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  • Summoning Our Saints

    The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey

    de John Wharton Lowe, Keith Cartwright, Doris Davenport, Thadious Davis, Dolores Flores-Silva, Malin Pereira, Hermine Pinson, Andrea Benton Rushing, Daniel Cross Turner, Tracy Watts0, Aldon Lynn Nielsen1 ...
    Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Quicksand

    de Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis ...
    Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Essays on Literature, Culture, and Society in Honor of Amritjit Singh

    de Silvia Schultermandl, Peter Schmidt, Elleke Boehmer, Martha J. Cutter, Thadious M. Davis, Robin E. Field, Rahul K. Gairola, Fred Gardaphe, Ayesha Hardison, Jasbir Jain, Zubeda Jalalzai, Charles Johnson, Auritro Majumder, Arnold Rampersad, Catherine Rottenberg, Amritjit Singh, Werner Sollors, Robert B. Stepto, Nibir K. Ghosh, Lynda Ng, Nalini Iyer, Cheryl A. Wall ...
    Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Passing

    de Nella Larsen, Thadious M. Davis ...
    **A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICKNella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors’ Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård**One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsClare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, ... Leer más

    Antes $11.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

  • Southscapes

    Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature

    de Thadious M. Davis ...
    Series series New Directions in Southern Studies
    In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Flesh of the Matter

    A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding Alice Walker

    de Thadious M. Davis ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A comprehensive study of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's large, multifaceted canonUnderstanding Alice Walker serves both as an introduction to the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner's large body of work and as a critical analysis of her multifaceted canon. Thadious M. Davis begins with Walker's biography and her formative experiences in the South and then presents ways of accessing ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora

    Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat

    de Thadious M. Davis ...
    Winner of a 2023 Edited Collection Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language AssociationContributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda Leger, Jennifer M. Lozano, Marion Christina ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Games of Property

    Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses

    de Thadious M. Davis ...
    In Games of Property, distinguished critic Thadious M. Davis provides a dazzling new interpretation of William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses. Davis argues that in its unrelenting attention to issues related to the ownership of land and people, Go Down, Moses ranks among Faulkner’s finest and most accomplished works. Bringing together law, social history, game theory, and feminist critiques, she shows ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Satire or Evasion?

    Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn

    de John H. Wallace ...
    Though one of America’s best known and loved novels, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has often been the object of fierce controversy because of its racist language and reliance on racial stereotypes. This collection of fifteen essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examines the novel’s racist elements and assesses the degree to which Twain’s ironies succeed or fail ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Richard Wright

    Perspectives on Resistance

    Edición de Jane Anna Gordon, Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh ...
    A pillar of African American literature, Richard Wright is one of the most celebrated and controversial authors in American history. His work championed intellectual freedom amid social and political chaos. Despite the popular and critical success of books such as Uncle Tom's Children (1938), Black Boy (1945), and Native Son (1941), Wright faced staunch criticism and even censorship throughout his ... 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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