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Habitations of the Veil
(February 2014)
Metaphor and the Poetics of Being in African American Literature
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher - Author
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Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives
(December 2013)
W. Lawrence Hogue - Author
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Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.
This book explores how African American social and political movements, African American studies, independent scholars, and traditional cultural forms revisit and challenge the representation of the African American as deviant other. After surveying African American history and cultural politics, W. Lawrence Hogue provides...(Read More) |
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Uncoupling American Empire
(December 2013)
Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890–1910
Yu-Fang Cho - Author
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A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.
A radical revision of the politics of race and sexuality within racial capitalism, Uncoupling American Empire provides an original cultural genealogy of how the institutionalization of marriage shaped imagined relationships among working people who were seen as sexually deviant in nineteenth-century ...(Read More) |
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The Principal's Office
(November 2013)
A Social History of the American School Principal
Kate Rousmaniere - Author
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The first comprehensive history of principals in the United States.
The Principal’s Office is the first historical examination of one of the most important figures in American education. Originating as a head teacher in the nineteenth century and evolving into the role of contemporary educational leader, the school principal has played a central part in the development of American public education. A local leader who n...(Read More) |
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Yemoja
(November 2013)
Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas
Solimar Otero - Editor
Toyin Falola - Editor
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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
This is the first collection of essays to analyze intersectional religious and cultural practices surrounding the deity Yemoja. In Afro-Atlantic traditions, Yemoja is associated with motherhood, women, the arts, and the family. This book reveals how Yemoja traditions are negotiating gender, sexuality,...(Read More) |
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A Human Necklace
(July 2013)
The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall’s Fiction
Moira Ferguson - Author
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Argues that Paule Marshall’s work collectively constitutes a multigenerational saga of the African diaspora across centuries and continents.
From Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) to The Fisher King (2000), Paule Marshall’s novels, novellas, and short stories include a rich cast of unforgettable men, women, and children who forge spiritual as well as emotional and geographical paths toward their ancest...(Read More) |
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The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave
(July 2013)
The Ancestral Call in Black Women's Texts
Venetria K. Patton - Author
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Explores black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure.
The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison’s Beloved,Tananarive Due’s The Between, and Jul...(Read More) |
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From Every Mountainside
(June 2013)
Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights
R. Drew Smith - Editor
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Essays on the civil rights movement outside the South and since the 1960s.
It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. Individual essays point to th...(Read More) |
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