Blueschild Baby

Author : Jerry H. Bryant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253109892

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"Born in a Mighty Bad Land" by Jerry H. Bryant Pdf

The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like "Stagolee" and "John Hardy," as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced "gangsta" rap. "Born in a Mighty Bad Land" connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction. Many writers -- McKay and Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance; Wright, Baldwin, and Ellison in the '40s and '50s; Himes in the '50s and '60s -- saw the "bad nigger" as an archetypal figure in the black imagination and psyche. "Blaxploitation" novels in the '70s made him a virtually mythical character. More recently, Mosley, Wideman, and Morrison have presented him as ghetto philosopher and cultural adventurer. Behind the folklore and fiction, many theories have been proposed to explain the source of the bad man's intra-racial violence. Jerry H. Bryant explores all of these elements in a wide-ranging and illuminating look at one of the most misunderstood figures in African American culture.

Author : George Cain
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062913180

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Blueschild Baby by George Cain Pdf

A searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960’s Harlem, an unsparing portrait of a man who couldn’t free himself from the horrors of addiction Blueschild Baby takes place during the summer of 1967—the summer of race riots all across the nation; the Summer of Love in the Haight Ashbury; the summer of Marines dying near Con Thien, across the world in Vietnam—but the novel illuminates the contours of a more private hell: the angry desperation of a heroin addict who returns to his home in Harlem after being in prison. First published in 1970, this frankly autobiographical novel was a revelation, a stunning depiction of a marginal figure, marked literally and figuratively by his drug addiction and navigating a predatory underground of junkies and hustlers—and named George Cain, like his author. Now with a new preface by acclaimed writer Leslie Jamison, this is an unvarnished conjuring of the tyranny of dependence: its desperation, its degradation, its rage and rebellion; the fragile, unsettled, occasional shards of hope it permits; the strange joys of being alive and young and lost and hooked and full of feverish determination anyway.

Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231510691

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The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction by Darryl Dickson-Carr Pdf

From Ishmael Reed and Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead and Terry McMillan, Darryl Dickson-Carr offers a definitive guide to contemporary African American literature. This volume-the only reference work devoted exclusively to African American fiction of the last thirty-five years-presents a wealth of factual and interpretive information about the major authors, texts, movements, and ideas that have shaped contemporary African American fiction. In more than 160 concise entries, arranged alphabetically, Dickson-Carr discusses the careers, works, and critical receptions of Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Jamaica Kincaid, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, Leon Forrest, as well as other prominent and lesser-known authors. Each entry presents ways of reading the author's works, identifies key themes and influences, assesses the writer's overarching significance, and includes sources for further research. Dickson-Carr addresses the influence of a variety of literary movements, critical theories, and publishers of African American work. Topics discussed include the Black Arts Movement, African American postmodernism, feminism, and the influence of hip-hop, the blues, and jazz on African American novelists. In tracing these developments, Dickson-Carr examines the multitude of ways authors have portrayed the diverse experiences of African Americans. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction situates African American fiction in the social, political, and cultural contexts of post-Civil Rights era America: the drug epidemics of the 1980s and 1990s and the concomitant "war on drugs," the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for gay rights, feminism, the rise of HIV/AIDS, and racism's continuing effects on African American communities. Dickson-Carr also discusses the debates and controversies regarding the role of literature in African American life. The volume concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography of African American fiction and criticism.

Author : William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198031758

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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris Pdf

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 : CAIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 126046220X

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Blueschild Baby? by CAIN Pdf

Author : George Cain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1829359

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Blueschild Baby by George Cain Pdf

Author : Albert E. Stone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812211278

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Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts by Albert E. Stone Pdf

Stone rescues autobiography from the thickets of recent critical theory, in which the life portrayed has often seemed less important than the inventive literary techniques. He argues that the techniques are important because knowledge of the life is important to our culture. Restricting himself primarily to 16 writers of the 20th century, Stone juxtaposes two or three figures in given chapters, such as "Becoming a Woman in Male America: Margaret Mead and Anais Nin" and "Two Recreate One: The Act of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography -- Ossie Guffy, Nate Shaw, Malcolm X." Other writers considered are W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Adams, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Louis Sullivan, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Frank Conroy, and Lillian Hellman.

Author : Addison Gayle (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Aesthetics, Black
ISBN : 9780252076107

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The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader by Addison Gayle (Jr.) Pdf

This is a comprehensive representation of Addison Gayle, Jr.'s crucial influence on African American aesthetics and literature. The reader collects 60 personal essays, critical articles, and other seminal works which represent the range of Gayle's writing in such subjects as cultural nationalism and racism.

Author : Leslie Jamison
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316259620

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The Recovering by Leslie Jamison Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction. With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction narrative on its head, demonstrating that the story of recovery can be every bit as electrifying as the train wreck itself. Leslie Jamison deftly excavates the stories we tell about addiction -- both her own and others' -- and examines what we want these stories to do and what happens when they fail us. All the while, she offers a fascinating look at the larger history of the recovery movement, and at the complicated bearing that race and class have on our understanding of who is criminal and who is ill. At the heart of the book is Jamison's ongoing conversation with literary and artistic geniuses whose lives and works were shaped by alcoholism and substance dependence, including John Berryman, Jean Rhys, Billie Holiday, Raymond Carver, Denis Johnson, and David Foster Wallace, as well as brilliant lesser-known figures such as George Cain, lost to obscurity but newly illuminated here. Through its unvarnished relation of Jamison's own ordeals, The Recovering also becomes a book about a different kind of dependency: the way our desires can make us all, as she puts it, "broken spigots of need." It's about the particular loneliness of the human experience-the craving for love that both devours us and shapes who we are. For her striking language and piercing observations, Jamison has been compared to such iconic writers as Joan Didion and Susan Sontag, yet her utterly singular voice also offers something new. With enormous empathy and wisdom, Jamison has given us nothing less than the story of addiction and recovery in America writ large, a definitive and revelatory account that will resonate for years to come.

Author : Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1462 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 9781438140599

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Encyclopedia of African-American Literature by Wilfred D. Samuels Pdf

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 : James de Jongh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521326209

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Vicious Modernism by James de Jongh Pdf

This book concentrates on the aesthetic and cultural force of Harlem, which inspired writers from Sherwood Anderson to Tom Wolfe.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1938 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006357201

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617801761

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The Theatre of Black Americans by Errol Hill Pdf

THE THEATRE OF BLACK AMERICANS

Author : United States. Air Force. Air Forces in Europe. Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : African Americans
ISBN : NWU:35556000569111

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A Bibliography on the Black American by United States. Air Force. Air Forces in Europe. Libraries Pdf

Author : Stan Morse
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449065119

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But For The Grace of God by Stan Morse Pdf