Author : JESSIE REDMON. FAUSET
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033059889
Plum Bun
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There Is Confusion
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486843506
There Is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset Pdf
"An important book" — The New York Times. Set in Philadelphia a century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance explores the struggle for social equality as experienced by members of the black middle class.
To be Suddenly White
Author : Steven J. Belluscio
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826264855
To be Suddenly White by Steven J. Belluscio Pdf
To Be Suddenly White explores the troubled relationship between literary passing and literary realism, the dominant aesthetic motivation behind the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century ethnic texts considered in this study. Steven J. Belluscio uses the passing narrative to provide insight into how the representation of ethnic and racial subjectivity served, in part, to counter dominant narratives of difference. To Be Suddenly White offers new readings of traditional passing narratives from the African American literary tradition, such as James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and George Schuyler's Black No More. It is also the first full-length work to consider a number of Jewish American and Italian American prose texts, such as Mary Antin's The Promised Land, Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers, and Guido d'Agostino's Olives on the Apple Tree, as racial passing narratives in their own right. Belluscio also demonstrates the contradictions that result from the passing narrative's exploration of racial subjectivity, racial difference, and race itself. When they are seen in comparison, ideological differences begin to emerge between African American passing narratives and "white ethnic" (Jewish American and Italian American) passing narratives. According to Belluscio, the former are more likely to engage in a direct critique of ideas of race, while the latter have a tendency to become more simplistic acculturation narratives in which a character moves from a position of ethnic difference to one of full American identity. The desire "to be suddenly white" serves as a continual point of reference for Belluscio, enabling him to analyze how writers, even when overtly aware of the problematic nature of race (especially African American writers), are also aware of the conditions it creates, the transformations it provokes, and the consequences of both. Byexamining the content and context of these works, Belluscio elucidates their engagement with discourses of racial and ethnic differences, assimilation, passing, and identity, an approach that has profound implications for the understanding of American literary history.
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance
Author : María del Mar Gallego Durán
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 3825858421
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance by María del Mar Gallego Durán Pdf
This book offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance. Author Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset), turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all its richness and complexity. Her compelling study intends to contribute to the ongoing revision of the parameters conventionally employed to analyze passing novels by drawing attention to a great variety of textual strategies such as double consciousness, parody, and multiple generic covers. Examining the hybrid nature of these texts, Gallego skillfully highlights their radical critique of the status quo and their celebration of a distinct African American identity. Well researched and stimulating to read, Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance is an impressive work of scholarship and interpretat
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance
Author : Michael Soto
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 082049724X
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance by Michael Soto Pdf
Teaching the Harlem Renaissance: Course Design and Classroom Strategies addresses the practical and theoretical needs of college and high school instructors offering a unit or a full course on the Harlem Renaissance. In this collection many of the field's leading scholars address a wide range of issues and primary materials: the role of slave narrative in shaping individual and collective identity; the long-recognized centrality of women writers, editors, and critics within the «New Negro» movement; the role of the visual arts and «popular» forms in the dialogue about race and cultural expression; and tried-and-true methods for bringing students into contact with the movement's poetry, prose, and visual art. Teaching the Harlem Renaissance is meant to be an ongoing resource for scholars and teachers as they devise a syllabus, prepare a lecture or lesson plan, or simply learn more about a particular Harlem Renaissance writer or text.
The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction
Author : Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195359114
The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction by Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University Pdf
What does the tradition of marriage mean for people who have historically been deprived of its legal status? Generally thought of as a convention of the white middle class, the marriage plot has received little attention from critics of African-American literature. In this study, Ann duCille uses texts such as Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) to demonstrate that the African-American novel, like its European and Anglo-American counterparts, has developed around the marriage plot--what she calls "the coupling convention." Exploring the relationship between racial ideology and literary and social conventions, duCille uses the coupling convention to trace the historical development of the African-American women's novel. She demonstrates the ways in which black women appropriated this novelistic device as a means of expressing and reclaiming their own identity. More than just a study of the marriage tradition in black women's fiction, however, The Coupling Convention takes up and takes on many different meanings of tradition. It challenges the notion of a single black literary tradition, or of a single black feminist literary canon grounded in specifically black female language and experience, as it explores the ways in which white and black, male and female, mainstream and marginalized "traditions" and canons have influenced and cross-fertilized each other. Much more than a period study, The Coupling Convention spans the period from 1853 to 1948, addressing the vital questions of gender, subjectivity, race, and the canon that inform literary study today. In this original work, duCille offers a new paradigm for reading black women's fiction.
That Middle World
Author : Julia S. Charles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469659589
That Middle World by Julia S. Charles Pdf
In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how they, through various performance strategies, make meaning in the interstices between the Black and white worlds. Focusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyze mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces. To illustrate how this middle world and its attendant performativity still resonates in the present day, Charles connects contemporary figures, television, and film—including Rachel Dolezal and her Black-passing controversy, the FX show Atlanta, and the musical Show Boat—to a range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary texts. Charles's work offers a nuanced approach to African American passing literature and examines how mixed-race performers articulated their sense of selfhood and communal belonging.
The Chinaberry Tree
Author : Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486782775
The Chinaberry Tree by Jessie Redmon Fauset Pdf
Within the tranquil setting of a small New Jersey town in the early 1900s, this novel by a noted Harlem Renaissance author explores tempestuous issues that range from racial identity to adultery, incest, and deception.
The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature
Author : JoAnna Stephens Mink,Janet Doubler Ward
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 087972613X
The Significance of Sibling Relationships in Literature by JoAnna Stephens Mink,Janet Doubler Ward Pdf
Examines the significance of sibling relationships, or the lack of them, as portrayed in literature. Many of the 13 essays compare two or more novels, most of which are from the Victorian era or the 20th century. Paper edition (613-X), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Quicksand
Author : Nella Larsen
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781454953081
Quicksand by Nella Larsen Pdf
The orphan of a Danish mother and a West Indian father, Helga Crane is a young woman caught between cultures and in search of a home. Though her beauty and education open many doors, as a biracial woman in 1920s America, Helga is accepted by neither the Black nor the white communities—instead remaining an object of curiosity and an outsider wherever she goes. Her furious quest for belonging will take her from Chicago to New York to Denmark: a journey rife with autobiographical parallels to Larsen’s own life. With its astonishingly contemporary take on identity and an angry, rebellious heroine, Quicksand is a classic novel ripe for rediscovery.
Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature
Author : Deborah Barker
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838754082
Aesthetics and Gender in American Literature by Deborah Barker Pdf
"In their challenge to a gendered, racialized evolutionary aesthetics as embodied in the female copyist as an icon of cultural reproduction, these women writers enact in a fictional format what many recent feminists address at the theoretical level: a resistance to essentialist definitions of women's nature and to "universal" standards of high culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Crossing Borders
Author : Tapan Basu,Tasneem Shahnaaz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611479003
Crossing Borders by Tapan Basu,Tasneem Shahnaaz Pdf
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original, interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher, mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
Race Passing and American Individualism
Author : Kathleen Pfeiffer
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1558497846
Race Passing and American Individualism by Kathleen Pfeiffer Pdf
Pfeiffer studies the fiction of William Dean Howells, Frances E.W. Harper, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. She supports the ambiguous theory that the African-American characters found in these six authors' works are reinventing themselves by passing as white.
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women
Author : Lori Landay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0812216512
Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women by Lori Landay Pdf
Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights. While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters in the "new country" of American mass consumer culture. Beginning with such nineteenth-century novels as Capitola the Madcap and moving through twentieth-century novels, films, radio, and television shows, Lori Landay looks at how popular heroines use craft and deceit to circumvent the limitations of femininity. She considers texts of the 1920s such as Elinor Glyn's It and Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; films of Mae West, as well as other Depression-era and wartime film comedy; the postwar television series I Love Lucy; and such contemporary texts as "Roseanne," "Ellen," and "Batman." In addition, Landay explores the connections between these texts and advertisements selling products that encourage female deception and trickery.
Eat in My Kitchen
Author : Meike Peters
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9783791382005
Eat in My Kitchen by Meike Peters Pdf
2017 JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER FOR GENERAL COOKING Meike Peters, the author of the acclaimed cooking blog Eat in My Kitchen, presents a cookbook as inviting, entertaining, and irresistible as her website, featuring dozens of never-before-published recipes. Meike Peters’s site, Eat in My Kitchen, captures the way people like to eat now: fresh, seasonal food with a variety of influences. It combines a northern European practical attitude, from the author’s German roots, with a rustic Mediterranean-inspired palate, from her summers in Malta. This highly anticipated cookbook is comprised of 100 recipes that celebrate the seasons and are awash with color. Indulge in the Radicchio, Peach, and Roasted Shallot Salad with Blue Cheese; Parsnip and Sweet Potato Soup with Caramelized Plums; Pumpkin Gnocchi; mouthwatering sandwiches like the Pea Pesto and Bacon with Marjoram; and seafood and meat dishes that introduce tasty and unexpected elements. Meike Peters’s famous baked treats include everything from pizza to bread pudding, and perfect cookies to sumptuous tarts. Also included are many of her fans’ favorite recipes, including Fennel Potatoes, Braised Lamb Shanks with Kumquats, and a Lime Buttermilk Cake. Six "Meet In Your Kitchen" features include recipes by and interviews with culinary stars Molly Yeh, Yossy Arefi, Malin Elmlid, the Hemsley sisters, and more. Followers of Meike Peters will be thrilled to have her exquisitely photographed recipes in print in one place, while those who aren’t yet devotees will be won over by her unpretentious tone and contagious enthusiasm for simple, beautiful, and tasty food.