Order of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Books
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American author who is best known for his book, Friday Black. His work has appeared in numerous publications as well, including Guernica, Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing, Printer’s Row, Gravel, and The Breakwater Review.
His writing in The Blackwater Review was selected by ZZ Packer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Breakwater Review Fiction Contest. Adjei-Brenyah is from Spring Valley, New York and attended college at SUNY Albany. He would then go to get his MFA from Syracuse University and he would alter become the Olive B. O’Connor fellow in fiction at Colgate University. His first book,Friday Black was highly decorated in it’s debut. It was selected by the National Book Foundation as a “5 Under 35” honoree. The book was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book, and won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Chain-Gang All-Stars | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Friday Black | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The New Middle Ages Books
| The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse | (1133) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women in the Medieval Islamic World | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese Literati Tradition | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Joan of Arc and Spirituality | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Capetian Women | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chaucer's Jobs | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Queer Love in the Middle Ages | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Medieval Iberian Lyric | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medieval Paradigms: 2 Volume Set: Essays in Honor of Jeremy duQuesnay Adams | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Queering Medieval Genres | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity in the Middle Ages | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: New Essays | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medieval Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| My Quest for the Middle Ages | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Middle Ages | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women and the Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: The Decline of the State and U.S. St | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Langland's Early Modern Identities | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval English Literature | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Storytelling in Organizations: From Theory to Empirical Research | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies and New Media | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Margaret Paston’s Piety | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Fairies in Medieval Romance | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Lesbian Premodern | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women and Disability in Medieval Literature | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Outlawry in Medieval Literature | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England: Collected Essays | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Vernacular and Latin Literary Discourses of the Muslim Other in Medieval Germany | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Language as the Site of Revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a Woman | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author: Seeing from the Center | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer’s Talking Birds | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Interarts Theory | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Contextualizing the Muslim Other in Medieval Christian Discourse | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Market Power: Lordship, Society, and Economy in Medieval Catalonia | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The [European] Other in Medieval Arabic Literature and Culture: Ninth-Twelfth Century AD | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Medieval Wild Man | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Medieval Python: The Purposive and Provocative Work of Terry Jones | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Studies in the Medieval Atlantic | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in The Canterbury Tales | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Mediterranean World of Alfonso II and Peter II of Aragon | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Women in the Military Orders of the Crusades | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300 - 1600 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Shame and Guilt in Chaucer | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Genre of Medieval Patience Literature: Development, Duplication, and Gender | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative: Gender and Fictions of Literary Creation | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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If You Like Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Books, You’ll Love…
Friday Black is Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s first book and it tells stories that tackle racism and cultural unrest in the world, and the ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. The book tells of the all too real violence, injustice, and other painful absurdities that black people have to deal with on a daily basis in the United States. The book tells multiple stories. One is “Finkelstein Five” which is a brutal telling of the inherent racism that is present in the justice system. He also has “Zimmer Land” which views racism as a sport that feels a bit to easy to believe. Then there is “Friday Black”, where the book get its title, which really makes you look at some of the silly things we spend money on during the holiday season. A stunning debut.