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James A. Crank
Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. Understanding Randall Kenan is…
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Randall Kenan is an American author best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead. This is the first…
Randall Kenan
From the author of Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a profoundly moving and provocative account–both timely and enduring–of the thinking, the feelings, and the lives of African-Americans in…
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These 12 stories–at once down to earth and fantastical, tragic and hilarious–are about blacks and whites, young and old, rich and poor, rural and sophisticated. He (Kenen) weaves myth, folktales…
The author of Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century brings James Baldwin’s classic The Fire Next Time into the post-Katrina era in this…
Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy…
Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives.
"Nothing short of a wonder-book."--New York Times Book Review
The story collection that hailed the arrival of an essential voice in southern literature--a sharp, rich exploration of what it means…
...with an introduction by Tarell Alvin McCraney [cover].
Author of Go Tell it on the Mountain, Baldwin was a minority within a minority as a gay black man. This series examines the lives of gay and lesbian writers…
A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction.
James Baldwin
A collection of essays, speeches, letters, reviews, etc.
Trudier Harris
This text examines the power of the front porch storytelling techniques, celebrating the oral tradition of the Black American South. It focuses on three contemporary southern writers, whom the author…
Southern literature is often celebrated for its told rather than written qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbours, Trudier Harris looks across the…
At the intersection of food and story, The Carolina Table offers dozens of stories by Tar Heel writers about the best meal, food memory, noteworthy family tradition, cherished food ritual…
W.E.B. Du Bois
First published in 1903 and one of our country’s most influential books, The Souls of Black Folk reflects the mind of a visionary who inspired generations of readers to remember…
