African-American literature
spokesman on the “Negro Problem,” over the leadership of African Americans. In favor of lib- eral arts training and social and p ...
lished Black Reconstruction, a voluminous histori- cal reexamination of the role of African Americans in the restoration of the ...
the University of Miami, and the summer Imagi- nation creative writing conference at Cleveland State University. Her novels are ...
place from the proceeds of the sale of Naked Came the Manatee (1997). Thirteen writers penned the comic thriller. The writers, i ...
to poems in open forms that are nevertheless steeped in blues rhythms and idioms. Some of the poems take the form of blues lyric ...
paper, he published his first poem at age 16 in the Dayton Herald, and he edited and contributed to the West Side News and the b ...
renowned Broadway composer Will Marion Cook. Dunbar’s naturalistic novel The SPORT OF THE GODS (1901 in Lippincott’s; 1902 in bo ...
his most important contribution to the African- American literary tradition. In it Dunbar voices his blueprint for survival in a ...
abuse, Paul and Alice saw themselves as the black Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Her sec- ond book, The Goodness of St. ...
the various modes of their oppression” (Carby, 303). This environment placed great stress on the African-American woman, as raci ...
into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic.... I learned the routines for making and breaking marriages; driving off and punishing enemie ...
tinue to repeat and relive the experiences of the Middle Passage and slavery, even in the modern world and particularly in the u ...
University, and DePaul University. He is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the humani- ties and African-American stud ...
merly available online. URL: http://publisher- sweekly.reviewsnews.com. Spivey, Angela. “Speaking in Tongues.” Interview with Mi ...
16 4 E Eady, Cornelius (1954– ) An award-winning poet and playwright, Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York, in 1954 ...
imagination in such poems as “How I Got Born,” “Who Am I,” “My Face,” “The Law,” and “Compos- ite.” At the center of the second ...
for work and spends time playing checkers with his retired friend, William Jenkins, whom he has never beaten in their weekly mar ...
written for CALLALOO the year after Platitudes was published. In the essay, Ellis argues that the hope of an African-American li ...
in his literature courses and discovered the work of T. S. Eliot. The modernist style and content of Eliot’s poetry would later ...
together, eventually published posthumously in 1999 as the novel Juneteenth. Even though a second novel was not published during ...
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