ilość książek w kategorii: 1801
Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory
ISBN: 9780226035383 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its vernacular level. He shows how the blues voice and its economic undertones are both central to the American narrative and characteristic of the Afro-American way of telling it.
Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Baker offers the basis for a broader study of Amer...
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205,67 zł |
Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism
ISBN: 9780226167275 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Signs and Cities" is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.
Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria... "Signs and Cities" is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for A...
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150,82 zł |
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism
ISBN: 9780226873800 / Angielski / Miękka / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation.
Using Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or...
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123,89 zł |
Teaching African American Women's Writing
ISBN: 9780230003460 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing not only provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by reading and studying the texts, but crucially they explore and demonstrate strategies for teaching African American women's writing which involve students with the texts, with the cultural, historical, political, gendered issues and with engaged critical reading practices. The book will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities, and adult education groups.
The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing not only provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by reading and studying ...
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195,42 zł |
We Wear the Mask: African Americans Write American Literature, 1760-1870
ISBN: 9780231080958 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessible to white readers. Alongside these pioneers of black American literature Zafar juxtaposes some familiar European American Writers. Beginning with Phillis Wheatley's implicit engagements with other colonial era poets, and ending with the ultimately tragic success story of Elizabeth Keckley, ex-slave, seamstress, and confidante to a First Lady, black authors employed virtually every dominant literary genre while cannily manipulating the nature...
Uncovers the strategies early African American writers used both to create an African American identity and to make their visions and stories accessib...
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211,72 zł |
What Else But Love?: The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison
ISBN: 9780231102766 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential American novelists: William Faulkner and and Toni Morrison. Exploring deep-rooted understandings of race and gender and describing how differently their "Americanness" resonates in both writers' works, What Else But Love? considers the legacy of slavery in a variety of ways, from the meaning of mammies and mothers to the question of black manhood.
Weinstein investigates the stories blacks and whites, men and women, tell about each other through the work of two quintessential American novelists: ...
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640,68 zł |
New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism Between the Wars
ISBN: 9780231114257 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 1930s New York "75% of black cultural figures had Party membership or maintained regular meaningful contact with the Party." He stretched the truth, but barely. In a broad-ranging, revisionary account of the extensive relationship between African-American literary culture and Communism in the 1920s and 1930s, William J. Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature--reciprocal obligations first...
Howard "Stretch" Johnson, a charismatic Harlemite who graduated from Cotton Club dancer to Communist Party youth leader, once claimed that in late 193...
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150,82 zł |
The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction
ISBN: 9780231124720 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria...
From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African Amer...
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430,92 zł |
Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
ISBN: 9780252021091 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative study of major twentieth century African-American writers and critics, Sandra Adell takes an unprecedented look at the relationship between black literature and criticism and the complex ensemble of Western literature, criticism, and philosophy. Adell's investigation begins with an analysis of the metaphysical foundations of W. E. B. Du Bois's famous formulation of double-consciousness and how black writing bears the traces of such European philosophers as Kant, Hegel, and Marx. She then examines, in the double context of black literature and European philosophy, the...
In this provocative study of major twentieth century African-American writers and critics, Sandra Adell takes an unprecedented look at the relationshi...
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210,07 zł |
Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama
ISBN: 9780252026768 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection illustrates how African-American male novelists and playwrights have absorbed, challenged, and expanded the conventions of black American writing and, with it, black male identity. From the John Henry Syndrome - a definition of black masculinity based on brute strength or violence - to the submersion of black gay identity under equations of gay with white and black with straight, the African-American male in literature and drama has traditionally been characterized in ways...
Demonstrating the extraordinary versatility of African-American men's writing since the 1970s, this forceful collection illustrates how African-Americ...
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188,53 zł |
When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature
ISBN: 9780252028199 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African American and Native American descent, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote is the first book to theorize an African-Native American literary tradition. In examining this overlooked tradition, the book prompts a reconsideration of interracial relations in American history and literature. Jonathan Brennan, in a sweeping historical and analytical introduction to this collection of essays, surveys several centuries of literature in the context of the historical and cultural exchange and development of distinct...
An exploration of the literature, history, and culture of people of mixed African American and Native American descent, When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote ...
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210,07 zł |
Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem
ISBN: 9780252031946 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of distinctive neighborhood cultures. Slumming in New York shows how the city's rich and poor, foreign-born and native-born, competed for a voice from such diverse vantage points as the East Side waterfront, the Bowery, the Tenderloin's "black bohemia," the Jewish Lower East Side, and mythic Harlem. Investigating a wide range of New York "slumming" narratives in which mainstream outsiders write about marginalized urban insiders, Robert M. Dowling... This remarkable exploration of the underbelly of New York City life from 1880 to 1930 takes readers through the city's inexhaustible variety of dis... |
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457,85 zł |
Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
ISBN: 9780252032110 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By focusing on the ways secrets are told in texts by Jessie Fauset, Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, and others, Leslie W. Lewis suggests an alternative model to the feminist dichotomy of "breaking silence" in response to sexual violence. This fascinating study also suggests that masculine bias problematically ignores female experience in order to equate slavery with social...
Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their ma...
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199,57 zł |
From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
ISBN: 9780252062117 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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122,77 zł |
Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color
ISBN: 9780252066665 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where are the women writers of color? Where are their theoretical voices? This title examines the ways that women writers of color have contributed to the discourse of literary and cultural theory. It focuses on the impact of key issues, such as social construction and identity politics, and on the works of women writers of color.
Where are the women writers of color? Where are their theoretical voices? This title examines the ways that women writers of color have contributed to...
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220,85 zł |
Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson
ISBN: 9780252071959 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clark explores how in their own work, three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.
Clark explores how in their own work, three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave n...
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97,18 zł |
Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
ISBN: 9780252072482 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel restores to its rightful place a body of American literature that has long been overlooked, dismissed, or misjudged. This insightful reconsideration of nineteenth-century African-American fiction uncovers the literary artistry and ideological complexity of a body of work that laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance and changed the course of American letters.
Focusing on the trope of passing -- black characters lightskinned enough to pass for white -- M. Giulia Fabi shows how early African-American authors such as William Wells Brown,... Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel restores to its rightful place a body of American literature that has long been overlooked, dismiss...
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97,18 zł |
Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans
ISBN: 9780253202659 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty.... cogent introduction s]... confirm the central point of the tales: a search for cultural identity and freedom. First-rate." Library Journal ..". deserves a place alongside the classic collection of Negro tales, Mules and Men. Folktales are the stories people tell, and Shuckin and Jivin presents a splendid representative sheaf of the stories black Americans of all social classes tell today.... Professional folklorists will applaud Dance s candor and scholarly rigor." Richard M. Dorson An exciting new collection of Black... ..". a rare combination of inclusiveness and honesty.... cogent introduction s]... confirm the central point of the tales: a search for cultural id... |
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112,53 zł |
The Changing Same: Black Women's Literature, Criticism, and Theory
ISBN: 9780253209269 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s. Deborah McDowell maps this history in readings of Emma Dunham Kelley, Frances E. W. Harper, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Sherley Anne Williams. She examines representations of slavery, sexuality, and homoeroticism; the reception of African American women's fiction in the 1980s; and African American feminist writing in the "Age of Theory." "The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Ren... |
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81,83 zł |
Born in a Mighty Bad Land: The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction
ISBN: 9780253215789 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers-McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s-saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the... The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagole... |
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107,40 zł |