African-American literature

tinue to repeat and relive the experiences of the Middle Passage and slavery, even in the modern world and particularly in the u ...

Undaunted by these threats, Wells-Barnett con- tinued her campaign, writing continuously over the next 10 years and buying an in ...

University, and DePaul University. He is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the humani- ties and African-American stud ...

Afro-American’s Contribution to Columbian Lit- erature. 1893. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Schechter, Patricia A. ...

merly available online. URL: http://publisher- sweekly.reviewsnews.com. Spivey, Angela. “Speaking in Tongues.” Interview with Mi ...

West’s statement “If you love black folks, you hate white supremacy. If you love human beings, you love justice. If you love the ...

16 4  E Eady, Cornelius (1954– ) An award-winning poet and playwright, Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York, in 1954 ...

as a welfare investigator and then participated in the Federal Writers’ Project (WPA) until it ended in the mid-1940s. From the ...

imagination in such poems as “How I Got Born,” “Who Am I,” “My Face,” “The Law,” and “Compos- ite.” At the center of the second ...

onstrate the difficulties of personal and social restoration when those who incur “debts” do not acknowledge them. Hosanna and G ...

for work and spends time playing checkers with his retired friend, William Jenkins, whom he has never beaten in their weekly mar ...

of Alexander Pope. Phillis, who began writing her own poetry, imitating the style of the neoclassic poets, published her first p ...

written for CALLALOO the year after Platitudes was published. In the essay, Ellis argues that the hope of an African-American li ...

The rich irony recorded here offers another exam- ple of her rhetorical strategy; it is the unpolished and formally uneducated s ...

in his literature courses and discovered the work of T. S. Eliot. The modernist style and content of Eliot’s poetry would later ...

Robinson, William H., ed. Early Black American Poets. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown Company Publish- ers, 1969. Wheatley, Phillis. ...

together, eventually published posthumously in 1999 as the novel Juneteenth. Even though a second novel was not published during ...

use of language make her fiction almost indistin- guishable from her poetry (Madgett, 773). White has received several awards, i ...

Butler, Robert J., ed. The Critical Response to Ralph Ellison. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Callahan, John. “ ‘Riffin ...

depicting black life. White took up the challenge, and in a writing frenzy of 12 days, he produced The Fire in the Flint (Knopf, ...