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  • Of Latitudes Unknown

    James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

    Edited by Professor Alice Mikal Craven, Dr. William E. Dow, Dr. Yoko Nakamura ...
    Of Latitudes Unknown is a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism.This volume joins recent critical collections in “un-fragmenting” Baldwin and establishing further conjunctions in his work: the essay ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary

    Edited by Dr. William E. Dow, Professor Alice Mikal Craven, Dr. Yoko Nakamura ...
    In African American fiction, Richard Wright was one of the most significant and influential authors of the twentieth century. Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary analyses Wright's work in relation to contemporary racial and social issues, bringing voices of established and emergent Wright scholars into dialogue with each other.The essays in this volume show how Wright's best work asks ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Anna Letitia Barbauld

    New Perspectives

    by Stephen Bygrave, E. J. Clery, Jocelyn Harris, Sonia Hofkosh, Naomi Lightman, Sabine Volk-Birke, Joanna Wharton, Isobel Armstrong, Isobel Grundy, Felicity James, Scott Krawczyk, Michelle Levy, Rachel Trethewey, Dr Gillian Dow ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    Series Book 2 - Timely Classics in Education
    W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, not only captures the experience of African Americans in the years following the Civil War but also speaks to contemporary conditions. At a time when American public schools are increasingly re-segregating, are increasingly underfunded, and are perhaps nearly as separate and unequal as they were in earlier decades, this classic can help ... Read more

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  • The Signifying Monkey

    A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

    by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ...
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of The Underground Railroad

    Based on the Book by Colson Whitehead

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Underground Railroad tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Colson Whitehead's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead includes:Historical ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

    1920 to the Present

    Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • James Baldwin's Turkish Decade

    Erotics of Exile

    by Magdalena J. Zaborowska ...
    Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. Turkey was a nurturing space for the author, who by 1961 had spent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The White Clover Project

    Phase 1

    by James Alexander ...
    Series Book 1 - White Clover
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  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Edited by Sandra G. Shannon, Sandra L. Richards ...
    Series Book 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Read more

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  • Selected Letters of Langston Hughes

    Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel

    by Langston Hughes ...
    This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters ... Read more

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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