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Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Malin Pereira, Cornelius Eady, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3107-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3107-4

"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..."






Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."






Gathering Ground
A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Camille Thornton Dungy, Harryette Mullen, Elizabeth Alexander
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Michigan Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09924-5, ISBN: 0-472-09924-8

"Cave Canem has for the past ten years dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Founded in 1996 by prizewinning poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, Cave Canem began as a weeklong summer workshop/retreat and has now expanded to include regional workshops, poetry readings, a series of public conversations between major poets and emerging younger poets, and an annual first-book prize. ..."






Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."






Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Malin Pereira, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cornelius Eady
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3713-5, ISBN: 0-8203-3713-7

"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells p ..."






What I Say(1st Edition)
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, C. S. Giscombe, Dr. Lauri Ramey, Willliam L. Alexander, Ron Allen, Tisa Bryant, Pia Deas, Renee Gladman, Duriel Harris, Harmony Holiday, Erica Hunt, Kim Hunter, Geoffrey Jacques, Douglass Kearney, John Keene, Nathaniel Mackey, Dawn Lundy Martin, Mark Mcmorris, Tracie Morris, Harryette Mullen, Mendi Lewis Obadike, G. E. Patterson, Julie Patton, Claudia Rankine, Deborah Richards, Evie Shockley, Giovanni Singleton, Tyrone Williams, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Prof. Fred Moten, T. J. Anderson, Charles Bernstein, Hank Lazer, University Alabama Press
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 2015 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5800-6, ISBN: 0-8173-5800-5

"What I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that ali??lows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by e ..."






Telling It Slant(1st Edition)
Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990S (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Mark Wallace, Steven Marks, Contributor-Juliana Spahr, Contributor-Charles Borkhuis, Contributor-Harryette Mullen, Contributor-Daniel Barbiero, Contributor-Sherry Brennan, Contributor-Jeff Derksen, Contributor-Steven Evans, Contributor-Ren Friedlander, Contributor-Christopher Finkhovser, Contributor-Caroline Bergvall, Contributor-Andrew Levy, Contributor-Bill Luoma, Contributor-Sianne Ngai, Contributor-Jena Osman, Contributor-Kristin Prevallet, Contributor-Lisa Robertson, Contributor-Leonard Schwartz, Contributor-Rod Smith, C. S. Giscombe, Tan A. Lin, Brian Kim Stefans, Gary Sullivan, Elizabeth Willis, Jefferson Hansen
Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2001 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1096-7, ISBN: 0-8173-1096-7

" The finest essays from the newest generation of critics and poet-critics are gathered together in this volume documenting the growth in readership and awareness of avant-garde poetries. This collection demonstrates the breadth and openness of the field of avant-garde poetry by introducing a wide range of work in poetics, theory, and criticism from emerging writers. Examining the directions innovative poetry has taken since the emergenc ..."






99 Poets/1999
An International Poetics Symposium (Boundary 2 Book)
by Professor Charles Bernstein, Contributor-Rosmarie Waldrop, Contributor-Mercedes Roffe, Contributor-Amina Said, Contributor-Deanna Ferguson, Contributor-Lisa Robertson, Contributor-Jerome Sala, Jeffrey Twitchel-Waas, Fernando Aquiar, Pierre Alferri, Alexandr Bubnov, Che Qianzi, Fabio Doctorovich, Vitaly Chemetsky, Ernst Jandl, Rienaldo Laddaga, Lan Ma, Emily Mcvarish, Friederike Mayrocker, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Douglas Messerli, Spencer Selby, Pete Spence, Nelson Ascher, Renato Barilli, Helmut Heissenbuttel, John Kinsella, Michele Leggot, Rogelio Lopezcuenca, Bernard Noel, Misko Suvakovic, John Tranter, Robin Blaser, Chris Cheek, Mahmoud Darwish, Arkadii Dragomoschenko, Randolph Healy, Abdellatif Laabi, Ferdinand Schmatz, Cecilia Vicuna, Oswald Wiener, Franz-Josef Czernin, Gianni D'ella, Ernesto Livongrosman, Anselm Hollo, Leevi Lehto, Alexei Parshchikov, Yunte Huang, Peter Larkin, Jorge Lepore, Harryette Mullen, Jorge Santiagoperednik, Reinhard Priessnitz, Leslie Scalapino, Aleksandr Skidan, Roberta Tejada, Habib Tengour, Yi Cun, Jeremy Adler, Gennady Aygi, Carla Billitteri, Nicole Brossard, Mara Cini, Wystan Curnow, Dubravka Djuric, Flavio Ermini, Huang Fan, Tyrus Miller, Regis Bonvicino, Haroldo De Campos, Ken Edwards, Allen Fischer, Edouard Glissant, Ana Hatherly, Lyn Hejinian, Steve Mccaffery, Maggie O'sullivan, James Sherry, Marina Temkina, Stacy Doris, Josely Viannabaptista, Manuel Brito, Milli Graffi, Bill Griffiths, Nina Iskrenko, Original Poets, Nick Piombino, Tom Raworth, Catherine E. Walsh, Darren Wershler-Henry, Evgenii Pavlov, Olivier Cadiot, Richard Sieburth, Elias Sanbar, Molly Weigel, Kathy Kopple, Edris Makward, Regina Alfarano, Robin Hyde, Katalin Molnar, Simone Bitton, Mark Young, Leon Robel, Christophe Tarkos, Emmanual Hocquard, Ray Federman
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 1999 by Duke University Press Books
Special Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6467-2, ISBN: 0-8223-6467-0

"99 Poets/1999 presents the work of ninety-nine poets in dialogue with one another across the divides of language, culture, and temperament. With contributions from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by the guest editor Charles Bernstein—responses that range from historical to imaginary and from philosophical to poetic.Each poet wa ..."






Speech/Acts
by Harryette Mullen, Meg Onli, Fred Moten, Morgan Parker, Simone White
Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2018 by Institute Of Contemporary Art At University Of Pennsylvania/Futurepoem
ISBN-13: 978-0-88454-143-1, ISBN: 0-88454-143-6

"Speech/Acts brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, ..."






TENDER OMNIBUS
The First Twenty-Five Years of Tender Buttons Press
by Lee Ann Brown, Katy Bohinc, Harryette Mullen, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, Rosmarie Waldrop, Hannah Weiner, Dodie Bellamy, Jennifer Moxley, Laynie Browne, India Radfar, Julie Patton, Truck Darling, Tender Buttons Press
Paperback, 620 Pages, Published 2016 by Tender Buttons Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-14-8, ISBN: 0-927920-14-X

"Poetry. Women's Studies. Introduction by founding editor Lee Ann Brown. Since 1989, Tender Buttons Press has been dedicated to innovative writing. From cut-ups to clairvoyance, the forms championed by Tender Buttons authors have altered the possible and probable of new poetics. TENDER OMNIBUS gathers the first 25 years of Tender Buttons Press in a single volume. The OMNIBUS includes in full: Bernadette Mayer's SONNETS Anne Waldman's ..."






Alison Saar
STILL...
by Meg Linton, Harryette Mullen, Barbara Thompson, Alison Saar
Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2012 by Otis College Of Art And Design, Ben Maltz Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-930209-33-9, ISBN: 0-930209-33-8

"Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, at OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, August 18 - November 17, 2012. This catalogue documents the solo exhibition by Otis alumna Alison Saar (MFA 1981). Being informed by artistic traditions from the Americas to Africa and beyond and from a mixed racial upbringing, Saar fuses her paradoxical responses to the black and white delineations of political and social forc ..."






The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be(1st Edition)
Essays and Interviews (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
by Harryette Mullen, Professor Hank Lazer
Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2012 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5713-9, ISBN: 0-8173-5713-0

""The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be "forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women s voices, and the future of poetry.Together, these essays and interviews highlight the impulses and influences that drive Mullen s work as a poet and thinker, and suggest unique pos ..."






Seriously Funny
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Tony Hoagland, Andrew Hudgins, T. R. Hummer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Caroline Knox, Yusef Komunyakaa, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Alan Shapiro, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kevin Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Erin Belieu, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Martín Espada, Steve Fellner, Richard García, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Mark Halliday, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Kenneth Koch, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Frank O'hara, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Charles Harper Webb, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, Professor Adrian Blevins
Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3569-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3569-X

"Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the mi ..."






Seriously Funny(Updated)
Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else
by Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, David Bottoms, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Michael Collier, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, B. Fairchild, Beth Fennelly, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, Albert Goldbarth, Robert Hass, Terrance Hayes, Andrew Hudgins, David Lehman, Thomas Lux, William Matthews, Caroline Knox, Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Professor Adrian Blevins, Kevin Mcfadden, Campbell Mcgrath, Heather Mchugh, Peter Meinke, Phyllis Moore, Harryette Mullen, Lucia Perillo, Michael Ryan, Tim Seibles, Charles Simic, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Kim Addonizio, Ginger Andrews, Nin Andrews, John Ashbery, Dorothy Barresi, Professor Billy Collins, Josh Bell, Charles Bernstein, John Berryman, George Bilgere, Richard Blanco, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Daniel Borzutsky, Catherine Bowman, Jason Bredle, Geoffrey Brock, Christopher Bursk, Richard Cecil, Maxine Chernoff, Marilyn Chin, David Clewell, Gregory Corso, Justin Courter, Jim Daniels, Gregory Djanikian, Denise Duhamel, Steve Fellner, David Graham, Paul Guest, R. S. Gwynn, James Allen Hall, Professor Kenneth Koch, Jeffrey Harrison, Bob Hicok, Richard Howard, David Huerta, Bruce A. Jacobs, Rodney Jones, James Kimbrell, Galway Kinnell, Jennifer L. Knox, Professor Frank O'hara, Ron Koertge, William Logan, Jynne Dilling Martin, Adrian Matejka, Lynne Mcmahon, Richard Newman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Sharon Olds, Lawrence Raab, Freeman Rogers, Aidan Rooney, J. Allyn Rosser, Steve Scafidi, Natalie Shapero, Julie Sheehan, Enid Shomer, Martha Silano, Gary Soto, Gerald Stern, Angelo Verga, Paul Violi, Susan Wood, Franz Wright, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Matthew Zapruder, Bill Zavatsky, T. R. Hummer, Professor Erin Belieu, Professor Mark Halliday, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Alan Shapiro, Kevin Young, Martín Espada, Richard García, Charles Harper Webb, T. Hummer
Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3087-7, ISBN: 0-8203-3087-6

"This is an anthology of irreverence and humor in the hands of our best poets. Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, "Seriously Funny" ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfooler ..."






New California Poetry Ser.
Sleeping with the Dictionary
by Harryette Mullen
85 Pages, Published 2002 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92783-4, ISBN: 0-520-92783-4

"Blah-Blah Ack-ack, aye-aye. Baa baa, Baba, Bambam, Bebe, Berber, Bibi, blah- blah, Bobo, bonbon, booboo, Bora Bora, Boutros Boutros, bye-bye. Caca, cancan , Cece, cha-cha, chichi, choo-choo, chop chop, chow chow, Coco, cocoa, come come, cuckoo. Dada, Dee Dee, Didi, dindin, dodo, doodoo, dumdum, Duran Duran. Fifi, fifty-fifty, foofoo, froufrou. Gaga, Gigi, glug-glug, go-go, goody-goody, googoo, grisgris. Haha, harhar, hear hear, heehe ..."






Freeing the Soul
Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
by Harryette Mullen, Albert Gelpi Phd
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49751-0, ISBN: 0-521-49751-5

"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."






Freeing the Soul
Race, Subjectivity, and Difference in Slave Narratives (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
by Harryette Mullen, Albert Gelpi Phd
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-49753-4, ISBN: 0-521-49753-1

"Freeing the Soul is a critical literary study of slave narrative, focusing on the texts of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, nineteenth-century contemporaries and two of the most widely-read authors of US slave narratives. By contrasting representations of the heroic, solitary male slave narrator with the domestic, community-oriented female, Harryette Mullen identifies marked differences in these authors' conceptualisations of gend ..."






Trimmings
by Harryette Mullen
Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 1991 by Tender Buttons Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-927920-02-5, ISBN: 0-927920-02-6

"Book by Mullen, Harryette"






The princess of Monique
A novel
by Harryette Mullen, Frank A. Pullen
Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 1990 by Trans Ocean Publications
ISBN-13: 978-0-935132-15-1, ISBN: 0-935132-15-5

"I have heard variations of this story again and again-this African goddess who can make dreams come true. Up and down the coast of West Africa, fishermen would not dare to leave the shore without first asking for her blessing. I am a sailor who was never very superstitious. More than anything, I know that the sea is never to be taken lightly. However, I have rituals that I perform whenever I set foot upon a seagoing vessel. I have also ..."






Oreo(Reprint)
(New Directions Paperbook)
by Fran Ross, Harryette Mullen, Danzy Senna
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by New Directions
ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2322-5, ISBN: 0-8112-2322-1

"A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of ..."



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