Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire
Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire are considered by many critics and literary historians to be the foremost Caribbean poets of the 20th century, yet they are rarely treated together. This work deals with the two writers within a comparative framework,...
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Poetique Et Politique de l'Alterite: Colonialisme, Esclavagisme, Exotisme
Stereotypes and identity assignments innervate the scenes and imaginaries of French-language culture. This transdisciplinary collective work studies the possible emergence of new forms of Otherness and their ambivalence in a dialogue between Europe and the Americas.
$98.00
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
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Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of...
$38.95
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
$110.00
Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature (Volume 88)
Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of...
$110.00
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winnerMorrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism,...
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Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation, and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial identities are historically constructed, formed by colonization, slavery, nationalist philosophies, and...
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality)
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality)
One of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction not only refutes the tacit assumption that there is a lack of quality African American vampire fiction worthy of study or reading but...
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Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity...
$180.00
Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Literary writers of the new African diaspora are at the forefront of exploring these exciting approaches to what black subjectivity...
$50.00
Other People's Diasporas: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture
With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants suddenly saw waves of newcomers. In this...
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Othello
Lois Potter traces Othello 's acting tradition as it affected the playing of Othello, Desdemona, characters originally played by a white actor and a boy, respectively, and Iago. She examines the stage and screen versions of the play, including a full study...
$33.99
Readings on Othello
Shakespeare's classic tale of jealousy, betrayal, and their tragic consequences remains one of the bard's greatest works. The play continues to captivate actors, theatergoers, scholars, critics, and ordinary readers in each new generation.
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Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$32.00
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$123.50
Black British Aesthetics Today
Black British Aesthetics Today is a collection of twenty-four exciting critical and theoretical essays exploring current thinking about the hottest artistic, literary, and critical works now being produced by black Britons. This book features a number of chapters by the...
$88.00
The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes...
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The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness
Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to understand itself as devoid of a black presence. In The Nigrescent Beyond, Ricardo Wilson proposes...
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New Perspectives on The Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Practices, Dialogues
This collection of essays attempts to expand the notion of the «Black Atlantic» beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its remarkable ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional dichotomies, thereby providing...
$154.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Negro-African literature in French is one of a number of appellations most commonly used to describe a body of literary texts written in French by Africans and those of African descent from roughly 1920 onward. Discussing the numerous other terms...
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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...
$64.99
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...
$208.00
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation
The Minoritarian and Black Reason: A Philosophico-Literary Investigation addresses the question, how can we understand and relate responsibly to others who differ from us in our everyday concerns? The work looks at theories about difference in a variety of philosophical...
$117.00
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...
$97.50
Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora
Masculinity Under Construction: Literary Re-Presentations of Black Masculinity in the African Diaspora analyzes Black male identity as constructed by Black male authors. In each chapter, Dr. Jefferson-James discusses a different "construction" or definition of masculine identity produced by men of...
$136.50
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...
$28.00
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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Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic: From Pre- to Postcolonial
This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This study focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions...
$68.99
A Literary Revolution
Original works, diverse perspectives, and multiple disciplines intersect in A Literary Revolution. This book features much-needed perspectives of people of African descent and delves into those perspectives through the use of literature, film, short stories, poetry, and philosophy. Through various academic...
$67.99
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Publisher : Lookout Books (November 15, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1940596475
ISBN-13 : 978-1940596471
$18.95