
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato “processes,” and of slyly stubborn …

«Означивающая обезьяна: Теория афроамериканской литературной критики» — литературоведческая работа по теории литературы американского ученого Генри Луиса Гейтса младшего, впервые опубликованная в 1988 году. Книга прослеживает фольклорные истоки афроамериканской культурной практики «означивания» и использует концепцию …

As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees, carving out …