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In this fresh, outspoken novel about contemporary relationships and the rules that guide (and misguide) them, Sheneska Jackson's "jazzy voice sounds smoother and sweeter than ever" ("Newsday").
Author : Sheneska Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1998-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0684846136
In this fresh, outspoken novel about contemporary relationships and the rules that guide (and misguide) them, Sheneska Jackson's "jazzy voice sounds smoother and sweeter than ever" ("Newsday").
Author : Sheneska Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When the man she loves confesses to being unfaithful, Madison McGuire, 30, a black teacher in a Los Angeles private school gives him the boot and proceeds to seek a replacement. But finding another man to love is not easy--there is lots of sex, but no love--and by the time her first love comes back knocking on the door, she has caught the aids virus. By the author of Up in Rapture.
Author : Gokulnath Ammanathil
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1443891975
This book examines the various psychosocial and sexual ordeals of African American people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWH/PLWAs) as depicted in African American literary narratives dealing with HIV/AIDS published from 1980 to 2010. Central to these texts are the psychosocial and sexual challenges faced by the African American PLWH/PLWAs and the various adaptive strategies they choose to come to terms with their HIV/AIDS identity. Although PLWH/PLWAs irrespective of race confront these brutal realities, the intersection of a mythologized black sexuality, homophobia and intra-community marginalization places African American PLWH/PLWAs in an unenviable position. While abjection and social death rupture the social self of PLWH/PLWAs, the ostracization they suffer as a result of their diagnosis affects their sexual self, leading to sexual death. In addition to illustrating the social and sexual issues of PLWH/PLWAs in relation to race, sexuality and gender, the African American HIV/AIDS literary narratives studied here also foreground various coping strategies conscripted by PLWH/PLWAs to surmount the onerous psychosocial and sexual challenges they face. In view of the above concerns, this study analyses social death, sexual death and coping in relation to HIV/AIDS at three levels, namely the intersection of blackness, sexuality and HIV/AIDS; the impact of such an intersection on the sexual life of black PLWH/PLWAs; and, finally, the envisioned coping strategies for affirmative survival. This book offers insightful critical analysis of HIV/AIDS literary narratives by celebrated authors such as Samuel R. Delany, Cheryl L. West, Essex Hemphill, Michael B. Hunter, Steven Corbin, Charlotte Watson Sherman, Sapphire, Pearl Cleage, Sheneshka Jackson, Gil R. Robertson, and Marvelyn Brown.
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Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : African American women
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : African Americans
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Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827774
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Author : Asia Hill
Publisher : Good2go Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2016-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1943686734
Ja’ziya and the Eastside Crazy Crew are back with one thing on their mind...Getting money! JuJu, ReRe, Tiki, and Dirty E are ready to take over the streets of Chicago. Thinking that they have mastered the art of robbing banks, they decide to do the unthinkable. Focusing only on the money, they forgot about all the problems that came with it. Big Moe is on the hunt for revenge. Tracking their every move, he waits for the opportunity to get his money back and avenge the deaths of his cousins. Lil Man knows that the Eastside Crazy Crew are responsible for the death of his brother, and he is going to do everything to make them feel his wrath. He teams up with someone that hates the crew just as much as he does. Together, Lil Man and Big Moe come up with a plan that could ultimately lead to the crew’s demise. They came up together. Are they bad enough to take over the streets of Chicago together? Come ride back through the East Side and find out just how powerful they have become, but watch out… They are not alone!
Author : Geoff Hamilton
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 1438140673
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the English-language fiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Rap (Music)
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Author : Kathryn Forbes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1968-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780156563772
The charming adventures of the Mama of an immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco. This bestselling book inspired the play, motion picture, and television series I Remember Mama.