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The 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to
and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free
in New York, relates his tale, of being tricked to go to
Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in
the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before
smuggling information to friends and family in New York, who in
turn secured his release with the aid of the state. Northup's
account provides extensive details on the slave markets in
Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes the cotton and
sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in
Louisiana. FLAME TREE451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to
horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers
a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret
worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a
storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for
the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore
the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works
which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic,
essential books.
Featuring a new introduction for this new edition, The Conjure
Woman is probably Chesnutt's most powerful work, a collection of
stories set in post-war North Carolina. The main character is Uncle
Julius, a former slave, who entertains a white couple from the
North with fantastic tales of antebellum plantation life. Julius
tells of supernatural phenomenon, hauntings, transfiguration, and
conjuring, which were typical of Southern African-American folk
tales at the time. Uncle Julius tells the stories in a way that
speaks beyond his immediate audience, offering stories of slavery
and inequality that are, to the enlightened reader, obviously
wrong. The tales are fabulistic, like those of Uncle Remus or
Aesop, with carefully crafted allegories on the psychological and
social effects of slavery and racial injustice. FLAME TREE 451:
From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and
science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves
and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and
escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and
modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The
Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and
brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as
part of a series of classic, essential books.
New edition with a new introduction. Delany's tale of Blake, an
escaped slave in the era before the US Civil War, depicts the
harrowing detail of life under slavery and offers a call to action
for resistance. Casting beyond the misery of slavery, Delany's
novel, located in the Southern United States and Cuba, demonstrates
that alternatives are possible if only widespread insurrection
could be ignited. A new title in the Foundations of Black Science
Fiction series. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural
to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451
offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists,
secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover
a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for
the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore
the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works
which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic,
essential books.
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Darkwater (Paperback)
W. E. B Du Bois; Foreword by Sandra M. Grayson; Introduction by Patty Nicole Johnson
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A new edition with a new introduction, Du Bois' radical text is a
rare statement of values formed around the vision of a collective
life, where the humanity of black women and men is treated with
dignity and equality. He expresses his themes through a series of
literary forms: polemic essay, spirituals, poetry and short science
fiction, each of which forms a pulse of social justice from a time
when a true understanding of intersections between poverty, work,
racism and feminism was rare. A new title in the Foundations of
Black Science Fiction series. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to
crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science
fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and
robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and
escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and
modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. The
Foundations titles also explore the roots of modern fiction and
brings together neglected works which deserve a wider readership as
part of a series of classic, essential books.
A rip-roaring lost worlds thriller written in the early 1900s by a
pioneering black writer of black fiction. The story of Reuel is
fuelled by love, betrayal and a heavy undertow of the supernatural;
an impulsive medical student, he travels from Boston to Ethiopia,
discovers a hidden city, ancient treasure and his own heritage. A
new edition with a new introduction which considers Pauline
Hopkin's development of the social and racial themes also explored
by W.E.B. Du Bois. A new title in Foundations of Black Science
Fiction series. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural
to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451
offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists,
secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover
a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for
the reader of the fantastic. The Foundations titles also explore
the roots of modern fiction and brings together neglected works
which deserve a wider readership as part of a series of classic,
essential books.
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Black Sci-Fi Short Stories (Hardcover)
Temi Oh; Introduction by Sandra M. Grayson; Edited by (associates) Tia Ross
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"With topics ranging from slavery to space travel, the impressive
breadth of this anthology makes for a well-rounded survey. Readers,
writers, and scholars alike will find great value here." —
Publishers Weekly Starred Review A deluxe edition of new writing
and neglected perspectives. Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing,
cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and
combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older
tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs,
Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of
slavery and denial created their living dystopia. With a foreword
by Alex Award-winning novelist Temi Oh, an introduction by Dr.
Sandra M. Grayson, author of Visions of the Third Millennium: Black
Science Fiction Novelists Write the Future (2003), and invaluable
promotion and editorial support from Tia Ross and the Black Writers
Collective and more, this latest offering in the Flame Tree Gothic
fantasy series focuses on an area of science fiction which has not
received the attention it deserves. Many of the themes in Sci-fi
reveal the world as it is to others, show us how to improve it, and
give voice to the many different expressions of a future for
humankind. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and Epic
Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth, folklore
and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of suspense,
supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the books in
Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented, perfect as
a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure. Table of Contents:
An Empty, Hollow Interview by James Beamon The Comet by W.E.B. Du
Bois Élan Vital by K. Tempest Bradford The Orb by Tara Campbell
Blake, or The Huts of America by Martin R. Delany The Floating City
of Pengimbang by Michelle F. Goddard The New Colossuses by Harambee
K. Grey-Sun Imperium in Imperio by Sutton E. Griggs Seven Thieves
by Emmalia Harrington Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self by Pauline
Hopkins Space Traitors by Walidah Imarisha The Line of Demarcation
by Patty Nicole Johnson Light Ahead for the Negro by Edward Johnson
e-race by Russell Nichols Giant Steps by Russell Nichols Almost Too
Good to Be True by Temi Oh You May Run On by Megan Pindling
Suffering Inside, But Still I Soar by Sylvie Soul The Pox Party by
Lyle Stiles The Regression Test by Wole Talabi
Original works, diverse perspectives, and multiple disciplines
intersect in A Literary Revolution. This book features much-needed
perspectives of people of African descent and delves into those
perspectives through the use of literature, film, short stories,
poetry, and philosophy. Through various academic disciplines,
Sandra M. Grayson provides a wide variety for this remarkable
anthology. Contributors to this anthology include activists,
award-winning writers, internationally recognized professors, and
new scholars, each with their own distinct voice. A Literary
Revolution examines significant issues that are generally
overlooked or that have not yet been fully explored through the
analyses of selected subjects and innovative creative writing. The
topics of focus include, exile from South Africa, Americanization,
African philosophy, and black writers and filmmakers, among many
more.
Examples of constructing history through film, the three fictional
narratives which are the focus of Sandra Grayson's study provide
insight into how the role of the African American woman has been
overlooked to the point of suppression. The women in these works
are presented as warriors, educators, healers, seers, oral
historians, as well as mothers, daughters, sisters, and wives.
Through research into archival materials and study of the symbols
encoded in the films themselves, Symbolizing the Past reveals the
gap between the reality of black mythic history and its
representation.
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