African-American literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Charles H. “Imagination and Community in W. M. Kelley’s A Different Drummer.” Critique: Studies in Contempor ...

candidly explains, “the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of ...

on Dixon’s own parents, who migrated from the South before Dixon’s birth. Dixon’s second novel, Vanishing Rooms (1991), places a ...

519  V Van Peebles, Melvin (1932– ) Melvin Van Peebles exemplified independent film- making in the late 1960s, and by the earl ...

work. EUGENE B. REDMOND’s observation in Drumvoices, “There is not one poem in the book that cannot be aesthetically or stylisti ...

Van Peebles acted, wrote, produced, directed, and created the musical score for the film, which even- tually had a box office re ...

aided by his mistress but later by sneaking into the Auld’s library and reading whatever he could find, including the Baltimore ...

Donalson, Melvin. Black Directors in Hollywood. Aus- tin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Guerrero, Ed. Framing Blackness: The ...

philosophies and feelings than he had in the Nar- rative. It was also during this time that Douglass continued his friendship wi ...

adopted this appellation, reporting in 1925 that Carlo was “the beneficent godfather of all sophis- ticated Harlem” (quoted in D ...

2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, a Guggen- heim Fellowship, the Portia Pittman Fellowship, a Bellagio Residency, an Ohio Gove ...

pulsively amassed over the years. It remains one of the richest scholarly collections for American liter- ary study. Van Vechten ...

and German. She has also published her laure- ate lectures, The Poet’s World. In her goal to make poetic language speak to the m ...

A Visitation of Spirits and Its Revival of James Baldwin’s Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni’s Room.” I n James Baldwin Now, edit ...

rican American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, DuBois was a founder of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT ...

525  W Walker, Alice M. (1944– ) Alice Malsenior Walker was born the eighth child of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou G ...

the literary and artistic contributions of African- American women. She had become particularly aware of the need for such tools ...

spokesman on the “Negro Problem,” over the leadership of African Americans. In favor of lib- eral arts training and social and p ...

Ignorance,” “Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ,” and “Our Wretchedness in Consequ ...

lished Black Reconstruction, a voluminous histori- cal reexamination of the role of African Americans in the restoration of the ...