father o... |
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179,30 zł |
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Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader
ISBN: 9780813533018 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the definitive collection of the writings of Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), providing a comprehensive anthology of both the published and unpublished works of this bohemian, bisexual writer. Widely regarded as the enfant terrible of the Harlem Renaissance scene, Thurman was a leader among a group of young artists and intellectuals that included, among others, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Aaron Douglas. Through the publication of magazines such as Fire and Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life, Thurman tried to organize the opposition...
This book is the definitive collection of the writings of Wallace Thurman (1902-1934), providing a comprehensive anthology of both the published and u...
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183,99 zł |
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Zither & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780819564771 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood--especially of years spent in Asia--experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one's own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion." Zither opens with a unique narrative that the author describes as "samurai film as Classic Comic of Shakespeare's King Lear (without using any of Shakespeare's language,...
Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author's autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are conc...
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69,84 zł |
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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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136,63 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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120,86 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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618,99 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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251,19 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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65,46 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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78,81 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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72,68 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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67,47 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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103,95 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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148,50 zł |
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