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- Author
- Barbara Boswell
- Description
- Covers Yvette Christiansë, Rayda Jacobs, Farida Karodia, Sindiwe Magona, Kagiso Lesego Molope, Lauretta Ngcobo, Agnes Sam, Miriam Tlali, Zukiswa Wanne, and Zoë Wicomb.
- Year
- 2020
- Editor
- Joanne Dearcopp and Christine Hill Smith
- Description
- Essays include discussion of the journalism, memoir, novels, poetry, and short fiction of this ecofeminist and leftist who captured the American West and the lives of migrants and the working class during the Great Depression and covered topics including gender, labor, race, and social class.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Blessing Diala-Ogamba
- Description
- Covers films and literature from the 20th and 21st centuries and focuses on colonialism and patriarchal systems.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Michelle Medeiros
- Description
- Focuses on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Doris Cochran, Nísia Floresta, and Maria Graham and covers the 19th century through the early 20th century.
- Year
- 2019
- Editor
- Rose A. Sackeyfio
- Description
- Examines works by writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sefi Atta, NoViolet Bulawayo, Amma Darko, Yaa Gyasi, Nnedi Okorafor, and Chika Unigwe.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Shanna Greene Benjamin
- Description
- Biography of the literary scholar and coeditor of the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Ed Pavlić
- Description
- Examines dissident solitude, fugitive solitude, radical solitude, relational solitude, and social solitude and is informed by Ed Pavlić's personal relationship with Adrienne Rich and their correspondence.
- Year
- 2021
- Author
- Lucasta Miller
- Description
- Part detective story and part biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who was ostracized from literary society for her lengthy affair with editor William Jerdan and wrote works that link the Romantics and the Victorians and point toward modernism.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Monalesia Earle
- Description
- Covers works by authors who identify as American, Canadian, Cuban, Japanese, and Turkish.
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Sarah Finley
- Description
- Covers uses of sound, music, harmony, and silence and connections between the aural and the visual.
- Year
- 2019
