The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
10 best books like The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (Edward Kamau Brathwaite): The Sneetches and Other Stories, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Black Skin, White Masks, A Small Place, No Language Is Neutral, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human, Our Nig, Collected Poems, 1948-1984, Live or Die, Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S*PeRM**K*T / Muse and Drudge
The Sneetches and Other Stories
Author | Dr. Seuss |
ISBN | 0007158505 |
Illus. in full color. "Four funny easy-to-read stories all with subtly planted moral lessons."--Publishers Weekly.
THE SNEETCHES
"Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches / Had bellies with stars. / The Plain-Belly Sneetches / Had none upon thars." This collection of four of Dr. Seuss's...
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Author | Dr. Seuss |
ISBN | 0007169922 |
Here, started it everything!
A DATE AT MULBERRY STREET FOR IMMORTALITY
That can’t be my story. That’s only a start.
I’ll say that a ZEBRA was pulling that cart.
This is the very first story by Dr. Seuss, here, started it all.
And since...
Author | Frantz Fanon |
ISBN | 0802150845 |
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.
“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
Author | Jamaica Kincaid |
ISBN | 0374527075 |
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization...
Author | Dionne Brand |
ISBN | 0771016468 |
I have come to know something simple. Each sentence realised or dreamed jumps like a pulse with history and takes a side. What I say in any language is told in faultless knowledge of skin, in drunkenness and weeping, told as a woman without matches or tinder, not in words and in words and in words learned...
Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human
Author | Alexander G. Weheliye |
ISBN | 0822357011 |
Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining,...
Author | Harriet E. Wilson |
ISBN | 0142437778 |
Our Nig is the tale of a mixed-race girl, Frado, abandoned by her white mother after the death of the child's black father. Frado becomes the servant of the Bellmonts, a lower-middle-class white family in the free North, while slavery is still legal in the South, and suffers numerous abuses in their household....
Author | Derek Walcott |
ISBN | 0374520259 |
This remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem, "Another Life." The 1992 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Walcott has been producing for...
Author | Anne Sexton |
ISBN | 0395081807 |
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: A gripping poetry collection mapping the thorny journey from madness to hope.
Anne Sexton won immediate recognition as a strong voice in American poetry with the 1960 publication of her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, followed by critical acclaim of her...
Author | Harryette Mullen |
ISBN | 1555974562 |
Three important poetry collections brought together under one cover by Harryette Mullen, author of Sleeping with the Dictionary
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so I could write a book
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