A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 647 rejecting conventional distinctions between “high” and “popular” culture. So the ...

648 The American Century: Literature since 1945 sexual and reproductive functions. And sometimes, as in some gangsta rap, the se ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 649 using an African rhythmic structure to imitate the voice of an African drum. The ...

650 The American Century: Literature since 1945 or race. So, in a poem called “Arrow” (1989), she quietly subverts those literar ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 651 inherent in mainstream society. So do her later poems, collected in Nappy Edges ...

652 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Shadow and Act (1964), “but yet thrusting forth its images of hope, human frater ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 653 does Ellison. Just as the hero manages to extricate himself from a series of fix ...

654 The American Century: Literature since 1945 reflect a religious influence. However, in 1944 he moved to Greenwich Village, t ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 655 told, “had filled John’s life ... from the moment he had first drawn breath.” It ...

656 The American Century: Literature since 1945 institution, Malcolm moved to Boston to live with his half sister. He became inv ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 657 up immersed in the doctrine of Christian love and in the music and rhetoric of t ...

658 The American Century: Literature since 1945 instance, represents a subversive departure from the autobiographical style of e ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 659 to a singular, linear model. The writer metamorphoses into the voodoo-man or mag ...

660 The American Century: Literature since 1945 “did not walk a day in her life but who taught me the importance of standing.” T ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 661 significant art, to celebrate human possibility “in spite of the fact that human ...

662 The American Century: Literature since 1945 of race,” Wideman sees himself as a “seer/writer” who uses his narrative powers ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 663 of orphanhood leads inevitably into the search for a past, which is the subject ...

664 The American Century: Literature since 1945 does it explode?” Hansberry called her play, a dramatization of dreams deferred ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 665 music may be used. What she creates is a mosaic woven around figures whose sense ...

666 The American Century: Literature since 1945 begins her act all over again. The claustrophobic physical setting, the sense of ...