Captive City
4,294円 Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural” indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a ti...
The Practice of Citizenship
5,727円 In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and re...
Selling Antislavery
6,205円 Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse and increasingly segmented audience. To do so, it produced a wide array of print, material, and visual media: almanacs and slave narratives, pincush...
In the Shadow of the Gallows
3,821円 From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more rev...
Our Living Manhood
5,727円 When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their political...
Early African American Print Culture
3,817円 The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over ...
Insensible of Boundaries
4,294円 The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black feminist, activist, journalist, and educator whose achievements can be traced across Canada and...
Reading the Renaissance
3,714円 From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city’s Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local programming, and other public venues, Black women in particular debated the role of literatur...
Reading Percival Everett
250円 African-American writers willingly attend European symposiums dealing with their work because scholars here focus on textual aspects American readers frequently leave aside. The essays collected here arose on the occasion of such a symposium sponsored by the Conseil Scientifique de l'Université F...
“Let Miss Jane tell the story”
250円 The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) est l'ouvrage le plus connu et le plus lu de l'écrivain louisianais Ernest J. Gaines (1933- ), également auteur de cinq autres romans et d'un recueil de nouvelles. Les huit articles réunis dans ce volume répondent aux questions que pose cette autobiog...
La couleur du temps dans la culture afro-...
250円 «The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.» À l'orée d'un nouveau siècle, les essais ici rassemblés, fruits d'un atelier de l'AFEA, apportent une réflexion sur le sens de l'intuition de W.E.B. Du Bois. L'opposition blanc/noir débouche sur une gamme de tons qui introdu...
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