African-American literature

lor’s degree from Harvard University, where he studied English and comparative literature. Upon graduating, Whitehead worked as ...

subject positions for African Americans to assume in the world. BIBLIOGRAPHY Larimer, Kevin. “Industrial Strength in the Informa ...

language to talk about my experience.” With the publication of his Homewood Trilogy: Damballah (1981), Hiding Place (1981), and ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Coleman, James W. Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman. Jackson: University of Missis ...

Williams authored several other novels, includ- ing The Angry Ones (1960). Night Song (1961), Sissie (1963), Sons of Darkness, S ...

her novel DESSA ROSE. In “I Sing This Song for Our Mothers,” Williams takes on the persona of a newly freed black man who announ ...

dren, as well as students, colleagues, and genera- tions of readers. BIBLIOGRAPHY Davis, Mary Kemp. “Everybody Knows Her Name: T ...

at the same time that Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was reaching the production stage. FENCES (1986) surpassed even Ma Rainey’s succe ...

Eugene O’Neill, and Arthur Miller, Wilson found a way to bring an authentic African-American ex- perience to the footlights of A ...

work, invoking and signifying on Margaret Mitch- ell’s Gone with the Wind, set off a firestorm of controversy. The Margaret Mitc ...

American College Theater Festival Award for his first play, Up for Grabs. By 1979 Wolfe headed to New York City, where he took a ...

Silverstein, Marc. “ ‘Any Baggage You Don’t Claim, We Trash’: Living with (in) History in The Col- ored Museum.” American Drama ...

Perspectives on Hope, Salvation, and Transforma- tion, edited by Emilie M. Townes, 140–166. New York: Orbis Books, 1997. Walker, ...

Naylor, Gloria. “A Conversation between Gloria Nay- lor and Toni Morrison.” Southern Review 21, no. 3 (Summer 1985): 567–593. “T ...

mother, who had separated from his father, a la- borer, had died. His maternal grandparents, who showered him with unconditional ...

Eat me.... All over town. Eat me at the King of Southern Fried Chicken!” (228)—Lester ends up castrated and alone at the end of ...

Rutgers, Wright lived in Harlem, where he devel- oped acquaintances with BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT writers, including LeRoi Jones (AMI ...

(1986–91), a Fellow of the Academy of American Poets (1995), and a Lannan Literary Award for Po- etry (2000). BIBLIOGRAPHY Bloom ...

the urban north and in the Communist Party as Wright presents it American Hunger. After enjoying the success of Native Son and B ...

The Color Curtain records the Bandung Confer- ence in Indonesia that united the leaders of de- colonized nations. Pagan Spain ex ...