Author: Josef Sorett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199844933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
Spirit in the Dark
Author: Josef Sorett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199844933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199844933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
While many of the most significant black intellectual movements of the second half of the twentieth century have been perceived as secular, Josef Sorett demonstrates in this book that religion was actually a fertile, fluid and formidable force within these movements. Spirit in the Dark examines how African American literary visions were animated and organized by religion and spirituality, from the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s.
Catechism of D Neoamerican Hoodoo Church
Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962–1975
Author: Lauri Ramey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317029178
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In 1962, the Heritage Series of Black Poetry, founded and edited by Paul Breman, published Robert Hayden's A Ballad of Remembrance. By 1975, the Series had published 27 volumes by some of the twentieth-century's most important and influential poets. As elaborated in Lauri Ramey's extensive scholarly introduction, this innovative volume has dual purposes: To provide primary sources that recover the history and legacy of this groundbreaking publishing venture, and to serve as a research companion for scholars working on the Series and on twentieth-century black poetry. Never-before-published primary materials include Paul Breman's memoir, retrospectives by several of the poets published in the Series, a photo-documentary of W.E.B. Du Bois's 1958 visit to The Netherlands, poems by poets represented in the Series, and scholarly essays. Also included are bibliographies of the Heritage poets and of the Heritage Press Archives at the Chicago Public Library. This reference work is an essential resource for scholars working in the fields of black poetry, transatlantic studies, and twentieth-century book history.
A History of African American Poetry
Author: Lauri Ramey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.
If God Meant to Interfere
Author: Christopher Douglas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703528
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703528
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.
Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585
Book Description
A Study Guide for "Postmodernism"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410355748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
A Study Guide for "Postmodernism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410355748
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
A Study Guide for "Postmodernism," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Movements for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Movements for Students for all of your research needs.
Left Politics and the Literary Profession
Author: Lennard J. Davis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231065665
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Leftist, feminist, lesbian, African-American, Chicano, Palestinian, and other literary criticism present viewpoints that provide an illuminating link between the radical politics of the 1960s and the intellectual activities of radicals who study literature now, or will study it in the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231065665
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Leftist, feminist, lesbian, African-American, Chicano, Palestinian, and other literary criticism present viewpoints that provide an illuminating link between the radical politics of the 1960s and the intellectual activities of radicals who study literature now, or will study it in the future. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Reckless Eyeballing
Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564787435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Masochism is out and feminism is in, Jews are out and Germans are in, race is out and gender is in, and everyone's fighting (and rewriting) for a piece of the pie. Jewish director Jim Minsk disappears during a trip to the South. Black playwright Ian Ball writes the all-female play Reckless Eyeballing in hopes of getting off the "sex-list." Preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, claiming the Jews stole all his black material, decides to write about Armenians. In the background, an unknown assailant dubbed the "Flower Phantom" runs loose through the city shaving heads of prominent black feminists (to the secret delight of black men). In this hilarious, devastating, but also deeply sympathetic novel, Ishmael Reed turns characters on the backs, sides, tops and bottoms to expose the multiple hypocrisies at the heart of American culture.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1564787435
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Masochism is out and feminism is in, Jews are out and Germans are in, race is out and gender is in, and everyone's fighting (and rewriting) for a piece of the pie. Jewish director Jim Minsk disappears during a trip to the South. Black playwright Ian Ball writes the all-female play Reckless Eyeballing in hopes of getting off the "sex-list." Preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, claiming the Jews stole all his black material, decides to write about Armenians. In the background, an unknown assailant dubbed the "Flower Phantom" runs loose through the city shaving heads of prominent black feminists (to the secret delight of black men). In this hilarious, devastating, but also deeply sympathetic novel, Ishmael Reed turns characters on the backs, sides, tops and bottoms to expose the multiple hypocrisies at the heart of American culture.
A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed's "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410341240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed's "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410341240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
A Study Guide for Ishmael Reed's "Beware: Do Not Read This Poem," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.