Tag: Northwestern University Press

  • Set against the landscape of Southern California, where wide, wild expanses mingle with segregated sprawl, written from the viewpoint of a woman in a multiracial family, “There Will Be No More Daughters” has one foot planted in the firm realities of patriarchal domination, racial unbelonging, sex, death, and intergenerational alcoholism—and another in vivid flights of…

  • In “A Death in Harlem,” famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Know It by Heart Northwestern University Press June 2003 256 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-1-880684-95-5 Karl Luntta, Director of Media Relations The State University of New York, Albany When a racially mixed family moves into an all-white neighborhood in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1961, lives are altered forever. Karl Luntta’s Know It by…

  • Selected Plays Northwestern University Press April 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-2751-7 Alice Childress (1916—1994) Edited by: Kathy A. Perkins, Professor of Theatre University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952)…

  • Kafka’s Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic Northwestern University Press June 2016 184 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8101-3286-3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-3285-6 E-book ISBN: 978-0-8101-3287-0 Mark Christian Thompson, Associate Professor of English Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Kafka’s Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka’s major works engage…

  • This anthology features the vitality and variety of verse in the City of Angels, a city of poets. This is more about range then representation, voice more than volume. Los Angeles has close to 60 percent people of color, 225 languages spoken at home, and some of the richest and poorest persons in the country.

  • Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness Northwestern University Press May 2006 488 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Paper ISBN: ISBN 978-0-8101-1971-0 Edited by: Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy (1951-2015), Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Russian Literature and Culture Barnard College Columbia University, New York, New York Nicole Svobodny, Assistant Dean, College of…