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“jennifer b fleischner”

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  • Mastering Slavery

    Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives

    by Jennifer B. Fleischner ...
    Series series
    In Mastering Slavery, Fleischner draws upon a range of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, African-American studies, literary theory, social history, and gender studies, to analyze how the slave narratives--in their engagement with one another and with white women's antislavery fiction--yield a far more amplified and complicated notion of familial dynamics and identity than they have generally ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin(Illustrated)

    by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
    Illustrated Edition with 20 beautiful illustrations depicting key scenes from the novelIncludes Summary, Character List, and Author BiographyStep into the pages of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's monumental work that shook the foundations of America and became a powerful force in the fight against slavery. This illustrated edition brings the unforgettable journey of Uncle Tom to li... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Black Venus 2010

    They Called Her "Hottentot"

    Edited by Deborah Willis ...
    As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman’s distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Belabored Professions

    Narratives of African American Working Womanhood

    by Xiomara Santamarina ...
    According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as “doers of the word.” In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.Santamarina focuses on The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Black Cultural Front

    Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

    by Brian Dolinar ...
    Series series Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
    The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial Organizations's effort to recruit black workers inspired growing interest in the labor ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Souls of Mixed Folk

    Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium

    by Michele Elam ...
    The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Exodus Politics

    Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture

    by Robert J. Patterson ...
    Using the term "exodus politics" to theorize the valorization of black male leadership in the movement for civil rights, Robert J. Patterson explores the ways in which the political strategies and ideologies of this movement paradoxically undermined the collective enfranchisement of black people. He argues that by narrowly conceptualizing civil rights in only racial terms and relying solely on a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Unbecoming Americans

    Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945-1960

    by Joseph Keith ...
    Series series The American Literatures Initiative
    During the Cold War, Ellis Island no longer served as the largest port of entry for immigrants, but as a prison for holding aliens the state wished to deport. The government criminalized those it considered un-assimilable (from left-wing intellectuals and black radicals to racialized migrant laborers) through the denial, annulment, and curtailment of citizenship and its rights. The island, ceasing ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • In the Shadow of the Gallows

    Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity

    by Jeannine Marie DeLombard ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more revealing perspectives of publicity and personhood. When the Supreme Court declared in Dred Scott that ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Jazz Internationalism

    Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music

    by John Lowney ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz that concerned both its African American roots and its international appeal. The questions about what was new or even radical about the music initiated debates that writers recapitulated for decades.Jazz ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dreaming Out Loud

    African American Novelists at Work

    by Horace Porter ...
    Dreaming Out Loud brings together essays by many of the most well-known and respected African American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, discussing various aspects of the vocation, craft, and art of writing fiction. Though many of the writers included here are also accomplished poets, essayists, and playwrights, this collection and the essays it contains remains focused on the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD