African Literary Criticism – alle Bücher, LPs und CDs, Seite 2

Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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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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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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Toni Morrison
Language as Liberation

Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation's collective unconsciousIn a daz…

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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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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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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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Toyin Falola,
Chinua Achebe

An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Af…

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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…

lieferbar ab 17.4.2026.

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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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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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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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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…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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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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Howard Rambsy Ii,
Writing Black Panther

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's pres…

lieferbar ab 14.5.2026.

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Col…

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Robert J Patterson
Black Narratives of Slavery

Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--en…

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