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18 produkter
ruth weiss
Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art
Av Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, Thomas Antonic
Inbunden, 2021
1444 kr
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ruth weiss, born in Berlin in 1928 to Austrian-Jewish parents, arrived in San Francisco in 1952 after hitchhiking through the United States. Crowned years later as the “Goddess of the Beat Generation” by San Francisco Chronicle critic Herb Caen, weiss has worked for almost seven decades with a …
Afro-Latin Soul Music and the Rise of Black Power Cosmopolitanism
›Hemispheric Soulscapes‹ between Spanish Harlem, Black Rio and Panama
Inbunden, 2024
1667 kr
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In the 1960s and 1970s, soul music not only gave voice to a new sense of assertiveness among African Americans in the United States but also contributed to the popularization of Black Power across the Americas. Tracing the emergence of Afro-Latin Soul scenes among Puerto Rican youth in New York, …
Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman
Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison
Inbunden, 2022
1322 kr
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Whiteface
Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
Av Michel Büch
Inbunden, 2022
1596 kr
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This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is …
Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature
Inbunden, 2022
1492 kr
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This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the …
Unruly Narrative
Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹
Inbunden, 2022
1492 kr
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How Whiteness Claimed the Future
The Always New vs The Always Now in US-American Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1351 kr
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No detailed description available for "How Whiteness Claimed the Future".
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History
A Poetics of Impermanence
Av Antonia Purk
Inbunden, 2023
1480 kr
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Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid’s texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This …
ruth weiss
Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art
Av Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, Thomas Antonic
Häftad, 2023
269 kr
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ruth weiss, born in Berlin in 1928 to Austrian-Jewish parents, arrived in San Francisco in 1952 after hitchhiking through the United States. Crowned years later as the “Goddess of the Beat Generation” by San Francisco Chronicle critic Herb Caen, weiss has worked for almost seven decades with a …
Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature
Häftad, 2023
302 kr
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This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the …
Whiteface
Improv Comedy and Anti-Blackness
Av Michel Büch
Häftad, 2023
299 kr
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This study originates in the observation that improv comedy or improvised theater has such a vast majority of white people practicing it, while other improvisational or comedic art forms (jazz, freestyle rap, stand up) are historically grounded in and marked as Black cultural production. What it is …
Narrating, Framing, Reflecting ‘Disability’
21st-Century ‘American’ Perspectives
Av Wilfried Raussert, Sarah-Lena Essifi
Inbunden, 2024
1522 kr
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Fostering a dialog between Critical Disability Studies, American Studies, InterAmerican Studies, and Global Health Studies, the edited compilation conceptualizes disability and (mental) illnesses as a cultural narrative enabling a deeper social critique. By looking at contemporary cultural …
New Hollywood and Countercultural Whiteness
Affective Affinities and the Politics of Male Expressivity
Inbunden, 2024
1682 kr
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In the late 1960s, the white counterculture enters the screens with Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider; in 1976, a backlash seems to have taken place with white male protagonists such as Travis Bickle, Howard Beale, and Rocky Balboa being surrounded by non-white and female others. But these films …
Life Narratives, Creativity, and the Social in the Americas
Av Wilfried Raussert, Susana Rocha Teixeira
Inbunden, 2024
1522 kr
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Resorting to life narratives as a comprehensive umbrella term and embracing hemispheric American studies paradigms, this edited volume explores the interrelations between life narratives, the social world, creativity, and different forms of media to narrate and (re)present the self to see in which …
Unruly Narrative
Private Property, Self-Making, and Toni Morrison’s ›A Mercy‹
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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No detailed description available for "Unruly Narrative".
Reconfigurations of the Bildungsroman
Taking Refuge from Violence in Kincaid, Danticat, hooks, and Morrison
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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The present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, …
How Whiteness Claimed the Future
The Always New vs The Always Now in US-American Literature
Häftad, 2024
226 kr
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No detailed description available for "How Whiteness Claimed the Future".
Outlines of Abolition Democracy
Black Leftist Writing in 1930s America
Av Anthony Obst
Inbunden, 2026
1458 kr
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This study traces the outlines of democratic theories and practices as they took shape among African American leftists in the 1930s who wrote about the unfinished nature of abolition. Drawing on W.E.B. Du Bois’s framework of abolition democracy, first developed in his 1935 historical study Black …
