African-American literature

among metaphorical / doors, coffee cups float- ing poised / hysterias.. .” (29–31). Conceptually, segregation (“doors”) becomes ...

tradition and are distinguished by the speech pat- terns of the narrators. In “The Lesson,” “My Man Bovanne,” and the title stor ...

from Baltimore, Maryland. Although his family’s background is not well known, he is thought to be the son and grandson of native ...

of whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof.” (Ban- neker, 51) Banneker unabashedly info ...

off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. Eventually made into a film, this play, through its main characters, C ...

the City University of New York. He has held teach- ing positions at various universities, including the New School for Social R ...

Barksdale is also the author of Langston Hughes: The Poet and His Critics (1977) and his swan-song collection of selected essays ...

particularly its celebration of the African-Ameri- can community, black family, history, culture, and black masculinity. However ...

he is what it is. The recipient of numerous awards, Barlow has a wife, Barbara, and two children, Erin and Mark. Barlow is a mem ...

for example, who praises Beatty’s “extraordinary eye for detail,” suggests that Beatty follow the path “paved by his predecessor ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...