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All stories are true : history, myth and trauma in the work of John Edgar Wideman
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ISBN: 9781617030048 9781617030055 Year: 2011 Volume: *2 Publisher: Jackson University Press of Mississippi


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Uncle Tom's Cabin and the reading revolution : race, literacy, childhood, and fiction, 1851-1911
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ISBN: 9781558498945 155849894X Year: 2011 Volume: *1 Publisher: Boston Amherst University of Massachusetts Press


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The Cambridge history of African American literature
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ISBN: 9780521872171 9780511780967 9781107571815 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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"The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history"--


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Super black : American pop culture and black superheroes
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ISBN: 9780292726543 9780292726741 9780292735453 Year: 2011 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press

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Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value--and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity--in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts.Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice.


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The souls of mixed folk : race, politics, and aesthetics in the new millennium
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ISBN: 9780804756303 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

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