Black category: 406 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Nella Larsen's novels Quicksand and Passing, published at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, fell out of print and were thus little known for many years. Now widely available and taught, Quicksand and Passing challenge conventional "tragic mulatta" and "passing" narratives. In part 1, "Materials,"...
Summary and Analysis of The Underground Railroad
Based on the Book by Colson Whitehead
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
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.
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by Mary Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1999
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
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Colson Whitehead
The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural...
by Donna L. Gilton
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect...
Plagiarama!
William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's...
Ethics in the Gutter
Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2017
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects...
Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas
From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Religiosity, Cosmology and Folklore
The African Influence in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways
Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews...
Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism
Narrative Appropriation in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the modern era. By examining working-class literature...
Reaping Something New
African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative...
by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography...