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(Underground) Railroad in African American Literature
Av Darcy A. Zabel, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2004
378 kr
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The (Underground) Railroad in African American Literature offers a brief history of the African American experience of the railroad and the uses of railroad history by a wide assortment of twentieth-century African American poets, dramatists, and fiction writers. Moreover, this literary history …
Toni Morrison and the Bible
Contested Intertextualities
Häftad, 2006
829 kr
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This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison’s use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Ideal for courses on Morrison or on explorations of the …
After the Pain
Critical Essays on Gayl Jones
Av Fiona Mills, Keith B. Mitchell
Häftad, 2006
478 kr
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As a poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, Gayl Jones has always resisted labels in her quest to find a liberating voice for black women and herself. With a poet’s lyricism and a musician’s ear for rhythm, she continually seeks new ways to confront the barriers, traumas, …
Eating the Black Body
Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2006
468 kr
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In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation and its aftermath, Carlyle Van Thompson illumines the racialized sexual desire that reduces Black people to commodities for consumption. Eating the Black Body examines the often-sadistic forms of sexual violence during the period of …
Black Outlaws
Race, Law, and Male Subjectivity in African American Literature and Culture
Häftad, 2010
485 kr
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In this provocative and original exploration of Black males and the legal establishment, Carlyle Van Thompson illuminates the critical issues defining Black male subjectivity. Since the days of Black people’s enslavement and the days of Jim Crow segregation, Black males have been at odds with the …
Reading Contemporary African American Drama
Fragments of History, Fragments of Self
Av Trudier Harris, Jennifer Larson
Häftad, 2007
478 kr
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Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Pearl Cleage find their creative inspiration in historical events from slavery to the civil rights movement. From the Emmett …
Race Riots and Resistance
The Red Summer of 1919
Av Jan Voogd
Häftad, 2008
444 kr
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Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any …
Race Riots and Resistance
The Red Summer of 1919
Av Jan Voogd
Inbunden, 2008
1627 kr
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Race Riots and Resistance uncovers a long-hidden, tragic chapter of American history. Focusing on the «Red Summer» of 1919 in which black communities were targeted by white mobs, the book examines the contexts out of which white racial violence arose. It shows how the riots transcended any …
Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Literary Emergence
Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity- An Anthology
Häftad, 2008
670 kr
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Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. She has consistently resisted attempts by patriarchs and matriarchs alike to romanticize and redefine that …
Nineteenth-Century Black Women’s Literary Emergence
Evolutionary Spirituality, Sexuality, and Identity- An Anthology
Inbunden, 2008
2180 kr
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Since her forced migration to the United States, the African American woman has consciously developed a literary tradition based on fundamental evolutionary principles of mind and body. She has consistently resisted attempts by patriarchs and matriarchs alike to romanticize and redefine that …
Tipping on a Tightrope
Divas in African American Literature
Inbunden, 2012
1290 kr
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When Black runway models began throwing phones and VH1’s «Divas Live» riveted viewers, a new paradigm for Black women had fully evolved in the form of the Black Diva. Tracing the trajectory of the Diva figure from the Italian castrati to Ntozake Shange’s Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter …
Tragic Black Buck
Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination, Second Edition
Av Carlyle Thompson, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2020
715 kr
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The new edition of The Tragic Black Buck: Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination offers a fresh perspective on this trail blazing scholarship, and the singular importance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a challenge to the racial hegemony of biological white supremacy. …
Women, Violence, and Testimony in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston
Av Diana Miles, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2003
293 kr
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Zora Neale Hurston produced some of the most provocative literature of the twentieth century. This book examines the numerous scenes of violence against women in her fictional works and the development of her feminist ideals. This groundbreaking book is the first full-length discussion of Hurston’s …
Black Women’s Activism
Reading African American Women’s Historical Romances
Av Rita B. Dandridge, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2004
378 kr
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Black Women’s Activism is the first book-length study of African American women’s historical romances. This book examines romances written from 1989 to the present, and discusses their black heroines’ resistance at particular moments in history – from the colonization movement to the Texas oil …
Voices in Black Political Thought
Av Ricky K. Green, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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The Black community has historically suffered stasis on the political level. W.E.B. Du Bois originally identified the source of the stasis as a contradiction of political goals within individuals and Black culture. During the last century, the development of African American political organizations …
Songs Became the Stories
The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970–2005
Av Robert H. Cataliotti, Carlyle V. Thompson
Häftad, 2007
393 kr
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The Songs Became the Stories: The Music in African-American Fiction, 1970–2005 is a sequel to The Music in African-American Fiction, which traced the representation of music in fiction from its mid-nineteenth-century roots in slave narratives through the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. The Songs …
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance
Course Design and Classroom Strategies
Av Michael Soto
Häftad, 2008
416 kr
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Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the field’s leading scholars address a wide range of …
