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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lesley larkin”
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  • Race and the Literary Encounter

    Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its focus several modern and contemporary African American narratives that not only narrate scenes of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading in the Postgenomic Age

    Race, Discipline, and Bionarrativity in Contemporary North American Literature

    by Lesley Larkin ...
    Series series New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
    In Reading in the Postgenomic Age, Lesley Larkin analyzes how writers across literary genres have reckoned with the launch (in the early 1990s) and completion (in 2003) of the Human Genome Project and the ways it has fallen short of its promise to do away with spurious notions of race. Authors such as Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Ruth Ozeki, Rebecca Skloot, Gerald Vizenor, and others ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

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    The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

    by Kevin Young ...
    Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction“There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon JamesAward-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of ... Read more

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  • Those Who Walk in Darkness

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    John Ridley, author of Love is a Racket, delivers an action-filled novel about a female cop facing off against strangely powerful enemies in a near-future Los Angeles.In the near future, the world has become home to certain people with amazing genetic structures—giving them powers that make them frighteningly superior to normal humans. The Night Watchman was the first. Somewhere in San Francisco, ... Read more

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  • What's a Black Critic to Do II

    by Donna Bailey Nurse ...
    In Whats a Black Critic to Do II, literary critic Donna Bailey Nurse once again gathers together profiles, reviews, interviews, and essays that examine race, culture, and multiculturalism through the lens of literature. This collection, featuring well-known writers such as Lawrence Hill, Afua Cooper, Christopher Paul Curtis, Natasha Trethewey, Toni Morrison, David Chariandy, Joseph Boyden, and ... Read more

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  • The Works of Alain Locke

    Edited by Charles Molesworth ...
    With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays, on topics ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of Beloved

    Based on the Book by Toni Morrison

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Beloved tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Toni Morrison's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Beloved by Toni Morrison includes:Historical contextChapter-by-chapter summariesCharacter ... Read more

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  • Inventing the New Negro

    Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography

    by Daphne Lamothe ...
    It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the New Negro Lamothe explores the process by which key figures such as Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • American Socialist Triptych

    The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois

    by Mark Van Wienen ...
    Series series Class : Culture
    "A meticulously researched, highly informed, carefully argued, and very accessible account of American socialism, socialists, and socialistic thinking, from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s . . . challenges the intellectual and political legacy of Werner Sombart's Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?, whose spirit still hovers over animated discussions about the 'failures' ... Read more

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  • The Worlds of Langston Hughes

    Modernism and Translation in the Americas

    by Vera M. Kutzinski ...
    The poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and marketer. Translations of his own writings traveled even more widely than he did, earning him adulation throughout Europe, Asia, and especially the Americas. In The Worlds of Langston Hughes, Vera Kutzinski contends that, for writers who are part of the African diaspora, translation is more than just a ... Read more

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  • The Commerce of Peoples

    Sadomasochism and African American Literature

    by Biman Basu ...
    Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, too, it is still persistently stigmatized. This marginalization, along with its ambivalently persecuted status, is a result, significantly, of a ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • W. E. B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

    by Stephanie J. Shaw ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly nuanced interpretation of the souls of black Americans at the turn of the twentieth century ... Read more

    $18.99 USD