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Author : Roseann P. Bell,Bettye J. Parker,Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106005438368
Author : Roseann P. Bell,Bettye J. Parker,Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002541808
Author : Susanna A. Bösch
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021019562
Author : Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African American women in literature
ISBN : 9780195121735
The rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937 but subsequently out-of-print for decades, marks one of the most dramatic chapters in African-American literature and Women's Studies. Its popularity owes much to the lyricism of the prose, the pitch-perfect rendition of black vernacular English, and the memorable characters--most notably, Janie Crawford. Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's classic novel over the last quarter century, this Casebook presents contesting viewpoints by Hazel Carby, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Johnson, Carla Kaplan, Daphne Lamothe, Mary Helen Washington, and Sherley Anne Williams. The volume also includes a statement Hurston submitted to a reference book on twentieth-century authors in 1942. As it records the major debates the novel has sparked on issues of language and identity, feminism and racial politics, A Casebook charts new directions for future critics and affirms the classic status of the novel.
Author : Madhu Dubey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0253208556
Focus on the works of Toni Morrison, Gaye Jones, and Alice Walker.
Author : Jay Carr
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786724529
People love movies. People love lists. So The A-List is a natural. While there are plenty of encyclopedic lists of films, this compulsively readable book of 100 essays -- most written expressly for this volume-flags the best of the best as chosen by a consensus of the National Society of Film Critics. The Society is a world-renowned, marquee -- name organization embracing some of America's most distinguished critics: more than forty writers who have national followings as well as devoted local constituencies in such major cities as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. But make no mistake about it: This isn't a collection of esoteric "critic's choice" movies. The Society has made its selections based on a film's intrinsic merits, its role in the development of the motion-picture art, and its impact on culture and society. Some of the choices are controversial. So are some of the omissions. It will be a jumping-off point for discussions for years to come. And since the volume spans all international films from the very beginning, it will act as a balance to recent guides dominated by films of the last two decades (hardly film's golden age). Here is a book that is definitely ready for its close-up.
Author : Jessie Carney Smith,Shirelle Phelps
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0810391775
Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.
Author : Johnnetta B. Cole
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307773777
Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take an active role, as she is doing, to help make their world a better place.
Author : Florence Howe
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558612416
How women's studies was born--in the words of its founders.
Author : Yolanda Williams Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313049071
African American women writers published extensively during the Harlem Renaissance and have been extraordinarily prolific since the 1970s. This book surveys the world of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. The Encyclopedia covers established contemporary authors such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, along with a range of neglected and emerging figures. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Literature students will value this book for its exploration of African American literature, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of social issues through literature. African American women writers have made an enormous contribution to our culture. Many of these authors wrote during the Harlem Renaissance, a particularly vital time in African American arts and letters, while others have been especially active since the 1970s, an era in which works by African American women are adapted into films and are widely read in book clubs. Literature by African American women is important for its aesthetic qualities, and it also illuminates the social issues which these authors have confronted. This book conveniently surveys the lives and works of African American women writers. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists, and influential scholars. Some of these figures, such as Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, are among the most popular authors writing today, while others have been largely neglected or are recently emerging. Each entry provides a biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography. Students and general readers will welcome this guide to the rich achievement of African American women. Literature students will value its exploration of the works of these writers, while social studies students will appreciate its examination of the social issues these women confront in their works.
Author : Gayl Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0674530241
The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving usâe"in lively styleâe"both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. âeoeWhen African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,âe writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.âe The vitality of African American literature derives from its incorporation of traditional oral forms: folktales, riddles, idiom, jazz rhythms, spirituals, and blues. Jones traces the development of this literature as African American writers, celebrating their oral heritage, developed distinctive literary forms. The twentieth century saw a new confidence and deliberateness in African American work: the move from surface use of dialect to articulation of a genuine black voice; the move from blacks portrayed for a white audience to characterization relieved of the need to justify. Innovative writingâe"such as Charles Waddell Chesnuttâe(tm)s depiction of black folk culture, Langston Hughesâe(tm)s poetic use of blues, and Amiri Barakaâe(tm)s recreation of the short story as a jazz pieceâe"redefined Western literary tradition. For Jones, literary technique is never far removed from its social and political implications. She documents how literary form is inherently and intensely national, and shows how the European monopoly on acceptable forms for literary art stifled American writers both black and white. Jones is especially eloquent in describing the dilemma of the African American writers: to write from their roots yet retain a universal voice; to merge the power and fluidity of oral tradition with the structure needed for written presentation. With this work Gayl Jones has added a new dimension to African American literary history.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313007408
There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. Since the accidental rediscovery and republication of Harriet Wilson's Our Nig in 1983, the works of dozens of 19th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted. There is now a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s; and in the last decade alone, several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have been published. Early African American literature builds on a strong oral tradition of songs, folktales, and sermons. Slave narratives began to appear during the late 18th and early 19th century, and later writers began to engage a variety of themes in diverse genres. A central objective of this reference book is to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the first 200 years of African American literature. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for 78 black writers active between 1745 and 1945. Among these writers are essayists, novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, and autobiographers. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Johnnella E. Butler,John C. Walter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791405877
Some 20 essays discuss the interrelation of ethnic and women's studies, and some of the innovative theories and programs that have succeeded or failed recently. Many of them draw on the author's experience, and include such topics as the pattern of foundation grants, integrating women of color into literature and history courses, and Jewish invisibility in women's studies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Elizabeth V. Spelman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807067458
Throughout history, Western philosophers have buried women's characters under the category of "men's nature." Feminist theorists, responding to this exclusion, have often been guilty of this exlcusion as well – focusing only on white, middle-class women and treating others as inessential. Inessential Woman is an eloquent argument against white, middle-class bias in feminist theory. It warns against trying to seperate feminist thinking and politics from issues of race and class, and challenges the assumption of homogeneity that underlies much of feminist thought.
Author : Jane Gallop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136321733
Jane Gallop’s book offers a clear-eyed and comprehensive history of feminist literary criticism. Why, she asks, have we so quickly buried 1970s feminist criticism? What lies buried there? Why do 1990s academic feminists accuse other academic feminists of being ‘academic’? Gallop takes the novel approach of structuring her inquiry around anthologies of feminist criticism: twelve important texts that have had a wide impact on more than a decade of scholarship. In reading an anthology as a whole, she typically identifies a central, hegemonic voice (usually that of the editor/s) which would organise all the voices into a unity, and then explores the resistance within that volume to such a unity. Weight is placed behind these internal differences as a wedge against the centrist drive. Around 1981 addresses briefly ‘french feminism’ and psychoanalytic feminism before focusing on its principal subject: the mainstream of feminist literary criticism, before and after its general acceptance as part of the changing institution of literary studies. This brilliantly illuminates the dilemma of the feminist critic, divided by her allegiance to both feminism and literary studies.