African-American literature
protagonist, Joubert Antoine Jones, who, like Na- thaniel, experiences an epiphany that reveals the redemptive power of African- ...
an outcast, however, Fox lives on the margins of southern culture, neither accepting nor adhering to its beliefs and traditions. ...
Lee’s recognition that French’s Billy is destined to be a classic novel, examining as hers did the South, childhood, and racism ...
the new breed of militant activist, has decided that white racism will no longer exercise its insidious control over his work” ( ...
19 4 19 4 Gaines, Ernest (1933– ) Most of Ernest Gaines’s fiction is set in Louisiana, in a community not unlike the one wher ...
Clearly, their love is doomed from the start, but it transforms Marcus. His anger softens, and his affair reveals his tenderness ...
Garnet, Henry Highland (1815–1882) A teacher, preacher, editor, and apostle of revolt, Maryland-born Henry Highland Garnet “held ...
and the Christian church for their complicity in the oppression and enslavement of blacks. Garnet states that “slavery had stret ...
acrimony that developed between the UNIA and the indigenous sociopolitical groups, such as the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVA ...
Papers, edited by Robert A. Hill, vol. 5, 536–547. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Hill, Robert A. “Making Noise ...
structure” (43) so that black works received re- spect as a literature in contrast to being treated as cultural tourism or liter ...
maintained, places himself in a precarious posi- tion by viewing the writings of black authors as part of a larger integrationis ...
culture, through his role as filmmaker, screen- writer, and producer. His neighbor Spike Lee first introduced him to the world o ...
Giovanni further develops the themes of vio- lence and revolution in “Adulthood (For Clau- dia)”; however, she also focuses on t ...
Stories (2000), brought him accolades, includ- ing recognition by the Village Voice (June 2000), which named Glave “Writer on th ...
A fellow inmate loaned him Robert Beck’s Pimp, the Story of My Life (1967), whose protagonist details his life from childhood to ...
black criminals possess more personal agency about their choices. While it does not ignore the impact of the white community on ...
ciety. The anthologies include Wild Women Don’t Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men, and Sex (1993), which, accordin ...
administrative positions, she directed the literature program and the New York State Council on the Arts as well as the Poetry C ...
but also a delicious pun on lesbian lovemaking. Some of the most moving poems in this collec- tion are subtle, beautiful perform ...
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