Gates, Henry Louis Books


The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Best Price: $48.00 I had to purchase the book for school, and I was very displeased and how dull the book was and...	The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.57 A friend had given me a copy of "The Bondwoman's Narrative" (great read) written by a...	The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Best Price: $12.95 Professor Gates' tome on the Signifying Monkey is a thoughtful and fascinating exposition on...	Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies : Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (Library of America) Best Price: $21.90 Two reasons might put one off from reading Frederick Douglass's autobiographies: (1)Douglass's...	God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.07 God's Trombones is a beautiful expression of the themes of the Southern black experience and...



The Bondwoman's Narrative Best Price: $3.85 I am very happy I could locate this book. It is one of my favorite books, and one I insist...	Colored People: A Memoir Best Price: $4.95 This book in many ways took on the flow and the cadence of a letter for his daughters Maggie and...	Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement Best Price: $2.46 I thought I was pretty well informed on the subject of black history but that was an eye-opening...	The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers Best Price: $2.62 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s _The Trials Phillis Wheatley_ considers Phillis Wheatley's career...	The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin Best Price: $24.88 I side with the earlier reviewers who found many of the annotations immaterial at best,...



The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.00 Collections from two of our most influential African American writers-under the general...	Slave Narratives (Library of America) Best Price: $17.50 This book is a collection of ten narratives that document the nature of American slavery from...	Douglass: Autobiographies (Library of America College Editions) Best Price: $7.98 This is one of the most eye opening pieces of literature that I ever had the pleasure to read.I...	Target Zero: A Life in Writing Best Price: $3.96 Was sent to a cousin in prison who thought highly of this book. He must like it. Glad I could...	Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Best Price: $5.50 This book will challenge you to look at men who have been instumental politically and...

The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture, 1892-1938 Best Price: $16.31 When African American intellectuals announced the birth of the "New Negro" around the...	Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown Best Price: $7.41 This genre, the slave narrative, created by fugitive slaves, is one that I knew nothing about,...	Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self Best Price: $14.76 For over two centuries, critics and the black community have tended to approach African-American...	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Best Price: $3.26 It had some writing in it, but overall a good deal for the price. Thanks	"Race," Writing, and Difference Best Price: $14.60 A classic of cultural criticism, "Race," Writing, and Difference provides a broad...

The African American National Biography: 8-Volume Set Best Price: $599.89 The African American National Biography comes close to its promise - a single, definitive source...	The Souls of Black Folk (Bantam Classics) Best Price: $1.25 In 1903, two years after Booker T. Washington's autobiography, "Up from Slavery",...	Africana: Civil Rights: An A-to-Z Reference of the Movement that Changed America (Africana) Best Price: $1.00 American history saw a dramatic change with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and...	Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology (Meridian) I didn't read all of this book, but I know it's a winner. Female readers should not be...	The Slave's Narrative Best Price: $8.49 Students of slavery or the narrative form will find this book invaluable. This is a unique...

Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Revised and Expanded Edition Best Price: $5.35 As a personal and corporate biographer, I hear many different life stories and have learned that...	Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) Best Price: $24.90 LANGSTON HUGHES: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES PAST AND PRESENT by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and al, is...	Pioneers Of The Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives, 1772-1815 Best Price: $3.25 In the eighteenth century, a small group of black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by...	Come Sunday: Photographs by Thomas Roma Best Price: $17.95 Certainly photography is a matter of composiotion and light and having your head in the right...	The Best American Essays of the Century (The Best American Series (TM)) Best Price: $8.85 This is a fantastic sampling of American memoir and reflections on race, gender, nature,...

African American Lives Best Price: $7.75 I first came upon this book at a friends house. I thought it was amazing! It profiled the...	The Harvard Guide to African-American History: Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University Press Reference Library) Best Price: $122.25 This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work,...	Josephine Baker and LA Revue Negre: Paul Colin's Lithographs of Le Tumulte Noir in Paris, 1927 Best Price: $74.95 Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age, African-American performers in 1920s Paris--all are vividly...	Toni Morrison: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) Best Price: $35.00	In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative Best Price: $0.99 This company was easy to work with and sent the book quickly. The book was for a school essay...

The Norton Anthology African American Literature: Audio Companion Best Price: $24.11	Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) Best Price: $6.19 This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book...	The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist (Collected Black Writings) Best Price: $74.01 The first African American to receive a medical degree, this invaluable collection brings...	The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois: 19-Volume Set Best Price: $5.00 W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African...	Black Literature and Literary Theory " Black Literature and Literary Theory is of the first importance, not only for scholars...

Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (Revisting New England: the New Regionalism) Best Price: $6.45 In the mid-nineteenth century, Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial...	Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars Best Price: $1.49 Gates' commentary in this work is insightful without coming across as pretentious or apologetic....	In the House of Osubgo: Critical Essays on Wole Soyinka Best Price: $196.80 Wole Soyinka is one of today's most admired and respected African playwrights. He commands a...	America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans Best Price: $6.31 Dr. Gates has done America a great service by helping to pull back the curtain on African...	Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House, North. Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There Best Price: $5.00 This book was written by a woman who was supposed to be a free Black woman. In fact she was...

Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) Best Price: $24.98 In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed...	Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $4.56 This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the...	Transition 97: Sudan (Transition) Best Price: $8.31 While other magazines routinely send journalists around the world, Transition , the leading...	The Signifying Monkey Best Price: $19.95 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the...	COLORED PEOPLE.

In Search of Our Roots: How l9 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past Best Price: $18.15	Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness (SRLT) Best Price: $25.95 A wide-ranging consideration of the nature and significance of Pushkin's African heritage ...	In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works Best Price: $15.12	The Civitas Anthology Of African American Slave Narratives Best Price: $125.46 Powerful narratives from those who survived slavery detailing their struggles as slaves,...	Sanctuary (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $19.95 The title of Sanctuary refers to a place of worship and also a state of mind: Thomas Roma places...

Frederick Douglass: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series)	Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) Best Price: $71.99

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