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Although psychoanalytic theory is one of the most important and influential tools in contemporary literary criticism, to date it has had very little impact on the study of African-American literature and culture. Now, Claudia Tate argues that psycholanalytic paradigms...
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Oxford University Press
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1998-02-12
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When Tom Gosset's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current scholarly discourse on the subject. Though it has gone out of print, it has...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1997-08-14
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This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornel West--each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-06-26
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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility?Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or...
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Oxford University Press
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1997-04-24
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In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in...
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Oxford University Press
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1996-10-10
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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans?...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-01-07
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'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961...
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Penguin
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1991-08-29
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Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self inBlack Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in whichBlack immigrant women must adapt...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self inBlack Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in whichBlack immigrant women must adapt...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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