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Audiofuturism

Science Fiction Radio Drama and the Black Fantastic Imagination

by andré carrington ...

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. While adaptation studies has long privileged film and sound studies has centered Black ... Read more

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A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. While adaptation studies has long privileged film and sound studies has centered Black
... Read more
The Black Fantastic

20 Afrofuturist Stories

Edited by andré m. carrington ...

**A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction—from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning Black authors"This is essential reading." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)**Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries ... Read more

$10.99 USD

**A cutting-edge collection of the best short stories in contemporary Afrofuturist fiction—from Hugo, Nebula, and Stoker award-winning Black authors"This is essential reading." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)**Black speculative fiction has never been better than it is here and now. On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries
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Speculative Blackness

The Future of Race in Science Fiction

by André M. Carrington ...

In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination.Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has ... Read more

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In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination.Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has
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The Blacker the Ink

Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art

by Frances Gateward, John Jennings, Daniel F. Yezbick, Sally McWilliams, Patrick F. Walter, Nancy Goldstein, Robin Means Coleman, William Lafi Youmans, Consuela Francis0, Andre Carrington1, Reynaldo Anderson2, Blair Davis3, Kinohi Nishikawa4, Qiana Whitted5, Craig Fischer6, Hershini Bhana Young7, James J. Zeigler8, Rebecca Wanzo9 ...

Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkWinner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationWinner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureWhen many think of comic books the first thing that comes to ... Read more

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Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly WorkWinner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture AssociationWinner of the 2016 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureWhen many think of comic books the first thing that comes to
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Our Boston

Writers Celebrate the City They Love

by Andrew Blauner, Kevin Cullen, Mike Barnicle, E. M. Swift, Charles McGrath, Madeleine Blais, George Howe Colt, Susan Orlean, David M. Shribman, Joan Wickersham0, David Michaelis1, Katherine A. Powers2, Jabari Asim3, Lesley Visser4, Hugh Delehanty5, George Plimpton6, Leslie Epstein7, Bud Collins8, Nell Scovell9, Israel Horovitz0, Shira Springer1, Dennis Lehane2, Susan Sheehan3, James Atlas4, Leigh Montville5, Tova Mirvis6, Pagan Kennedy7, Scott Stossel8, Robert Pinsky9, Bill Littlefield0, Carlo Rotella1, Neil Swidey2, Jessica Shattuck3, John Updike4, Pico Iyer5, Sally Taylor6, André Aciman0 ...

Narrated by various narrators7, Peter Berkrot8, Johnny Heller9, Malcolm Hillgartner0, Jim Meskimen1, Joe Barrett2, Bernadette Dunne3, Bronson Pinchot4, Carrington MacDuffie5, Susan Boyce6, Kevin Kenerly7, Meredith Mitchell8, Ralph Lister9 ...

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10 hours 57 min

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and ... Read more

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What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and
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Children's Literature

A Very Short Introduction

by Kimberley Reynolds ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

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Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl,
... Read more
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction

Edited by Gardner Dozois ...

The renowned sci-fi anthology presents a twenty-year retrospective featuring many of the genre's most important authors: "The results are breathtaking." — BooklistFor decades, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 ... Read more

$14.39 USD

The renowned sci-fi anthology presents a twenty-year retrospective featuring many of the genre's most important authors: "The results are breathtaking." — BooklistFor decades, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20
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Black on Both Sides

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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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
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The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2020

Edited by John Joseph Adams, Diana Gabaldon ...

Series series The Best American Series
Stories by Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Victor LaValle, Elizabeth Bear, and others—guest-edited by the author of the mega–bestselling Outlander series.Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about ... Read more

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Stories by Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Victor LaValle, Elizabeth Bear, and others—guest-edited by the author of the mega–bestselling Outlander series.Today's readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stories that address a wide variety of voices, perspectives, and styles. There is an openness to experiment and pushing boundaries, combined with the classic desire to read about
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The Dream of the Great American Novel

by Lawrence Buell ...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or
... Read more
Language as Liberation

Reflections on the American Canon

by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...

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 unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

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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 unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that
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Octavia's Brood

Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Edited by Walidah Imarisha, adrienne maree brown ...

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for ... Read more

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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for
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