Category - Literary Criticism

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300274141 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 08-08-2023 Pages: 112

An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat "Create dangerously, for people who read danger...

Baldwin's Harlem is an intimate portrait of the life and genius of one of our most brilliant literary minds: James Baldwin. Perhaps no other writ...

For the first time, this book presents the distinguished, prolific, and highly experimental writer Juan Felipe Herrera. This wide-ranging collecti...

To explore the life of Mahmud Sami al-Barudi is to gain a nuanced perspective on the many facets--the perils and promises--of change in the rapidly...

Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Discover Award f...

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has held pivotal roles in the evolution and revolu...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be def...

In Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo-a laboratory mouse and a man-who captured the hearts of millions of readers around th...

At once a memoir of an exotic life, a meditation on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship be...

February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afte...

No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his peo...

More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America--between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,00...

Widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, spirituality, and mortality, poet Lucille Clifton has published thirteen volumes...

No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...

Anne Spencer between Worlds provides an indispensable reassessment of a critically neglected figure. Looking beyond the poetry she published during...

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction ...