The Black Sleuth

The Black Sleuth PDF Author: John Edward Bruce
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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A novel featuring the first black detective in American fiction, boldly attacking white prejudice and racial injustice in the U.S. and abroad.

The Black Sleuth

The Black Sleuth PDF Author: John Edward Bruce
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Book Description
A novel featuring the first black detective in American fiction, boldly attacking white prejudice and racial injustice in the U.S. and abroad.

Black on Black

Black on Black PDF Author: John Cullen Gruesser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183154
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's question, "What is Africa to Me?" John Gruesser uses the concept of Ethiopianism—the biblically inspired belief that black Americans would someday lead Africans and people of the diaspora to a bright future—to provide a framework for his study. Originating in the eighteenth century and inspiring religious and political movements throughout the 1800s, Ethiopianism dominated African American depictions of Africa in the first two decades of the twentieth century, particularly in the writings of Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, and Pauline Hopkins. Beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and continuing through the Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia, however, its influence on the portrayal of the continent slowly diminished. Ethiopianism's decline can first be seen in the work of writers closely associated with the New Negro Movement, including Alain Locke and Langston Hughes, and continued in the dramatic work of Shirley Graham, the novels of George Schuyler, and the poetry and prose of Melvin Tolson. The final rejection of Ethiopianism came after the dawning of the Cold War and roughly coincided with the advent of postcolonial Africa in works by authors such as Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Walker.

A History of the African American Novel

A History of the African American Novel PDF Author: Valerie Babb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107061725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914 PDF Author: Robert Paul Lamb
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405178310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children’s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

Iron City

Iron City PDF Author: Lloyd Louis Brown
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555532062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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A groundbreaking work of African American proletarian literature, first published in 1951 and now back in print.

At the Dusk of Dawn

At the Dusk of Dawn PDF Author: Albery Allson Whitman
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1555537073
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Restores Whitman's place in the canons of African American literature and nineteenth-century American poetry

The Arresting Eye

The Arresting Eye PDF Author: Jinny Huh
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813937035
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection. Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, she examines the racial formations of African Americans and Asian Americans not only in detective fiction (from Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan to the works of Pauline Hopkins) but also in narratives centered on detection itself (such as Winnifred Eaton’s rhetoric of undetection in her Japanese romances). In explicating the literary depictions of race-detection anxiety, Huh demonstrates how cultural, legal, and scientific discourses across diverse racial groups were also struggling with demands for racial decipherability. Anxieties of detection and undetection, she concludes, are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on each other's construction and formation in American history and culture.

Oreo

Oreo PDF Author: Fran Ross
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Born to a Jewish father and black mother who divorce before she is two, Oreo grows up in Philadelphia with her maternal grandparents while her mother tours with a theatrical troupe. Soon after puberty, Oreo heads for New York with a pack on her back to search for her father; but in the big city she discovers that there are dozens of Sam Schwartzes in the phone book, and Oreo's mission turns into a wickedly humorous picaresque quest. The ambitious and playful narrative challenges accepted notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and even the novelistic form itself.

Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture

Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture PDF Author: Professor Charles J Rzepka
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140947609X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture. Included are Charles J. Rzepka's award-winning essays on Keats's 'Chapman's Homer' sonnet and Wordsworth's 'Michael' and his critical intervention into anachronistic new historicist readings of the circumstances surrounding the composition of "Tintern Abbey." Other Romantic period essays provide innovative interpretations of De Quincey's relation to theatre and the anti-slavery movement. Genre is highlighted in Rzepka's exploration of race and region in Charlie Chan, while his interdisciplinary essay on The Wizard of Oz and the New Woman takes the reader on a journey that encompasses the Oz of L. Frank Baum and Victor Fleming as well as the professional lives of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. Taken together, the essays provide not only a career retrospective of an influential scholar and teacher but also a map of the innovations and controversies that have influenced literary studies from the early 1980s to the present. As Peter Manning observes in his foreword, "this collection shows that even in diverse essays the force of a curious and disciplined mind makes itself felt."

Beyond Blackface

Beyond Blackface PDF Author: William Fitzhugh Brundage
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807834629
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Beyond Blackface