African-American literature

intellectual friendships until 1964, when she was found dead in her New York apartment. Larsen’s best known novels, Quicksand an ...

Washington, Mary H. Invented Lives. New York: Dou- bleday, 1987. Joyce L. Cherry Lee, Spike (Sheldon Lee) (1957– ) Born in Atlan ...

growth were the real point of the life of Malcolm X” (Haskins, 87–88). Lee’s Malcolm X, particularly his emphasis on the full sp ...

tales that run the gamut in the function of folklore. He provides explanation tales in “How God Made the Butterflies,” “Why Men ...

be taking giant steps forward away from the racist and segregationist past promoted and maintained by former governor George Wal ...

argument, by comparison to biblical characters, quoting songs, and using visual images. King closes “Letter” with echoes of hope ...

“Summertime,” which comes from Du Bose Hey- ward’s Broadway play Porg y. An autobiographical novel, The Living Is Easy satirizes ...

in three years, won the Bowdoin Prize in English (1907), was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and gradu- ated magna cum laude. Locke b ...

Cities (1968), Cables to Rage (1970), From the Land Where Other People Live (1973); nominated for the 1974 National Book Award; ...

In “Feminism and Black Liberation: The Great American Disease,” Lorde writes of the danger of black women’s sacrificial love: “I ...

We Found Space.’ ” Callaloo 23, no. 1 (2000): 394– 421. Hull, Gloria T. “Living on the Line: Audre Lorde and Our Dead Behind Us. ...

However, this does not mean Dunbar was un- aware of or wished to distance himself from det- rimental white racism. “Sympathy” (w ...

322  M Mackey, Nathaniel (1947– ) Born in Miami and raised in Southern California, Mackey attended Princeton, then Stanford, w ...

tions receiving further transformation when com- bined with new traditions. For example, “Song of the Andoumboulou” is literally ...

(1968–1984) and was artist-in-residence at West- ern Michigan University (1998). An award-winning poet, Madgett has published ei ...

Fame for Writers of African Descent and the Mich- igan Women’s Hall of Fame and received lifetime achievement awards from the Fu ...

about positive change for our people. We stress the development of our bodies, minds, souls, and con- sciousness. Our commitment ...

Henderson, Errol A. “Black Nationalism and Rap Music.” Journal of Black Studies 26, no. 3 (1996): 308–339. Johnson, Lemuel A. “ ...

Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Thomas Mann. His exploration of Na- tive American issues is contin ...

is not among Myles’s character strengths, and when Marisa discovers his infidelity, she leaves him, testing in the end the true ...