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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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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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Pramod K Nayar,
Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment

"Examining the work of more than 50 poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, this b…

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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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Arab Women Writers

**"An immense, indispensable resource."-CHOICE,Named an Outstanding Academic Title Selection"As a women's studies librarian, I treasure this guide as a reference tool."- Feminist Colle…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fate the Hunter

"A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and eary Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt. In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained chee…

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A Demon Spirit

"Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abu Nuwas was renowned for his innovations in poetic genre and style was larger-than-life figure even among his contemporaries in Abbasid Baghdad. …

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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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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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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--ens…

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