African-American literature

To that end, Reading Black, Reading Feminist rep- resents what Gates calls “an embracive politics of inclusion” that characteriz ...

1975, before becoming professor emeritus, 1975 to 1988. Redding was also a visiting professor at Brown University, 1949 to 1950, ...

Turner, Darwin. “Afro-American Literary Critics: An Introduction.” In The Black Aesthetic, edited by Addison Gayle, Jr., 57–74. ...

(2003). In 1986, Redmond cofounded the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club, which is based in East St. Louis. For nearly two decades, ...

him best. An outspoken advocate of individual- ity and iconoclasm, he is also, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, deeply devoted to ...

like American culture, is a composite of multiple voices and traditions. Whites and blacks alike are interested in stealing or d ...

Bruck and Wolfgang Karrer, 167–189. Amster- dam: Gruner, 1982. Fox, Robert Elliot. Conscientious Sorcerers: The Black Postmodern ...

Douglass’ Women fills the many gaps and silences that history has left unchanged or unchallenged. Rhodes, who had difficulty get ...

Tongues Untied, on the other hand, generated con- troversy about public funding for the arts. Riggs, a recipient of a number of ...

children’s books, My Dream of Martin Luther King (1998) and If a Bus Could Talk (1999). The lat- ter is the story of the Rosa Pa ...

The Heart as Ever Green. In these two volumes of poems, which are autobiographical, Rodgers is less concerned with the overt BLA ...

on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire in her employer’s summer home. By age 16, “Frosty,” as she was called, had graduated with ...

a “Jew boy” (Ross, 3). On the other hand, Oreo’s brother, Moishe (Jimmie C), has his own secret musical language, “cha-key-key-w ...

442  S Saint, Assotto (Yves-François Lubin) (1957–1994) Writer, performer, editor, and AIDS activist Assotto Saint was born Yv ...

Nuclear Lovers. A contemporary, friend, and col- league of such writers as Joseph Beam, Donald Woods, MELVIN DIXON, ESSEX HEMPHI ...

Saint James, Synthia (1949– ) Born in Los Angeles, California, self-taught artist Synthia Saint James, who sold her first commis ...

wrote, “I believe in Black literature socially com- mitted &/or culturally grounded.” Like his fellow poets AMIRI BARAKA, SO ...

soon-to-be-stock characters of the plantation darky, a slave who moved and thought slowly, and the city dandy, a freed black who ...

solely on the basis of the promise of a metaphysi- cal reward in his future life, as well as Stowe and her descendants for prese ...

discipline at University of California at Berkeley. She would also teach at University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, City C ...