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Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Collins Reference
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 1992-12-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780062700667
A unique and vital guide that summarizes, explains and evaluates the greatest works of African-American literature -- including articles on writings from James Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison and many more.
Author : Ebele Eko
Publisher : Richard Mammah
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 31,95 MB
Release : 2014
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 9789788033219
Masterpieces of African Literature is a compendium of critical reviews of about 100 selected major works in Prose, Drama, and Poetry, written between 1914 and 2014. It provides author's names and dates, type of work, publication data and information on major characters. A summary of the work is followed by fairly detailed analysis which ends with a critical context. The entries are arranged in alphabetical user-friendly easy reference format.
Author : John Edgar Wideman
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780762410354
Contains brief biographical sketches and well-known and obscure works by African American authors from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, including Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, Ida B. Wells, and Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Author : Taylor Oughton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 1996-01-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486288789
Carefully researched, finely rendered collection of ready-to-color illustrations pays tribute to 45 remarkable African Americans — among them Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Hale, Althea Gibson, Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Dunham, and many others. Captions describe accomplishments.
Author : Anita Scott Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Gathers for the first time this southwestern African American writer's works from The Crisis and other significant journals.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198031750
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. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass, from Zora Neale Hurston to Ralph Ellison, and from Toni Morrison to August Wilson. It contains entries on major works (including synopses of novels), such as Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Richard Wright's Native Son, and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. It also incorporates information on literary characters such as Bigger Thomas, Coffin Ed Johnson, Kunta Kinte, Sula Peace, as well as on character types such as Aunt Jemima, Brer Rabbit, John Henry, Stackolee, and the trickster. Icons of black culture are addressed, including vivid details about the lives of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Marcus Garvey, Jackie Robinson, John Brown, and Harriet Tubman. Here, too, are general articles on poetry, fiction, and drama; on autobiography, slave narratives, Sunday School literature, and oratory; as well as on a wide spectrum of related topics. Compact yet thorough, this handy volume gathers works from a vast array of sources--from the black periodical press to women's clubs--making it one of the most substantial guides available on the growing, exciting world of African American literature.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1999-06-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780517453155
William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Carmen L. Phelps
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1617036803
A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing amount of scholarship that recognizes leading women artists, activists, and leaders of this period, these new perspectives have yet to recognize adequately the ways women aspired to far more than a mere dismantling of male-oriented ideals. In Visionary Women Writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement, Carmen L. Phelps examines the work of several women artists working in Chicago, a key focal point for the energy and production of the movement. Angela Jackson, Johari Amiri, and Carolyn Rodgers reflect in their writing specific cultural, local, and regional insights, and demonstrate the capaciousness of Black Art rather than its constraints. Expanding from these three writers, Phelps analyzes the breadth of women's writing in BAM. In doing so, Phelps argues that these and other women attained advantageous and unique positions to represent the potential of the BAM aesthetic, even if their experiences and artistic perspectives were informed by both social conventions and constraints. In this book, Phelps's examination brings forward a powerful and crucial contribution to the aesthetics and history of a movement that still inspires.
Author : R. Baxter Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813157439
Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered," Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself.
Author : R. Jothiprakash
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781556052392
This book makes a distinguished analysis of the nature of commitment in the works of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, two of the most renowned Black writers of the century. This investigation involves an understanding of the social milieu against the background of the rapidly changing character of Black fiction keeping pace with the complex development of the Black American community in constant quest of a political and cultural identity. Haunted by the memories of slavery, protest and fury, and the contradictory search for dignity in a world dominated by White values, the conflict between the artistic and political natures of the writer, his sexual complexities, the existential quality of his life, his need for an ethnic definition of himself, the Black writer found his mission challenging. Richard Wright, who established that "the Negro is America's metaphor", gave the Black American novel a place of its own in American literature. This thesis takes up the works of the two major Black writers who succeeded him to examine the distinct individual methods adopted to serve the common cause. Equally deep in commitment to society, Baldwin and Ellison differed in perspectives and methods of execution. This book, then, makes exhaustive analytical studies of their masterpieces against the background of complex political and ethnic configurations and the resultant political, social and psychological problems. It attempts to present an evaluation of their respective contributions which are the same in essentials but differ in details.