African-American literature

solely on the basis of the promise of a metaphysi- cal reward in his future life, as well as Stowe and her descendants for prese ...

the distinction of being Broadside’s first hardcover publication. Randall also created an audio series, Broadside Voices, of poe ...

discipline at University of California at Berkeley. She would also teach at University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, City C ...

capped by a completely satisfying date with a soft, willing woman. Annie Allen (1949) renders the story of an or- dinary black w ...

Coltrane, STERLING BROWN, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., and MALCOLM X, as central to her agenda of black survival. Sanchez has receiv ...

(1981), published three years before Brothers and Keepers appeared. Brothers and Keepers develops some of the same themes of Dam ...

whom she supports, Willa Mae follows up by dis- carding her daughter’s few belongings, clinically cleaning her bedroom, painting ...

communities of silence that reared black gay men, silence’s accountability for the AIDS epi- demic among blacks, and the miscons ...

characterized his role in the HARLEM RENAISSANCE, his fiction, and his five decades as a journalist. Born in Providence, Rhode I ...

“Safe Harbour,” a poem by David Frechette, is a metaphor for the rescue of a lover’s arms against the “tidal wave of woes” the b ...

intellectual, and literary biases black gay intel- lectuals face, while Charles Nero looks “Toward a Black Gay Aesthetic” develo ...

writers such as RALPH ELLISON, ED BULLINS, and ISHMAEL REED. Schuyler’s second novel appeared in the same year as Black No More. ...

lived there until his death. He also established and operated a mentoring program for Harlem’s youth and an intensive residentia ...

Scott-Heron’s experience at Lincoln University would also lay the groundwork for the depiction of a troubled black college that ...

in Washington, D.C., the son of Sterling Nelson Brown, a former slave and a Howard University professor of theology. A graduate ...

the group The Last Poet, is recognized as having set the stage for the emergence of contemporary rap, especially in its earlier ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, Houston A. Modernism and the Harlem Re- naissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. Brown, Sterli ...

he would drop out before graduating. He joined the U.S. Navy, serving from 1952 to 1955. While in the navy, where he won a light ...

by the ghost of her dead child, who returns as a living person seeking retribution for Sethe’s hei- nous crime. Sethe, the child ...

Beginning in 1975 Bullins received critical ac- claim, including an Obie Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for The Taki ...