African-American literature

Press published Neal’s second volume of poetry, Hoodoo Hollerin Bebop Ghosts, which includes works that extend Neal’s interest a ...

wealth. Her position as “other” subverts racial, gender, and genre stereotypes in ways that suggest the positive power of life i ...

peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0700/072k20htm. Accessed October 18, 2006. McNaron, Toni, and Miller, Carol. “Barbara Neely.” Voices ...

over that of the colonial rulers. Specifically, they sought to affirm a more positive use of the term nègre and objected to the ...

(including American literature) must be consid- ered as significant, not only because of the body of established masterpieces, b ...

critics agree it is a work of immense social impor- tance on an issue that can no longer be ignored. In the 12 essays, the contr ...

(Locke changed the title to “White Houses” in order not to offend his audience) to the more cel- ebratory “The Negro Speaks of R ...

exclaims, “Sometimes I hate Niggers” (26). Snob- bish Mrs. Albright and her daughter, Hester, decry the African art Mary is tryi ...

A year after arriving in New York City, he discov- ered Harlem. When Nugent told his mother he had decided to become a writer, s ...

literature. This anthology contains works by 29 black writers and critics, including PAULE MAR- SHALL, AMIRI BARAKA, JOHN A. WIL ...

399  O Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life Begun January 1923 as the official organ of the National Urban League, the journal ...

significantly increased the socializing between the races and launched new African-American writ- ings for a wider reading publi ...

novel set the stage for the work of contemporary African-American women writers and feminist theorists and scholars. Perhaps mor ...

402  P Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler (1993) Parable of the Sower is the tale of an apocalyptic world that gives birth to ...

by Marleen S. Barr, 13–34. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Dubey, Madhu. “Folk and Urban Communities in Af- rican-A ...

implies, it depicts the growing tensions Parker experienced as a black female “intruder” in cor- porate America and offers a sca ...

and “For The Straight Folks Who Don’t Mind Gays But Wish They Weren’t So BLATANT.” She celebrated and valorized black women’s li ...

Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912, Park’s fam- ily and farm background provided him with a work ethic and self-esteem that wou ...

degrees, the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE’s Spingarn Medal in 1972, and the national Medal of Ar ...

obsessed with becoming adept with the three-card monte con game. With meager family ties, little education, and limited employme ...