African-American literature

Smith, William Gardner (1927–1974) Journalist, novelist, and expatriate William Gard- ner Smith was born and raised in south Phi ...

Fabre, Michel. From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840–1980. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Wi ...

ist, and the fluidity of truth. Even as the narrative’s surface alleges no action on Alex’s part to “do any- thing,” the story i ...

These streets hadn’t changed, though housing projects jutted up out of them now like rocks in the middle of a boiling sea. Most ...

attended Rutgers University, where she became a prominent campus activist and writer and came to the attention of members of the ...

during the 1960s, “a time of fundamental social change” (66). “The new generation of whites,” Cleaver writes, “are rejecting the ...

by placing them behind a “vast veil” (DuBois’s trope for legal segregation), imposing definitions on blacks from a position of d ...

big basket” on her head. “She swings it moughty easy, / An’ ’pears to me at such times / It ain’t no awful load.” However, he al ...

all humankind, those who had come to hear Ma Rainey sing “natchally bowed dey heads an’ cried” as they return to their river set ...

(70–71). In the end, the agrarian Hamiltons are corrupted by city life and, eventually, morally de- stroyed. Joe becomes a drunk ...

calls” (28). When Joe confronts Spunk in an effort to defend his honor and masculinity, Spunk shoots and kills him. Spunk, who i ...

the International Dyslexia Association awarded Staples the Priscilla Vail Award (2004). Before Staples wrote his autobiography, ...

tal in Brooklyn, New York. He was the oldest of four children, having two brothers, Freddie and Charles, and one sister, Marcia. ...

York Times Outstanding Book award (1971), the National Council for the Social Studies/Children’s Book Council, Joint Committee, ...

haps the best novel to come from the followers of Wright” (193). Like Wright’s infamous protagonist, Bigger Thomas, Lutie Johnso ...

During her manumission from slavery on Sweet Home plantation, Baby Suggs learns that her bill of sale bears the name “Jenny Whit ...

white farmer, who bargained with his slaves to give them their freedom and a piece of rich and fertile bottom land after they pe ...

emerging contender for a meaningful place in American letters. BIBLIOGRAPHY Christian, Barbara. “Communities and Nature: The Nov ...

487  T Tademy, Lalita (1940– ) Lalita Tademy was born and reared in Castro Val- ley, California. Her life story is embedded in ...

bookreporter.com/authors/au-tademy-lalita.asp. Accessed May 18, 2006. Beverly Tate Tea Cake (Vergible Woods) In Chapter 10 of ZO ...