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Publisher: Norton Company Publisher Year: 2004 Edition: Second Edition Book Condition: Near Fine Jacket Condition: Binding: Soft Cover Publish Place: New York, New York Notes: 2776 pages. 2 CD's included. Very clean.

This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. Palgrave Macmillan; October 2007 208 pages; ISBN 9780230608870 Read online, or download in secure PDF format News Wiki Blogs Tweets YouTube

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...

However, some of our most celebrated African American authors—from Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison—have resisted this canonical rule, even at the cost of critical dismissal and commercial failure. African American Literature Beyond Race revives this remarkable literary corpus, presenting sixteen short stories, novelettes, and excerpts of novels-from the postbellum nineteenth century to the late twentieth century-that demonstrate this act of literary defiance...

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. The book surveys a vast literary landscape, covering writers from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison to August Wilson. Over 400 entries span the entire range of African American writing -- from major works (including synopses...

"'Studying this past and understanding how it contributes to present-day dialogues about race and history in America is a critical component of contemporary education,' states the forward of the Lucent Library of Black History. Each volume focuses on one aspect of African American experience and history that has helped shape American society and inform its citizens' attitudes and beliefs about African Americans. Each volume includes black and white illustrations and photos, a relevant chronology...

Calling upon interdisciplinary fields of study—literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, legal theory, and queer theory—Leak offers groundbreaking analysis of both canonical texts (representing the “call” of the call-and-response dyad) and texts by emerging writers (representing the “response”), including Frederick Douglass and Charles Johnson; Ralph Ellison and Brent Wade; Richard Wright and Ernest J. Gaines; and Toni Morrison and David Bradley. Though Leak does not claim that the “response...

Eight full-length essays, which serve as introductions to important aspects of literary theory and criticism, cover major terms--ambiguity, memory, signification, repetition, collective unconscious, representation, influence, and literary history. In addition to discussions of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement, the book describes the Chicago Renaissance of the 1930s to 1950s, the New Renaissance of the 1950s, and the new black aesthetics of the 1980s. An especially compelling feature...

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From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature

The Journal of African American Children’s Literature (JAACL) is a scholarly journal that focuses on promoting preserving and disseminating information about African American Children’s Literature that is written and illustrated by African Americans. The mission of JAACL is to provide a historical and contemporary analysis of African American Children’s Literature that is innovative, progressive, promotes original research, and transformative in its scholarship.

Product Description: The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex...

Though the intention here is admirable, the subtitle is misleading at best. An introduction by Mary Schmidt Campbell remarks that the book ``lets us hear...voices from the American past--Black and White--who bear the evidence of a country striving toward the reconciliation between the real and the ideal'': a more accurate summary of the content. There are plenty of white representations of African Americans--or even, like a photo of a white child at work in a cotton mill, representations of those...

Sound binding and hinges. Light shelf wear. Pages clean and bright. Comprehensive resource on the African-American cultural heritage. ; 11.25" tall; 910 pages