African-American literature

Walker was found dead in his place of busi- ness shortly after the publication of the third edi- tion of his Appeal. Although lo ...

with Wright ended rather abruptly and painfully. Walker writes about her experience with Wright in her detailed biography Richar ...

the University of Miami, and the summer Imagi- nation creative writing conference at Cleveland State University. Her novels are ...

Gibson, Donald B., ed. Modern Black Poets: A Col- lection of Critical Essays. New York: Prentice Hall, 1983. Pettis, Joyce. “Mar ...

place from the proceeds of the sale of Naked Came the Manatee (1997). Thirteen writers penned the comic thriller. The writers, i ...

vering Lewis, 549–568. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Wilfred D. Samuels Ward, Douglas Turner (1930– ) An acclaimed dramatist, a ...

to poems in open forms that are nevertheless steeped in blues rhythms and idioms. Some of the poems take the form of blues lyric ...

Raid (1976), Steve Carter’s Nevis Mountain Dew (1978), Samm-Art Williams’s Home (1979), and Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play, w ...

paper, he published his first poem at age 16 in the Dayton Herald, and he edited and contributed to the West Side News and the b ...

their board. Wishing to gain admission to Hamp- ton, Washington traveled at first by coach to Hampton, then walked after he ran ...

renowned Broadway composer Will Marion Cook. Dunbar’s naturalistic novel The SPORT OF THE GODS (1901 in Lippincott’s; 1902 in bo ...

and the Literary Imagination, edited by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, 1–24. Balti- more: The Johns Hopkins Universit ...

his most important contribution to the African- American literary tradition. In it Dunbar voices his blueprint for survival in a ...

Ways of White Folks, The Langston Hughes (1933) LANGSTON HUGHES begins his first collection of short fiction, released during th ...

abuse, Paul and Alice saw themselves as the black Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Her sec- ond book, The Goodness of St. ...

The Ways of White Folk still finds itself in print, in homes, and in the classrooms; its themes continue to resonate with an Ame ...

the various modes of their oppression” (Carby, 303). This environment placed great stress on the African-American woman, as raci ...

board a Philadelphia commuter train, intruding their black proud selves in a space where they are obviously being gazed on as ou ...

into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic.... I learned the routines for making and breaking marriages; driving off and punishing enemie ...

commitment ends in an exploitative relationship (her partner, a hustler, has already fathered a child with another woman), her y ...