Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Includes sections "Books and race" and "Race in periodicals."
Phylon
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Includes sections "Books and race" and "Race in periodicals."
Phylon Quarterly
Author: The Phylon Quarterly
Author: Sterling A. Brown
Author: Joanne V. GabbinPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813915319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sterling A. Brown's achievement and influence in the field of American literature and culture are unquestionably significant. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Russian and has been read in literary circles throughout the world. He is also one of the principal architects of black criticism. His critical essays and books are seminal works that give an insider's perspective of literature by and about blacks. Leopold Sedar Senghor, who became familiar with Brown's poetry and criticism in the 1920s and 1930s, called him "an original militant of Negritude, a precursor of our movement." Yet Joanne V. Gabbin's book, originally published in 1985, remains the only study of Brown's work and influence. Gabbin sketches Brown's life, drawing on personal interviews and viewing his achievements as a poet, critic, and cultural griot. She analyzes in depth the formal and thematic qualities of his poetry, revealing his subtle adaptation of song forms, especially the blues. To articulate the aesthetic principles Brown recognized in the writings of black authors, Gabbin explores his identification of the various elements that have come together to create American culture.
Selections from Phylon
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du BoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Algebraic Groups and Lie Groups
Author: Gus LehrerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585323
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This volume contains original research articles by many of the world's leading researchers in algebraic and Lie groups. Its inclination is algebraic and geometic, although analytical aspects are included. The central theme reflects the interests of R. W. Richardson, viz connections between representation theory and the structure and geometry of algebraic groups. All workers on algebraic and Lie groups will find that this book contains a wealth of interesting material.
Remembering the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Cary D. WintzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136520074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
This volume tracks the many surveys of black literature created during the Harlem Renaissance. Noted works by such authors as Sterling Brown, Benjamin Brawley, and Langston Hughes are covered. Retrospectives also appeared in the journal Phylon , and many of those also appear in this collection.
African American Philosophers and Philosophy
Author: Stephen Ferguson IIPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350057975
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book presents the first introduction to African American academic philosophers, exploring their concepts and ideas and revealing the critical part they have played in the formation of philosophy in the USA. The book begins with the early years of educational attainment by African American philosophers in the 1860s. To demonstrate the impact of their philosophical work on general problems in the discipline, chapters are broken down into four major areas of study: Axiology, Social Science, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Science. Providing personal narratives on individual philosophers and examining the work of figures such as H. T. Johnson, William D. Johnson, Joyce Mitchell Cooke, Adrian Piper, William R. Jones, Roy D. Morrison, Eugene C. Holmes, and William A. Banner, the book challenges the myth that philosophy is exclusively a white academic discipline. Packed with examples of struggles and triumphs, this engaging introduction is a much-needed approach to studying philosophy today.
A Dictionary of scientific terms
Author: Isabella Ferguson HendersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Development of Black Theater in America
Author: Leslie Catherine SandersPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807115824
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In The Development of Black Theater in America, Leslie Sanders examines the work of the American black theater’s five most productive playwrights: Willis Richardson, Randolph Edmonds, Langston Hughes, LeRoi Jones, and Ed Bullins. Sanders sees the history of black theater as the process of creating a “black stage reality” while at the same time transforming conventions borrowed from white European culture into forms appropriate to black artists and audiences. The author argues that only when these things were accomplished could the aim of black playwrights, often articulated as “the realistic portrayal of the Negro,” be fully realized. This study also examines the changing nature of the dialogue black playwrights have held with the dominant tradition and how that dialogue has shaped their imaginations. Sanders’ discussion of Richardson, Edmonds, Hughes, Jones, and Bullins provides a context for approaching the work of other black playwrights, such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Owen Dodson. And her argument provides a concrete way of understanding how the context of a dominant culture influences the artistic imagination of writers not of that culture, who must come to terms with its influences and transform it into a vehicle of their own.