Reviews

Please find the list of the most recent (and forthcoming) reviews below. 

David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds, The Image of the Black in Western Art. Cambridge: Harvard UP 2010. Six volumes published to date.

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Click here for extra information on the reviewer, Carsten Junker (University of Bremen).

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Simon Dickel. Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity. FORECAAST 20. Münster, LIT, 2011. 296 pp. €29,90.

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Click here for extra information on the reviewer, Leopold Lippert (University of Vienna).


 

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Christopher M. Bell, ed. Blackness and Disability. FORECAAST 21. Berlin and  East Lansing: LIT, 2011. 165 pp. € 29,00

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Click here for extra information on the reviewer, Magdalena J. Zaborowska (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

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Maria I. Diedrich and Jürgen Heinrichs, eds. From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers between African America and Germany. FORECAAST 18. Münster: LIT, 2010, 392 pp. € 39.90.

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Click here for extra information on the reviewer, Katharina Gerund (University of Düsseldorf).

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Angelica Fenner. Race under Construction in German Cinema: Robert Stemmle's Tox. Toronto, U of Toronto P, 2011. 288 pp.

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The review of the monograph will be published in the next few weeks.

 

 

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Gene Andrew Jarrett. Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature. New York, NYU P, 2011. 280 pp.

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The review of the monograph will be published in the next few weeks.

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José Lingna Nafafé. Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation. Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa. Peter Lang 2007.

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Click here to contact the reviewer, Silvia Castro-Borrego (University of Malago, Spain).



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©UP Mississippi

Alex Lubin (ed.). Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left. University Press of Mississippi 2007. 

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Click here for more information on the reviewer, Daniel A. Holder (University Giessen, Germany).


 

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Carsten Junker. Frames of Friction: Black Genealogies, White Hegemony, and the Essay as Critical Intervention. Campus 2010. pp 294. € 34,90.

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©UP Nebraska

Jerry Gershenhorn. Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge. University of Nebraska Press 2004.

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Click here for more information on the reviewer, Prof. Dr. Berndt Ostendorf

 

 

 

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©Ashgate

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Manuela Boatca, Sérgio Costa. Decolonizing European Sociology. Ashgate 2010.

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©Rodopi

Maria Olaussen, Christina Angelfors. Africa Writing Europe. Rodopi 2009.

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©Macmillan

Duchess Harris. Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. Macmillan 2009.

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©UP North Carolina

Michael O. West, William G. Martin, Fanon Che Wilkins. From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution. UP of North Carolina 2009.

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Claude Raynaud, Suzette Tanis-plant Emmanuelle Andres. Writing In Between Apocalypse and Redemption: Gloria Naylor's Fiction. Harmattan, 2010.

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