Category - Literary Criticism
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind
HardcoverOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery...
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Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership--this is the fiction that shaped African American cu...
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Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Continuous Pasts, author Sakiru Adebayo claims that the post-conflict fiction of memory in Africa depicts the intricate ways in which the past i...
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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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Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and Imagination in African-American Cultural History and Letters
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$172.99$172.99 - $172.99Current price $172.99| /Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particul...
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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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Progressive Traditions, 61: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /According to a dichotomy commonly found in studies of American Indians, some noble Native people defiantly defend their pristine indigenous traditi...
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Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The years between Oklahoma statehood in 1907 and the 1971 reemergence of the Cherokee Nation are often seen as an intellectual, political, and lite...
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Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injusti...
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Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite of the overdetermining conditions of precarity and injusti...
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The Ant's Gift: A Study of the Shahnameh
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity. ...
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Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twen...
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Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $84.00 - Original price $84.00Original price $84.00$100.99$100.99 - $100.99Current price $100.99| /Creole Noise is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century t...
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Creole Indigeneity: Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, S...
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe m...
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War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work
PaperbackOriginal price $25.50 - Original price $25.50Original price $25.50$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /In the three years, eight months, and twenty days of the Khmer Rouge's deadly reign over Cambodia, an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished as ...
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Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as mu...
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Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781531505448 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication Date: 12-05-2023 Pages: 288
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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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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery...
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The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. Whil...
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The Africans: A Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /Contemporary Africa is the product of three major influences--an indigenous heritage, Western culture, and Islamic culture. The Africans looks at t...
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, s...
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Russian-Arab Worlds: A Documentary History
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this bo...
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