Macmillan :: Palgrave Scholarly & Reference Books: Literature and Language American / African American Books

Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Books for First-Year Reading Course Favorites Featured
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Travel
  Children and Teens Palgrave Scholarly and Reference
  
  All Categories
  
  Anti-Bullying Books for Middle Grade British Classics books Classics New and Old Current Social Movements Girl Power Books - Junior High and up International Day of Peace
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas Distributed Publishers
  Macmillan Higher Education Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan Trade Books For Courses
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish Young Listeners Macmillan Kids
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs Macmillan Speakers

Advanced Search

All Categories>Literature and Language>American / African American

American / African American

Sort by

Title Author

Top Sellers

Displaying 1-24 of 26

1 | 2

Hardcover : $126.00 Buy	Racist Traces and Other Writing European Pedigrees/ African Contagions Edited by James A. Snead, Kara Keeling, Colin MacCabe, and Cornel West Palgrave Macmillan This volume is a selection of significant and previously unpublished essays and short stories by the influential critic of German and American literature and...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings Retrospective Fiction and Representation Margaret I. Jordan Palgrave Macmillan In African-American Servitude & Historical Imaginings Margaret Jordan initiates a new way of looking at the African-American presence in American literature....

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Telling Our Stories Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies Adetayo Alabi Palgrave Macmillan This book investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Teaching African American Women's Writing Teaching the New English Edited by Gina Wisker Palgrave Macmillan The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing not only provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by reading and studying the...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison Tracey L. Walters Palgrave Macmillan This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women’s literature.

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	African American Culture and Legal Discourse Edited by Lovalerie King and Richard Schur with a Foreword by Gerald Horne Palgrave Macmillan This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism. Moving...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry Lauri Ramey Palgrave Macmillan In this insightful and provocative volume, Ramey reveals spirituals and slave songs to be a crucial element in American literature. This book shows slave...

Trade Paperback : $28.00 Buy	Alice Walker Maria Lauret Palgrave Macmillan Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial....

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	African American Women Writers' Historical Fiction Ana Nunes Palgrave Macmillan This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Comprehensive in scope, this book...

Trade Paperback : $35.00 Buy	Saints, Sinners, Saviors Strong Black Women in African American Literature Trudier Harris Palgrave Macmillan Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature explores the idea of strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for...

Trade Paperback : $29.00 Buy	James Baldwin and Toni Morrison Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays Edited by Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott Palgrave Macmillan A collection of critical and theoretical comparative essays on James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Imagining Transatlantic Slavery Edited by Cora Kaplan and John Oldfield Palgrave Macmillan A collection of new essays, Imagining Transatlantic Slavery offers the latest research and thinking on current debates about the representation - past and...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Minority Reports Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Future of Minority Studies Michael Borgstrom Palgrave Macmillan How do views about the identities of authors influence interpretations of their works? Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors,...

Trade Paperback : $27.00 Buy	The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison Modernist Authenticity and Postmodern Blackness John N. Duvall Palgrave Macmillan Now available in a new paperback edition, The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison examines Morrison's hugely influential fiction, criticism, and interviews...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Gender and Lynching The Politics of Memory Edited by Evelyn M. Simien Palgrave Macmillan Where much of the scholarship on lynching and its victims has focused on African American men, Gender and Lynching is the first to examine African American...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	August Wilson and Black Aesthetics Edited by Dana A. Williams and Sandra G. Shannon Palgrave Macmillan Offers new essays that address issues raised in Wilson's "The Ground on Which I Stand" speech. Essays and interviews range from examinations of the presence of...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Female Subjectivity in African American Women's Narratives of Enslavement Beyond Borders Lynette D. Myles Palgrave Macmillan In a clear and accesible style, this book theorizes female movement within narratives of enslavement and advocates for a changed black female consciousness...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Black British Writing Edited by R. Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey Palgrave Macmillan This collection of essays provides an imaginative international perspective on ways to incorporate black British writing and culture in the study of English...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Alice Walker - The Color Purple Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Rachel Lister Palgrave Macmillan This guide explores the range of key critical responses to Walker's novel, from contemporary reviews to twenty-first century readings. It deals with various...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Imagining the Black Female Body Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture Edited by Carol E. Henderson Palgrave Macmillan This volume explores issues of black female identity through the various “imaginings” of the black female body in print and visual culture. Offering an...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Subjectivity in the American Protest Novel Kimberly S. Drake Palgrave Macmillan In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Kimberly S. Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Richard Wright New Readings in the 21st Century Signs of Race Edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow Palgrave Macmillan Gathering some of the most important Wright scholarship in the world, along with perspectives from emerging Wright critics, Richard Wright: New Readings in the...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois Emotional Dimensions of Race and Reform Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Ryan Schneider Palgrave Macmillan In The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois, Ryan Schneider shows how and why two of America’s most influential public...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Unassimilable Feminisms Reappraising Feminist, Womanist, and Mestiza Identity Politics Breaking Feminist Waves Laura Gillman Palgrave Macmillan In an important new book, Laura Gillman argues that in this post-identity politics era, identities can still yield reliable knowledge. Focusing on womanist and...

Displaying 1-24 of 26

1 | 2