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African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places
ISBN: 9781137003508 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone who has seen a horror film or read a Stephen King novel is familiar with gothic tropes: dark villains who never tire of chasing hapless maidens; supernatural monsters; heroes who are sometimes weak; twisted, yet uncannily familiar, landscapes; the list goes on. Yet the gothic is more than a long list of tropes deployed to terrify. African American Gothic reveals the myriad ways African American writers manipulate the gothic genre to critique traditional racial ideologies. The book investigates fiction from each major era in African American culture, including Narrative of the Life of...
Anyone who has seen a horror film or read a Stephen King novel is familiar with gothic tropes: dark villains who never tire of chasing hapless maidens...
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467,99 zł |
Scandalous Fictions: The Twentieth-Century Novel in the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9781403995841 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological revolutions, each inscribed across the fictions it produced. This fascinating new volume re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ten groundbreaking texts against the challenges of their milieux, it considers twentieth century fiction as a tradition of transgression, perennially caught between license and licentiousness, erudition and sedition.
Riven by world wars and cold wars, atrocities and genocides, the twentieth-century was also one of sexual, cultural and ideological revolutions, each ...
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194,97 zł |
Black Comics
ISBN: 9781441135285 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
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137,57 zł |
Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781611476187 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on the wide variety of her work and started to create knowledge that broadens our understanding. Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Sylvia Mayer and Monika...
Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest i...
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236,08 zł |
Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing
ISBN: 9781611484915 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination. Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and influence of her legacies in her multiple...
Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison's w...
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472,16 zł |
Gender and Lynching: The Politics of Memory
ISBN: 9781137373489 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authorsprobe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological approaches as comparative historical work, content and media analysis, as well as literary criticism."
The authorsprobe the reasons and circumstances surrounding the death and torture of African American female victims, relying on such methodological ap...
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194,97 zł |
The Black Indian in American Literature
ISBN: 9781137389176 / Angielski / Twarda / 129 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to the Contemporary era, Byars-Nichols re-centers a marginalized group challenges stereotypes and conventional ways of thinking about race and culture.
The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativ...
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253,48 zł |
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780415846288 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in American Studies and in American literary history, Johnson argues that it is impossible to consider what the "South" and what "southernness" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. Johnson challenges the...
Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the ...
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229,32 zł |
Balancing the Books: Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
ISBN: 9780415861052 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about how the legacies of slavery linger in the lives and actions of their characters, although the narrative strategies through which they render these themes ultimately diverge. Dussere brings considerations of debt and repayment, exchange and accounting, and capital and the market-concepts inseparable...
Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the ...
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239,52 zł |
Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature
ISBN: 9780822355816 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery. Exploring the resonance between U.S. literature and U.S. jurisprudence, Holloway reveals Toni Morrison's Beloved and Charles Johnson's Middle Passage as stories about personhood and property, David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as structured by evidence law, and Nella Larsen's...
In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of li...
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456,07 zł |
Along The Way: A Collection of Essays
ISBN: 9781479740932 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,58 zł |
Nickel and a Prayer: The Autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter
ISBN: 9781933202655 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually unknown outside of her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American social activists of the early-to mid-twentieth century. In her autobiography A Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that recollects her formative years in post-Civil War South and her activist years in Cleveland.
Virtually unknown outside of her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American social activist...
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297,55 zł |
Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781138001770 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of... The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of... |
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265,01 zł |
Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
ISBN: 9781453722329 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MEMOIRS OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE. by ELEANOR ELDRIDGE. Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
MEMOIRS OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE. by ELEANOR ELDRIDGE. Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
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67,92 zł |
Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
ISBN: 9780691150529 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,04 zł |
Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults
ISBN: 9780415762731 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of all major authors and illustrators - past and present. As the only reference volume of its kind available, this book is a valuable research tool that provides quick access for anyone studying black children's literature - whether one is a student, a librarian charged with maintaining a children's literature collection, or a scholar of children's literature. The Fourth Edition of this renowned reference work illuminates African... Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults is a biographical dictionary that provides comprehensive coverage of... |
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265,01 zł |
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
ISBN: 9781612194004 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only. When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer s last chance to speak at length about his life and work. The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin s career,... Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be def... |
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67,06 zł |
American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
ISBN: 9781469615219 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three...
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United...
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203,91 zł |
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire Between the World Wars
ISBN: 9781611686135 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American culture as the United States evolved into a bioceanic global power. The author examines the narrative of the "black Pacific" the literary and cultural production of African American narratives in the face of America's efforts to internationalize the Pacific and to institute a "Pacific Community," reflecting a vision of a hemispheric regional order initiated and led by the United States. The black Pacific was...
The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings th...
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203,89 zł |
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
ISBN: 9780812223231 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Cosmopolitanism Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo "Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that...
Black Cosmopolitanism Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo "Black Cosmopolitani...
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152,87 zł |