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Those who Ride the Night Winds

Nikki Giovanni
Those who Ride the Night Winds Book PDF

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015046867936

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Nikki Giovanni, long known as "the Princess of Black Poetry," dedicates Those Who Ride the Night Winds to "the day trippers and midnight cowboys," the ones who have devoted their lives to pushing the limits of the human condition and who have shattered the constraints of the status quo to live life as a "marvelous, transitory adventure."Included are poems about John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, as well as friends, lovers, mothers, and the poet herself. With reverence for the ordinary and in search of the extraordinary, Those Who Ride the Night Winds is Nikki Giovanni's most accessible collection ever. She displays her passion for and connectedness to the people and places that touch her. The reissue of Nikki Giovanni's seminal 1984 collection will once again enchant those who have always loved her poems--and those who are just getting to know her work. As a witness to three generations, Nikki Giovanni has perceptively and poetically recorded her observations of both the outside world and the gentle yet enigmatic territory of the self. When her poems first emerged from the civil rights and Black Power movements in the late 1960s, she immediately became a celebrated and controversial figure. Written in one of the most commanding voices to grace America's political and poetic landscape at the end of the twentieth century, Nikki Giovanni's poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which she is beloved and revered. Nikki Giovanni is our most widely read living black poet, and in her most accessible collection to date, we become aware of the poet as a human being we can relate to, someone affected by and concerned with events. The title of this collection refers to people who have tried to make changes, people who have gone against the tide, people who were unafraid to test their wings. Included are poems about John Lennon, Billie Jean King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. There are poems about friends, lovers, mothers, and about the poet herself. Long known as the "Princess of Black Poetry," Nikki Giovanni is as alive and vibrant as ever. Her many readers will find once again in this collection the warmth, wit, passion, and caring about people that have always distinguished her work. Strong, direct, tremendously energetic, visionary, vulnerable, and real, these poems reveal a great spirit among us; a woman in her human dimension; a person all readers can identify with and believe in.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Eric L. Haralson
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Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317763222

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Nikki Giovanni

Virginia C. Fowler
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Author : Virginia C. Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313051340

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Nikki Giovanni by Virginia C. Fowler Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement. Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement, providing a thorough examination of Giovanni's life and work, from her earliest volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, to the recent Bicycles. The book addresses Giovanni's preoccupation with historical themes and the past, and demonstrates the pervasiveness of music in Giovanni's poetry. Drawing on extensive interviews with Giovanni's friends and family, this book offers biographical information not previously available in other publications. It references material from Giovanni's prose works to illuminate and contextualize the analysis of her poetry, examining its highly allusive and topical nature. The book also shows the intersections of Giovanni's biography and the public history of the United States from the 1960s to the present, making it of interest to general readers as well as those studying American and African-American poetry or black feminism.

Great American Writers

Robert Baird Shuman
Great American Writers Book PDF

Author : Robert Baird Shuman
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761472452

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Great American Writers by Robert Baird Shuman Pdf

Highlights the lives and works of more than ninety American and Canadian writers of fiction, drama, nonfiction, poetry and song lyrics.

Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni
Conversations with Nikki Giovanni Book PDF

Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0878055878

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Conversations with Nikki Giovanni by Nikki Giovanni Pdf

From her conversation with James Baldwin, an interview that first aired on the television program Soul!, later published as A Dialogue. Also included is an excerpt from A Poetic Equation, her lengthy talk with the poet Margaret Walker. In this exchange of ideas and opinions with Walker a young poet new to the literary world assumes the role of spokesperson for a generation.

Disabled Literature

Miles Beauchamp,Wendy Chung,Alijandra Mogilner
Disabled Literature Book PDF

Author : Miles Beauchamp,Wendy Chung,Alijandra Mogilner
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781627345309

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Disabled Literature by Miles Beauchamp,Wendy Chung,Alijandra Mogilner Pdf

This book, by Beauchamp, Chung, Mogilner and Svetlana Zakinova examines how authors have used characters with disabilities to elicit emotional reactions in readers; additionally, how writers use disabilities to present individuals as "the other" rather than simply as people. Finally, the book discusses how literature has changed, or is changing, with regards to its presentation of those with a disability.

Nikki Giovanni (USAS)

Virginia C. Fowler
Nikki Giovanni USAS Book PDF

Author : Virginia C. Fowler
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029474429

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Nikki Giovanni (USAS) by Virginia C. Fowler Pdf

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Ride the Night Wind

Jo Ann Ferguson
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Author : Jo Ann Ferguson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504008884

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The Black Death has spared Clarendon Abbey, where Audra Travers is a novice. It is the only life she knows. Everything changes when men come from Bredonmere Manor, telling her that, in the wake of the plague’s decimation of her family, she is the sole living heir to her father’s lands. She is no longer Sister Audra, but the Countess of Bredonmere. On her way home, she is halted by a masked man who calls himself Lynx and warns her that nothing will be as she expects when she reaches the manor. Furious at his bold ways that elicit sensations she never has felt before, she vows to keep him from intruding. Even so, Lynx in all his roles at Bredonmere becomes her greatest ally . . . and her greatest temptation. But can learning the truth of the man behind the mask and his true reason to come to her home destroy all she has built—as well as her heart?

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T

Paul Finkelman
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present O T Book PDF

Author : Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2637 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780195167795

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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: O-T by Paul Finkelman Pdf

Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.

Comics to Classics

Arthea J. S. Reed
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Author : Arthea J. S. Reed
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781101161708

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Comics to Classics by Arthea J. S. Reed Pdf

For each developmental stage between the ages of 10 and 18, educator Arthea J. S. Reed provides lists of books organized by genre and carefully selected for teen appeal. In addition to a detailed bibliography, Reed focuses on the particular challenges for each age group, and highlights strategies for parents to persuade their children to read. This guide will help parents and teachers choose the right books for every reading level and interest.

Teaching Social Foundations of Education

Dan W. Butin
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Author : Dan W. Butin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135608323

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Teaching Social Foundations of Education by Dan W. Butin Pdf

This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education: *Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations canon?"; "Is it possible to teach for social justice?"; "What is student resistance?"; *Explores the limits and possibilities of teaching social foundations of education; *Provides strong arguments for the continued relevance of the discipline for teacher education; *Features a variety of clearly presented, theoretically grounded models for teaching social foundations within teacher education programs--including aesthetic education, critical theory, and eco-justice perspectives, the use of community-based oral histories, and experiential learning activities; *Provides concrete examples, actual syllabi, and a host of additional resources to help faculty teach, publish, and do research; and *Proposes new directions for research and dialogue within the field. This volume is an ideal entrance into the field for graduate students, junior faculty, and professors from other areas of education who are teaching in the social foundations field for the first time.

Many Peoples, One Land

Alethea K. Helbig,Agnes Regan Perkins
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Author : Alethea K. Helbig,Agnes Regan Perkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313064999

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Many Peoples, One Land by Alethea K. Helbig,Agnes Regan Perkins Pdf

Celebrating the wealth of quality multicultural literature recently published for children and young adults, this valuable resource examines the fiction, oral tradition, and poetry from four major ethnic groups in the United States. Each of these genres is considered in turn for the literature dealing with African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-American Indians. Taking up where their earlier volume This Land is Our Land left off, Helbig and Perkins have teamed up once again to identify and expertly evaluate more than 500 multicultural books published from 1994 through 1999. Both considered authorities in the field of children's literature, the two of them personally selected, read, and evaluated all the books included here. Their insightful annotations help readers carefully consider both literary standards such as plot development, characterization, and style, as well as cultural values as they are represented in these cited works. Each entry also indicates the suggested age and grade level appropriateness of the work. With the proliferation and ever increasing popularity of multicultural literature for children and young adults, this sensitively written volume will serve as an invaluable collection development tool. Teachers, as well as librarians, will find the comprehensiveness and organization of this bibliography helpful as a guide in selecting appropriate materials for classroom use. Even students will find this book easy to use, with its five indexes identifying works by title, writer, illustrator, grade level, and subject. Public libraries and school media centers will find much use for Many Peoples, One Land.

Gender and the Poetics of Excess

Karen Jackson Ford
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Author : Karen Jackson Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628468786

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Gender and the Poetics of Excess by Karen Jackson Ford Pdf

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in different cultures, their relationship to one another remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath, Jayne Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of “female writing” that the larger culture imposes on them. In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets developed radical new poetries, yet their work was typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus, Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical, and her figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.

Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 volumes]

Yolanda Williams Page
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Author : Yolanda Williams Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313049071

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Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 volumes] by Yolanda Williams Page Pdf

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.

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature Book PDF

Author : William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198031758

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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews,Frances Smith Foster,Trudier Harris Pdf

A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.