Category - Literary Criticism
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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the signi...
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Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner, 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association's Peter C. Rollins Book PrizeDiverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color examines the ...
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The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, Roger A. Sneed illuminates the interplay of Black religious thought with sc...
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The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /One of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction not o...
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The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Investigates the parallel and intertwined histories of race, technology, and science fictionThe Sound of Culture explores the histories of race a...
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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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Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the sig...
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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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Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Since the end of the Second World War—and particularly over the last decade—Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular cultu...
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
HardcoverOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fict...
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar AwardWinner of the 2021 Quinn AwardAn innovative biography of Edgar A...
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The Illustrated World of Tolkien
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An enchanting reference book for everything Tolkien!J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional universe is as infinite as the human imagination, but not all wh...
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The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy—"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative gr...
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The Art Of The Hobbit By J.r.r. Tolkien
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /J.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in this edition. When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was alre...
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The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three (History of Middle-earth #8)
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's The War Of The Ring is an enthralling account of the writing of the Book...
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The Languages Of Tolkien's Middleearth
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth — a dicitonary of fourteen languages, ...
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The Making of Middle-Earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This volume is perhaps the most in-depth exploration ever undertaken of Tolkien's world. Accessible but authoritative, and fully illustrated, it is...
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Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-Earth
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Tolkien Dogmatics overflows with insights and is a must-read for serious students of Tolkien." --The Gospel CoalitionTheology through mythologyJ. ...
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The Complete Tolkien Companion
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /For all those who journey to Middle Earth, here is the complete guide to its lands, legends, histories, languages, and people. The Complete Tolki...
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The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expandedSamuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is ...
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Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler's Science Fiction Novels
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /This book explores the ways in which Butler's protagonists experience Rites of Passage and are on a quest for justice. The author posits that throu...
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Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation...
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Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Muslim world is not commonly associated with science fiction. Religion and repression have often been blamed for a perceived lack of creativity...
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Representing Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /J. R. R. Tolkien's classic works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion comprise a legendarium with a complex world-system presen...
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