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Beetlecreek

Author : William Demby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617030864
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beetlecreek written by William Demby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After several years of silence and seclusion in Beetlecreek’s black quarter, a carnival worker named Bill Trapp befriends Johnny Johnson, a Pittsburgh teenager living with relatives in Beetlecreek. Bill is white. Johnny is black. Both are searching for acceptance, something that will give meaning to their lives. Bill tries to find it through good will in the community. Johnny finds it in the Nightriders, a local gang. David Diggs, the boy’s dispirited uncle, aspires to be an artist but has to settle for sign painting. David and Johnny’s new friendship with Bill kindles hope that their lives will get better. David’s marriage has failed; his wife’s shallow faith serves as her outlet from racial and financial oppression. David’s unhappy routine is broken by Edith Johnson’s return to Beetlecreek, but this relationship will be no better than his loveless marriage. Bill’s attempts to unify black and white children with a community picnic is a disaster. A rumor scapegoats him as a child molester, and Beetlecreek is titillated by the imagined crimes. This novel portraying race relations in a remote West Virginia town has been termed an existential classic. “It would be hard,” said The New Yorker, “to give Mr. Demby too much praise for the skill with which he has maneuvered the relationships in this book.” During the 1960s Arna Bontemps wrote, “Demby’s troubled townsfolk of the West Virginia mining region foreshadow present dilemmas. The pressing and resisting social forces in this season of our discontent and the fatal paralysis of those of us unable or unwilling to act are clearly anticipated with the dependable second sight of a true artist.” First published in 1950, Beetlecreek stands as a moving condemnation of provincialism and fundamentalism. Both a critique of racial hypocrisy and a new direction for the African American novel, it occupies fresh territory that is neither the ghetto realism of Richard Wright nor the ironic modernism of Ralph Ellison. Even after fifty years, more or less, William Demby said in 1998, “It still seems to me that Beetlecreek is about the absence of symmetry in human affairs, the imperfectability of justice the tragic inevitability of mankind’s inhumanity to mankind.”

African-American Writers

Author : Philip Bader
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438107838
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book African-American Writers written by Philip Bader and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American authors have consistently explored the political dimensions of literature and its ability to affect social change. African-American literature has also provided an essential framework for shaping cultural identity and solidarity. From the early slave narratives to the folklore and dialect verse of the Harlem Renaissance to the modern novels of today

The Catacombs

Author : William Demby
Publisher : Boston : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781555530990
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Catacombs written by William Demby and published by Boston : Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imaginative and experimental story of friendship and conflict in times of racial strife.

Desegregating Desire

Author : Tyler T. Schmidt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617037834
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Desegregating Desire written by Tyler T. Schmidt and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality

Beet Lecreek

Author : William Demby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beet Lecreek written by William Demby and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discourse and the Other

Author : W. Lawrence Hogue
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822306764
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Discourse and the Other written by W. Lawrence Hogue and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1986-11-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary texts are appropriated to meet ideological concerns and needs, and the continued oppression of dissenting voices. Hogue presents an illuminating discussion of the publication and review history of "major" and neglected texts. He illustrates the acceptance of texts as exotica, as sociological documents, or as carriers of sufficient literary conventions to receive approbation. Although the sixties movement allowed the text to move to the periphery of the dominant ideology, providing some new myths about the Afro-American historical past, this marginal position was subsequently sabotaged, co-opted, or appropriated (Afros became a fad; presidents gave the soul handshake; the hip-talking black was dressing one style and talking another.) This study includes extended discussion of four works; Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Albert Murray's Train Whistle Guitar, and Toni Morrison's Sula. Hogue assesses the informing worldviews of each and the extent and nature of their acceptance by the dominant American cultural apparatus.

The Fugitive Race

Author : Stephen P. Knadler
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604730404
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Fugitive Race written by Stephen P. Knadler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denying its formative dialogues with minorities, the white race, Stephen P. Knadler contends, has been a fugitive race. While the "white question," like the "Negro question," and the "woman question" a century earlier, has garnered considerable critical attention among scholars looking to find new anti-race strategies, these investigations need to highlight not just the exclusion of people of color, but also examine minority writers' resistance to and disruption of this privileged racial category. "Highly original, wonderfully detailed, and thought provoking," says Professor Candace Waid of Knadler's intellectually challenging book. Although excluded, people of color looked back in anger, laughter, and wisdom to challenge the unexamined lie of a self-evident whiteness. Looking at fictional and nonfictional texts written between 1850 and 1984, The Fugitive Race traces a long cultural and literary history of the ways African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Chicanos, gays, and lesbians have challenged the shape and meaning of so-called white identities. From the antebellum period to the 1980s, the belief in a white racial superiority, or simply a white difference, has denied that people of color might and do have an influence on the supposedly pure or protected character of whiteness. In contrast, this book attempts to define a new way of analyzing minority literature that questions this segregated color line. In addition to creating a new racial awareness, many writers of color tried to interfere in the historical formulation of whiteness. They created unsettling moments when white readers had to see themselves for the first time from the outside-in, or from the critical perspective of non-white writers. These writers--including William Wells Brown, Pauline Hopkins, Abraham Cahan, Young-hill Kang, Zora Neale Hurston, and Arturo Islas--did not simply resist assimilation. They sought to dismantle the white identities that lay as the foundation of the master's house. Stephen P. Knadler, an assistant professor of English at Spelman College, has been published in American Literature, American Literary History, American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, and Modern Fiction Studies.

Beetlecreek

Author : William Demby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beetlecreek written by William Demby and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town's black quarter.

Masterplots II.: A-Dre

Author : Tyrone Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masterplots II.: A-Dre written by Tyrone Williams and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Williams (Xavier U.) presents 367 three-to-four page essays, 101 commissioned new for this edition, on significant African American works of literature, from Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change, a work of cultural criticism by Molefi K. Asante,to Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, the "biomythography" of Audre Lorde. The works covered range from early colonial era writings through works of the beginning of the 21st century. Most of the essays address a single long work, while others review an author's work in a certain genre, such as short fiction, poetry, essays, or speeches. Each entry begins with information on title, subtitle, author's name and birth/death dates, type of work, date of first publication and production. For fiction, information is also presented on type of plot, setting, and principal characters. The essays then describe events or contents of the work and address broad themes and meanings connected to the work. Essays on fiction works include discussion of main character or characters, while nonfiction work includes sections on "form and content" and "analysis." All essays end with discussion of critical context. Also included with the essays are annotated bibliographies on secondary sources. The final volume includes indexes organized by type of work, title, and authors. Examples of works covered, in addition to the two already mentioned, include Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, The Black Muslims in America by C. Eric Lincoln; The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Roots by Alex Haley, The Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates, Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington, and Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosley. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Major Characters in American Fiction

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466881933
Total Pages : 1591 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Major Characters in American Fiction written by Jack Salzman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 1591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Characters in American Fiction is the perfect companion for everyone who loves literature--students, book-group members, and serious readers at every level. Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers in-depth essays on the "lives" of more than 1,500 characters, figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as we are. Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 to 1991, the characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story. They are drawn from novels and short stories that represent ever era, genre, and style of American fiction writing--Natty Bumppo of The Leatherstocking Tales, Celie of The Color Purple, and everyone in between.

Beetle Creek

Author : Jim Parsons
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522812425
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Beetle Creek written by Jim Parsons and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beetle Creek is a humorous bush yarn about the Bournley family from Beetle Creek, a fictional village near Moree, NSW. It takes a nostalgic look at life in the bush in the 1950s, which contributed greatly to its popularity on its first publication in 2006. The Bourneys are a strange but lovable crew: DAD has a philosophical bent, steals the odd sheep and scrounges for useful items at the local tip; MUM judges the annual CWA scone-baking contest, protects her brood fiercely and handles herself well in a street fight; DENNY, aged 7, traps rats on the bedroom windowsill and does a nice little sideline in blackmail; LUCY, aged 12, is a spooky recluse who foretells the future of each family member; MARCIE, aged 15, discovers lust in the dust and never looks back; DAVO, aged 16, the Beetle Creek Casanova, is no stranger to hard yakka or sexual benevolence; UNCLE WALLY is fresh out of jail ... and JACK, the would-be author, is writing it all down.

Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change

Author : Robert J. Higgs
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498749
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change written by Robert J. Higgs and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Appalachia writings.

Black Fiction

Author : Roger Rosenblatt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674076228
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book Black Fiction written by Roger Rosenblatt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illuminating book Roger Rosenblatt offers both sensitive analyses of individual works and a provocative and compelling thesis. He argues that black fiction has a unity deriving not from any chronological sequence, or simply from its black authorship, but from a particular cyclical conception of history on which practically every significant black American novel and short story is based. Marked for oppression by an external physical characteristic, black characters struggle constantly against and within a hostile world. Rosenblatt's analysis of the way black protagonists try to break historical patterns provides an integrated and sustained interpretation of motives and methods in black fiction. The black hero, after starting on a circular track, may try to change direction by means of his youth, love, education, or humor; or he may try to escape into his own elusive and vague history. But, as Rosenblatt demonstrates, these attempts all fail. And the black hero discovers in the failure of his attempts that the society which caused all this failure is not only unattainable but undesirable. Neither a sociological study nor a routine survey, this is distinctly a work of literary criticism which concentrates on black fiction as literature.

Black World/Negro Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black World/Negro Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing. During the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Negro Digest/Black World served as a critical vehicle for political thought for supporters of the movement.

The Postwar African American Novel

Author : Stephanie Brown
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739746
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Postwar African American Novel written by Stephanie Brown and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans in the World War II era bought the novels of African American writers in unprecedented numbers. But the names on the books lining shelves and filling barracks trunks were not the now-familiar Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, William Gardner Smith, and J. Saunders Redding. In this book, Stephanie Brown recovers the work of these innovative novelists, overturning conventional wisdom about the writers of the period and the trajectory of African American literary history. She also questions the assumptions about the relations between race and genre that have obscured the importance of these once-influential creators. Wright's Native Son (1940) is typically considered to have inaugurated an era of social realism in African-American literature. And Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) has been cast as both a high mark of American modernism and the only worthy stopover on the way to the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. But readers in the late 1940s purchased enough copies of Yerby's historical romances to make him the best-selling African American author of all time. Critics, meanwhile, were taking note of the generic experiments of Redding, Himes, and Smith, while the authors themselves questioned the obligation of black authors to write protest, instead penning campus novels, war novels, and, in Yerby's case, "costume dramas." Their status as "lesser lights" is the product of retrospective bias, Brown demonstrates, and their novels established the period immediately following World War II as a pivotal moment in the history of the African American novel.

Modern American Counter Writing

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135161658
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Counter Writing written by A. Robert Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissident voice in US culture might almost be said to have been born with the territory. Its span runs from Roger Williams to Thoreau, Anne Bradstreet to Gertrude Stein, Ambrose Bierce to the New Journalism, The Beats to the recent Bad Subjects cyber-crowd. This new study analyses three recent literary tranches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar "outrider" voices – Hunter Thompson to Frank Chin, Joan Didion to Kathy Acker; and a latest purview of what, all too casually, has been designated "ethnic" writing. The aim is to set up and explore these different counter-seams of modern American writing, those which sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons.

The Indignant Generation

Author : Lawrence P. Jackson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691157898
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Indignant Generation written by Lawrence P. Jackson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the lost history of a crucial era in African American literature The Indignant Generation is the first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. The years between these two indispensable epochs saw the communal rise of Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and many other influential black writers. While these individuals have been duly celebrated, little attention has been paid to the political and artistic milieu in which they produced their greatest works. With this commanding study, Lawrence Jackson recalls the lost history of a crucial era. Looking at the tumultuous decades surrounding World War II, Jackson restores the "indignant" quality to a generation of African American writers shaped by Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, the growth of American communism, and an international wave of decolonization. He also reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples. As Jackson shows through contemporary documents, the years that brought us Their Eyes Were Watching God, Native Son, and Invisible Man also saw the rise of African American literary criticism—by both black and white critics. Fully exploring the cadre of key African American writers who triumphed in spite of segregation, The Indignant Generation paints a vivid portrait of American intellectual and artistic life in the mid-twentieth century.