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Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Confirmation, an Anthology of African American Women written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780688015800
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Confirmation, an Anthology of African American Women written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858887
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Author : Jerry Watts
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814793738
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Amiri Baraka written by Jerry Watts and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ross Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198881134
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Critical Forms written by Ross Wilson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of the period, Critical Forms begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the emergence of something like the forms (chiefly, the essay and the treatise) in which criticism is still predominantly practised. In order at least to complicate this predominance, the book documents an abiding plurality in the forms of literary critical writing in the subsequent period, leading up to the present. Ross Wilson both questions the status of the essay and treatise as the 'natural' forms of literary criticism and shows that the history of literary criticism is much more formally various and innovative than the usual ways of recounting that history as a succession of schools and movements would allow. Critical Forms harbours the hope that it will make available a wider array of forms for the practice of literary criticism today; it is this hope that licenses its own experiments in critical form.
Author : Cone, James, H.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book For My People written by Cone, James, H. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Llopart Babot
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8411181693
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (111 download)
Download or read book African American Women's Literature in Spain written by Sandra Llopart Babot and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings forward a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. Drawing from a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, it traces the translation history of literature produced by African American women, seeking to uncover changing strategies in translation policies as well as shifts in interests in the target context, and it examines the topicality of this cohort of authors as frames of reference for Spanish critics and reviewers. Likewise, the reception of the source literature in the Spanish context is described by reconstructing the values that underlie judgements in different reception sources. Finally, this book addresses the specific problem of the translation of Black English into Spanish. More precisely, it pays attention to the ideological and the ethical implications of translation choices and the effect of the latter on the reception of literary texts.
Author : Margaret Walker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338869
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Fields Watered with Blood written by Margaret Walker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing an international gathering of scholars, Fields Watered with Blood constitutes the first critical assessment of the full scope of Margaret Walker’s literary career. As they discuss Walker’s work, including the landmark poetry collection For My People and the novel Jubilee, the contributors reveal the complex interplay of concerns and themes in Walker’s writing: folklore and prophecy, place and space, history and politics, gender and race. In addition, the contributors remark on how Walker’s emphases on spirituality and on dignity in her daily life make themselves felt in her writings and show how Walker’s accomplishments as a scholar, teacher, activist, mother, and family elder influenced what and how she wrote. A brief biography, an interview with literary critic Claudia Tate, a chronology of major events in Walker’s life, and a selected bibliography round out this collection, which will do much to further our understanding of the writer whom poet Nikki Giovanni once called “the most famous person nobody knows.”
Author : Delores P. Aldridge
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739105474
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Out of the Revolution written by Delores P. Aldridge and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, the authors bring together 31 scholars to provide a reference for understanding the impetus for, the development of, and future considerations for the discipline of 'Africana' studies. Topics addressed include epistemological considerationsand humanistic perspectives.
Author : Dana A. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313064954
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Contemporary African American Female Playwrights written by Dana A. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-06-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was a major dramatic success and brought to the world's attention the potential talent of African American women playwrights. But in spite of Hansberry's landmark contribution, both the theater and the literary world have often failed to include contemporary African American female playwrights within the circle of production, publication, and criticism. In African American drama anthologies, female playwrights are seldom given the degree of attention that is accorded their male counterparts. And because of space constraints, anthologies of works by women playwrights are forced to exclude numerous female dramatists, including African Americans. Meanwhile, some scholars have argued that the works of African American female playwrights are seldom produced in the mainstream theater because these plays frequently challenge the views of white America. But as A Raisin in the Sun demonstrates, plays by African American women dramatists can have a powerful message and are worthy of attention. A comprehensive research tool, this annotated bibliography sheds light on the often neglected works of contemporary African American female playwrights. Included within its scope are those dramatists who have had at least one work published since 1959, the year of Hansberry's monumental achievement. The first section provides a listing of anthologies that include one or more plays written by an African American female dramatist. The second gives entries for reference works and for scholarly and critical studies of the dramatists and their plays. The third presents a listing of published plays by individual dramatists, along with a summary of each drama; the works of each playwright that are related to drama; and secondary sources that treat the dramatists and their plays. Entries are accompanied by concise but informative annotations, and the volume closes with a list of periodicals that frequently publish criticism of African American female playwrights, a section of brief biographical sketches of the dramatists, and extensive indexes.
Author : David S. Goldstein
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641099
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Toni Morrison's Secret Drive written by David S. Goldstein and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A powerful writer, she wove stories depicting the largely overlooked Black experience in America and exploring the intersection of gender and race through the lives of Black women. Morrison's writing continues to move people and push readers to reassess their beliefs about what it means to be Black in America. Synthesizing some 250 scholarly works about Morrison's writing, this book examines eight novels as well as the short story "Recitatif." They are analyzed for techniques used to deepen meaning and emotional weight, and reveal Morrison's mastery over prose.
Author : Rebecca Layton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438133588
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Arab-American and Muslim Writers written by Rebecca Layton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents nine Arab-American and Muslim authors, providing a biography of each writer, a summary of their works, and an analysis of their style and major themes.
Author : Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027224013
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Women, Feminist Identity and Society in the 1980's written by Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general objective of this volume is to present and discuss different modes of existence in women s texts and feminist identity in political and poetic discourse on the one hand, and to analyze the factors which determine differing relationships between women and society, and which result in specific forms of identity on the other. The essays in this volume explore language, gender, mass media, sexuality, class and social change, women s identity as Blacks and in the Third World as well as the nature of domination, feminine criticism and female creativity. The volume opens with a challenging question by the feminist poet Adrienne Rich, Who is We?
Author : Keith Gilyard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820341959
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book John Oliver Killens written by Keith Gilyard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His works of fiction and nonfiction, the most famous of which is his novel Youngblood, have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An influential novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and teacher, he was the founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild and mentored a generation of black writers at Fisk, Howard, Columbia, and elsewhere. Killens is recognized as the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. In this first major biography of Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens's times and literary achievement--from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond. Figuring prominently in these pages are the many important African American artists and political figures connected to the author from the 1930s to the 1980s--W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Alphaeus Hunton, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte, and Maya Angelou, among others.
Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812239733
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Deans and Truants written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal and, at times, obscurity. From the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, de facto deans—critics and authors as different as William Howells, Alain Locke, Richard Wright, and Amiri Baraka—prescribed the shifting parameters of realism and racial subject matter appropriate to authentic African American literature, while truant authors such as Paul Laurence Dunbar, George S. Schuyler, Frank Yerby, and Toni Morrison—perhaps the most celebrated African American author of the twentieth century—wrote literature anomalous to those standards. Jarrett explores the issues at stake when Howells, the "Dean of American Letters," argues in 1896 that only Dunbar's "entirely black verse," written in dialect, "would succeed." Three decades later, Locke, the cultural arbiter of the Harlem Renaissance, stands in contrast to Schuyler, a journalist and novelist who questions the existence of a peculiarly black or "New Negro" art. Next, Wright's 1937 blueprint for African American writing sets the terms of the Chicago Renaissance, but Yerby's version of historical romance approaches race and realism in alternative literary ways. Finally, Deans and Truants measures the gravitational pull of the late 1960s Black Aesthetic in Baraka's editorial silence on Toni Morrison's first and only short story, "Recitatif." Drawing from a wealth of biographical, historical, and literary sources, Deans and Truants describes the changing notions of race, politics, and gender that framed and were framed by the authors and critics of African American culture for more than a century.
Author : Reiland Rabaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739130994
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Du Bois's Dialectics written by Reiland Rabaka and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Du Bois's Dialectics is doubly distinguished from other books on Du Bois because it is the first extended exploration of Du Bois's contributions to new critical theory and the first book-length treatment of his contributions to contemporary black radical politics and the developing discipline of Africana Studies. With chapters that undertake ideological critiques of education, religion, the politics of reparations, and the problematics of black radical politics in contemporary culture and society, Du Bois's Dialectics employs Du Bois as its critical theoretical point of departure and demonstrates his (and Africana Studies') contributions to, as well as contemporary critical theory's connections to, critical pedagogy, sociology of religion, and reparations theory. Rabaka offers the first critical theoretical treatment of the W. E. B. Du Bois_Booker T. Washington debate, which lucidly highlights Du Bois's transition from a bourgeois black liberal to a black radical and revolutionary democratic socialist. This book is primarily directed at scholars, advanced undergraduate and graduate students working in and associated with Africana Studies, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Author : Elizabeth Abel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918150
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Female Subjects in Black and White written by Elizabeth Abel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity. They offer new ways of approaching African American texts and reframe our thinking about the contexts, discourses, and traditions of the American cultural landscape. Calling for the racialization of whiteness and claiming that psychoanalytic theory should make room for competing discourses of spirituality and diasporic consciousness, these essays give shape to the many stubborn incompatibilities—as well as the transformative possibilities—between white feminist and African American cultural formations. Bringing into conversation a range of psychoanalytic, feminist, and African-derived spiritual perspectives, these essays enact an inclusive politics of reading. Often explosive and always provocative, Female Subjects in Black and White models a new cross-racial feminism.
