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African-American Literature and Culture
Expanding and Exploding the BoundariesISSN: 1528-3887
The purpose of this series is to present innovative, in-depth, and provocatively critical literary and cultural investigations of critical issues in African American literature and life. We welcome critiques of fiction, poetry, drama, film, sports, and popular culture. Of particular interest are literary and cultural analyses that involve contemporary psychoanalytical criticism, new historicism, deconstructionism, critical race theory, critical legal theory, and critical gender theory.
22 publications
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American University Studies
Series 18: African LiteratureISSN: 0742-1923
The books within this series include a broad range of topics within the category of African literature. Typically, they are excellent monographs that have been subjected to a rigorous peer-review process. They tend to be written on topics that would not be suitable for our more specific series within each discipline. Many of the titles have won national and international awards. These books can be found in university library collections around the world.
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Writing About Women
Feminist Literary StudiesISSN: 1053-7937
This is a literary series devoted to feminist studies on past and contemporary women authors, exploring social, psychological, political, economic, and historical insights directed toward an interdisciplinary approach. The series is dedicated to the memory of Simone de Beauvoir, early pioneer in feminist literary theory. This is a literary series devoted to feminist studies on past and contemporary women authors, exploring social, psychological, political, economic, and historical insights directed toward an interdisciplinary approach. The series is dedicated to the memory of Simone de Beauvoir, early pioneer in feminist literary theory. This is a literary series devoted to feminist studies on past and contemporary women authors, exploring social, psychological, political, economic, and historical insights directed toward an interdisciplinary approach. The series is dedicated to the memory of Simone de Beauvoir, early pioneer in feminist literary theory.
22 publications
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Juju Fission
Women’s Alternative Fictions from the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Oases In-Between©2007 Monographs -
The African Continuum and Contemporary African American Women Writers
Their Literary Presence and Ancestral Past©1995 Thesis -
Travellers, Novelists, and Gentlemen
Constructing Male Narrative Personae in British Travel Books, from the Beginnings to the Second World War©2013 Monographs -
Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race
Black Female Trickster’s Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature©2017 Monographs -
African Women’s Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory
Pastoral Theological Considerations and Guidelines for Care and Counseling©2004 Monographs -
Bodies That Work
African American Women’s Corporeal Activism in Progressive America©2020 Monographs -
Sisters of Hope, Looking Back, Stepping Forward
The Educational Experiences of African-American Women©2009 Textbook -
Resilience and Success
The Professional Journeys of African American Women Scientists©2014 Textbook