African-American literature

tive freedoms of shipboard life meant that he was able to learn to read and write. Swindled out of his wages and prize money in ...

lor’s degree from Harvard University, where he studied English and comparative literature. Upon graduating, Whitehead worked as ...

work of new and established authors, particularly black women. As of 2004, Essence’s seven editors in chief have been black wome ...

subject positions for African Americans to assume in the world. BIBLIOGRAPHY Larimer, Kevin. “Industrial Strength in the Informa ...

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, AMIRI BARAKA, SONIA SAN- CHEZ, NIKKI GIOVANNI, HAKI MADHUBUTI, ASKIA M. TOURÉ, and ETHERIDGE KNIGHT, Evans’ ...

language to talk about my experience.” With the publication of his Homewood Trilogy: Damballah (1981), Hiding Place (1981), and ...

Evans, Mari. “My Father’s Passage.” In Black Women Writers 1950–1980: A Critical Evaluation, edited by Mari Evans, 165–169. New ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Coleman, James W. Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman. Jackson: University of Missis ...

Everett is perhaps best described as a postmod- ern writer. Indeed, he employs many of the themes and approaches commonly associ ...

Williams authored several other novels, includ- ing The Angry Ones (1960). Night Song (1961), Sissie (1963), Sons of Darkness, S ...

(Baldwin, 20). Such an unveiling, such truthful- ness is to Baldwin the real calling of the artist, for rather than composing un ...

her novel DESSA ROSE. In “I Sing This Song for Our Mothers,” Williams takes on the persona of a newly freed black man who announ ...

17 7  F Fabio, Sarah Webster (1928–1979) Well known as a gifted teacher throughout north- ern California and specifically for ...

dren, as well as students, colleagues, and genera- tions of readers. BIBLIOGRAPHY Davis, Mary Kemp. “Everybody Knows Her Name: T ...

I’m of the order of that bad New Orleans sister, Marie. And, I’ve been known to have her power. The speaker unabashedly signifie ...

at the same time that Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was reaching the production stage. FENCES (1986) surpassed even Ma Rainey’s succe ...

Webster Fabio also published several other col- lections of poetry, Saga of a Black Man (1968), A Mirror: A Soul (1969), Black I ...

Eugene O’Neill, and Arthur Miller, Wilson found a way to bring an authentic African-American ex- perience to the footlights of A ...

survive, also transcending the impending limita- tion he faced to become a writer. While self-exiled in Europe like JAMES BALDWI ...

work, invoking and signifying on Margaret Mitch- ell’s Gone with the Wind, set off a firestorm of controversy. The Margaret Mitc ...