Category - Literary Criticism
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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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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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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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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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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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Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible prin...
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Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army"
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of ...
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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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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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My Southern Home Or, the South and Its People
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and r...
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The Negro Problem
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /he necessity for the race's learning the difference between being worked and working. He would not confine the Negro to industrial life, but believ...
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The Negro
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /This is the classic history of the African peoples in Africa and the New World, a repudiation of the absurd belief, widely held in the post-Civil W...
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Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent ...
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Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. with Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books)
PaperbackOriginal price $9.85 - Original price $9.85Original price $9.85$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In 1841, a 33 year-old black carpenter named Simon Northup was living with his wife and children in upstate New York. A well-known fiddle player, h...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
HardcoverOriginal price $99.99 - Original price $99.99Original price $99.99$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The remarkable autobiography of a Black woman evangelist. As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha E...
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all ...
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Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice | Winner of the New Deal Book AwardAn immersive account of the New Deal project that created state-b...
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Christmas in Minnesota: A celebration in memories, stories, and recipes of seasons past
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Like the warmth of a cabin fireplace and the twinkle of lights along the edge of a frozen lake, Christmas in Minnesota evokes memories of holiday...
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Campfire Stories: Tales from America's National Parks
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Our national parks are beautiful and unique places, often serving as an introduction to the outdoors and inspiring an appreciation for nature and w...
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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we writ...
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West of Harlem: African American Writers and the Borderlands
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Finalist, Weber-Clements PrizeLuminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others-...
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Driven to the Field: Sharecropping and Southern Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping--crucial to understanding life in the southern United States--from Emancipation to the twen...
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