African-American literature

unique flow, his range of subject matter, and, most notably, his willingness to address key social, po- litical, and economic ch ...

experiences of Easy Rawlins, while exploring the dynamics of economical, political, and ethical is- sues facing an urban black c ...

liberately placing his novel, Gone Fishin, with the black publishing house Black Classic Press, rather than a larger firm with m ...

Although his family moves from Denver to Chi- cago to provide new opportunities for their son, Nick cannot change. Knock on Any ...

a Mule,” “How the Church Came to Be Split Up,” and “Sermon by Traveling Preacher.” In Part II of Mules and Men Hurston presents ...

Mullen further examines language and questions subjectivity and audience. In S*PeRMKT Mul- len employs the lens of the consumer ...

Frost, Elisabeth A. “Ruses of the Lunatic Muse: Har- ryette Mullen and Lyric Hybridity.” Women’s Stud- ies 27, no. 5 (September ...

Thomas, Lorenzo. “The Black Roots Are Back.” Re- view of Mumbo Jumbo, by Ishmael Reed. In The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed, ...

He tells his own story, which Murray idealizes as being mythical and epic in proportion. The blues hero rises from the singulari ...

Murray made his initial foray into poetry with Conjugations and Reiterations (2001), a slim vol- ume of poems, sometimes written ...

a founding member of the National Organization for Women in 1966. As Eleanor Holmes Norton notes in the introduction to Murray’s ...

through her sociopolitical and literary contribu- tions, was anything but minor. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bontemps, Arna, ed. American Negro ...

3 81  N Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself Frederick Douglass (1845) Although ...

aggression against the slaveholder who tried to prevent the slave’s ever learning to read and write; and it is implicitly an act ...

National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People (NAACP) On February 12, 1909, men and women of various religions an ...

editor. The Crisis first published Hughes’s signa- ture poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Other well-established and prominent ...

like a moving blackout. Above the top of the poster were tall red letters: “IF YOU BREAK THE LAW, YOU CAN’T WIN!” (11) Bigger ca ...

Ironically, however, at the end of Native Son Bigger seems to experience an existential epiphany, as his final declaration to hi ...

City on January 25, 1950. Her parents, Roosevelt and Alberta McAlpin Naylor, were former share- croppers who migrated north from ...

the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for screenwriting (1985), the Candace Award of the National Coalition of One Hun ...