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Author : Maryemma Graham,Jerry Washington Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 861 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521872171
A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
Author : Maryemma Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1316183696
"The first major twenty-first century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond, emphasise the dual nature of each text discussed as a work of art created by an individual and as a response to unfolding events in American cultural, political, and social history"--
Author : Sacvan Bercovitch,Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521585716
Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.
Author : Sacvan Bercovitch,Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521301076
Multi-volume history of American literature.
Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarría,Enrique Pupo-Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521410355
The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind ever written. Its three volumes cover the whole sweep of Latin American literature (including Brazilian) from pre-Colombian times to the present, and contain chapters on Latin American writing in the USA. Volume 3 is devoted partly to the history of Brazilian literature, from the earliest writing through the colonial period and the Portuguese-language traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and partly also to an extensive bibliographical section in which annotated reading lists relating to the chapters in all three volumes of The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature are presented. These bibliographies are a unique feature of the History, further enhancing its immense value as a reference work.
Author : Lauri Ramey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035478
Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Author : Maryemma Graham,Graham Maryemma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780521016377
This Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.
Author : Sacvan Bercovitch,Cyrus R. K. Patell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521301084
This is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry. Barbara Packer explores the neoclassical and satiric forms mastered by the early Federalist poets; the creative reaches of once-celebrated, and still compelling, poets like Longfellow and Whittier; the distinctive lyric forms developed by Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Shira Wolosky provides a new perspective on the achievement of female poets of the period, as well as a close appreciation of African-American poets, including the collective folk authors of the Negro spirituals. She also illuminates the major works of the period, from Poe through Melville and Crane, to Whitman and Dickinson. The authors of this volume discuss this extraordinary literary achievement both in formal terms and in its sustained engagement with changing social and cultural conditions. In doing so they recover and elucidate American poetry of the nineteenth century for our twenty-first century pleasure, profit, and renewed study.
Author : John Morán González,Laura Lomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316634175
The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.
Author : Joycelyn Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108875660
This History explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. By analyzing the different forms of autobiography, including pictorial and personal essays, editorials, oral histories, testimonials, diaries, personal and open letters, and even poetry performance media of autobiographies, this book extends the definition of African American autobiography, revealing how people of African descent have created and defined the Black self in diverse print cultures and literary genres since their arrival in the Americas. It illustrates ways African Americans use life writing and autobiography to address personal and collective Black experiences of identity, family, memory, fulfillment, racism and white supremacy. Individual chapters examine scrapbooks as a source of self-documentation, African American autobiography for children, readings of African American persona poems, mixed-race life writing after the Civil Rights Movement, and autobiographies by African American LGBTQ writers.
Author : Kenneth W. Warren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674066298
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In WarrenÕs view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, WarrenÕs work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.
Author : Harvey Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009359580
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.
Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521555264
A study of postmodernism and African-American poets.
Author : Abiola Irele,Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0521594340
Featuring new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature, this History explores the scope of the literature (variety of languages, regions and genres); nature of composition; and complex relationship with African social and geo-political history. It comprehensively covers the field of African literature, defined by creative expression in Africa as well as the black diaspora. This major history of African literature will be an essential resource for specialists and students.
Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1009159704
"African American literary production has changed in astounding ways since the 1970s. This book provides a systematic and vibrant account of the range and achievements of contemporary Black writers. It considers the history, practice, and future directions of the field"--