1,760円 A major reassessment of Ralph Ellison's literary legacy that explores the mysteries surrounding his unfinished second novel. Ralph Ellison may be the preeminent African American author of the twentieth century, though he published only one novel, 1952's Invisible Man. He enjoyed a highly successf...

3,315円 Mario Isnenghi ha insegnato italiano e storia nelle scuole medie superiori ed è stato poi professore di Storia contemporanea e di Storia del giornalismo nelle Università di Padova, Torino e Venezia. Sono rappresentati in questa raccolta- fra letteratura e storia, ricerca e impegno civile – i vari...

4,772円 Benjamin Fagan is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (University of Georgia Press, 2016).

3,581円 This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones’s Pragmatics of Democracy reads African American literature, from its beginnings through the mid-nin...

1,408円 Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes is a hybrid work of music writing and cultural criticism by Terry Blade that brings together lyrics, album notes, and essays grounded in Black American blues as lived practice. Written in conversation with three interconnected albums, American Descendant of Slavery, E...

3,980円 An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora Growing up in World War II–era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marshall (1929–2019) was fiercely driven to become a writer, making art from the world she knew, ...

1,858円 An expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure. Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributorsーthe Practicing Refusal Collectiveーare visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers,...

4,371円 In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into beingーand what existence in that future looks like. He considers what people of African descent face and the proper response to the situation...

5,250円 Isiah Lavender III is University Professor at Syracuse University. He is the author of Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (Ohio State UP, 2019) and other works.

3,575円 A landmark bookーthe first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writers In late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than f...

2,114円 The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a “post-racial” phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, ...

6,302円 Octavia E. Butler's works of science fiction invite readers to consider the structures of power in society and to ask what it means to be human. Butler addresses social justice issues such as poverty, racism, and violence against women and connects the history of slavery in the United States with...