3,840円 In Breaking the World, Justin L. Mann argues that Black speculative fictions are an essential but overlooked archive for understanding the modern security ambitions of the United States. Foregrounding how the contemporary security state renders Black life insecure, Mann theorizes worldbreaking: s...

310円 Die toten Seelen – Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur zeichnet als picaresker Gesellschaftsroman die Fahrt des Unternehmers Tschitschikow nach, der im Russland vor der Bauernbefreiung verstorbene Leibeigene ("Seelen") erwirbt, um Kredit zu erschleichen. In Besuchen bei Manilow, Korobotschka, Nosdrjo...

13,122円 An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce. Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature provides deft and detailed readings of writ...

0円 J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post–Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organizations, and tireless work servin...

0円 In a series of columns published in the African American newspaper the Christian Recorder, the young, charismatic preacher Henry McNeal Turner described his experience of the Civil War, first from the perspective of a civilian observer in Washington, DC, and later, as one of the Union army’s firs...

0円 Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print in which he examined the interrelationships among race, politics, economics, gender, culture, religion, violence, and empire, making him the most prolific African Ame...

0円 Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer, a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of the late nineteenth century. Drawing heavily on nineteenth-century print culture, the authors tell ...

4,934円 In belonging to an oppressed/colonized racial group in the West, where their voices, humanity, history, culture, reality, and subjectivity are perpetually under siege, distorted, and/or erased, African American writers since the 1960s have struggled to be heard and represented. Yet, despite the r...

4,510円 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prominent figures in the Black Arts Movement (BAM) converted to Islam and took new names. Poets such as Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Muhammad Touré, and Marvin X incorporated Islamic words and expressions, references to the Qur’an, and Arabic script, as we...

5,482円 In Black Aliens, Joanna Davis-McElligatt examines extraterrestrial and interdimensional aliens in Black speculative media and culture, reading them as figural representations of a cosmic diasporic experience and charged metaphors for Black fugitivity and escape. As figures of the enslaved and the...

1,400円 Com pioneirismo e inovação científica, Conceição Evaristo produziu, nos anos 1990, sua dissertação de mestrado sobre literatura negra, falando de si e de nós num ambiente que ainda não dava a devida importância à autoria negra, ou nem mesmo reconhecia essas produções como literatura. Em Literatur...

2,818円 Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artis...