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  • Depictions of Home in African American Literature
    Trudier Harris
    This book studies fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. The author examines the factors that influence homespaces in African American literature and analyzes why African American writers often portray troubling and dysfunctional homespaces. ...
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    51,34 €

  • Saints, Sinners, Saviors
    Trudier Harris
    Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature explores the idea of strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in major literary works of the 20th century. Looking at work by Hansberry, Morrison, Bambara, West, Gaines, Reed, and others, Trudier Harris shows how writers draw upon popular images of African Ame...
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  • Scary Mason-Dixon Line
    Trudier Harris
    New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere, have consistently both loved and hated the Sou...
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    44,52 €

  • Power of the Porch
    Trudier Harris
    Southern literature is often celebrated for its 'told,' rather than 'written,' qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African Americans who possess the 'power of the porch.' In ways that are highly individual, s...
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    37,21 €