African-American literature
It is a book told in four fragments, an imitation of how Sophie, the narrator and a new speaker of English, would have told the ...
Festival; in the same year, her film Diary of an Af- rican Nun, inspired by an Alice Walker short story, earned the Directors Gu ...
Berkeley’s administration to stop all funding to the Apartheid-run government of South Africa. Also while attending UCB, he edit ...
together. Celebrating their 50th anniversary and decades in entertainment and politics, they coau- thored a joint memoir titled ...
With a bounty of awards and honors for his writing, acting, and activism, Davis, along with wife Ruby Dee, won the Presidential ...
science fiction, the neo–slave narrative Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand. Transgressive themes have characterized Dela- n ...
friends; however, when he is challenged to choose between them, he chooses the gang. The novel ends when Johnny kills Trapp, who ...
While Derricotte explores the universal fear of death in The Empress of the Death House, she also uses as central themes exclusi ...
class), the history of black women and white women is reinscribed. Without sentimentalizing or denying, Williams also reinscribe ...
rity of his house, but after a confrontation with his foreman, Easy loses his job. With the help of his friend Joppy, Easy gets ...
Mexicans and black people started hating each other. Back then... a Mexican and a negro [sic] considered themselves the same... ...
Different Drummer, A William Melvin Kelley (1959) The unconventional approach of WILLIAM MEL- VIN KELLEY’s first novel, A Differ ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY Adams, Charles H. “Imagination and Community in W. M. Kelley’s A Different Drummer.” Critique: Studies in Contempor ...
on Dixon’s own parents, who migrated from the South before Dixon’s birth. Dixon’s second novel, Vanishing Rooms (1991), places a ...
work. EUGENE B. REDMOND’s observation in Drumvoices, “There is not one poem in the book that cannot be aesthetically or stylisti ...
aided by his mistress but later by sneaking into the Auld’s library and reading whatever he could find, including the Baltimore ...
philosophies and feelings than he had in the Nar- rative. It was also during this time that Douglass continued his friendship wi ...
2003 Emily Couric Leadership Award, a Guggen- heim Fellowship, the Portia Pittman Fellowship, a Bellagio Residency, an Ohio Gove ...
and German. She has also published her laure- ate lectures, The Poet’s World. In her goal to make poetic language speak to the m ...
rican American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University, DuBois was a founder of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT ...
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