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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Series
Language
English
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Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison's literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as "a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race, " and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and...
6) Amiri Baraka
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Amiri Baraka.
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 470
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Countee Cullen.
12) Ernest Gaines
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 584
Publisher
Twayne
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Ernest Gaines.
13) James Baldwin
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 290
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of James Baldwin.
Author
Series
Twayne's studies in short fiction volume no. 47
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of Langston Hughes. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 17
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Invisible Man, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
Author
Series
Twayne's studies in short fiction volume no. 72
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Provides an in-depth critical introduction to the short stories of Charles W. Chesnutt. Includes a detailed analyses of every significant story, biographical information, a chronology of the artist's life and works, and a representative selection of critical responses.
17) DuBose Heyward
Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 392
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of DuBose Heyward.
19) Black girl magic
Series
BreakBeat poets volume 2
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Black Girl Magic continues and deepens the work of the first BreakBeat Poets anthology by focusing on some of the most exciting Black women writing today. This anthology breaks up the myth of hip-hop as a boys club, and asserts the truth that the cypher is a feminine form."--from Amazon.com.
20) Toni Morrison
Author
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Toni Morrison.
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