African-American literature

ity Paperback Club and received critical praise. In the novel, the author constructs a story with eight narrators, including a t ...

courted by Vergible “TEA CAKE” Woods, a gambler and wandering BLUES man. As an Afromystical god of the woods and mythic figure o ...

also constructs spaces of dreams and realities re- flected partly in Joanna’s longing for achievement and fame in spite of her d ...

cycle of violence, Grange faces his own mistakes by loving and caring for Ruth. Josie becomes distanced by Grange and Ruth’s rel ...

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (1981) This Bridge Calle ...

Heart, a Daughter’s Love: Poems for Us to Share (2001), and Crowning Glory (2002). Although several of her collections of poems ...

MOVEMENT, was a member of the Umbra work- shop, which included DAVID HENDERSON. He was on the editorial staff of Roots, a journa ...

black women have painfully faced throughout their lives: straightening their hair to rid them- selves of the coarse (nappy) hair ...

editor at The Looking Glass and became managing editor of the MESSENGER, where his editorial exper- tise earned him renown. He p ...

considered too objective, critics thought Infants was overly subjective and Thurman overly argu- mentative. Yet critics also pra ...

an atrocity to happen again. Black literary texts— short stories, poetry, autobiography, and drama— have made the Till case a fa ...

DOVE has noted, Tolson confronts the horror of slavery, soothed only by the faith embodied in sor- row songs. Throughout much of ...

Huot, Robert Julian. “Melvin B. Tolson’s Harlem Gal- lery: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Explanatory Notes.” Disserta ...

was not often associated with either the writers or artists of the period, nor was he directly engaged with them. Nevertheless, ...

Benson, Brian, and Mabel Dillard. Jean Toomer. Bos- ton: Twayne, 1980. Fabre, Genevieve, and Michel Fabre. Jean Toomer and the H ...

Redmond, Eugene B. Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976. Wilfred D. Samuels Tr ...

and are linked to the origin of human beings and language. Worldwide, for perhaps thousands of years, humans have told and retol ...

literature as well; Russell Banks’s novel Continental Drift (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), for ex- ample, contains a Legba fi ...

religion as an opiate or false source of empower- ment, reveals not only the often autobiographical emphasis in his work but, pe ...

The injury led to Troupe’s discovery and love of writing. Troupe is married to Margaret Porter, has four children—Antoinette, Ty ...