Classic American Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 6

Tracy K Smith
Fear Less

Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as "inaccessible," "irrelevant,&quo…

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Confidence is…

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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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Patrice D Douglass
Engendering Blackness

"In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structura…

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Patrice D Douglass
Engendering Blackness

"In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structura…

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A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

With its epicenter in New York City's Harlem neighborhood, the Harlem Renaissance was a singularly influential period of African American history. A cultural revolution that combined artistic expression w…

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Gabriela Alemán,
Smoke

FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family …

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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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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Namwali Serpell
On Morrison

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor---"a revelatory encounter with the Nobel laureate's oeu…

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Molly Farrell
New World Calculation

Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of r…

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Tymek Woodham,
The Poetics of Agency

Focusing on the poetry and poetics of four pivotal authors, this book examines how experimental approaches to poetic form in the post-war United States actively intervened in and reframed period-defining …

lieferbar ab 16.4.2026.

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Masha Gessen, Kim Dana Kupperman
The Best American Essays 2026

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author of The Future Is History and How to Survive Totalitarianism and New York Timescolumnist, M. Gessen. The Best American series…

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Yéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven

Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. Here his adventures appear for the first time in the original language -- transcribed directly …

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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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We Rode the Rhythms as One

We Rode the Rhythms as One offers readers an immersive journey into the life and legacy of one of America's most unorthodox and inspiring poets. More than just a literary analysis, this book captures the …

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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature

Brings together scholars and practitioners to present an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth literature.For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its role in systemic raci…

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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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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Manuel Muñoz
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, Muñoz's second story collection won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award. A new foreword by Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz's st…

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