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  • Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature

    by LaToya Jefferson-James, Tajanae Barnes, Regis Fox, Jacinth Howard, Shubhanku Kochar, Alison D. Ligon, Verner Mitchell, Alexandria Smith, Joyce White ...
    Afro-Caribbean Women's Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

    Edited by Professor Verner D. Mitchell, Professor Cynthia Davis ...
    The Black Arts Movement (BAM) encompassed a group of artists, musicians, novelists, and playwrights whose work combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre. With a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy—along with the radical politics of the civil rights movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers—these figures represented a collective ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • In Flaming Letters

    Lucia Pitts, Poet of the Six Triple Eight

    by Lucia Pitts ...
    Series series The Black Soldier in War and Society
    A treasury of poetry and prose from an unsung trailblazer of Black literatureLucia M. Pitts (1904–1973) was an African American writer and Army veteran whose story has never been told. Her poetry, including love lyrics of striking sensuality and honesty, was admired by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Dorothy West. Her work first appeared during the Harlem Renaissance, influenced by Harriet ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement

    by Professor Cynthia Davis, Professor Verner D. Mitchell ...
    The Black Arts Movement combined innovative approaches to literature, film, music, visual arts, and theatre with a heightened consciousness of black agency and autonomy, along with the radical politics of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Muslims, and the Black Panthers.Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1970s, the movement produced some of America's most original and controversial ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism

    by Professor Cynthia Davis, Professor Verner D. Mitchell ...
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most prominent of the Harlem Renaissance women writers, was unique because her social and professional connections were not limited to literature but encompassed theatre, dance, film, anthropology, folklore, music, politics, high society, academia, and artistic bohemia. Hurston published four novels, three books of nonfiction, and dozens of short stories, plays, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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    A Life of William Faulkner

    by Jay Parini ...
    “Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” — Seattle TimesWilliam Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most ... Read more

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  • The Thurber Letters

    The Wit, Wisdom and Surprising Life of James Thurber

    by Harrison Kinney, Rosemary A. Thurber ...
    Though he died more than forty years ago, James Thurber remains one of America's greatest and most enduring humorists, and his books -- for both adults and children -- remain as popular as ever. In this comprehensive collection of his letters -- the majority of which have never before been published -- we find unsuspected insights into his life and career.His prodigious body of work -- fables, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • James Stewart

    by Donald Dewey ...
    In this penetrating and riveting biography of one of Hollywood's most beloved screen icons, Donald Dewey probes beneath Jimmy Stewart, the conservative image and ideal, to reveal James Stewart, the actor and the man.Through hundreds of interviews and in-depth analysis of his seventy-five films, the author assesses how the Hollywood man-about-town of the 1930's and 40's - Stewart's lovers included ... Read more

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  • No Applause—Just Throw Money

    The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous

    by S. D. Trav ...
    This chronicle of vaudeville is "an essential (and very funny) history of American popular entertainment" (Greg Kotis, creator of Urinetown ).When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man Who Saw a Ghost

    The Life and Work of Henry Fonda

    by Devin McKinney ...
    The first major biography of the iconic actor Henry Fonda, a story of stardom, manhood, and the American characterHenry Fonda's performances—in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 1 2 Angry Men, *On Golden Pond—*helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls

    Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature

    by Adam Morgan ...
    “A fascinating account of a remarkable woman dangerously ahead of her time.” —Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich AsiansThe life and times of literary pioneer and queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, who risked everything to be the first to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses in America. Perfect for fans of The Editor, Flapper, and Nasty Women.Already under fire for publishing the l. ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History

    by Manny Pacheco ...
    Nothing grabs the mind like a finely crafted film. Memorable lines strike an instant impression, and classic imagery provides celluloid art for us to enjoy time and again. Manny Pacheco has studied motion pictures and understands Hollywood at its core. Through his love and passion for the stars of yesteryear, he presents a review of timeless films, which also uniquely capture seldom told accounts ... Read more

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