Category - Literary Criticism
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African Battle Traditions of Insult: Verbal Arts, Song-Poetry, and Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $159.99 - Original price $159.99Original price $159.99$174.99$174.99 - $174.99Current price $174.99| /This book explores the "battles" of words, songs, poetry, and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora. These are usually highly competitive,...
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Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Winner of the SAMLA Studies AwardHonorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly...
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Afrodiasporic Forms: Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Afrodiasporic Forms explores the epistemological possibilities of the "Black world" paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the ...
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Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraraci...
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Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $89.95 - Original price $89.95Original price $89.95$112.99$112.99 - $112.99Current price $112.99| /Felice D. Blake's Black Love, Black Hate: Intimate Antagonisms in African American Literature highlights the pervasive representations of intraraci...
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Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant min...
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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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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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Chinua Achebe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his...
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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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The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumo...
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that...
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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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Black Women Writers at Work
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black l...
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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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Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Chisholm (English, U. of Alberta) examines recent experiments in queer city writing through Walter Benjamin's dialectical optics on metropolitan cu...
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On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender--but at the same time, being angry always results from the ...
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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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The Blind Man and the Loon: The Story of a Tale
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is mag...
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Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Opacity and the Closet interrogates the viability of the metaphor of "the closet" when applied to three important queer figures in postwar American...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...
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The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...
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Being There, Being Here: Palestinian Writings in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Arabic is unconditionally the national language of Palestinians, but for many it is no longer their mother-tongue. More than a century after the ea...
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