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January 25, 2024

Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature

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Free Download LaToya Jefferson-James, "Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature"
English | ISBN: 1793606676 | 2022 | 236 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1173 KB + 3 MB
Afro-Caribbean Women’s Writing and Early American Literature is both pedagogical and critical. The text begins by re-evaluating the poetry of Wheatley for its political commentary, demonstrates how Hurston bridges several literary genres and geographies, and introduces Black women writers of the Caribbean to some American audiences. It sheds light on lesser-discussed Black women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance and re-evaluates the turn-of-the century concept, Noble Womanhood in light of the Cult of Domesticity.

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January 21, 2024

Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen Intersectionally Black

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Free Download Larry L. W. Miles Clark Atlanta University, "Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen: Intersectionally Black "
English | ISBN: 1666919578 | 2023 | 182 pages | EPUB, PDF | 569 KB + 1295 KB
Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First World people who have been classified historically as Negro, Black, Colored, Afro, and African American. By addressing the ways in which the singular narrative of "slavery" codifies identity, this work moves beyond binary racial classifications and proposes the possibility of utilizing holistic historical narratives to foster group and personal identity.

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January 15, 2024

Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature

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Free Download Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature by Antonio D. Tillis
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415896274 | 272 Pages | PDF | 2.1 MB
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation.

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January 10, 2024

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

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Free Download Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology by Nicole Simek
English | December 14, 2023 | ISBN: 1501377655 | True EPUB/PDF | 218 pages | 0.3/9.5 MB
Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community.

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January 5, 2024

Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolutions Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought

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Free Download Drucilla Cornell, "Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolutions: Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought "
English | ISBN: 1538168480 | 2022 | 154 pages | EPUB | 201 KB
The black insurgence movement and experiments in Caribbean socialism, following the work of the committed revolutionary CLR James, have resounding significance for the political struggles of today. This book addresses class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, which in turn makes us reconceptualize the idea of revolution, liberation and rebellion by focusing on this great revolutionary theorist.

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January 5, 2024

African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue

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Free Download Komla Aggor Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, "African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue"
English | ISBN: 1527507653 | 2018 | 170 pages | PDF | 736 KB
African, Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue is a collection of essays of broad historical and geographic scope that advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and colonialism and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism. Mostly grounded in literary studies, the essays discuss the interconnections between Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora. Particular focus is given to how they relate to the politics of identity and assimilation, migration and displacement, the concept of nation, Eurocentrism and racial essentialisms, as well as Black aesthetics.

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