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  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen
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    The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen

    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are all three of her published...
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  • Psychoanalysis and Black Novels
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    Psychoanalysis and Black Novels

    With agile, pathbreaking use of psychoanalytic theory, Tate explores African-American desire, alienation, and subjectivity in neglected novels by Emma Kelley, W.E.B. Du Bois, Richard Wright, Zora...
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  • Quicksand and Passing Quicksand and Passing
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    Quicksand and Passing

    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclaimed. Collected here are both of her novels, Passing...
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  • The Changing Same"
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    The Changing Same"

    "The Changing Same" examines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the...
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  • Surviving the Crossing Surviving the Crossing
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    Surviving the Crossing

    By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar...
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    Women-Writing-Women Women-Writing-Women
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    Women-Writing-Women

    The Woman Question served as a catalyst in Kate Chopin's, Nella Larsen's, and Willa Cather's portrayal of the eroticized female body. The question evolved, in part, from Herbert Spencer's 1873...
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  • AstroLit
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    AstroLit

    A unique, illustrated introduction to astrology that explores the zodiac through a literary lens, drawing lessons from celebrated authors including Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, W.E.B. Du Bois,...
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  • The Labors of Modernism The Labors of Modernism
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    The Labors of Modernism

    In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella...
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  • Freud Upside Down
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    Freud Upside Down

    A salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literatureThis thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works...
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  • Gender of Modernism
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    Gender of Modernism

    "This is the book we've been waiting for: a distinguished collection that demonstrates how revisions of Modernist definitions might proceed. . . . The Gender of Modernism . . . will be nothing less...
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  • Invented Lives
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    Invented Lives

    Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Featuring works by...
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    Interplay of Things
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    Interplay of Things

    In Interplay of Things Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences and the boundaries between people and other things. Rather than considering religion in...
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  • Black Writers, White Publishers Black Writers, White Publishers
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    Black Writers, White Publishers

    Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literatureby John K. YoungJean Toomer's Cane was advertised as "a book about Negroes by a Negro," despite...
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  • Women of the Harlem Renaissance
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    Women of the Harlem Renaissance

    Wall's writing is lively and exuberant. She passes her enthusiasm for these writers' works on to the reader. She captures the mood of the times and follows through with the writers'...
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  • Legal Fictions Legal Fictions
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    Legal Fictions

    In Legal Fictions, Karla FC Holloway both argues that U.S. racial identity is the creation of U.S. law and demonstrates how black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions...
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  • Textual Contraception Textual Contraception
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    Textual Contraception

    Between the 1910s and 1940s, American women fought for and won the right to legal birth control. This battle was fought in the courts, in the media, and in the pages of American literature. Textual...
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  • Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance
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    Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance

    The first collection ever assembled of the most distinctive, influential, and widely appreciated novels and short stories of the Harlem Renaissance, this anthology opens a window on one of the most...
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  • Nigger Heaven Nigger Heaven
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    Nigger Heaven

    2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition.  With an additional note by the Author and a Critical Commentary by George S. Schuyler. Set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s,...
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  • Accented America
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    Accented America

    American literary works written in the heyday of modernism between the 1890s and 1940s were playfully, painfully, and ambivalently engaged with language politics. The immigrant waves of the period...
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  • Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction
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    Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction

    The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by...
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  • Modernism a la Mode
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    Modernism a la Mode

    Modernism a la Mode argues that fashion describes why and how literary modernism matters in its own historical moment and ours. Bringing together texts, textiles, and theories of dress, Elizabeth...
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  • Living Up to the Ads Living Up to the Ads
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    Living Up to the Ads

    In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture's impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry...
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    The Blacker the Berry
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    The Blacker the Berry

    Mirroring Nella Larsen's Passing, The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life is the fantastic debut of Wallace Thurman.A Black boy could get along but a Black girl would never know anything but...
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  • Stranger America Stranger America
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    Stranger America

    Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America's democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that...
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  • The Mulatta and the Politics of Race The Mulatta and the Politics of Race
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    The Mulatta and the Politics of Race

    The Mulatta and the Politics of Raceby Teresa C. ZackodnikFrom abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made...
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    Misfit Modernism
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    Misfit Modernism

    In this book, Octavio R. Gonzalez revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization...
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  • Chances Are Chances Are
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    Chances Are

    This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency-whether...
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  • Racial Passing Racial Passing
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    Racial Passing

    Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Dresden Technical University, language: English, abstract: In the following, I would like to give a brief...
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  • The Femme Fatale in American Literature The Femme Fatale in American Literature
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    The Femme Fatale in American Literature

    Characters in the literary tradition of American naturalism are usually perceived as passive, lacking in will, weak, and predetermined. They are constantly seen as the victims of heredity and...
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  • Freedom's Empire
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    Freedom's Empire

    In this path-breaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying...
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  • Glamour in Six Dimensions
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    Glamour in Six Dimensions

    Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high...
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  • Claiming the Heritage Claiming the Heritage
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    Claiming the Heritage

    Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and Historyby Missy Dehn KubitschekNearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century America have found the essential substance of their...
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