Author: Trudier Harris (ed)
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : African American poets
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Book Description
Essays on African-American poets whose works helped to shape a contemporary literature, but also helped to reclaim, recapture, and reshape a culture, through their inventiveness and wisdom and have invigorated Afro-American and American literature in language, style, form, and substance.
Author: William L. Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198031750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Book Description
A breathtaking achievement, this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438112718
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance, paying tribute to a heritage that has long been overlooked. Works covered in this text include poems by Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438134363
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Book Description
This volume;examines contemporary African-American poets from the well-known writers of the late 20th century to the newly established and emerging voices of today.
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
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Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118651197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Book Description
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674002760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Book Description
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author: Maryemma Graham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136671919
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Book Description
This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical.
Author: Hans Ostrom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440871515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Book Description
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.
Author: Roland Greene
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154910
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
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Book Description
Rev. ed. of: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics / Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. 1993.
