Black category: 406 books
Tomorrow is Another Day
The Woman Writer in the South, 1859--1936
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1982
From the mid-nineteenth century through at least the first half of the twentieth, the southern code of appropriate feminine behavior required that women depend on sources outside themselves for sustenance, direction, and expression. The chivalric ideal that placed the southern lady on a pedestal often...
Cosmopolitan Fictions
Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.
The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global...
Writing Beyond Race
Living Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination.
In the spirit of previous classics...
by John Chua
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
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Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways...
Asylum Speakers
Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Offering the first interdisciplinary study of refugees in the Caribbean, Central America, and the United States, Asylum Speakers relates current theoretical debates about hospitality and cosmopolitanism to the actual conditions of refugees. In doing so, the author weighs the questions of "truth...
Quince Duncan
Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers.
The grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Critics in this volume reassess the prescient nature of Richard Wright's mind as well as his life and body of writings, especially those directly concerned with America and its racial dynamics. This edited collection offers new readings and understandings of the particular America that became Wright's...
Race and Displacement
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.
The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement...
by Durthy A. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
African, American
From Tarzan to Dreams from My Father Africa in the US Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Draws on a remarkable range of pop culture and historical source material – from Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright, the African Queen to the Lion King
Addresses such topical events such as Kony2012, American responses to the Ebola crisis, and responses to Obama's Kenyan parentage
Includes...
The Tar Baby
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale
Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions...
To Shape a New World
Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America’s most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature,...
by James W. Coleman, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In Understanding Edward P. Jones, James W. Coleman analyzes Jones’s award-winning works as well as the significant influences that have shaped his craft. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones has made that city and its African American community the subject of or background for most of his...