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The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
ISBN: 9780143105343 / Angielski / Miękka / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisive storyteller of the aftermath of slavery in the South, is widely credited with almost single-handedly inaugurating the African American short story tradition and was the first African American novelist to achieve national critical acclaim. This major addition to Penguin Classics features an ideal sampling of his work: twelve short stories (including conjure tales and protest fiction), three essays, and the novel "The Marrow of Tradition."... A collection from one of our most influential African American writers
An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an in... |
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88,63 zł |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
ISBN: 9780791097892 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each title features:
- Concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly overview of each work - "The Story Behind the Story," detailing the conditions under which the work was written - A biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography. Each title features:
- Concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly overview of each work - "The Story Behind the Story," detailing the c... |
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122,15 zł |
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator: A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928
ISBN: 9780813032320 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The editorship of three prominent black newspapers--the New York Globe, New York Freeman, and New York Age--provided Fortune with a platform to speak against racism and injustice.For nearly five decades his was one of the most powerful voices in the press. Contemporaries such as Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington considered him an equal, if not a superior, in social and political thought. Today's histories often...
Born into slavery, T. Thomas Fortune was known as the dean of African American journalism by the time of his death in the early twentieth century. The...
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263,94 zł |
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African American Experience: Black History and Culture Through Speeches, Letters, Editorials, Poems, Songs, and Stories
ISBN: 9781579127732 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, painful, celebratory, and inspiring.
The African American Experience is a one-of-a-kind and absolutely riveting collection of more than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and works of fiction tracing the course of black history in America from the first slaves brought over in the 16th century to the events of the present day. All aspects of African American history and daily life are represented here, from the... This wide-ranging archive, capturing more than four centuries of African American history and culture in one essential volume, is at once poignant, pa...
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123,27 zł |
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The Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: 9781604502060 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.
Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.
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51,20 zł |
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The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson
ISBN: 9780812975321 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "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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84,78 zł |
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Granta 102: New Nature Writing
ISBN: 9781905881024 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. This special issue features Kathleen Jamie on human pathology, Jonathan Raban on the road in the American West and Robert Macfarlane ghost-hunting in the Fens. Plus, new fiction by Lydia Peelle and a graphic story from David Heatley.
As our conception and experience of nature changes, so too does the way we write about it. This special issue features Kathleen Jamie on human patholo...
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92,44 zł |
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William Wells Brown: A Reader
ISBN: 9780820332246 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include "Clotel," the first African American novel; "The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom," the first published African American play; "Three... Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Rema... |
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189,12 zł |
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I Am Your Sister
ISBN: 9780195341485 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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207,68 zł |
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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9780821418833 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thirty-three years old at the time of his death in 1906, he had published four novels, four collections of short stories, and fourteen books of poetry, as well as numerous songs, plays, and essays in newspapers and magazines around the world.
In the century following his death, Dunbar slipped into relative obscurity, remembered mainly for his dialect poetry or as a footnote to other more canonical figures of the period. "The Complete Stories of... The son of former slaves, Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the most prominent figures in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century. Thir...
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127,03 zł |
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The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9780821418598 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 1906). In these four novels, readers can explore the characters, landscape, atmosphere, and visionary sensibilities of this preeminent African American writer.
In the prime of his literary career, between 1898 and 1902, Dunbar published "The Uncalled, " "The Love of Landry," "The Fanatics," and "The Sport of the Gods." Despite widespread critical interest, the novels have been largely subordinated to his short stories and poetry.... At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experience the full range and imaginative powers of the collected novels of Paul Laurence D...
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224,84 zł |
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The Crisis of Negritude: A Study of the Black Movement Against Intellectual Oppression in the Early 20th Century
ISBN: 9781599424729 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Negritude movement was initiated in the 1930s by the sisters Jane and Paulette Nardal, who created a journal called The Review of the African World-- a journal that recognized the value of black experiences globally. The name of the movement was grafted from a poem by Aimie Cesaire, "The Return to the Native Land." Negritude flourished between 1930 and 1960, until its eventual collapse due to problems with definitions, ideological floundering, and the burden of foreign language that was inflicted by the writings of Jean Paul Sartre.
The Negritude movement was initiated in the 1930s by the sisters Jane and Paulette Nardal, who created a journal called The Review of the African Worl...
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92,00 zł |
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Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
ISBN: 9781604732788 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theory and gay/lesbian literature. As a gay African American writer, Delany's cerebral, experimental prose crosses lines of genre, gender, sexuality, and class. Several of his works--Dhalgren, The Einstein Intersection, Babel-17, Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, and the Neveryon quartet are considered landmarks of "new wave" science fiction. His essays and critical works approach a wide variety of subjects from a perspective that is...
A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of the most acclaimed figures in contemporary literary theo...
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117,25 zł |
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The Negroes In Negroland; The Negroes In America; And Negroes Generally (1868)
ISBN: 9780548667729 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Also, The Several Races Of White Men, Considered As The Involuntary And Predestined Supplanters Of The Black Races.
Also, The Several Races Of White Men, Considered As The Involuntary And Predestined Supplanters Of The Black Races.
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120,63 zł |
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The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
ISBN: 9780195390322 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history. Yet the genre's impact extended far beyond the borders of the U.S. In a period when few books sold more than five hundred copies, slave narratives sold in the tens of thousands, providing British readers vivid accounts of the violence and privation experienced by American slaves. Eloquent, bracing narratives by Frederick Douglass, William Box Brown, Solomon Northrop, and others...
Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a pow...
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198,42 zł |
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Ghetto Philosophy
ISBN: 9780984325542 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,35 zł |
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Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seasons in a Woman's Life
ISBN: 9780979238529 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inner strength of women that causes them to stand with confidence when thier wings have been broken is beautiful. Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seasons in a Woman's Life is a celebration of this strength. The contributors to this collection have opened thier hearts to expose you to experiences that could have broken them, yet they emerged Free to Fly with a testimony. These writings will provoke discussion, inspire you to dream and encourage you to ponder your own freedom.
The inner strength of women that causes them to stand with confidence when thier wings have been broken is beautiful. Free to Fly: Wisdom for the Seas...
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57,61 zł |
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Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9780739122532 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the writings of key political figures. It comparatively and dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism, Garveyism, Indigenisme, New Negro Renaissance, Negritude, and Afrocriollo. To study the key ideologies that emerged as collective black thought within the Diaspora, particular attention is given to the philosophies of Black Nationalism, Black Internationalism, and Universal Humanism. Each...
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of literary and sociopo...
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479,00 zł |
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Trod the Stony Road: A Young Man's Journey from the Mississippi to the Charles
ISBN: 9781419671272 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph F. West grew up amid a hopelessness that defined his childhood: the obstacles of poverty and violence, low expectations, and limited dreams. What was it that drove him, as a child, toward achievement, that urged him beyond depression to develop into a man certain of his potential and recognizing a future of success and accomplishment? In his stirring and poetic memoir, Trod the Stony Road: A Young Man's Journey from the Mississippi to the Charles, West shares his inspiring journey from small-town poverty to the Harvard School of Public Health. Along the way, he lost hope and found it,...
Joseph F. West grew up amid a hopelessness that defined his childhood: the obstacles of poverty and violence, low expectations, and limited dreams. Wh...
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28,29 zł |
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9781604442069 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,49 zł |
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