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  • Conversations with Michael S. Harper

    Edición de John Zheng, Michael Antonucci ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with Michael S. Harper brings together fourteen interviews with one of the most innovative and influential voices in contemporary American poetry. A distinguished professor at Brown University and the author of fifteen poetry collections, Michael S. Harper (1938–2016) infused his work with the rhythms of jazz and blues, creating a lyrical space where Black history, culture, and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding Michael S. Harper

    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A fresh examination of Harper's body of work as an archive of Black life, thought, and cultureThe first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet's work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates Harper's poetic project within Black expressive tradition. The study examines poems drawn from the eleven volumes of verse that Harper (1938–2016) produced between 1970 and 2010, bringing attention to his ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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    Edición de Claudia Tate ...
    “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, ... Leer más

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  • The Grey Album

    On the Blackness of Blackness

    de Kevin Young ...
    *Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism**A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 2012*The Grey Album, the first work of prose by the brilliant poet Kevin Young, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction PrizeTaking its title from Danger Mouse's pioneering mashup of Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' The White Album, Kevin Young's ... Leer más

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  • Black American Cinema

    Edición de Manthia Diawara ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • How We Do It

    Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill

    More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy—reflect on their experience and expertise in this unique book on the craft of writing that focuses on the Black creative spirit.How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and ... Leer más

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  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edición de Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

    Series series Routledge Introductions to American Literature
    The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics ... Leer más

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  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Series Libro 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Leer más

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  • Epistrophies

    Jazz and the Literary Imagination

    In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted “Epistrophy,” one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song’s title refers to a literary device—the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses—that is echoed in the construction of the melody. Written two decades later, Amiri Baraka’s poem “Epistrophe” alludes slyly to Monk’s tune. Whether it is composers ... Leer más

    $34.49 USD

  • Black Resonance

    Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature

    Series series The American Literatures Initiative
    Ever since Bessie Smith’s powerful voice conspired with the “race records” industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women’s singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie ... Leer más

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