Category - Literary Criticism
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latin...
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latin...
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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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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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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigi...
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Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textu...
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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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Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the ...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of War
HardcoverOriginal price $69.95 - Original price $69.95Original price $69.95$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Play...
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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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Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This unique volume provides each writers reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics, and detailed biographical ...
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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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Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/O Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $93.00 - Original price $93.00Original price $93.00$110.99$110.99 - $110.99Current price $110.99| /Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o ...
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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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Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An "illuminating" (Daily Mail, London) exploration of the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights...
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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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Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, w...
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The Common Reader: First Series
PaperbackOriginal price $10.06 - Original price $10.06Original price $10.06$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Common Reader, a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, was published in two series, the first in 1925 and t...
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920-1924
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The second volume covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer. "Her sensibility, her sensitiveness, her humor, her drama... above al...
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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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César Vallejo, Trilce Y Dadá París: Huellas de Un Estímulo Silenciado
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$145.99$145.99 - $145.99Current price $145.99| /César Vallejo paradoxically discounted the modernist significance of his avant-garde masterpiece, Trilce, published in 1922. Yet, in these poems, t...
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Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
HardcoverOriginal price $130.00 - Original price $130.00Original price $130.00$158.99$158.99 - $158.99Current price $158.99| /In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writ...
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Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the first half of the twentieth century, Black hemispheric culture grappled with the legacies of colonialism, U.S. empire, and Jim Crow. As writ...
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