Contemporary African American Literature

Author : Lovalerie King,Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253006974

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Contemporary African American Literature by Lovalerie King,Shirley Moody-Turner Pdf

Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies. In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris, Darryl Dickson-Carr, and Maryemma Graham join writers and younger scholars to explore the work of Toni Morrison, Edward P. Jones, Trey Ellis, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, Kyle Baker, Danzy Senna, Nikki Turner, and many others. The collection is bracketed by a foreword by novelist and graphic artist Mat Johnson, one of the most exciting and innovative contemporary African American writers, and an afterword by Alice Randall, author of the controversial parody The Wind Done Gone. Together, King and Moody-Turner make the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies. “A compelling collection of essays on the ongoing relevance of African American literature to our collective understanding of American history, society, and culture. Featuring a wide array of writers from all corners of the literary academy, the book will have national appeal and offer strategies for teaching African American literature in colleges and universities across the country.” —Gene Jarrett, Boston University “[This book describes] a fruitful tension that brings scholars of major reputation together with newly emerging critics to explore the full range of literary activities that have flourished in the post-Civil Rights era. Notable are such popular influences as hip-hop music and Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club.” —American Literary Scholarship, 2013

Author : Beauty Bragg
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739188798

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Reading Contemporary African American Literature by Beauty Bragg Pdf

Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this body of work, and models a critical approach to such narratives that demonstrates the distinctive ways in which this literature captures the complexities of post-civil rights era black experiences. In making her arguments regarding the value of popular writing, Bragg argues that black women’s popular fiction foregrounds gender in ways that are frequently missing from other modes of narrative production. They exhibit a responsiveness and timeliness to the shifting social terrain which is reflected in the rapidly shifting styles and themes which characterize popular fiction. In doing so, they extend the historical function of African American literature by continuing to engage the black body as a symbol of political meaning in the social context of the United States. In popular literature Beauty Bragg locates a space from which black women engage a variety of public discourses.

Author : Keith Eldon Byerman
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015063233590

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Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction by Keith Eldon Byerman Pdf

Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

Author : Bernard W. Bell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015060899245

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The Contemporary African American Novel by Bernard W. Bell Pdf

In 1987 Bernard W. Bell published "The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition", a comprehensive interpretive history of more than 150 novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 1983. This is a sequel and companion to the earlier work, expanding the coverage to 2001.

Author : Angelyn Mitchell,Danille K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521858885

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Angelyn Mitchell,Danille K. Taylor Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

Author : Trudier Harris
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820488860

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Reading Contemporary African American Drama by Trudier Harris Pdf

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Author : Suriyan Panlay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319428932

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Racism in Contemporary African American Children’s and Young Adult Literature by Suriyan Panlay Pdf

Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children’s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship—internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through readings of works by Jacqueline Woodson, Sharon G. Flake, Tanita S. Davis, Sapphire, Rosa Guy, and Nikki Grimes, Suriyan Panlay develops a new critical discourse on internalised racism by studying its effects on marginalised children, its manifestations, and the fictional narrative strategies that can be used to regain and reclaim a sense of self.

Author : Wendy Rountree
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820481327

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Just Us Girls by Wendy Rountree Pdf

Just Us Girls: The Contemporary African American Young Adult Novel is a welcome addition to the literary criticism in a field that deserves more critical study - African American children's and young adult literature. This book is a close-reading textual study of major issues and themes in contemporary (i.e., post-Civil Rights era) young adult novels written by both well-known and lesser-known African American women writers, written primarily from an African American perspective and primarily, but not exclusively, for an African American female audience. Representative works by Candy Dawson Boyd, Rita Williams-Garcia, Deborah Gregory, Rosa Guy, Virginia Hamilton, Mildred Pitts Walter, and Jacqueline Woodson are analyzed. Each chapter investigates cultural, social, and/or psychological issues examined by the writers that are prevalent in the actual lives of African American girls.

Author : Dana A. Williams
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans in literature
ISBN : 9780814209943

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"In the Light of Likeness-transformed" by Dana A. Williams Pdf

""In the Light of Likeness - transformed" by Dana A. Williams looks critically at the work of contemporary African American author Leon Forrest. Not only does she bring to the critical table a well-known but as yet understudied modernist author - an important endeavor in and of itself - but she also explores Forrest's novels' cultural dialogue with black ethnic culture and other African American authors, as well as provides in-depth readings of his prose and interpretations of his narrative style." "Forrest's highly experimental narrative style, his reinterpretation of modernism, and his transformations of black cultural traditions into literary aesthetics often pose challenges of interpretation for the reader and the scholar alike. As the first single-authored book-length study of Forrest's novel, this book offers readers pathways into his fiction. What this culturalist approach to the novels reveals is that Forrest's fiction was foremost concerned with investigating ways for the African American to survive in the contemporary moment. Through a variety of characters, the novels reveal the African American's art of transformation - the ability to find ways to make the wretchedness of the past work in positive ways."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814743386

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Representing the Race by Gene Andrew Jarrett Pdf

Examines various forms of African-American literature, with the aim of delineating the political legacy of black Americans. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.

Author : Elizabeth Lay Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : African American authors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118267959

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The Negro in Contemporary American Literature by Elizabeth Lay Green Pdf

Author : Dickson D. Bruce
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813920671

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The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 by Dickson D. Bruce Pdf

From the earliest texts of the colonial period to works contemporary with Emancipation, African American literature has been a dialogue across color lines, and a medium through which black writers have been able to exert considerable authority on both sides of that racial demarcation. Dickson D. Bruce argues that contrary to prevailing perceptions of African American voices as silenced and excluded from American history, those voices were loud and clear. Within the context of the wider culture, these writers offered powerful, widely read, and widely appreciated commentaries on American ideals and ambitions. The Origins of African American Literature provides strong evidence to demonstrate just how much writers engaged in a surprising number of dialogues with society as a whole. Along with an extensive discussion of major authors and texts, including Phillis Wheatley's poetry, Frederick Douglass's Narrative, Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and Martin Delany's Blake, Bruce explores less-prominent works and writers as well, thereby grounding African American writing in its changing historical settings. The Origins of African American Literature is an invaluable revelation of the emergence and sources of the specifically African American literary tradition and the forces that helped shape it.

Author : Jean Wyatt,Sheldon George
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429581359

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Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers by Jean Wyatt,Sheldon George Pdf

Contemporary African American and Black British Women Writers: Narrative, Race, Ethics brings together British and American scholars to explore how, in texts by contemporary black women writers in the U. S. and Britain, formal narrative techniques express new understandings of race or stimulate ethical thinking about race in a reader. Taken together, the essays also demonstrate that black women writers from both sides of the Atlantic borrow formal structures and literary techniques from one another to describe the workings of structural racism in the daily lives of black subjects and to provoke readers to think anew about race. Narratology has only recently begun to use race as a category of narrative theory. This collection seeks both to show the ethical effects of narrative form on individual readers and to foster reconceptualizations of narrative theory that account for the workings of race within literature and culture.

Author : Kevin Everod Quashie,R. Joyce Lausch,Keith D. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCSC:32106016885581

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New Bones by Kevin Everod Quashie,R. Joyce Lausch,Keith D. Miller Pdf

An inclusive multi-genre anthology of late 20th century African-American literature.

Author : Trudier Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793649645

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Depictions of Home in African American Literature by Trudier Harris Pdf

In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris explores the roles race and religion play in the creation of homespaces and how geography, space, and character all influence these spaces. Although many characters in African American literature crave safe, happy homespaces and frequently carry such images with them through their mental or physical migrations, few characters experience the formation of healthy homespaces by the end of their journeys. Harris studies the historical, cultural, and literary portrayals of the home in works from well-known authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and August Wilson as well as lesser-studied authors such as Daniel Black, A.J. Verdelle, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West.