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  • Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Feminism and Diaspora

    by Elise Auvil, Payel Basu, Chitra Divakaruni, Atreyee Gohain, Liesl King, Parimala Kulkarni, Cynthia Leenerts, Shaweta Nanda, Kalyanee Rajan0, Neila Seshachari1, Metka Zupancic2, Robin E. Field4, S. M. Assella5, Summer Pervez Sultan6, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong7, Nalini Iyer8, Pallavi Rastogi9 ...
    Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s provocative and popular fiction. In their engaging and comprehensive introduction, editors Amritjit Singh and Robin Field explore how Divakaruni’s short stories and novels have been shaped by her own struggles as a new immigrant and by the influences she imbibed from ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Arts Education in Action

    Collaborative Pedagogies for Social Justice

    by Joni Boyd Acuff, Seema Bahl, Elizabeth Delacruz, Elizabeth Garber, Elizabeth Gould, Kirstin Hotelling, Tuulikki Laes, Monica Prendergast, Elizabeth Saccá, Alexandra Schulteis, Amritjit Singh, Stephanie Springgay ...
    Series series Common Threads
    Arts educators have adopted social justice themes as part of a larger vision of transforming society. Social justice arts education confronts oppression and inequality arising from factors related to race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, ability, gender, and sexuality.This edition of Common Threads investigates the intersection of social justice work with education in the visual arts, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"

    by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem, Diana Paulin, Daphne Lamothe, Bruce Barnhart, Ben Glaser, Lori Brooks, Robert Stepto, Amritjit Singh ...
    James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Postcolonial Theory and the United States

    Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

    Edited by Amritjit Singh, Peter Schmidt ...
    Probing essays that examine critical issues surrounding the United States's ever-expanding international cultural identity in the postcolonial era.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a "transnational" moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Postcolonial Theory and the United States

    Race, Ethnicity, and Literature

    Edited by Amritjit Singh, Peter Schmidt ...
    At the beginning of the twenty-first century, we may be in a “transnational” moment, increasingly aware of the ways in which local and national narratives, in literature and elsewhere, cannot be conceived apart from a radically new sense of shared human histories and global interdependence. To think transnationally about literature, history, and culture requires a study of the evolution of hybrid ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

    by Silvia Schultermandl, Peter Schmidt, Elleke Boehmer, Martha J. Cutter, Thadious M. Davis, Robin E. Field, Rahul K. Gairola, Fred Gardaphe, Ayesha Hardison, Jasbir Jain, Zubeda Jalalzai, Charles Johnson, Auritro Majumder, Arnold Rampersad, Catherine Rottenberg, Amritjit Singh, Werner Sollors, Robert B. Stepto, Nibir K. Ghosh, Lynda Ng, Nalini Iyer, Cheryl A. Wall ...
    Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Revisiting India's Partition

    New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics

    by Nazia Akhtar, Amit Rahul Baishya, Nandita Bhavnani, Ilyas Chattha, Amrita Ghosh, Kaiser Haq, Jasbir Jain, Parvinder Mehta, Radhika Mohanram, Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, Masood Raja, Amber Fatima Riaz, Jeremy A. Rinker, Tarun K. Saint, Tasneem Shahnaaz, Babyrani Yumnam, Md. Rezaul Haque ...
    Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

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  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    by Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

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  • Going to the Territory

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    "The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."-- Washington Post Book WorldThe seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides ... Read more

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Deep River

    Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

    by Paul Allen Anderson, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD