African-American literature

passing, the psychological effects of racial injustice, race and the law, the accomplishments of middle- class African Americans ...

American College Theater Festival Award for his first play, Up for Grabs. By 1979 Wolfe headed to New York City, where he took a ...

football. In trying to control his son, Troy alien- ates Cory; simultaneously, he is estranged from his wife, Rose, by his infid ...

Silverstein, Marc. “ ‘Any Baggage You Don’t Claim, We Trash’: Living with (in) History in The Col- ored Museum.” American Drama ...

Finney, who started writing poetry at age 10 and was later influenced and encouraged by BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT writers NIKKI GIOVAN ...

Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transforma- tion, edited by Emilie M. Townes, 140–166. New York: Orbis Books, 1997. Walker, ...

Harlem during the 1920s that differed significantly from the perspective ALAIN LOCKE had presented in his New Negro anthology an ...

Naylor, Gloria. “A Conversation between Gloria Nay- lor and Toni Morrison.” Southern Review 21, no. 3 (Summer 1985): 567–593. “T ...

like of which had never been known in Negro journalism before” (Editorial). It was an experi- mental journal that was “not inter ...

mother, who had separated from his father, a la- borer, had died. His maternal grandparents, who showered him with unconditional ...

Trace’s dreams in TONI MORRISON’s JAZZ, it also proves to be King Solomon Gillis’s downfall. He lacks both the wisdom and the un ...

Eat me.... All over town. Eat me at the King of Southern Fried Chicken!” (228)—Lester ends up castrated and alone at the end of ...

most melodic manner I’ve seen in ages. The jour- ney is magical and funky. I applaud him.” In his novels De Mojo Blues (2002) an ...

Rutgers, Wright lived in Harlem, where he devel- oped acquaintances with BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT writers, including LeRoi Jones (AMI ...

Edelstein, Elana. “Honors Program Distinguished Speaker Series: Arthur Flowers.” Inside Dominguez Hills (December 2000/January 2 ...

(1986–91), a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets (1995), and a Lannan Literary Award for Po- etry (2000). BIBLIOGRAPHY Bloom ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Lester, Neal A. Ntozake Shange: A Critical Study of the Plays. New York: Garland, 1995. ———. “Shange’s Men: for col ...

the urban north and in the Communist Party as Wright presents it American Hunger. After enjoying the success of Native Son and B ...

protagonist, Joubert Antoine Jones, who, like Na- thaniel, experiences an epiphany that reveals the redemptive power of African- ...

The Color Curtain records the Bandung Confer- ence in Indonesia that united the leaders of de- colonized nations. Pagan Spain ex ...