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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Shakespeare attacks bigotry Shakespeare attacks bigotry Elaine L. Robinson "The book examines six of Shakespeare's plays--Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth--and explores how they satirized humanism's grounding in Aristotle's ph… OL13763394W
The public intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois The public intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois Ryan Schneider xi, 183 p. ; 22 cm OL15451894W
An Image of Africa An Image of Africa Chinua Achebe "Beautifully written yet highly controversial, "An Image of Africa" asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serve… OL15747369W
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830-1860 Leonardo Buonomo This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach,… OL16815228W
The Gothic other The Gothic other Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard x, 310 p. ; 23 cm OL18246645W
Race and religion in the postcolonial British detective story Race and religion in the postcolonial British detective story Julie H. Kim "The ten essays in this work examine the changing nature of British detective fiction. British detective writers are overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into eth… OL19376221W
Was the cat in the hat black? Was the cat in the hat black? Philip Nel Was the Cat in the Hat Black? presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit and explicit forms of racism. OL19736985W
Modern and contemporary Black British drama Modern and contemporary Black British drama Mary F. Brewer,Lynette Goddard,Deirdre Osborne "This indispensable overview of modern black British drama spans seven decades of distinctive playwriting from the 1950s to the present. Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical a… OL23213337W
Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Dean McWilliams "Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private … OL4789106W
The syntax of class The syntax of class Amy Schrager Lang "The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native lang… OL5263414W
The street was mine The street was mine Megan E. Abbott "This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure reemerg… OL5731713W
Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature Colonialism and race in Luso-Hispanic literature Jerome Branche "Branche examines a wide variety of Latin American literature and discourse to show the extent and range of racist sentiments throughout the culture. He argues that racism in the modern period (1415-… OL5837899W
The fugitive race The fugitive race Stephen P. Knadler "Stephen P. Knadler adds to the discussion of the "white question" by contending that the white race has been a fugitive one that ignores the need for dialogue with minorities. The Fugitive Race: Min… OL5952113W
"Miscegenation" "Miscegenation" Elise Virginia Lemire "In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling… OL5955951W
George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity George Eliot and Victorian attitudes to racial diversity Brenda McKay This work is a broadly focussed & intensively researched study of the multifarious ways in which the Victorians looked at discourses on race & how these affected people's daily lives: Slavery, 19th-c… OL6036686W
Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars Anthony Dawahare "During and after the Harlem Renaissance, the clash of two tremendous intellectual forces - nationalism and Marxism - changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says th… OL6543251W
Shakespeare jungle fever Shakespeare jungle fever Arthur L. Little "This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex - of a "jungle fever" - in early modern England's envisionings of itself. Shakespeare's works here assume th… OL7798052W