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  • Raising the Dead

    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

    by Sharon Patricia Holland, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

    The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

    by C. L. R. James ...
    A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a brilliant polymath who was described by Edward Said as “a centrally important twentieth-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

    by Jack London, Robert L. Fish ...
    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global ... Read more

    $6.99 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

  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    by Elizabeth McHenry, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The New American Exceptionalism

    by Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this cold war paradigm was replaced by a series of ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Egypt Land

    Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania

    by Scott Trafton, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how the fascination with ancient Egypt among both black and white Americans was manifest in a range of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Materializing Democracy

    Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics

    by Donald E. Pease, Joan Dayan, Richard R. Flores ...
    Series series New Americanists
    For the most part, democracy is simply presumed to exist in the United States. It is viewed as a completed project rather than as a goal to be achieved. Fifteen leading scholars challenge that stasis in Materializing Democracy. They aim to reinvigorate the idea of democracy by placing it in the midst of a contentious political and cultural fray, which, the volume’s editors argue, is exactly where ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • National Manhood

    Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men

    by Dana D. Nelson, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Blood Narrative

    Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

    by Chadwick Allen, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Blood Narrative is a comparative literary and cultural study of post-World War II literary and activist texts by New Zealand Maori and American Indians—groups who share much in their responses to European settler colonialism. Chadwick Allen reveals the complex narrative tactics employed by writers and activists in these societies that enabled them to realize unprecedented practical power in making ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Waves of Decolonization

    Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States

    by David Luis-Brown, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization of Africa and Asia in the mid-twentieth century. Analyzing the work of nationalist leaders, novelists ... Read more

    $21.59 USD