Literature & Race Books

New and Published Books

1. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

   By Danny Méndez

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
3. The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

   Performing Identity

   By Caroline Brown

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Politicizing Asian American Literature

   Towards a Critical Multiculturalism

   By Youngsuk Chae

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
5. Representing Africa in Children's Literature

   Old and New Ways of Seeing

   By Vivian Yenika-Agbaw

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Representing Africa in Children’s Literature explores how African and Western authors portray youth in contemporary African societies, critically examining the dominant images of Africa and Africans in books published between 1960 and 2005. The book focuses on contemporary children’s and young...

   Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
6. Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film

   By Ana Manzanas, Jesús Benito Sanchez

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   Thus book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
7. Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

   By Annalisa Oboe, Shaul Bassi

   Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life. This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to the debate on freedom from the...

   Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison

   By Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the...

   Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Travel Writing and Atrocities

   Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo

   By Robert Burroughs

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This book examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. During this time, British explorers,...

   Published July 15th 2010 by Routledge
10. Recharting the Black Atlantic

    Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

    Edited by Annalisa Oboe, Anna Scacchi

    Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

    This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history....

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge