Routledge Studies in African American Literature
The Satire of the New Black Renaissance: Open-Source Blackness
1st Edition
By Kamil Chrzczonowicz
November 10, 2025
How do twenty-first century Black satirists rewrite American ideas of race? This book plunges into the New Black Renaissance – a flowering of the 2000s and 2010s African American culture – and argues that its most potent tool is anti-essentialist satire. The study traces what Baratunde Thurston ...
Street, Text, and Representation in African American Literature: Urban Writing/Dwelling
1st Edition
By Mattius Rischard
October 26, 2025
Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renaissance and the semiotic strategies they employ in publication, consumption, and depiction of street life. Divided into three chapters, this text analyzes the content, style, and ...
Black Feminist Mothering in 21st Century Literature: I Am Not Your Mammy
1st Edition
By Nicole Carr
May 22, 2025
Black feminist mothering can birth new worlds. As today’s world becomes increasingly hostile—with the rising cost of food coupled with global warming’s devastating impact—we are in need of a feminism bold enough to imagine new pathways for survival. Black feminist mothering may well be the remedy. ...
Pathologizing Black Bodies: The Legacy of Plantation Slavery
1st Edition
By Constante González Groba, Ewa Barbara Luczak, Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
October 08, 2024
Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange; one involving violence and oppression, leaving memory and trauma sedimented in cultural conventions, political arrangements, social institutions and, most significantly, materially and ...