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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015002989419
Author : Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1999 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 9781438140599
Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.
Author : William W. Cook,James Tatum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226789989
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.
Author : Houston A. Baker (Jr.),Patricia Redmond
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-10-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0226035379
Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice. "This diverse and inspired collection . . . testifies to the Afro-Am academy's extraordinary vitality."—Voice Literary Supplement
Author : Valerie Smith
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African American authors
ISBN : UOM:39015025392880
Thirty-four critical essays on the lives and literary achievements of black American writers from as early as the first slave narratives down to the latest works of such contemporary figures as Ishmael Reed and Jean Toomer. Each essay strikes a balance between biography and literary criticism, giving full consideration to the effects of culture and life experience on the core writings of the tradition. Each author is situated in the context of American history and the unique experience of the African American people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard A. Long,Eugenia W. Collier
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271038452
Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani,Robert Butler
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015054045821
More recent African-American literature has also been noteworthy for its largely affirmative vision of urban life. Amiri Baraka's 1981 essay "Black Literature and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice" argues that, from the Harlem Renaissance onward, African-American literature has been "urban shaped," producing a uniquely "black urban consciousness." And Toni Morrison, although stressing that the American city in general has often induced a sense of alienation in many African-American writers, nevertheless adds that modern African-American literature is suffused with an "affection" for "the village within" the city.
Author : Richard L. Jackson
Publisher : Washington, DC : Howard University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045655696
In this study, the author begins by examining the influence of Africa and Spain upon the literatures of African Americans and Latin Americans. He explores the reciprocal exchange of influences among artists of African descent in the United States and in Latin America--from established writers to a new generation of writers, including women.
Author : Tracy Mishkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317946311
First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at theories and realities of literary influence that especially affect African-American writers.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349814367
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349814336
Author : William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198031758
A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438113081
Presents a collection of critical essays analyzing modern Hispanic American writers including Junot Diaz, Pat Mora, and Rudolfo Anaya.
Author : John Cullen Gruesser
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813158808
Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?" John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism--the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future--to provide a framework for his study. Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Walker.
Author : Roger M. Valade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019293229
Significant works of all time periods and genres are represented, from Phyllis Wheatley's 1773 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral to William Wells Brown's 1845 Clotel, the first novel by an African American, to Spike Lee's contemporary screenplay, Malcolm X.
