Literary Influence and African-American Writers
| Author | : Tracy Mishkin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2016-03-03 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781138995475 |
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Depictions of Home in African American Literature
| Author | : Trudier Harris |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2021-12-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1793649642 |
In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a tradition of portraying dysfunctional and physically or emotionally violent homespaces. Harris explores the roles race and religion play in the creation of homespaces and how geography, space, and character all influence these spaces. Although many characters in African American literature crave safe, happy homespaces and frequently carry such images with them through their mental or physical migrations, few characters experience the formation of healthy homespaces by the end of their journeys. Harris studies the historical, cultural, and literary portrayals of the home in works from well-known authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and August Wilson as well as lesser-studied authors such as Daniel Black, A.J. Verdelle, Margaret Walker, and Dorothy West.
Ulysses in Black
| Author | : Patrice D. Rankine |
| Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2008-12-30 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0299220036 |
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
The Impact of Racism on African American Families
| Author | : Paul C. Rosenblatt |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2016-03-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317027752 |
In spite of the existence of statistics and numerical data on various aspects of African American life, including housing, earnings, assets, unemployment, household violence, teen pregnancy and encounters with the criminal justice system, social science literature on how racism affects the everyday interactions of African American families is limited. How does racism come home to and affect African American families? If a father in an African American family is denied employment on the basis of his race or a wife is demeaned at work by racist slurs, how is their family life affected? Given the lack of social science literature responding to these questions, this volume turns to an alternative source in order to address them: literature. Engaging with novels written by African American authors, it explores their rich depictions of African American family life, showing how these can contribute to our sociological knowledge and making the case for the novel as an object and source of social research. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of the family, race and ethnicity, cultural studies and literature.
The Ideologies of African American Literature
| Author | : Robert E. Washington |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780742509504 |
This book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black literary works. Washington shows that deep divisions between political thinkers and writers prevailed throughout the 20th century. Visit our website for sample chapters!
African-American Writers
| Author | : Amy Sickels |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1604133112 |
This volume includes essays and discussions about the African American authors most commonly assigned in classrooms.
African American Literature
| Author | : Hans Ostrom |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 571 |
| Release | : 2019-11-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.
Black Writers and Latin America
| Author | : Richard L. Jackson |
| Publisher | : Washington, DC : Howard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
In this study, the author begins by examining the influence of Africa and Spain upon the literatures of African Americans and Latin Americans. He explores the reciprocal exchange of influences among artists of African descent in the United States and in Latin America--from established writers to a new generation of writers, including women.
The African American Roots of Modernism
| Author | : James Smethurst |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2011-06-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0807878081 |
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and intellectual responses from African American writers, deeply marking the beginnings of literary modernism and, ultimately, notions of American modernity. In identifying the Jim Crow period with the coming of modernity, Smethurst upsets the customary assessment of the Harlem Renaissance as the first nationally significant black arts movement, showing how artists reacted to Jim Crow with migration narratives, poetry about the black experience, black performance of popular culture forms, and more. Smethurst introduces a whole cast of characters, including understudied figures such as William Stanley Braithwaite and Fenton Johnson, and more familiar authors such as Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and James Weldon Johnson. By considering the legacy of writers and artists active between the end of Reconstruction and the rise of the Harlem Renaissance, Smethurst illuminates their influence on the black and white U.S. modernists who followed.
Literary Influence and African-American Writers
| Author | : Tracy Mishkin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2015-12-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317946316 |
First published in 1996. This volume includes a collection of essays that where collected after the inspiration of finding positive interactions between African-American and Irish Writers during the Harlem Renaissance, a time when these two groups were hardly on good terms. The essays look at theories and realities of literary influence that especially affect African-American writers.
