African-American literature

experiences of Easy Rawlins, while exploring the dynamics of economical, political, and ethical is- sues facing an urban black c ...

liberately placing his novel, Gone Fishin, with the black publishing house Black Classic Press, rather than a larger firm with m ...

Although his family moves from Denver to Chi- cago to provide new opportunities for their son, Nick cannot change. Knock on Any ...

a Mule,” “How the Church Came to Be Split Up,” and “Sermon by Traveling Preacher.” In Part II of Mules and Men Hurston presents ...

Mullen further examines language and questions subjectivity and audience. In S*PeRMKT Mul- len employs the lens of the consumer ...

Frost, Elisabeth A. “Ruses of the Lunatic Muse: Har- ryette Mullen and Lyric Hybridity.” Women’s Stud- ies 27, no. 5 (September ...

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE  Wilfred Samuels Associate Editors Loretta Gilchrist Woodard Tracie Church Guzzio ...

Thomas, Lorenzo. “The Black Roots Are Back.” Re- view of Mumbo Jumbo, by Ishmael Reed. In The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed, ...

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Table of ConTenTs Introduction iv Acknowledgments x A to Z Entries 1 Bibliography of Secondary Sources 581 Ma ...

He tells his own story, which Murray idealizes as being mythical and epic in proportion. The blues hero rises from the singulari ...

iv  INTRODUCTION We have always been imagining ourselves... we are the subjects of our own narratives, witnesses to and partic ...

Murray made his initial foray into poetry with Conjugations and Reiterations (2001), a slim vol- ume of poems, sometimes written ...

Introduction v her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), the first known collection of poems to be published by ...

a founding member of the National Organization for Women in 1966. As Eleanor Holmes Norton notes in the introduction to Murray’s ...

vi Encyclopedia of African-American Literature inherent in segregationist Jim Crow laws. Black writers, particularly Richard Wri ...

through her sociopolitical and literary contribu- tions, was anything but minor. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bontemps, Arna, ed. American Negro ...

Introduction vii have embraced “assimilationism.” He writes, “It is true that some of the writers in the twenties and thirties, ...

3 81  N Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself Frederick Douglass (1845) Although ...