Documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s through the present. This volume progresses chronologically from the rise of a black aesthetic criticism, through the Blacks Arts Movement, feminism, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the rise of queer theory.
This text documents the central texts and arguments in African American literary theory from the 1920s to the present. It brings attention to larger political and cultural issues at stake in the interpretation of texts, offering a historical analysis of how literary theory was shaped.
The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.
Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphaels acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the authors eventful and provocative life, opinions and times drawn from his living and breathing cahiers and journals. `Shrewd, funny, gossipy and elegantly written, as Jeremy Lewis said in the Literary Review, these writings ......
Airpower in Literature offers fresh insight into the first century of airpower by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. The literature pushes back, showing both aviators and bombed societies, exposing the air war to an audience that may never otherwise see it.
Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk forefather. Writers like Neil Gaiman and William Gibson celebrate his ......
The Missing Link in Late Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry
In this keen examination of Alfredo de Palchi's lyrical oeuvre, Giorgio Linguaglossa refers to de Palchi as the missing link in Italian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Through brilliant analysis, Linguaglossa gives us a complete picture of de Palchi's asymptomatic creative paradigm.
Drawing on poetry, novels, short stories, children's books, and essays, Nagueyalti Warren explores the spiritual aesthetic that informs Alice Walker's creative output. This book contends that Walker instills metaphysical elements throughout her writing, including the Pulitzer-prize winning novel The Color Purple.
