African-American literature

Holloway House released Double Dunk (1980), which was initially rejected by other publishers. A novelized biography of the Harle ...

crawling” but not yet named baby girl. After serv- ing time for her crime, Sethe returns to Bluestone Road to continue her life, ...

(Kelley, 37). Chuck D promised to deliver 5,000 new, young black leaders, while calling rap the black CNN. In 1989, at the heigh ...

Belton attended Philadelphia’s Penn Charter, a pri- vate Quaker school, before attending and graduat- ing from Vermont’s Benning ...

Charlie’s attitude toward blacks is largely shaped by his relationship with Idella Landy, a house ser- vant who became a surroga ...

out stores and houses, [and] mothers and babies shot up on their own porches” (32). Belton writes, “Today, Newark is a ghost of ...

422  Q Queen Latifah (Dana Owens) (1970– ) From living in the urban projects to attending the Academy Awards ceremony, Queen L ...

Trudier Harris, 57–58. New York: Oxford Univer- sity Press, 1997. Newman, Katherine. “An evening with Hal Bennett: An Interview. ...

three Grammy Award nominations, with a win for the Best Solo Rap performance for the song, “U.N.I.T.Y.” The song received praise ...

explore issues related to religion. What is the right faith? How can one find spiritual fulfillment? Berry’s commercial publishi ...

Harlem Renaissance, and Hughes’s postscript to the autobiography notes the close of the era. Hughes’s The Big Sea provides a uni ...

mystical African seeds. DuBois intertextualizes his novel with the familiar western myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece as a ref ...

Although the term Black Aesthetic is most often associated with the theoretical thought that shaped primarily the poetry, drama, ...

425  R Rachel Angelina Weld Grimké (1 916 ) ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ’s Rachel was the first full-length drama written in the 20th ...

This mingling is reflected in the racial pride in such poems as “Africa” (CLAUDE MCKAY) and “Dream Variation” (LANGSTON HUGHES). ...

history, African-American leaders, and the African ancestral past, these writers attempted to create a “symbolism, mythology, cr ...

Although Grimké was not as prolific and visible as some of her contemporaries during the HAR- LEM RENAISSANCE, she, along with M ...

the Black Arts Movement to African-American literature, particularly within certain quarters of the academy, it was truly the mo ...

ers of the BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, which are valued by afro-wearing Beneatha, who is interested in ex- ploring her African roots. W ...

Throughout Black Boy, Wright uses whiteness, like the threatening white bags that hover above the child’s head, as a metaphor fo ...