[PDF] City In African American Literature eBook

Author : Macelle Mahala
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810145162

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Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.

Author : Madhu Dubey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226167283

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Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.

Author : Tyler Stovall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2012
Category : African American
ISBN : 9781469909066

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Originally published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin.

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838635650

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More recent African-American literature has also been noteworthy for its largely affirmative vision of urban life. Amiri Baraka's 1981 essay "Black Literature and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice" argues that, from the Harlem Renaissance onward, African-American literature has been "urban shaped," producing a uniquely "black urban consciousness." And Toni Morrison, although stressing that the American city in general has often induced a sense of alienation in many African-American writers, nevertheless adds that modern African-American literature is suffused with an "affection" for "the village within" the city.

Author : Stephen Nathan Haymes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791423837

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This book proposes a pedagogy of black urban struggle and solidarity.

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher :
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108841961

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This book examines what literature and film reveal about the urban USA. Subjects include culture, class, race, crime, and disaster.

Author : Marcus Anthony Hunter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0520292820

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When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

Author : Carla L. Peterson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300162553

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Narrates the story of the elite African American families who lived in New York City in the nineteenth century, describing their successes as businesspeople and professionals and the contributions they made to the culture of that time period.

Author : Leslie M. Alexander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0252078535

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The struggle for black identity in antebellum New York

Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226824861

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A new edition of a classic work revealing the little-known history of African Americans in New York City before Emancipation. The popular understanding of the history of slavery in America almost entirely ignores the institution’s extensive reach in the North. But the cities of the North were built by—and became the home of—tens of thousands of enslaved African Americans, many of whom would continue to live there as free people after Emancipation. In the Shadow of Slavery reveals the history of African Americans in the nation’s largest metropolis, New York City. Leslie M. Harris draws on travel accounts, autobiographies, newspapers, literature, and organizational records to extend prior studies of racial discrimination. She traces the undeniable impact of African Americans on class distinctions, politics, and community formation by offering vivid portraits of the lives and aspirations of countless black New Yorkers. This new edition includes an afterword by the author addressing subsequent research and the ongoing arguments over how slavery and its legacy should be taught, memorialized, and acknowledged by governments.