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M Genevieve West
Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years …

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

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 Pragm…

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Martyn Bone
The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

This book considers the full range of Jesmyn Ward's career thus far. Martyn Bone examines key themes running throughout Ward's writing: Black life in the U.S. South; the legacies of slavery and segregatio…

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Dorothy West,
Where the Wild Grape Grows

The first book-length study of Dorothy West, now with new writings and insights Originally published in 2005, Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings , 1930--1950 was the first book-length study of …

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Dorothy West,
Where the Wild Grape Grows

When Where the Wild Grape Grows was published in 2005 by the University of Massachusetts Press, it was the first book-length critical study of Dorothy West. Since then, the publication of more volumes on …

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Hazel V Carby
Reconstructing Womanhood

With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American wome…

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Michael Chapman
Literary Transactions in South Africa

A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically content…

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Claudia Rankine
Triage

A groundbreaking new direction for Claudia Rankine, the best-selling author of Citizen and Just Us Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. …

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Amy E Earhart
Digital Literary Redlining

"While canon concerns seem to be a relic of 1990s academia, we are, once again, at a historical moment where there is resistance to teaching texts by writers of color and texts that deal with race/et…

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José Felipe Alvergue
Purplish

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible/policed cultural affects of our time. purplish challenges the idea of an objective or unbiased cultural rational…

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Mary Jo Bona
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs wo…

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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize--winning author of BelovedToni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconscious.In a dazz…

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Robyn Creswell
City of Beginnings

"City of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development o…

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Jim Crow Modernism

The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color lin…

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Andrea Stone
Black Prison Intellectuals

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black …

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Sofia Ahlberg,
Magic, Literature and Climate Pedagogy in a Time of Ecological Crisis

Channeling the creative potential of humanity to transition towards joyous and just futures in times of life-threatening climate change, this book uses metaphors of magic and shapeshifting to imagine liva…

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Andrea Stone
Black Prison Intellectuals

Recovering critical, understudied writings from early archives, this book calls into question the idea that the Black prison intellectual movement began in the twentieth century, tracing the arc of Black …

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Ashley M Jones
What the Mirror Said

When did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old--reciting "Harriet Tubman" by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem,…

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H Lawrence Freeman,
The Negro in Music and Drama

Harry Lawrence Freeman (1869 -1954) preceded Scott Joplin, Shirley Graham, and William Grant Still in African-American grand opera composition. One of the earliest American composers to infuse his scores …

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Laura Ryan
D. H. Lawrence and Black Modernism

The first book-length study of D. H. Lawrence and Black writers, Laura Ryan examines connections between Lawrence and four key Black and mixed-race modernist writers - Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Jean …

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