African-American literature
Africans and their progeny but also celebrates Af- rican Americans’ history of transcendence. Call and Response comes with an ac ...
Wydell Todd discover that although racism is not as overt in the North as it is in the South, it is vis- ible through the prevai ...
of a DuBoisian “double consciousness”—Negro and American—there were those, STANLEY BRAITH- WAITE and FRANK YERBY, for example, w ...
their symbols that illustrated the most important tenet of the retreat—it was to be a safe haven for black poets. At its onset, ...
Celestine’s poems are reflective—autobio- graphical. He is interested in exploring significant episodes of his life and the Afri ...
up again with Shug” (85). The sense of value that Celie gets from Shug helps form the foundation on which she builds the courage ...
first meets Sylvia, confesses that the time they have spent together has led him to “know how Dizzy must have felt when he heard ...
HAYDEN, and JAY WRIGHT. In addition to the novel excerpts, short stories, and commentary, Chant has art sprinkled throughout, in ...
her first volume of poetry, From Memphis and Pe- king. The President’s Daughter is the sequel to Sally Hemings, relating the tal ...
While most critics thought that the novel was well written, many condemned its themes and subject matter. The content was too in ...
of the American government and by racism and white supremacy. Julius’s tales not only condemn slavery but also criticize the sys ...
cated” the white population about the problem of race in America, it did contribute to the growth and development of the African ...
Also in the 1940s, Childress helped found the American Negro Theatre (ANT), to nurture the dreams and hopes of aspiring black pl ...
———. “Childress, Alice.” In Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary, ed- ited by Alice M. Robinson, Ver ...
appear in the work rather than creating or imaging a world to fit into some abstract theory only a few can decipher. In a career ...
Rock, Arkansas, but they needed the support- ive presence of more than 1,000 troops from the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. ...
Prophets for a New Day (1970) focuses on histori- cal events from this movement. BIBLIOGRAPHY King, Martin L., Jr. I Have A Drea ...
Cleage’s first novel, What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1998), is centered on the odyssey of a woman who is diagnosed wi ...
decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing segregation, Cleaver’s imprisonment, he argues in Soul, awakened him to his “ ...
voraciously, and Lucille’s mother wrote poetry in iambic pentameter. Although it was very different from the sort of verse Clift ...
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