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Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections betwee...
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Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /How do Palestinians live, imagine and reflect on home and exile in this period of a stateless and transitory Palestine and a sharp escalation in ...
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Samuel Selvon
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /The first full-length study of Selvon that covers all aspects of his fictional world - poems, radio dramas, short fiction, and novels. It shows t...
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Return to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later...
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Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The social realist movement, with its focus on proletarian themes and its strong ties to New Deal programs and leftist politics, has long been co...
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Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Fresh and electrifying—stories, poems, and essays by African and diaspora writers, edited by author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. Relations punctures t...
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Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
HardcoverOriginal price $129.95 - Original price $129.95Original price $129.95$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-firs...
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Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-firs...
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REGULATIONS OF ROBBERS: LEGAL FICTIONS OF SLAVERY AND RESISTANCE
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780814250815 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Ohio State University Press Publication Date: 07-15-2001 Pages: 270 Product ...
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Reading Pleasures: Everyday Black Living in Early America
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In the early United States, a Black person committed an act of resistance simply by reading and writing. Yet we overlook that these activities also...
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Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A unique and comprehensive collection of 26 literary essays that provides real evidence of the rich cultural history of black women in America. ...
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Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey h...
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Race and Romance: Coloring the Past
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue. Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural ...
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Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780807179796 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: LSU Press Publication Date: 10-25-2023 Pages: 246
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Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.50 - Original price $24.50Original price $24.50$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still sh...
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Progress Compromised: Social Movements and the Individual in African American Postmodern Fiction
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Progress Compromised, John L. Glenn examines how African American literature engages in debates about the political and cultural tensions promp...
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Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Private Lives, Proper Relations begins with the question of why contemporary African American literature--particularly that produced by black women...
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Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Literatures
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In this innovative study, Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins, John Blair Gamber examines urbanity and the results of urban living—traffic, g...
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Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual
HardcoverOriginal price $89.00 - Original price $89.00Original price $89.00$111.99$111.99 - $111.99Current price $111.99| /2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT StudiesRichard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr ass...
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Olive Schreiner
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Olive Schreiner, who was born in 1855 in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for thinking about the complex debates surrounding ge...
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Nothing Personal
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, an...
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Notes of a Native Son
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in AmericaIn an age of Black Li...
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Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s - 1960s
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$123.99$123.99 - $123.99Current price $123.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781847013828 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: James Currey Publication Date: 10-17-2023 Pages: 216 Series: African Articul...
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Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $124.95 - Original price $124.95Original price $124.95$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States, edited by James J. Donahue, Jennifer Ho, and Shaun Morgan, is the first book-length volume of ...
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