Gleanings Of Quiet Hours

Author : Priscilla Jane Thompson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 066620750X

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Gleanings of Quiet Hours (Classic Reprint) by Priscilla Jane Thompson Pdf

Excerpt from Gleanings of Quiet Hours In presenting this little volume of poems to the public, (mostly of which are cl )sely associated with a proscribed race, ) the writer's sole and earnest endeavor, is to bring to light their real life and character; and if in any of these humble and simple rhymes, a passage or thought may chance prove a medium, through which the race may be elevate i, or benefited, if only in the pri vate mind of some reader, the writer feels, that her efforts is fully repaid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Priscilla Jane Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1194619609

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Gleanings of Quiet Hours by Priscilla Jane Thompson Pdf

Author : Priscilla Jane [From Old Cata Thompson
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359512829

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Gleanings of Quiet Hours by Priscilla Jane [From Old Cata Thompson Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ajuan Maria Mance
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781621902027

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Before Harlem by Ajuan Maria Mance Pdf

Despite important recovery and authentication efforts during the last twenty-five years, the vast majority of nineteenth-century African American writers and their work remain unknown to today’s readers. Moreover, the most widely used anthologies of black writing have established a canon based largely on current interests and priorities. Seeking to establish a broader perspective, this collection brings together a wealth of autobiographical writings, fiction, poetry, speeches, sermons, essays, and journalism that better portrays the intellectual and cultural debates, social and political struggles, and community publications and institutions that nurtured black writers from the early 1800s to the eve of the Harlem Renaissance. As editor Ajuan Mance notes, previous collections have focused mainly on writing that found a significant audience among white readers. Consequently, authors whose work appeared in African American–owned publications for a primarily black audience—such as Solomon G. Brown, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and T. Thomas Fortune—have faded from memory. Even figures as celebrated as Frederick Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar are today much better known for their “cross-racial” writings than for the larger bodies of work they produced for a mostly African American readership. There has also been a tendency in modern canon making, especially in the genre of autobiography, to stress antebellum writing rather than writings produced after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Similarly, religious writings—despite the centrality of the church in the everyday lives of black readers and the interconnectedness of black spiritual and intellectual life—have not received the emphasis they deserve. Filling those critical gaps with a selection of 143 works by 65 writers, Before Harlem presents as never before an in-depth picture of the literary, aesthetic, and intellectual landscape of nineteenth-century African America and will be a valuable resource for a new generation of readers.

Author : Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781438125657

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of the African American poets Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

Author : Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195358124

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Women Writers in the United States by Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West Pdf

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing--including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns,and cookbooks, alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the U.S. and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out which they emerged.

Author : Barbara McCaskill,Caroline Gebhard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814731680

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Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem by Barbara McCaskill,Caroline Gebhard Pdf

The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh perspectives on the literary and cultural achievements of African American men and women during this critically neglected, though vitally important, period of our nation's past. Using a wide range of disciplinary approaches, the sixteen scholars gathered here offer both a reappraisal and celebration of African American cultural production during these influential decades. Alongside discussions of political and artistic icons such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and James Weldon Johnson are essays revaluing figures such as the writers Paul and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the New England painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, and Georgia-based activists Lucy Craft Laney and Emmanuel King Love. Contributors explore an array of forms from fine art to anti-lynching drama, from sermons to ragtime and blues, and from dialect pieces and early black musical theater to serious fiction. Contributors include: Frances Smith Foster, Carla L. Peterson, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Barbara Ryan, Robert M. Dowling, Barbara A. Baker, Paula Bernat Bennett, Philip J. Kowalski, Nikki L. Brown, Koritha A. Mitchell, Margaret Crumpton Winter, Rhonda Reymond, and Andrew J. Scheiber.

Author : Joan R. Sherman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195052544

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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 2 by Joan R. Sherman Pdf

These four volumes collect the works of eleven poets writing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 presents two collections by Mary E. Tucker Lambert--Loew's Bridge, A Broadway Idyl, a poet's-eye view of lower Manhattan just after the Civil War, and Poems--and Infelicia, a dramatic work by the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 contain works by nine other poets, all of which were published between 1895 and 1910, a particularly brutal era for blacks. But, surprisingly, only one of these women (Lizelia Moorer) protests the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The remaining eight poets all conformed to the ethos of most black writers of the time, "whitewashing" their art while educating and uplifting their people. Their themes are traditional--love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, and family--and are for the most part couched in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they ignore, these selections offer a unique sampling of poetic voices that, until now, have gone largely unheard.

Author : Ajuan Maria Mance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African American women in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015035018038

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Locating the Black Female Subject by Ajuan Maria Mance Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Young
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226960889

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Disarming the Nation by Elizabeth Young Pdf

In a study that will radically shift our understanding of Civil War literature, Elizabeth Young shows that American women writers have been profoundly influenced by the Civil War and that, in turn, their works have contributed powerfully to conceptions of the war and its aftermath. Offering fascinating reassessments of works by white writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Mitchell and African-American writers including Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Harper, and Margaret Walker, Young also highlights crucial but lesser-known texts such as the memoirs of women who masqueraded as soldiers. In each case she explores the interdependence of gender with issues of race, sexuality, region, and nation. Combining literary analysis, cultural history, and feminist theory, Disarming the Nation argues that the Civil War functioned in women's writings to connect female bodies with the body politic. Women writers used the idea of "civil war" as a metaphor to represent struggles between and within women—including struggles against the cultural prescriptions of "civility." At the same time, these writers also reimagined the nation itself, foregrounding women in their visions of America at war and in peace. In a substantial afterword, Young shows how contemporary black and white women—including those who crossdress in Civil War reenactments—continue to reshape the meanings of the war in ways startlingly similar to their nineteenth-century counterparts. Learned, witty, and accessible, Disarming the Nation provides fresh and compelling perspectives on the Civil War, women's writing, and the many unresolved "civil wars" within American culture today.

Author : Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128868754

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Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps and Charts by Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Renker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192536297

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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 by Elizabeth Renker Pdf

The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist late-Romantic mode, languished and stagnated. Poetry is almost entirely absent from scholarship on American literary realism except as the emblem of realism's opposite: a desiccated genteel 'twilight of the poets.' Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 refutes the familiar narrative of postbellum poetics as a scene of failure, and it recovers the active and variegated practices of a diverse array of realist poets across print culture. The triumph of the twilight tale in the twentieth century obscured, minimized, and flattened the many poetic discourses of the age, including but not limited to a significant body of realist poems currently missing from US literary histories. Excavating an extensive archive of realist poems, the volume offers a significant revision to the genre-exclusive story of realism and, by extension, to the very foundations of postbellum American literary history dating back to the earliest stages of the discipline.

Author : Lean'tin L. Bracks,Jessie Carney Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780810885431

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Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era by Lean'tin L. Bracks,Jessie Carney Smith Pdf

The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political, and economic ideas that denied them citizenship and access to the American Dream. While the majority of recognized literary and artistic contributors to this period were black males, African American women were also key contributors. Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era profiles the most important figures of this cultural and intellectual movement. Highlighting the accomplishments of black women who sought to create positive change after the end of WWI, this reference work includes representatives not only from the literary scene but also: Activists Actresses Artists Educators Entrepreneurs Musicians Political leaders Scholars By acknowledging the women who played vital—if not always recognized—roles in this movement, this book shows how their participation helped set the stage for the continued transformation of the black community well into the 1960s. To fully realize the breadth of these contributions, editors Lean’tin L. Bracks and Jessie Carney Smith have assembled profiles written by a number of accomplished academics and historians from across the country. As such, Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era will be of interest to scholars of women’s studies, African American studies, and cultural history, as well as students and anyone wishing to learn more about the women of this important era.

Author : Brown University. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015082991715

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Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island by Brown University. Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Bee culture
ISBN : WISC:89047151501

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Gleanings in Bee Culture by Anonim Pdf