African-American literature

Young, Stanley. “Tough and Tender: Review of Let Me Breathe Thunder.” New York Times Book Review, 25 June 1939. Warren J. Carson ...

significantly increased the socializing between the races and launched new African-American writ- ings for a wider reading publi ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Martin, Herbert Woodward. “Alvin Aubert: South Louisiana: New and Selected Poems.” Black American Literature Forum ...

novel set the stage for the work of contemporary African-American women writers and feminist theorists and scholars. Perhaps mor ...

conventions with a rich psychological complexity that would influence later authors such as WALTER WHITE, JESSIE FAUSET, and NEL ...

402  P Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler (1993) Parable of the Sower is the tale of an apocalyptic world that gives birth to ...

radical black movement led to his violent murder during which his badly beaten body, run over by a streetcar, was almost cut in ...

by Marleen S. Barr, 13–34. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Dubey, Madhu. “Folk and Urban Communities in Af- rican-A ...

everyone, irrespective of race or color, to honor the same God, Allah. Returning to America, after also visiting Africa and the ...

implies, it depicts the growing tensions Parker experienced as a black female “intruder” in cor- porate America and offers a sca ...

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman repre- sents the numerous stories of slave life that have been silenced in history. Thoug ...

and “For The Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So BLATANT.” She celebrated and valorized black women’s li ...

26  B Baker, Houston A., Jr. (1943– ) Born and raised in “racist, stultifying” Louisville, Kentucky, Houston Baker is one of t ...

Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, Park’s fam- ily and farm background provided him with a work ethic and self-esteem that wou ...

blues conceived as a matrix.... The matrix is a point of ceaseless input and output, a web of intersecting, crisscrossing impuls ...

degrees, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE’s Spingarn Medal in 1972, and the national Medal of Ar ...

and Tell Me How Long The Train’s Been Gone (1968), extend his preoccupations with various crossings between race and sexuality. ...

obsessed with becoming adept with the three-card monte con game. With meager family ties, little education, and limited employme ...

are a number of interviews, reviews, articles, es- says, full-length studies, biographies, and literary biographies of Baldwin. ...

kindly, Schoolteacher, who replaced Mr. Garner at Sweet Home plantation after Mr. Garner’s death, was determined to emasculate P ...