This book offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire middle and high school students to think, talk, and write about issues of equity, justice, and antiraci...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire middle and high school students to think, talk, and write about issues of equity, justice, and antiraci...Lasīt vairāk
Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen M. Chandler offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Aug-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478004257)
In Fictions of Land and Flesh Mark Rifkin explores the impasses that arise in seeking to connect Black and Indigenous movements, turning to speculative fiction to understand those difficulties and envision productive ways of addressing them. A...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Aug-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478004837)
Mark Rifkin turns to black and indigenous speculative fiction to show how it offers a site to better understand black and indigenous political movements differing orientations in ways that can foster forms of mutual engagement and cooperation withou...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2019, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478004042)
In Black Madness :: Mad Blackness Therí Alyce Pickens rethinks the relationship between Blackness and disability, unsettling the common theorization that they are mutually constitutive. Pickens shows how Black speculative and scien...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478003748)
Therí Alyce Pickens examines the speculative and science fiction of Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and Tananarive Due to rethink the relationship between race and disability, thereby unsettling the common theorization that they are mutua...Lasīt vairāk
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the...Lasīt vairāk
The combination of the words language and Anglophone African literatures generally brings to mind an aesthetic based on the use of proverbs and phrases borrowed from the writers mother tongues. Such culturally specific features also characteriz...Lasīt vairāk
Building on interdisciplinary and cross-Atlantic scholarly dialogue, this volume offers contributions on culturally marginalized literatures in America from the perspective of print culture. Spanning the slavery era through the early 21st centur...Lasīt vairāk
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in this fascinating field. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiongo, Nuruddin Farah, Chris Abani and many m...Lasīt vairāk
Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on appr...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on the discipline of stylistics, this book introduces a series of methodological tools and applies them to works by well-known Nigerian writers, including Abani, Adichie and Okri. In doing so, it demonstrates how attention to form fosters und...Lasīt vairāk
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiongo...Lasīt vairāk
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relati...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relati...Lasīt vairāk
With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603290371)
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, lan...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2009, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Modern Language Association of America, ISBN-13: 9781603290388)
What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two questions and in the process convey a wealth of information and ideas about the diverse regions, peoples, nations, languages, and...Lasīt vairāk
