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Gayl Jones
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil. This acclaimed novel is the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
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"The acclaimed author's first collection of stories. "Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a…
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A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares
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A powerful, influential novel, praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. Long out of print, this lost classic is republished for a new generation.
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An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.
A humorous yet moving novel of redemption, featuring an original protagonist with an eccentric past and her own brand of wisdom.
An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature - exploring artists in exile, dangerous relationships and the demands of creativity.
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A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories, from the acclaimed author of Palmares and Corregidora.
A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones
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Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a…
As a poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, Gayl Jones has always resisted labels in her quest to find a liberating voice for black women and herself. With a…
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African American author Gayl Jones has a lived a life dedicated to a style of writing both definitive of and stemming directly from her identification with the collective African American…
This exquisite book-length poem based closely on history and set in colonial Brazil, recounts the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid…
Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century.–E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge
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An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature
A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares.
The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil –
Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of an African-American truck driver’s accidental yet growing involvement in the new underground railroad, a sanctuary movement for Mexican…
Set in the American South of the early 50s, The Unicorn Woman is a riveting imagining of hope, frustration, and imagination from of the most powerful voices in American literature.
This mesmerising historical novel, set in the slave settlements of colonial Brazil, marks the long-awaited return of Gayl Jones, ‘the best American novelist whose name you may not know’ (Atlantic).
From the acclaimed author of Corregidora, this volume contains poems in the voices of the lovers Almeyda and Anninho, two fugitive slaves in 17th-century Brazil; a continuation of the unforgettable…
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil and the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
Here is Gayl Jones’s classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying…
Gayle Jones Carter
A biography with pictures about the career and life of Daryl E. Johnson, who attended Maggie L. Walker High School, Morgan State University and was drafted by the Boston Patriots…
Pamela B. June
Explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels. This book emphasizes the different and nuanced forms of oppression each woman faces.
Dwight D Jones
A Black Journey in Tech (From Humble Beginnings)
My objective is to encourage anyone one, but more specifically the next generation of technologist particularly Black people by sharing my story.
Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America’s post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have…
