Literature
Literature
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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African and African American Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Classroom: A Critical Guide (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
The essays in this collection discuss multicultural issues in children’s and adolescent literature, focusing particularly on African and African American cultures. They challenge our understanding of what, in an age of globalization, multicultural texts really are. Cumulatively, these essays illustrate...
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The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni’s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the...
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Correlations: Life + Work: Bentel & Bentel Architects
The monograph will feature some thirty projects, including: Le Bernardin restaurant, New York Hall Arts Hotel, Dallas The Modern restaurant at MoMA, New York Craft restaurant, New York Suites at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas St. Stephen Church, Warwick, NY...
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Chateau Reawakening: One Couple’s Wild And Wonderful Journey To Restore A Crumbling French Masterpiece
Chateau Reawakening is the story of the highs and lows of one couple's journey to save an eighteenth century French chateau.When former Australian politician Tim Holding and his fiancee Felicity Selkirk discovered a crumbling French chateau just south of the Loire...
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12 Truths & a Lie: Answers to Life's Biggest Questions
Life is full of difficult questions and many of them often seem impossible to answer. In 12 Truths & a Lie, author and pastor J.D. Greear confidently tackles some of the most perplexing questions that Christians face. It’s not unusual to...
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A Little Bit of Angel Numbers: An Introduction to Messages from the Universe
Have you ever randomly looked at the clock and noted that it was 11:11? Then congratulations: you’ve received a message from the universe. Angel numbers, repeating numerical sequences with mystical significance tied to numerology, are a spiritual concept that is...
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I Wonder: Celebrating Daddies Doin’ Work
Perfect for Father's Day or all year round! What do daddies do with their children? They style hair, they carpool, they cuddle (after they look under beds for monsters). They play, they motivate, and they comfort. Dads may sometimes wonder...
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Bad Kitty Does Not Like Easter
Are you ready to find some Easter eggs, Kitty?Kitty doesn’t want an Easter egg. Kitty wants the Easter egg. Kitty wants…the GOLDEN EGG!So she goes on the hunt.There! A blue egg! But Kitty doesn’t want a blue egg.Or there! A purple egg! But Kitty...
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Iowa's Changing Wildlife: Three Decades of Gain and Loss
Much has changed with Iowa’s wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once were rare in Iowa are now common, and others like sandhill crane, river otter, and...
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A Death for Adonis / A Death for a Darling: An F&M Duet
With Adonis and Darling we are delighted to open the Robert Forsyth series, which was written primarily in the 1980s but carries all the flavors (er, flavours) that fans of British Golden Age mystery have come to expect. Forsyth himself—a brilliant young barrister forced to...
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Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Weird Sisters
Shona McMonagle is your ordinary, garden-variety librarian: comfortably padded, in her middle years, expert in various arcane martial arts. She also has an impressive knack for time travel (“impressive” may be overstating things: her first two forays—revolutionary Russia, 19th-century France—went...
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The Zombies: every album, every song
Most lauded for the gorgeously baroque Odessey and Oracle, and the ageless singles, ‘She’s Not There’ and ‘Time of the Season’, The Zombies’ were at the forefront of The British Invasion, recording music described by Tom Petty as ‘so original...
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