Browsing by Subject "African American Literature"
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McBride, James
( Wiley , 2022 , Book chapter)One of the most interesting writers on race to emerge in the last decade of the twentieth century, James McBride (b. 1957) is an African American novelist, memoirist, and jazz musician. His memoir, The Color of Water: A ... -
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, ...