African-American literature

emerging contender for a meaningful place in American letters. BIBLIOGRAPHY Christian, Barbara. “Communities and Nature: The Nov ...

(1979), and A Chocolate Soldier (1988)—Colter, whose favorite novel is Crime and Punishment and whose favorite philosophers are ...

487  T Tademy, Lalita (1940– ) Lalita Tademy was born and reared in Castro Val- ley, California. Her life story is embedded in ...

bookreporter.com/authors/au-tademy-lalita.asp. Accessed May 18, 2006. Beverly Tate Tea Cake (Vergible Woods) In Chapter 10 of ZO ...

typed urbanites such as Bubber Brown, a would- be private detective; Jinx Jenkins, his friend; Spider Webb, a numbers runner; Do ...

ity Paperback Club and received critical praise. In the novel, the author constructs a story with eight narrators, including a t ...

Set in the fictional postbellum community of Pasteville, North Carolina (Chesnutt’s fictional Fayetteville), the seven frame sto ...

courted by Vergible “TEA CAKE” Woods, a gambler and wandering BLUES man. As an Afromystical god of the woods and mythic figure o ...

Jane, his surrogate mother, has Aunt Peggy con- vert Mose into a hummingbird and later a mock- ingbird. On both occasions, Mose ...

also constructs spaces of dreams and realities re- flected partly in Joanna’s longing for achievement and fame in spite of her d ...

cycle of violence, Grange faces his own mistakes by loving and caring for Ruth. Josie becomes distanced by Grange and Ruth’s rel ...

that people face every day, as her mostly African- American female protagonists deal with issues of racism, sexism, and poverty. ...

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (1981) This Bridge Calle ...

Corbin, Steven (1953–1995) Steven Corbin was born in 1953 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Although he left before graduating, Corbin ...

Heart, a Daughter’s Love: Poems for Us to Share (2001), and Crowning Glory (2002). Although several of her collections of poems ...

Cornish, Sam (1935– ) A prolific poet, editor, and juvenile author, Cor- nish was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He left high scho ...

MOVEMENT, was a member of the Umbra work- shop, which included DAVID HENDERSON. He was on the editorial staff of Roots, a journa ...

black women have painfully faced throughout their lives: straightening their hair to rid them- selves of the coarse (nappy) hair ...

is not as alienated, in the end, as the black worker, who is left “outdoors,” as TONI MORRISON might say. To the white reader, t ...

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. “Relate Sexual to Histori- cal: Race, Resistance, and Desire in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora.” African American ...