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OBAMA PHENOMENON: ESSAYS AND POETRY BY BLACK CRITICS AND CREATIVE ARTISTS
Edited by internationally recognized scholar on black literatures and cultures, Femi Ojo-Ade, this volume brings together a mixture of young intellectuals and seasoned scholars from Africa and its Diaspora to address various themes of the Obama phenomenon, all from an...
$29.95
EKUA: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A GIRL
Ekua: A Year in the Life of a Girl is a coming-of-age narrative of an eight-year-old Ghanaian girl who lives with an abusive guardian, Mrs. Addo, while her parents are in the United States. Because of the physical, mental, and...
$15.00
MARKETS OF MEMORIES Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational
Markets of Memories combines the analysis of rhetorical (and dialectical) structures and the exploration of contact zones (and their power dynamic). In effect, the book explores the movement of history, and its interpretive narratives, from two related perspectives the postcolonial...
$29.11
LEGACY OF PHANTOMS A NOVEL
Standing as a powerful metaphor for Africa's socio-political past and present, Kwakye's novel relates the internal battles of the twin Kakra as he struggles to come to terms with a past so jarring that he is only able to recall...
$21.51
GLOBALIZED PALESTINE The National Sell-Out of a Homeland
This book is about how truncated, distorted, and mythologized the official claim of Palestinian development is, and has become. Basically, this book is about the role of an informal tri-partite coalition of (1) Palestinian capitalists-political elite, (2) Palestinian developmental NGOs,...
$29.95
Deliverance: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness, A Historical Novel, by Bereket Habte Selassie
This is a novel based on the recent history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. The principal characters of the novel are former participants in the revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by a generation s uprising against the...
$34.95
African Beliefs in the New World: Popular Literary Traditions of the Caribbean (COMING SOON)
Pradel, Lucie
Product details
Publisher : Africa World Pr (December 1, 2002)
Language : English
Hardcover : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 0865437025
ISBN-13 : 978-0865437029
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
$99.00
What's Mine and Yours
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes"Coster portrays her characters’ worlds with startling vitality. As the children fall in lust and love, grapple with angst and battle the tides...
$28.00
How Beautiful We Were
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company. “A novel with the richness and power of a great contemporary fable, and a...
$28.00
Deacon King Kong
One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year"Oprah's Book Club PickNamed one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME MagazineA Washington Post Notable NovelFrom the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the...
$17.00
Another Country
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender...
$16.95
Heads of the Colored People: Stories
*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award**Winner of the Whiting Award**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize**Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize*Included in Best Books of...
$17.00
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later....
$19.50
Invisible Man
Both a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for...
$16.00
Native Son (PB)
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. Right from the start, Bigger Thomas...
$16.99
Crosshairs
USA TODAY’s 5 Books Not to MissVanity Fair’s Books To Get You Through the WinterMarie Claire’s 2020 Books to Add To Your Reading ListPopSugar’s 20 Books Everyone Will Be Talking AboutCosmopolitan’s 20 Books to Read this WinterThe author of the...
$27.00
A Good Neighborhood (HB)
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020"A provocative, absorbing read." — People“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of LightIn...
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Long Division (Available June 1, 2021)
From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written...
$17.00