Black category: 406 books
Writing for Justice
Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s...
Neither Fugitive nor Free
Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets,...
My Life and An Era
The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
“My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience—freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”—John Hope Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin (1879–1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian...
Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences
Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
This book attempts to answer a fundamental question: How did Douglass manage to persuade anyone about the evils of slavery, and even impress viewers with his personal qualities, when his speeches were commonly considered mere entertainment, in the same category as Barnum's circus acts? In answering...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
The Rise of the African Novel
Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
The Slave in the Swamp
Disrupting the Plantation Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Bernard W. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
An interdisciplinary, code-switching, critical collection by revisionist African American scholar and activist Bernard W. Bell.
Richard Wright's Native Son
A Routledge Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.
This guide to...
Lost and Found in Translation
Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works...
Balancing the Books
Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. Both Faulkner and Morrison write about the relationship between race, identity, and history, and about...
Wrestling with the Left
The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the...
Dislocating Race and Nation
Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment...