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The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
ISBN: 9780821420072 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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126,78 |
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Frank Marshall Davis: The Fire and the Phoenix (a Critical Biography)
ISBN: 9780984122899 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissance man of the Black Chicago RenaissanceNand to explore the myths and legacy that he left to the world.
Waddell Takara writes with an uncanny ability to dissect the humanity of Frank Marshall DavisNjournalist, editor, poet, labor activist, and Renaissanc...
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76,88 |
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The Gathering Place: Ordinary Women; Extraordinary Lives
ISBN: 9781432770211 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,73 |
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Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression
ISBN: 9781448616503 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative life in process. Using essays, short stories and some poetry as the foundation for this work, he captures the essence of his own 'coming of age' tale. Witty, heart-rending and deeply honest, Syrup Sandwich: a life of measured progression offers the young adult a snapshot into the potential pitfalls & promise of the maturation process. And, for the more seasoned reader, this work breathes an air of nostalgia into life's doldrums.
In the storytelling tradition of Ellison & McCourt, with his first effort, Devlon E Waddell offers a collection of captions chronicling a creative lif...
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32,17 |
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Writing at the Crossroads: Black World Essays
ISBN: 9781466227712 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing at The Crossroads: Black World Essays is an interdisciplinary collection of essays shaped by the forces that gave rise to the Modern Black Studies Movement. The essays trace both the development of the Black Studies Movement, and the evolution of one of the discipline's important scholar-practitioners-Dr. Norman Harris. The essays are introduced by a prologue that establishes a framework consistent with the way African people have traditionally made sense of the world. From there, Harris uses Karenga's Nguzo Saba to organize the essays into three sections. The first section of essays...
Writing at The Crossroads: Black World Essays is an interdisciplinary collection of essays shaped by the forces that gave rise to the Modern Black Stu...
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60,69 |
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The Annotated African American Folktales
ISBN: 9780871407535 / Angielski / Twarda / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset's "Negro Folk Tales from the South" (1927), Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton's The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a... Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated Afr... |
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192,68 |
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"We Must Be Up and Doing": A Reader in Early African American Feminisms
ISBN: 9781551119175 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The readings in this unique anthology give readers a sense of early black feminism across regions, movements and organizations. African American women have been 'up and doing' for their communities for as long as they have been in the United States, and their ability to resist the institution of slavery was central to the survival of African Americans. This anthology gives readers access to African American feminist thought in its foundational period by drawing together key documents from the late 1820s through the 1920s. Going beyond a focus on the 'greats' of black feminism to include...
The readings in this unique anthology give readers a sense of early black feminism across regions, movements and organizations. African American women...
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241,87 |
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Notes of a Native Son
ISBN: 9780807006115 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the... In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful tod...
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111,56 |
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Rooted Reflections: A Collection of Hair Stories, Trials and Triumphs
ISBN: 9780984518470 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,21 |
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A Literacy Tour On America: A Poem For Joy And A Poem For Pain
ISBN: 9781440447464 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second edition, with full color features, January of 2009: Omar Dyer in 2007 created the pen name called TheFanNJ: and launch a movement on changing America. This book was nominated for a Nobel in Literature, and has a promising story about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Omar Dyer during this year became the Internet Phenonmon that struck a nation by story -- he also was iTunes top promoter for their iPod music.
This is the second edition, with full color features, January of 2009: Omar Dyer in 2007 created the pen name called TheFanNJ: and launch a movement o...
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161,81 |
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The Portable Malcolm X Reader: A Man Who Stands for Nothing Will Fall for Anything
ISBN: 9780143106944 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, Manning Marable
Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, has reshaped perceptions of one of America's great revolutionary thinkers. This volume, the first collection of major documents addressing Malcolm X in decades, features never-before-published material, including articles from major newspapers and underground presses, oral histories, police reports, and FBI files, to shine a brighter light on Malcolm's life and times. Conceived as both a... A look at Malcolm X's life and times from his Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, Manning Marable
Manning Marable's Pulitzer Prize winning b... |
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100,19 |
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Tired of Being Black
ISBN: 9781475945249 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,20 |
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The Negro in Illinois: The WPA Papers
ISBN: 9780252037696 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration programs. The Federal Writers' Project helped to sustain "New Negro" artists during the 1930s and gave them a newfound social consciousness that is reflected in their writing. Headed by Harlem Renaissance poet Arna Bontemps and white proletarian writer Jack Conroy, The Negro in Illinois employed major black writers living in Chicago during the...
A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division...
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507,29 |
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James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity
ISBN: 9780814253908 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Baldwin's and Morrison's black male characters employ as they negotiate discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. According to Oforlea, these characters navigate a discursive divide that separates limiting representations of black males in dominant discourses from a decolonized and empowered subjectivity. Specifically, the discursive divide creates an invisible boundary between how black subjects are seen, imagined, and experienced in...
In James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the Rhetorics of Black Male Subjectivity, Aaron Ngozi Oforlea explores the rhetorical strategies that Bald...
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221,82 |
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Conversations with Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781617037597 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books through independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books, Everett has established himself as one of America's--and arguably the world's--premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his many honors since... For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed hi... |
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165,85 |
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The Invitation and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9781475049954 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Invitation and Other Short Stories is a captivating collection of dramatic short stories that will leave you wanting more. Perfect short reads to squeeze into your busy day or lunch break. From smuggling butter onto a plane, to a dead woman walking, and a parent's worst nightmare, this collection of eight stories will send you on an emotional roller coaster ride. Kleenex optional.
The Invitation and Other Short Stories is a captivating collection of dramatic short stories that will leave you wanting more. Perfect short reads to ...
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24,23 |
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Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace
ISBN: 9781603449762 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.
In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained fame for advocating black economic empowerment and a repatriation movement, Horace wrote a back-to-Africa novel, "Five Generations Hence," the earliest published novel on record by a black woman... Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achie...
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Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace
ISBN: 9781603449779 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.
In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained fame for advocating black economic empowerment and a repatriation movement, Horace wrote a back-to-Africa novel, "Five Generations Hence," the earliest published novel on record by a black woman... Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achie...
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117,02 |
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Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism
ISBN: 9780299309800 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover and recover neglected lives, texts, and genres, enlarge the wide range of critical methods used by scholars to study these works, and expand the understanding of autobiography to encompass photography, comics, blogs, and other modes of self-expression. This book also examines at length the proliferation of African American autobiography in the twenty-first century, noting the roles of digital genres, remediated lives, celebrity lives, self-help...
This timely volume embraces and interprets the increasingly broad and deep canon of life narratives by African Americans. The contributors discover an...
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302,42 |
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Somebody in the White House Looks like Me: Thoughts and Poems of Ordinary Black People on the Election of President Barack Obama
ISBN: 9781475980189 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the first African American to serve as its country's president. This was a momentous occasion for both black and white Americans. "In Somebody in the White House Looks like me," author Rosetta L. Hopkins shares interviews of average people in the black community to reveal how they felt about the election of a black president and his inauguration and what their expectations of the new president-elect were at the time. Ms. Hopkins interviewed ordinary black people ages sixteen to ninety-three of both sexes and from a broad... In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the first African American to serve as its country's president. This was a momentous occasi... |
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