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Amazons
An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey LeagueI don't want to talk about it
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Animal Nightlife
A rapturous, kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary Britain and the myriad immigrant experiences that informed it, from the 1950s to a present-day landscape of racism, class division and economic decay, told through the voices of othered outsiders who just happen to be half-human, half-avian...
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Ausradiert
Percival Everett - Autor des Pulitzer-Preis-prämierten Bestsellers 'James'Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison ist Schriftsteller - und verzweifelt: Seine anspruchsvollen Bücher finden kaum Beachtung, während klischeebeladene 'Ghettoromane' über Schwarze gefeiert werden. Aus Wut schreibt er selbst unter Pseudonym einen solch stereotypen, provokanten Roman mit dem Titel 'Fuck'. Der Erfolg ist überwältigend. Doch mit dem Ruhm wächst auch das Chaos in Monks Leben. 'Ausradiert' ist eine bissige, kluge Satire auf den Literaturbetrieb, kulturelle Erwartungen und die Frage, wer erzählen darf - und wie.
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Call Me Ishmaelle
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James
James is een geestige, wrange en huiveringwekkende hervertelling van De avonturen van Huckleberry Finn vanuit het perspectief van de tot slaaf gemaakte Jim. Wanneer Jim hoort dat hij binnenkort verkocht zal worden, en voor altijd gescheiden van zijn vrouw en kind, ontsnapt hij naar een eiland in de rivier de Mississippi. Daar treft hij de witte jongen Huck, die zijn eigen dood in scène heeft gezet om te ontsnappen aan zijn gewelddadige vader. Het is het begin van een legendarisch avontuur: samen vluchten ze op een krakkemikkig vlot over de verraderlijke rivier, richting de vrijheid. Tot zover het bekende verhaal. In de versie van Percival Everett neemt hun tocht een aantal huiveringwekkende wendingen. Jim neemt het heft in eigen hand, vastberaden om zijn gezin te bevrijden. En zijn band met Huck komt in een nieuw licht te staan.
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Colored Television
As fearless as she is funny, Danzy Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind'Hilarious' Raven Leilani, author of LusterJane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane's sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel-a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her "mulatto War and Peace." Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.But things don't work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a "real writer," and together they begin to develop "the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies." Things finally seem to be going right for Jane-until they go terribly wrong.Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Senna's most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.Reader reviews:'A fantastic novel . . . funny and ironic and clever''A clever satire of the entertainment industry and the compromises artists sometimes make. If you enjoyed Yellowface, you'll likely appreciate Senna's ability to blend humour with uncomfortable truths''This is so sharp & funny & MESSY . . . I could not wait to see how this one turned out and had a ball reading it''Provides a very gripping commentary on both the literary and television world . . . The story takes such an unexpected turn, and once it does I truly couldn't put it down'
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James
"Huckleberry Finn" wird zum Roman der Freiheit - in "James" erfindet Percival Everett den Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur neu. Fesselnd, komisch, subversivJim spielt den Dummen. Es wäre zu gefährlich, wenn die Weißen wüssten, wie intelligent und gebildet er ist. Als man ihn nach New Orleans verkaufen will, flieht er mit Huck gen Norden in die Freiheit. Auf dem Mississippi jagt ein Abenteuer das nächste: Stürme, Überschwemmungen, Begegnungen mit Betrügern und Blackface-Sängern. Immer wieder muss Jim mit seiner schwarzen Identität jonglieren, um sich und seinen jugendlichen Freund zu retten. Percival Everetts "James" ist einer der maßgeblichen Romane unserer Zeit, eine unerhörte Provokation, die an die Grundfesten des amerikanischen Mythos rührt. Ein auf den Kopf gestellter Klassiker, der uns aufrüttelt und fragt: Wie lesen wir heute? Fesselnd, komisch, subversiv.
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Passing into the Present
Contemporary American Fiction of Racial and Gender PassingThis is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990’s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction.
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Laughing to Keep from Dying
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century"Many comics hone their craft primarily to amuse, but with this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash." --Library Journal "Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like 'Get Out' aim to highlight racial boundaries." --New York Times "In Laughing to Keep from Dying, Danielle Fuentes Morgan crafts an innovative and well-considered account of African-American satire. . . . Morgan's prose is clear and engaging, and her language accessible and compelling." --Journal of American Culture
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Laughing to Keep from Dying
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century"Many comics hone their craft primarily to amuse, but with this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash." --Library Journal "Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like 'Get Out' aim to highlight racial boundaries." --New York Times "In Laughing to Keep from Dying, Danielle Fuentes Morgan crafts an innovative and well-considered account of African-American satire. . . . Morgan's prose is clear and engaging, and her language accessible and compelling." --Journal of American Culture "Exceedingly well-written, well-researched . . . Recommended." --Choice "A satisfying read for anyone with an interest in how entertainment responds to a shifting social landscape." --Atlantic "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read for anyone (like us) who has needed reminding lately why the risks of irony are worth taking." --Humor "Danielle Fuentes Morgan's Laughing to Keep from Dying is a major contribution to African American literary and cultural studies and to the study of satire and other forms of humor in the United States. Taking as her focus satirical texts in the twenty-first century, Morgan argues that recent African American satirical works reassert an ethical position present in black cultural expressions since slavery, that literature and art instantiate a humanity that its authors perennially assume to be a matter of fact. But rather than positing respectability politics, contemporary African American satire advocates a 'kaleidoscopic blackness,' one that embraces the many subtle and subversive ways that black people make meaning. Contemporary African American satire, as the title indicates, is more than a salve for oppression; its purpose is to keep black people from dying. In this stunning debut, Morgan places herself in the company of Glenda Carpio, Terrence Tucker, and most recently Lisa Guerrero."--Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance "Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century." --Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
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Approximate Gestures
Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival EverettArgues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world.
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Black Bourgeois
Class and Sex in the Flesh"Bourgeois in the Flesh examines how late 20th and early 21st century African American literary texts grapple with the dilemma of black bourgeois subjectivity"--
€ 29,50
