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Violence in Francophone African and Caribbean Women's Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /African and Caribbean peoples share a history dominated by the violent disruptions of slavery and colonialism. While much has been said about the...
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Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversati...
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Using Corpora for Language Learning and Teaching
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /How can you use corpora in your classroom? With the increasing use of corpora in classrooms, the need to understand how to use corpora in language ...
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Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring togethe...
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Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 In Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics, Sean Guynes and Martin Lund bring togethe...
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Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation a...
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They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of A...
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The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction uncovers a rich archive of “white trash” fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. Aft...
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The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of 'Minor Literature'
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /An overview of the Swahili novel, its place in a globalized world and a reflection on the status and dynamism of Kafka's concept of 'minor literatu...
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The Story of the Banned Book: Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz's nove...
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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fictionThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race a...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Dover Thrift Editions)
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly o...
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The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940...
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The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /This welcome study delivers a long-overdue analysis of the works of Ann Petry (1908-1997), a major mid-twentieth-century African American author. P...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an exp...
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The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an exp...
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofo...
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The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent...
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The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /McLendon shows how the nineteenth-century stereotype of the tragic mulatto as invented by white writers became both a political tool and an artis...
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley: With Letters and a Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $7.95 - Original price $7.95Original price $7.95$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Born in Africa in 1753, Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped at the age of seven and sold into slavery. At nineteen, she became the first Black America...
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /One of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction not o...
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The Mudimbe Reader
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of...
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The Mudimbe Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of...
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