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  • Yours for Humanity

    New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    by John Cyril Barton, Elizabeth Cali, Sabine Engwer, Karin L. Hooks, Courtney Novosat, Colleen O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Valerie Sirenko, Hanna Wallinger, Edlie L. Wong ...
    Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

    by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Hindered Hand

    by Sutton E. Griggs ...
    Series series Regenerations
    Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print in which he examined the interrelationships among race, politics, economics, gender, culture, religion, violence, and empire, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century, a time at which the civil rights and the very ... Read more

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  • Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

    by Robert S. Levine ...
    Inspired by Toni Morrison's call for an interracial approach to American literature, and by recent efforts to globalize American literary studies, Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies ranges widely in its case-study approach to canonical and non-canonical authors. Leading critic Robert S. Levine considers Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and other nineteenth ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • A Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern dayExamines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery ... 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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  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • 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

  • Black on White

    Black Writers on What It Means to Be White

    by David R. Roediger ...
    In this thought-provoking volume, David R. Roediger has brought together some of the most important black writers throughout history to explore the question: What does it really mean to be white in America?From folktales and slave narratives to contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction, black writers have long been among America's keenest students of white consciousness and white behavior, but ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Whiteness of a Different Color

    by Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Away Down South

    A History of Southern Identity

    by James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to ... Read more

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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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