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Product Description: Edward W. Said has been a controversial and influential figure in and around the U.S. academy for well over three decades. His work has played a foundational role in the development of postcolonial studies, even as his books- such as Orientalism (1978), The World, the Text, and the Critic (1983), and Culture and Imperialism (1993)-have contributed to a radical transformation of literary studies...read more
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Product Description: The essays in this volume and its companion volume, Memory, Narrative, and Identity, focus on the different ways in which writers of ethnic American literatures use memory as a subversive device to redefine the dominant history and culture, to validate a personal and collective identity, and to shape narrative...read more
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A critical study of twenty-one novels published between 1923 and 1933, focusing on interracial issues of self-definition, class, caste, and color in the works of twelve black writers of the Harlem Renaissance
9780271012087 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A critical study of twenty-one novels published between 1923 and 1933, focusing on interracial issues of self-definition, class, caste, and color in the works of twelve black writers of the Harlem Renaissance