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Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject

Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject




Review This book will make a major contribution to a range of related fields: Black feminism, feminist studies, African l...
Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women's Novels

Africanism and Authenticity in African-American Women's Novels


Amy K. Levin



Book Description "A groundbreaking work that links the lives and culture of African-American women to those of their A...
Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980 (Studies in African American History and Culture)

Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965-1980 (Studies in African American History and Culture)


Kalenda Eaton



About the Author Kalenda C. Eaton is a professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at Arca...
The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 4)

The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 4)


Langston Hughes



From Library Journal This momentous work (which will total 16 volumes in all) is intended to cover the wide scope of Hug...
The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)


Lovalerie King



Book Description Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature and its author Zora Neale Hurs...
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories


Alice Walker



Review PRAISE FOR YOU CAN’T KEEP A GOODWOMAN DOWN“Its important, frankly political, semi-taboo subject matter...
Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies

Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies


Adetayo Alabi



Review "Black is the color of the autobiographies that Adetayo Alabi rereads in Telling Our Stories. Slaves, creative wri...
Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences: Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject (Studies in Major Literary Authors, 35)

Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences: Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject (Studies in Major Literary Authors, 35)


Terry Baxter



About the Author Terry Baxter received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1998. ...
The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel




Review "Lee's book is valuable not only for demonstrating how much Victorian novels have in common with American slave na...
Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America

Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America


Todd Vogel



About the Author Todd Vogel, a visiting professor of English and American studies at Trinity College, Connecticut, is edi...
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics


Bell Hooks



Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics...
African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison

African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison


Tracey L. Walters



Review  "Not many scholars have the opportunity to trail blaze and publish a seminal work; Walters has a just that, ...
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Race and American Culture)

The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Race and American Culture)


Michael North



Review "All readers...will be hard-pressed to deny North's revisionary insight for twentieth-century literary studies: bl...
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins)

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America (Cultural Margins)


Kenneth Mostern



Review "Mostern provides intriguing readings of...the autobiographies he presents." American Literature Book Desc...
Survivor

Survivor


Octavia E. Butler



Survivor...
The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins

The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins


Julia C. Collins



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. First issued serially by the Christian Register in 1865 and then lost to archival...
History and Memory in African-American Culture

History and Memory in African-American Culture


Genevieve Fabre, Robert O'Meally



Review "...an excellent collection of pieces that makes one more aware of the major markets and repositories of an Africa...
James Baldwin Now

James Baldwin Now


Dwight Mcbride



Review "This excellent volume conceives of Baldwin as a figure crucial to discussions of whiteness, sexuality, and globaliz...
Race, Gender, & Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West

Race, Gender, & Comparative Black Modernism: Suzanne Lacascade, Marita Bonner, Suzanne Cesaire, Dorothy West


Jennifer M. Wilks



About the Author Jennifer M. Wilks is an assistant professor of English and African and African American Studies at the U...
Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larson, & Fannie Hurst (Modern American Literature (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 27.)

Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larson, & Fannie Hurst (Modern American Literature (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 27.)


Licia Morrow Calloway



Black Family (Dys)Function in Novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larson, & Fannie Hurst (Modern American Literature (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 27.)...
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels (American Literary Realism and Naturalism)

Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels (American Literary Realism and Naturalism)


Ryan Simmons



Review "Readers will doubtless view the liberation of Chesnutt from a narrow definition of literary realism as this book'...
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism


Brent Hayes Edwards



Review There are any number of quite impressive issues and approaches in Brent Edwards's The Practice of Diaspora. Seemin...
Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies)

Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies)


Sam Durrant



Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies)...
Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader

Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader


Robert S. Levine



From Library Journal One of the most influential African American leaders of the 19th century, abolitionist, physician, ...
Robert Frost (Critical Insights)

Robert Frost (Critical Insights)


Morris Dickstein



Robert Frost (Critical Insights)...
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Guides to Multicultural Literature)

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Guides to Multicultural Literature)


Lena M. Hill, Michael D. Hill



Review "Unlike other reference guides that mainly deal with plot and character development, this book . . . gives an in-dep...
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures

American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures


Joanna Brooks



Review "Offers...accounts of fascinating moments in American cultural history that remind us of the involvement of people...
Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul

Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul


Dale Peterson



Review “A remarkable, almost epic book. Up from slavery and up from Slavdom: Dale Peterson focuses on comparable m...
Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography (S U N Y Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema Video)

Dancing on the White Page: Black Women Entertainers Writing Autobiography (S U N Y Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema Video)


Kwakiutl L. Dreher



From the Back Cover Dancing on the White Page examines the popular autobiographies of six well-known Black women entertai...
Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston

Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston


Sharon L. Jones



From The appreciation of Zora Neale Hurston as an author and her impact on literature both in the U.S. and abroad is ref...