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9780824093150 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1981, cover price $79.00

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Portrays the experiences of Frado, the Black indentured servant of a Massachusetts family during the nineteenth century (view table of contents)
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9780394715582, titled "Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North : Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There" | Vintage Books, April 1, 1983, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Portrays the experiences of Frado, the Black indentured servant of a Massachusetts family during the nineteenth century

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Product Description: These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts...read more
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9780195032765 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 16, 1985, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history.

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9780195066562 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 21, 1991), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history.

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9780313239373 | Greenwood Pub Group, January 1, 1986, cover price $86.95

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Product Description: A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory. This collection demonstrates the variety of critical approaches through which one may discuss the complexities of racial "otherness" in various modes of discourse...read more
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780226284354 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 8, 1992, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad introduction to the idea of "race" as a meaningful category in the study of literature and the shaping of critical theory.

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Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers
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9780195035643 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 16, 1987, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers

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9780195060744, titled "Figures in Black: Words, Signs and the "Racial" Self" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 30, 1989), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers

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Product Description: When the first volumes of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers first appeared in 1988, critics and scholars applauded the publishing venture as historic. Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, was credited with rescuing the voice of an entire segment of the black tradition...read more
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780195157703 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $995.00 | About this edition: When the first volumes of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers first appeared in 1988, critics and scholars applauded the publishing venture as historic.
9780195052671 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 14, 1988, cover price $700.00 | About this edition: The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints.

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Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature (view table of contents)
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9780195034639 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 11, 1988, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature

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9780195060751 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 14, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores the relationship between African and Afro-American vernacular traditions and Black literature

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9780882581668 | Reprint edition (Howard Univ Pr, December 1, 1989), cover price $33.95

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Product Description: ""Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature."--W. Mitchell, University of Chicago
By Sunday Ogbonna Anozie (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780415903349 | Reprint edition (Routledge, January 1, 1990), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: ""Black Literature and Literary Theory" is of the first importance, not only for scholars of black literature, but also for literary critics and theorists in the traditional fields of Western literature.

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Product Description: William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.
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9780679727422 | Vintage Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: William Wells Brown, Frances E.

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Essays examine the Black feminist viewpoint in literature
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780452010451 | Plume, October 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays examine the Black feminist viewpoint in literature

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The complete script of the three-act play is accompanied by the Hurston short story, and notes on Lincoln Center Theater's adaptation
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9780060968854 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 1991), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The complete script of the three-act play is accompanied by the Hurston short story, and notes on Lincoln Center Theater's adaptation

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Product Description: The poems of noted African-American poet Effie Waller Smith were popular in magazines and in book form. Collected in this volume, they provide insight into the life and experience of this admired turn-of-the-century poet.
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780195061970 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 18, 1991, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The poems of noted African-American poet Effie Waller Smith were popular in magazines and in book form.

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A collection of memoirs written by Black scholars, politicians, creative writers, and journalists offers insight to the African-American experience in twentieth-century American society
By Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9780679735205 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of memoirs written by Black scholars, politicians, creative writers, and journalists offers insight to the African-American experience in twentieth-century American society

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Product Description: Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball...read more
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9780195075199 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 30, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Avoiding the excesses of the Right and the Left, one of the nation's leading academics tackles the 'multiculturalism' issue, pleading for cultural tolerance and, above all, cultural education.

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9780195083507 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 20, 1993), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Multiculturalism.

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9781880974001 | Americans for the Arts, August 1, 1992, cover price $15.00

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Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America
By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9781567430271 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical interpretations of the works of Richard Wright and discuss how he made his readers aware of the horrors of racism in America

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Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women
By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9781567430134 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews and essays offer critical examinations of Alice Walker's works and the manner in which they address the struggles of Black women

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Product Description: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale, Naylor has analyzed the works of her male and female antecedents in a manner that was impossible before the late seventies...read more
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9781567430172 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor.

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9781567430301 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor.

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Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison
By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9781567430127 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reviews, essays, and interviews offer critical interpretations of the works of Toni Morrison

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A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed
By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9781567430288 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses each of the author's works and reveals how understanding of her writing has developed

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A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed
By Kwame Anthony Appiah (editor) and Henry Louis Gates (editor)
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9781567430165 | Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of reviews and essays discusses the author's poetry and other works, revealing how reviewers missed the complexity of his writing, and how understanding of his work has developed

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A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.
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9780940450790 | Library of America, February 1, 1994, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A new one-volume edition of an American classic offers the complete memoirs of the eloquent escaped slave, who in the nineteenth century shaped the abolitionist movement and became the most influential African-American of his era.

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The celebrated African-American Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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9780679421795 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The celebrated Black Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time

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9780679739197 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The celebrated African-American Harvard scholar offers a portrait of growing up in a West Virginia hill town, presenting a study of his family, his childhood icons, and the social institutions and mores of the time.

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