Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: Henry Holt
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
African American Literature
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: Henry Holt
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
What Was African American Literature?
Author: Kenneth W. WarrenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674066294
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature
Author: William L. AndrewsPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807829943
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The first African American to publish a book in the South, the author of the first female slave narrative in the United States, the father of black nationalism in America--these and other founders of African American literature have a surprising connectio
Masterpieces of African-American Literature
Author: Frank N. MagillPublisher: Collins Reference
ISBN: 9780062700667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
A unique and vital guide that summarizes, explains and evaluates the greatest works of African-American literature -- including articles on writings from James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison and many more.
Icons of African American Literature
Author: Yolanda Williams PagePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313352046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Icons of African American Literature: The Black Literary World examines 24 of the most popular and culturally significant topics within African American literature's long and immensely fascinating history. Each piece provide substantial, in-depth information—much more than a typical encyclopedia entry—while remaining accessible and appealing to general and younger readers. Arranged alphabetically, the entries cover such writers as Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and August Wilson; major works, such as Invisible Man, Native Son, and Their Eyes Were Watching God; and a range of cultural topics, including the black arts movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the jazz aesthetic. Written by expert contributors, the essays discuss the enduring significance of these topics in American history and popular culture. Each entry also provides sidebars that highlight interesting information and suggestions for further reading.
African American Literature
Author: Hans OstromPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440871515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.
African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830: Volume 2, 1800–1830
Author: Jasmine Nichole CobbPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108687849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political circulation of ideas. Transformations included increased numbers of Black organizations, shifts in the physical mobility of Black peoples, expanded circulation of abolitionist and Black newsprint as well as greater production of Black authored texts and images. The perpetuation of slavery in the early American republic meant that many people of African descent conveyed experiences of bondage or promoted abolition in complex ways, relying on a diverse array of print and illustrative forms. Accordingly, this volume takes a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830, exploring Black organizational life before 1830, movement and mobility in African American literature, and print culture in circulation, illustration, and the narrative form.
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
Author: Maryemma GrahamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521872170
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 861
Book Description
A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
African American Literature
Author: Keith GilyardPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780321113412
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
African-American Literature is a thematically arranged, comprehensive survey of African-American Literature. The unique thematic organization of the anthology allows for a concise and coherent assessment of African-American literature. The thematic approach gives students a better sense of the intertextuality that binds a literary tradition together rather than a chronological approach that organizes material strictly on the basis of an author's birth date.
African-American Literature
Author: Demetrice A. WorleyPublisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of eighty-five selections that exemplify the range and depth of the writing of Africian Americans. f.