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Author |
: Frank J. Webb |
Publisher |
: IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1857 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600055258 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Garies and Their Friends by : Frank J. Webb
Originally published in London in 1857 and never before available in paperback, The Garies and Their Friends is the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing, ' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.'
Author |
: Tess Chakkalakal |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 162 |
Release |
: 2011-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252093388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252093380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Novel Bondage by : Tess Chakkalakal
Novel Bondage unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors. Situating close readings of fiction alongside archival material concerning the actual marriages of authors such as Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Frank J. Webb, Chakkalakal examines how these early novels established literary conventions for describing the domestic lives of American slaves in describing their aspirations for personal and civic freedom. Exploring this theme in post-Civil War works by Frances E.W. Harper and Charles Chesnutt, she further reveals how the slave-marriage plot served as a fictional model for reforming marriage laws. Chakkalakal invites readers to rethink the "marital work" of nineteenth-century fiction and the historical role it played in shaping our understanding of the literary and political meaning of marriage, then and now.
Author |
: Frank J. Webb |
Publisher |
: Blurb |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2019-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0368279901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780368279904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Garies and Their Friends by : Frank J. Webb
This edition of The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition
Author |
: John Gennari |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2017-03-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226428468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022642846X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Flavor and Soul by : John Gennari
In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,” the affinity between black and Italian cultures runs deep and wide. Once you start looking, you’ll find these connections everywhere. Sinatra croons bel canto over the limousine swing of the Count Basie band. Snoop Dogg deftly tosses off the line “I’m Lucky Luciano ’bout to sing soprano.” Like the Brooklyn pizzeria and candy store in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, or the basketball sidelines where Italian American coaches Rick Pitino and John Calipari mix it up with their African American players, black/Italian connections are a thing to behold—and to investigate. In Flavor and Soul, John Gennari spotlights this affinity, calling it “the edge”—now smooth, sometimes serrated—between Italian American and African American culture. He argues that the edge is a space of mutual emulation and suspicion, a joyous cultural meeting sometimes darkened by violent collision. Through studies of music and sound, film and media, sports and foodways, Gennari shows how an Afro-Italian sensibility has nourished and vitalized American culture writ large, even as Italian Americans and African Americans have fought each other for urban space, recognition of overlapping histories of suffering and exclusion, and political and personal rispetto. Thus, Flavor and Soul is a cultural contact zone—a piazza where people express deep feelings of joy and pleasure, wariness and distrust, amity and enmity. And it is only at such cultural edges, Gennari argues, that America can come to truly understand its racial and ethnic dynamics.
Author |
: Nnedi Okorafor |
Publisher |
: Astra Publishing House |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2015-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780698175167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0698175166 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book of Phoenix by : Nnedi Okorafor
A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell.... The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women. Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7. Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape. But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.
Author |
: Robert Montgomery Bird |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1836 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044019675677 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sheppard Lee by : Robert Montgomery Bird
It will scarcely be supposed that, with the passion of covetousness gnawing at my heart, I had space or convenience for any other feeling. But Abram Skinner had loved his children; and to this passion I was introduced, as well as to the other. At first I was surprised that I should bestow the least regard upon them, seeing that they were no children of mine. I endeavoured to shake off the feeling of attachment, as an absurdity, but could not; in spite of myself, I found my spirit yearning towards them; and by-and-by, having lost my identity entirely, I could scarcely, even when I made the effort, recall the consciousness that I was not their parent in reality. Indeed, the transformation that had now occurred to my spirit was more thorough than it had been in either previous instance; I could scarce convince myself I had not been born the being I represented; my past existence began to appear to my reflections only as some idle dream, that the fever of sickness had brought upon my mind; and I forgot that I was, or had been, Sheppard Lee.
Author |
: Blake M. Hausman |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2011-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780803268210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0803268211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Riding the Trail of Tears by : Blake M. Hausman
Sherman Alexie meets William Gibson. Louise Erdrich meets Franz Kafka. Leslie Marmon Silko meets Philip K. Dick. However you might want to put it, this is Native American fiction in a whole new world. A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north Georgia in the near future, into a virtual-reality tourist compound where customers ride the Trail of Tears, and into the world of Tallulah Wilson, a Cherokee woman who works there. When several tourists lose consciousness inside the ride, employees and customers at the compound come to believe, naturally, that a terrorist attack is imminent. Little does Tallulah know that Cherokee Little People have taken up residence in the virtual world and fully intend to change the ride’s programming to suit their own point of view. Told by a narrator who knows all but can hardly be trusted, in a story reflecting generations of experience while recalling the events in a single day of Tallulah’s life, this funny and poignant tale revises American history even as it offers a new way of thinking, both virtual and very real, about the past for both Native Americans and their Anglo counterparts.
Author |
: Drude Krog Janson |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2002-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801868815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801868818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Saloonkeeper's Daughter by : Drude Krog Janson
With this edition of A Saloonkeeper's Daughter, an important and prescient work of American fiction is finally available in English.
Author |
: Frank J. Webb |
Publisher |
: Broadview Press |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2016-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770483644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1770483640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Garies and Their Friends by : Frank J. Webb
Unjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for different sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fast-moving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences. The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.
Author |
: Mary Hayden (Green) Pike |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 490 |
Release |
: 1854 |
ISBN-10 |
: PSU:000006165031 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ida May by : Mary Hayden (Green) Pike