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Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzaf's Short Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco's greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work ...
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Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
PaperbackOriginal price $5.99 - Original price $5.99Original price $5.99$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The Collected Poems and Prose of Jupiter Hammon compiles the works of Jupiter Hammon, America's first published black writer. When his poem "An Eve...
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Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison's Libretto
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In January 1856, Margaret Garner--an enslaved woman on a Kentucky plantation--ran with members of her family to the free state of Ohio. As slave ca...
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Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Manning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the ear...
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Magic City
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An award-winning poet evokes his childhood in Louisiana.Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activ...
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Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Love and Abolition, Alison Rose Reed traces how the social life of Black queer performance from the 1960s to the present animates the unfinished...
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Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The era of national liberation and decolonization may have come and gone, but postcolonialism remains a largely elusive ideal in the early twenty...
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic pract...
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Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic pract...
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Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /An engaging examination of Black Girl Magic and its significance in American literatureIn Light and Legacies, author Janaka Bowman Lewis examines B...
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Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes
HardcoverOriginal price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /A collection of interviews, speeches, and essays by Langston Hughes. Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes is a record o...
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Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregati...
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James Baldwin's Another Country: Bookmarked
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"Lucid, candid reflections on Black identity."--KIRKUS Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country, is ...
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Intersections: Gender, Nation, and Community in Arab Women's Novels
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This rigorously documented collection brings together for the first time original essays by leading authorities in the field on nine contemporary...
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesWhy do b...
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In the Shadow of Invisibility: Ralph Ellison and the Promise of American Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /With In the Shadow of Invisibility, Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. offers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of...
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Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In Impossible Stories, John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within an Afro-pessimistic framework to e...
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Imperium in Imperio
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A new critical edition of Sutton Griggs’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel, which continues to shed light on understandings of Black politics....
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Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808
PaperbackOriginal price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /As the eighteenth century is entirely bereft of narratives written by African women, one might assume that these women had little to no impact on B...
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Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora, Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveal...
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Hemingway and the Black Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, edited by Gary Edward Holcomb and Charles Scruggs, explores a conspicuously overlooked topic: Hemingway's wi...
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Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard's 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison's Moral and Religious Vision
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these ...
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
PaperbackOriginal price $5.00 - Original price $5.00Original price $5.00$8.99$8.99 - $8.99Current price $8.99| /James Weldon Johnson transforms seven inspiring spiritual sermons of African American preachers into poetry and equates the Black oral tradition ...
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Gilgamesh (A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary te...
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