African-American literature

BIBLIOGRAPHY Harris, E. Lynn. Invisible Life. New York: Doubleday, 1994. Lawrence T. Potter, Jr. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison (19 ...

designate the role which Negro writers are to play more rigidly than any Southern politi- cian—and for the best of reasons. We m ...

2 71  J Jackson, Major (1968– ) The product of urban North Philadelphia, where he was born in 1968, Major Jackson is a graduat ...

Jacobs, Harriet (Linda Brent) ( 1813 – 18 97 ) Considered a “literary foremother,” Harriet Jacobs continues to engage scholars, ...

at age four. He grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. After graduating from Paterson Catholic Regional High School, he received a B.A ...

slurs, bridges, cuts, departures, returns, and head tunes. Characters sidestep and evade their narra- tor/composer in redemptive ...

improvisational possibilities of African-American identity and survival. Selected Bibliography Barnes, D. H. “Movin’ On Up: The ...

Understanding the New Black Poetry as “one of the most inventive of contemporary poets.... [H]is work is on the growing edge of ...

Rector Rollins Priest Ellington His Funkiness Horace Silver and the great Pope JohnJohn Coltrane... They preach a sermon that al ...

But sometimes the big sisters leave and, with her parents, the narrator becomes one of three in the story she is telling. This p ...

life. Johnson posits an exact look-alike to King, a man named Chaym Smith who was born on ex- actly the same day. Unlike King, S ...

because she allowed them to stay there when visit- ing the Washington, D.C., area. Despite her busy schedule, Johnson felt pas- ...

ence of the African-American mother in illustrat- ing these themes. In “Motherhood” she exposes how the right to motherhood is c ...

In “The Road,” Johnson merges nature, a cen- tral recurring theme in her work, with her concern about the oppression and struggl ...

He later wrote in his autobiography, “in all of my experience it was this period that marked... the beginning of my knowledge of ...

the course of African-American cultural produc- tion, citing dance steps, such as the “cakewalk” and the “shimmy”; music, like s ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andrews, William L. Introduction. In The Autobi- ography of an Ex-Colored Man, by James Weldon Johnson (1912). New ...

Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, The Known World (2003), which critics describe as an “exceptional,” “powerful, ...

everyday experience and of storytelling to be rich with possibility when she began her career. Writ- ing narratives was also a p ...

Almeyda’s granddaughter, narrates the title piece of Xarque and Other Poems. She remembers the stories of her grandmother, as to ...