Product Description: Opening with five intriguing urban short stories by Zora Neale Hurston that are reprinted here for the first time, and with the first publication and reproduction in facsimile of two previously unknown Hurston letters, this special issue of "Amerikastudien / American Studies," edited by Glenda R...read more

Argues that Americans have more in common with each other than with their ethnic ancestors (view table of contents)

Product Description: Creole poets have always eluded easy definition, infusing European poetic forms with Louisiana themes and Native American and African influences to produce an impressive variety of highly accomplished verses. This work contains poems by more than thirty different poets, presented in their original French alongside English translations...read more

Product Description: Bereits 1946 nahm der in Lettland geborene amerikanische Psychologe David Pablo Boder in Europa mit einem Drahtaufnahmegerat uber 100 Gesprache mit judischen und einigen nicht-judischen Uberlebenden von Vernichtungspolitik, Konzentrationslagern und Kriegswirren auf, die heute eine der allerfruhesten Sammlungen von Nachkriegszeugenaussagen darstellen...read more

Product Description: In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. At the same time, technologies of dissemination evolved rapidly, and versions of modernism emerged as dominant art forms...read more

1810, à l’Ile de France (actuelle Maurice). Pierre Munier, intègre et prospère planteur métis, se distingue dans la défense de l’île menacée par les Anglais, après avoir été refusé en raison de sa couleur de peau dans la garde nationale par M. de Malmédie, riche colon. Georges et Jacques, enfants de Munier, se défendent contre une provocation d’Henri, fils de Malmédie. Leur père, “ce héros qui lève la tête devant la mitraille et plie les genoux devant un préjugé”, décide d’éloigner les deux frères, qui partent pour la France. Jacques se fait bientôt matelot et disparaît ; quant à Georges, il reçoit à Paris la meilleure éducation et devient vite un jeune homme brillant, doué d’un sang-froid hors norme et d’une grande élévation morale. Quatorze années passent. Georges décide de regagner son île natale, avec un objectif : y vaincre le “préjugé de couleur” (on ne dit pas encore racisme) attaché à sa condition de mulâtre...

A swashbuckling adventure by the author of The Three Musketeers chronicles the story of Georges Munier, a wealthy, young mulatto on the Caribbean island of Mauritius, who returns from his European education, falls in love with a beautiful white woman whose race-conscious family objects to the match, and leads a slave uprising. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Interracialism, or marriage between members of different races, has formed, torn apart, defined and divided our nation since its earliest history. This collection explores the primary texts of interracialism as a means of addressing core issues in our racial identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Describes literature in languages other than English in the United States, and recommends knowing English plus other languages

Describes literature in languages other than English in the United States, and recommends knowing English plus other languages (view table of contents)

Product Description: Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black nor White yet Both, a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between...read more