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  • Raising the Dead

    Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

    Series series New Americanists
    Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the space of death” gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding ... Leer más

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  • Mariners, Renegades and Castaways

    The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

    A new edition of a major work of literary and cultural criticism restores C. L. R. James’s reflections about Moby Dick and political persecution.Political theorist and cultural critic, novelist, and cricket enthusiast, C. L. R. James (1901–89) was a brilliant polymath who was described by Edward Said as “a centrally important twentieth-century figure.” Through such landmark works as The Black ... Leer más

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  • The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its enemies.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global ... Leer más

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  • Deep River

    Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought

    Series series New Americanists
    “The American Negro,” Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, “must remake his past in order to make his future.” Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in ... Leer más

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  • The New American Exceptionalism

    Series series Critical American Studies
    For a half century following the end of World War II, the seemingly permanent cold war provided the United States with an organizing logic that governed nearly every aspect of American society and culture, giving rise to an unwavering belief in the nation's exceptionalism in global affairs and world history. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this cold war paradigm was replaced by a series of ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Readers

    Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading ... Leer más

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  • Crossing the Line

    Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

    Series series New Americanists
    As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Leer más

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  • Morocco Bound

    Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

    Series series New Americanists
    Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades—from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through ... Leer más

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  • Clear Word and Third Sight

    Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing

    Series series New Americanists
    Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or “third sight,” is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating ... Leer más

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  • Necro Citizenship

    Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States

    Series series New Americanists
    In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to—and even dependent on—death. Deploying an impressive range of literary and cultural texts, Castronovo interrogates an American public sphere that fetishized death as a crucial point of political identification. This morbid politics idealized disembodiment over ... Leer más

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  • Negative Liberties

    Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology

    Series series New Americanists
    Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and ... Leer más

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  • Racism and Cultural Studies

    Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference

    Series series New Americanists
    In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratization of power and the socialization of property. Calling U ... Leer más

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