African-American literature

editor at The Looking Glass and became managing editor of the MESSENGER, where his editorial exper- tise earned him renown. He p ...

of sketches of Sandy Jenkins, the character he cre- ated in 1896. These sketches were collected into his first book, The Black C ...

considered too objective, critics thought Infants was overly subjective and Thurman overly argu- mentative. Yet critics also pra ...

Why do men sneer when I arise And stand in their councils, And look them eye to eye, And speak their tongue? Is it because I am ...

an atrocity to happen again. Black literary texts— short stories, poetry, autobiography, and drama— have made the Till case a fa ...

electric chair. Having defended his wife’s honor, he has behaved chivalrously and can die with dignity. Caleb, the Degenerate, a ...

DOVE has noted, Tolson confronts the horror of slavery, soothed only by the faith embodied in sor- row songs. Throughout much of ...

Crisis, The First published in November 1910 as the official organ of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED ...

Huot, Robert Julian. “Melvin B. Tolson’s Harlem Gal- lery: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Explanatory Notes.” Disserta ...

In 1922, Cullen entered New York University and began his career as a published poet. In 1923 and 1924, respectively, he won sec ...

was not often associated with either the writers or artists of the period, nor was he directly engaged with them. Nevertheless, ...

12 8  d Danner, Margaret Esse (1915–1984) Poet, editor, and community activist Margaret Esse Danner was born in Pryorsburg, Ke ...

Benson, Brian, and Mabel Dillard. Jean Toomer. Bos- ton: Twayne, 1980. Fabre, Genevieve, and Michel Fabre. Jean Toomer and the H ...

Committee (1964–1966). In 1973, Danner was among 18 prominent black women poets invited to read from her works at the Phillis Wh ...

Redmond, Eugene B. Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976. Wilfred D. Samuels Tr ...

It is a book told in four fragments, an imitation of how Sophie, the narrator and a new speaker of English, would have told the ...

and are linked to the origin of human beings and language. Worldwide, for perhaps thousands of years, humans have told and retol ...

Festival; in the same year, her film Diary of an Af- rican Nun, inspired by an Alice Walker short story, earned the Directors Gu ...

literature as well; Russell Banks’s novel Continental Drift (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), for ex- ample, contains a Legba fi ...

Berkeley’s administration to stop all funding to the Apartheid-run government of South Africa. Also while attending UCB, he edit ...