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  • The Flesh of the Matter

    A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

    by Amaris Brown, Thadious M. Davis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sharon P. Holland, Ra Malika Imhotep, Deborah E. McDowell, Fred Moten, Kiana T. Murphy, Kevin Quashie, Anthony Reed, Shoniqua Roach, Nicole A. Spigner, Hortense Spillers ...
    PROSE Awards Category Winner—Media and Cultural Studies, 2025Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” is one of the most-cited essays in African American literary studies.Edited by Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton, The Flesh of the ... Read more

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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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  • Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

    by Kevin Quashie ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Black Trans Feminism

    by Marquis Bey ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Everybody's Autonomy

    Connective Reading and Collective Identity

    by Professor Juliana Spahr ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author. Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity.Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and identity. Such writing has been perceived as unrelated, as disrespectful of subjectivity. But Everybody's ... Read more

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  • The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace

    Language, Identity, and Resistance

    by Dr Clare Hayes-Brady ...
    This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • 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

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  • The Sonic Color Line

    Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening

    by Jennifer Lynn Stoever ...
    Series Book 17 - Postmillennial Pop
    The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear.Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

    Edited by Justine Tally ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • On African-American Rhetoric

    by Keith Gilyard, Adam Banks ...
    On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Contemporary African American Literature

    The Living Canon

    Edited by Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

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  • The Poetics of Difference

    Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

    by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough PrizeFrom Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative ... Read more

    $11.59 USD