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From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American...

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780817321680
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, this new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants...  Read More >>

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison

From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American...

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN: 9780817322038
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants...  Read More >>

Conversations with Beth Henley

Conversations with Beth Henley

Author: Jackson R. Bryer ,  Mary C. Hartig
ISBN: 9781496844309
Format: Paperback
$40.70

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Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States...

Author: Toyin Falola
ISBN: 9781496843487
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the...  Read More >>

African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative

African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Melanie A. Marotta
ISBN: 9781496844989
Format: Paperback
$48.40

Analyses whether the roles for adolescent female characters of colour are changing or whether they remain re-creations...  Read More >>

Conversations with Beth Henley

Conversations with Beth Henley

Author: Jackson R. Bryer ,  Mary C. Hartig
ISBN: 9781496844293
Format: Hardback
$159.50

With roots in the American South, Beth Henley has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. These...  Read More >>

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States

Memories of Africa: Home and Abroad in the United States...

Author: Toyin Falola
ISBN: 9781496843494
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Suggests a new lens for viewing African diaspora studies: the experiences of African memoirists who live in the...  Read More >>

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición...

Author: Marco Ramírez Rojas
ISBN: 9781612498478
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Analyses the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global...  Read More >>

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria

Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición...

Author: Marco Ramírez Rojas
ISBN: 9781612498461
Format: Hardback
$169.40

Analyses the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global...  Read More >>

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Author: Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780008167493
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan...  Read More >>

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion...

Author: Ronald R. Gray
ISBN: 9781476689104
Format: Paperback
$84.70

A comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. It contains 175 entries...  Read More >>

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529345
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld

Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World...

Author: Lee Rozelle
ISBN: 9780817360788
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American literature of the last 150 years. In each instance,...  Read More >>

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters,...

Author: Brenda E.F. Beck
ISBN: 9781487529338
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Building on a South Asian oral folk legend, Hidden Paradigms identifies the important symbolic patterns that well-known...  Read More >>

Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech

Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public...

Author: Florian Gargaillo
ISBN: 9780807179352
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Charts the ways that poets have responded to the cliches of public speech from the start of the Second World War...  Read More >>

Understanding Michael S. Harper

Understanding Michael S. Harper

Author: Michael Antonucci
ISBN: 9781643364001
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet’s work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates his poetic project...  Read More >>

Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

Shakespeare / Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual...

Author: Dr Claire M. L. Bourne (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350344556
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts...  Read More >>

Time Traveled

Time Traveled

Author: Krista Marson
ISBN: 9781737328438
Format: Paperback
$42.21

TIME TRAVELED is a compendium of travel stories collected over 25 years. Tripping over the remnants of who we used...  Read More >>

Para llegar a Roque Dalton: Pequeños infiernos y otros paraísos (estudio político-poético)

Para llegar a Roque Dalton: Pequeños infiernos y otros...

Author: James Iffland
ISBN: 9781469677163
Format: Paperback
$152.90

La obra de Roque Dalton desperto el interes del Dr James Iffland al grado de consagrar a su estudio e investigacion...  Read More >>

Understanding Michael S. Harper

Understanding Michael S. Harper

Author: Michael Antonucci
ISBN: 9781643363998
Format: Hardback
$174.21

The first book devoted to the groundbreaking poet’s work, Understanding Michael S. Harper locates his poetic project...  Read More >>

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal,...

Author: Kathryn Walkiewicz
ISBN: 9781469672953
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Theorizes the logics of federalism and states’ rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used...  Read More >>

Principles of Literary Criticism

Principles of Literary Criticism

Author: I a Richards
ISBN: 9781774645116
Format: Paperback
$34.19

First published in 1924, this is a masterpiece on literary criticism. I. A. Richards argues that science and literature...  Read More >>

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State

Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal,...

Author: Kathryn Walkiewicz
ISBN: 9781469672946
Format: Hardback
$159.50

Theorizes the logics of federalism and states’ rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were used...  Read More >>

Pedro Ángel Palou y la novela infinita: Lecturas críticas

Pedro Ángel Palou y la novela infinita: Lecturas críticas...

Author: Héctor Jaimes
ISBN: 9781469676814
Format: Paperback
$51.70

Desde diversas perspectivas criticas y anclado igualmente en diversos aparatos teoricos, este libro reune las contribuciones...  Read More >>

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