[PDF] The City In African American Literature eBook

Author : Yoshinobu Hakutani
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 35,69 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 : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher :
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 31,99 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 : Valerie Sweeney Prince
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 023113441X

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-- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University

Author : Tyler Stovall
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2012
Category : African American
ISBN : 9781469909066

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Originally published in 1996 by Houghton Mifflin.

Author : Stephen Nathan Haymes
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,80 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 : Kenton Rambsy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 27,54 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496838742

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Perhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short story writers plotted a diverse range of characters across multiple locations—small towns, a famous metropolis, city sidewalks, a rural wooded area, apartment buildings, a pond, a general store, a prison, and more. In the process, these writers highlighted the extents to which places and spaces shaped or situated racial representations. Presenting African American short story writers as cultural cartographers, author Kenton Rambsy documents the variety of geographical references within their short stories to show how these authors make cultural spaces integral to their artwork and inscribe their stories with layered and resonant social histories. The history of these short stories also documents the circulation of compositions across dozens of literary collections for nearly a century. Anthology editors solidified the significance of a core group of short story authors including James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Charles Chesnutt, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Using quantitative information and an extensive literary dataset, The Geographies of African American Short Fiction explores how editorial practices shaped the canon of African American short fiction.

Author : Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1999 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 1438140592

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Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.

Author : Miriam Thaggert
Publisher :
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108834167

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This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.