African-American literature

an outcast, however, Fox lives on the margins of southern culture, neither accepting nor adhering to its beliefs and traditions. ...

In a published speech called “The Respon- sibility of the Writer as Participant in the World Community,” Wright confirms the cen ...

Lee’s recognition that French’s Billy is destined to be a classic novel, examining as hers did the South, childhood, and racism ...

570  Y Yerby, Frank Gavin (1 916 – 19 91 ) One of the most prolific African-American writers, Frank Yerby is also the first Af ...

the new breed of militant activist, has decided that white racism will no longer exercise its insidious control over his work” ( ...

WRIGHT, MARGARET WALKER, Nelson Algren, and Katherine Dunham, among others. Though he was only with the Chicago WPA for nine mon ...

19 4  19 4 Gaines, Ernest (1933– ) Most of Ernest Gaines’s fiction is set in Louisiana, in a community not unlike the one wher ...

prince who comes of age and is captured into slavery at the end of the novel. The sequel to The Dahomean, A Darkness at Ingraham ...

Clearly, their love is doomed from the start, but it transforms Marcus. His anger softens, and his affair reveals his tenderness ...

ences and allusion to writer from Shakespeare and Machiavelli to T. S. Eliot. We move thru rooms & down the middle of freewa ...

Garnet, Henry Highland (1815–1882) A teacher, preacher, editor, and apostle of revolt, Maryland-born Henry Highland Garnet “held ...

Young, Kevin (1970– ) Kevin Young made an impressive entrance onto the African-American literary stage near the end of the 20th ...

and the Christian church for their complicity in the oppression and enslavement of blacks. Garnet states that “slavery had stret ...

Present. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Im ...

acrimony that developed between the UNIA and the indigenous sociopolitical groups, such as the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVA ...

576  Z Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Audre Lorde (1982) AUDRE LORDE’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name open ...

Papers, edited by Robert A. Hill, vol. 5, 536–547. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Hill, Robert A. “Making Noise ...

with her fingers, leading to a determination there and then that she will learn to read. In spelling out her own artistic creati ...

structure” (43) so that black works received re- spect as a literature in contrast to being treated as cultural tourism or liter ...

passage is especially poignant, as is the section in which Lorde describes her early job at Keystone Electronics, scanning cryst ...