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.
Teaching African American Literature
Author: Maryemma GrahamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136671919
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical.
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.
How to Read African American Literature
Author: Aida Levy-HussenPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479838144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major interpretive approaches: “therapeutic reading” (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and “prohibitive reading” (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now.
A Companion to African American Literature
Author: Gene Andrew JarrettPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118651197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices
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.