African-American literature
with Wright ended rather abruptly and painfully. Walker writes about her experience with Wright in her detailed biography Richar ...
Gibson, Donald B., ed. Modern Black Poets: A Col- lection of Critical Essays. New York: Prentice Hall, 1983. Pettis, Joyce. “Mar ...
vering Lewis, 549–568. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Wilfred D. Samuels Ward, Douglas Turner (1930– ) An acclaimed dramatist, a ...
Raid (1976), Steve Carter’s Nevis Mountain Dew (1978), Samm-Art Williams’s Home (1979), and Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play, w ...
their board. Wishing to gain admission to Hamp- ton, Washington traveled at first by coach to Hampton, then walked after he ran ...
and the Literary Imagination, edited by Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, 1–24. Balti- more: The Johns Hopkins Universit ...
Ways of White Folks, The Langston Hughes (1933) LANGSTON HUGHES begins his first collection of short fiction, released during th ...
The Ways of White Folk still finds itself in print, in homes, and in the classrooms; its themes continue to resonate with an Ame ...
board a Philadelphia commuter train, intruding their black proud selves in a space where they are obviously being gazed on as ou ...
commitment ends in an exploitative relationship (her partner, a hustler, has already fathered a child with another woman), her y ...
Undaunted by these threats, Wells-Barnett con- tinued her campaign, writing continuously over the next 10 years and buying an in ...
Afro-American’s Contribution to Columbian Lit- erature. 1893. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Schechter, Patricia A. ...
West’s statement “If you love black folks, you hate white supremacy. If you love human beings, you love justice. If you love the ...
as a welfare investigator and then participated in the Federal Writers’ Project (WPA) until it ended in the mid-1940s. From the ...
onstrate the difficulties of personal and social restoration when those who incur “debts” do not acknowledge them. Hosanna and G ...
of Alexander Pope. Phillis, who began writing her own poetry, imitating the style of the neoclassic poets, published her first p ...
The rich irony recorded here offers another exam- ple of her rhetorical strategy; it is the unpolished and formally uneducated s ...
Robinson, William H., ed. Early Black American Poets. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown Company Publish- ers, 1969. Wheatley, Phillis. ...
use of language make her fiction almost indistin- guishable from her poetry (Madgett, 773). White has received several awards, i ...
depicting black life. White took up the challenge, and in a writing frenzy of 12 days, he produced The Fire in the Flint (Knopf, ...
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