Literature
Literature
Surprise Party
Samantha is planning a spectacular party for her husband’s birthday. It would be great, she thinks, if she could go back over Marty’s life, find the people who’ve meant the most to him, and bring them to the party. But...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book Two: Volumes III, IV & V
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book One: Volumes I & II
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
$25.99
The Parenthood Dilemma
Our Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023“Rushton's work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.”—Jenny Hamilton, Booklist (starred review)A bold feminist investigation into the mother of all questions; whether or not...
$26.00
Forbidden Notebook
“Powerful.” —The New Yorker“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." —NPRNow in paperback, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New Statesmen Best Book of the Year, and Mother Jones favorite book of the year, Forbidden Notebook is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba...
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Emergency
For readers of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Odell, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth as we head towards ecological catastrophe.“Emergency is an incisive kaleidoscope of past and present, nature and...
$22.00
Do You Remember Being Born?
A Best Book of 2023 - Marie Claire, Inside Hook, Our Culture Magazine, WIRED"[A] timely and lovely new novel." —Lincoln Michel, The New York Times Book Review"A compassionate and lyrical portrait . . . Do You Remember Being Born? far outshines its peers." —Terry Nguyen, Boston...
$26.00
Deceit
“This is . . . real literature, pure and honest.”—Vladimir Nabokov"The scintillating English-language debut from Felsen . . . [is] a fittingly volatile record of ruinous desire. —Publishers WeeklyOnce considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love...
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Astra Magazine, Filth (Issue 2)
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore...
$18.00
Astra Magazine, Ecstasy (Issue 1)
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore...
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Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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Writing Rumba: The Afro-Cubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
$78.00
What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language
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What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language
In What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of "negritude" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of "Negro expression." For English, these two concepts...
$140.00
T.S. Eliot and the Heritage of Africa: The Magus and the Moor as Metaphor
The Magus and the Moor... explores Eliot's debt to black culture and its origins stemming from his St. Louis background, the anthropological studies made while he was a student at Harvard, and his noted artistic debt to Othello. Robert Fleissner uses these...
$70.75
Secular, Scarred and Sacred
Secular, Scarred and Sacred: Education and Religion Among the Black Community in Nineteenth-Century Canada focuses on the paternal yet exclusionary role of Protestant Whites and their churches among refugee slaves and free Blacks in nineteenth-century Upper Canada―many of whom had migrated...
$130.99
Negra (Narrativas Hispanicas) (Spanish Edition)
Nirvana del Risco es la primera heroína negra cubana que se muestra desnuda, abierta y descarnada ante lo que por prejuicios muchos esconden: la bisexualidad, el racismo, la política, el miedo y la cercana intimidad con el enemigo. Hija de...
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The Myth of Aunt Jemima
The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers...
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Measuring Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English Writing
This work closely analyzes and evaluates the literary achievement and the sociopolitical impact of three eighteenth-century Anglo-African authors -- Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano -- and their work, which collectively represents the earliest emergence of black self-consciousness in...
$115.00
Masters of the Drum: Black Lit/oratures Across the Continuum (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies)
Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art. This triple play―engagement with the...
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Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature (Afro-Romance Writers) (Volume 1)
Manuel Zapata Olivella and the “Darkening” of Latin American Literature is an examination of the fictional work of one of Latin America’s most prolific, yet overlooked, writers. Born in Colombia to parents of mixed ancestry, Zapata Olivella used his novels to...
$45.50
Malambo
A powerful historical novel set in Peru in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.“In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs...
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Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law,...
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Los agravios de la letra: La letra colonial y la formación de la alteridad afro-andina
Este estudio explora la representación de la población negra en tres diferentes textos correspondientes a Ecuador, Perú y Bolivia (Alto Perú a finales del periodo colonial). La naturaleza heterogénea de estos textos constituye la base y dirección de este trabajo;...
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Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past
Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how contemporary black...
$39.00
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood...
$18.00
Black Names
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society...
$215.99
Black Families In Crisis: The Middle Class
First published in 1989. The idea for this volume grew out of discussions held by a group of Black psychiatrists based in Washington, D.C., and the responses of a number of colleagues who attended a symposium, Black Families in Crisis,...
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Afrikanische Soldaten aus deutscher Sicht seit 1871: Stereotype, Vorurteile, Feindbilder und Rassismus (Afrika und Europa. Koloniale und Postkoloniale ... and Postcolonial Encounters) (German Edition)
Historisch gewachsene Urteile über andere Menschengruppen sind eine der Grundlagen für den modernen Alltagsrassismus. Solchen überlieferten Meinungen wird am Beispiel der französischen Kolonialsoldaten und afroamerikanischen GIs in dieser Studie nachgegangen. Sie bilden eine Referenzgruppe für Afrikaner, Afroamerikaner und Afrodeutsche. Dabei...
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Afrikanische Bauformen des Erzählens: Spezifische Eigenarten des frankophonen Romans Schwarzafrikas (FTSK. Publikationen des Fachbereichs ... Mainz in Germersheim) (German Edition)
Das Zögern, afrikanische Romane in französischer Sprache mit literaturwissenschaftlichen Methoden zu untersuchen, liegt in der weitverbreiteten Überzeugung begründet, daß eine Analyse unter diesem Aspekt unangemessen sei, da die Gattung Roman eine nicht indigene, sondern importierte Kunstform ist. Darüber hinaus wehren...
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