African-American literature

Towards Home (1989), three especially resonate: an essay on MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., “The Man Who Was Not God,” which refuses to ...

I know all things are dear that disappear all things are dear that disappear. Like Whitman, she put her queer shoulder to the wh ...

former slaves, told her as bedtime stories during her childhood. In her dedication, Walker wrote that Jubilee was dedicated “to ...

reconstructing the remainder of the novel from Ellison’s notes, Callahan presented Juneteenth, the finished product, in 1999. Fo ...

294  K Karenga, Maulana (Ron N. Everett) (1941– ) Born on July 14, 1941, in Parsonsburg, Maryland, the son of a Baptist minist ...

Kuumba, meaning creativity: the principle of building as opposed to destroying and of being proactive as opposed to reactive or ...

In addition to three broadsides published by City Lights Books: Second April (1959), Abominist Manifesto (1959), and Does the Se ...

Most critical attention on Kelley’s work has fo- cused on the rebellion of a Negro farmer named Tucker Caliban who salts his fie ...

away from physics and into an English major. The summer after his junior year, he went to Oxford University to study British lit ...

and Randall Kenan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Holland, Sharon Patricia. “(Pro) Creating Imagina- tive Spaces and ...

Lennon; Sun; “A Poem for Malcolm X Inspired by His Assassination”; A Lancashire Lad, based on the childhood of Charlie Chaplin; ...

dier, Solly Saunders, in the segregated military. Killens traces Saunders’s route from basic training in Georgia to battlefields ...

Although out of print for the most part, Kil- lens’s work has been translated into Italian, Span- ish, French, Chinese, Russian, ...

hind. The Autobiography of My Mother is another text that centers on the theme of motherhood. Kincaid’s narrators often seem ali ...

well, and it is only by sacrificing a part herself that she is able to extract herself from the past. Her last return from the 1 ...

marchers arrived in Montgomery. As a result of their effort, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, i ...

first book of poems, was published one year before he was released. In her preface to the collection, GWENDOLYN BROOKS celebrate ...

and extramarital relationships. However, his mother introduced him to books at an early age by purchasing a set of encyclopedias ...

his other books along with new poems. From 1989 to 1990, Komunyakaa held the Lilly Professorship of Poetry at Indiana University ...

309  Larsen, Nella (1891–1964). Nella Larsen, one of the luminaries of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE, has been praised for her treatm ...