LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
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The Necessary Past
Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future
Introduction to Claudia Rankine
Written for scholars, poets, students, and general readers alike, Schultz’s book outlines Rankine’s poetic career in all its major facets, including an analysis of Rankine’s seminal book, Citizen.
New World Maker
New World Maker reappraises Langston Hughes's political poetry, reading the writer's leftist works in the context of his practice of translation to reveal an important meditation on diaspora.
The Politics of Black Joy
Lindsey Stewart wades into unease about how Black southern joy is portrayed by analyzing work by Zora Neale Hurston. Stewart theorizes the politics of joy, a refusal of the neo-abolitionism that would reduce southern Black life to tragedy or social death.
Queer Tidalectics
Queer Tidalectics investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics.
Geographies of Flight
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatleyto Octavia Butler provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression.
Solidarity with the Other Beings on the Planet
This book uses ecofeminist theory to analyze seven novels by author and activist Alice Walker, examining Walker’s approach to critical race studies and critical animal studies, as well as her responsibility as a moral guide.
Furious Flower
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning African American poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and Meta DuEwa Jones.
The Blackademic Life
The Blackademic Life offers a fascinating exploration of fiction by black writers on campuses or in scholarly environments. Lavelle Porter demonstrates how black writers have used academic stories to celebrate black intelligence and advocate for black higher education.
Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture; this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel.
The Necessary Past
Introduction to Claudia Rankine
New World Maker
The Politics of Black Joy
Queer Tidalectics
Geographies of Flight
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatleyto Octavia Butler provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression.
Solidarity with the Other Beings on the Planet
Furious Flower
The Blackademic Life
Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston wrote her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, while in Haiti on a trip funded by a Guggenheim fellowship to research the region’s transatlantic folk and religious culture; this work grounded what would become her ethnography Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. The essays in Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” persuasively demonstrate that Hurston’s study of Haitian Voudoun informed the characterization, plotting, symbolism, and theme of her novel.