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  1. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern Black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement... more

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    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, mini-epics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic communal lyrics in the Florida "muck" following a deadly hurricane; and Derek Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers, along with Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Smith, Sterling Brown, Lloyd Lovindeer, Kamau Brathwaite, and others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation. Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms. This pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics"...

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 1421437937; 9781421437934
    Series: The Callaloo African diaspora series
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Caribbean literature; Caribbean literature; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Blacks; African Americans; African diaspora; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; NATURE / Ecology; Schwarze; Literatur; Umwelt <Motiv>; Lyrik
    Scope: xiv, 282 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  2. Fictions of integration
    American children's literature and the lLegacies of Brown v. Board of Education
    Author: Lesley, Naomi
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

    This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little... more

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    This book examines how children’s and young adult literature addresses and interrogates the legacies of American school desegregation. Such literature narrates not only the famous battles to implement desegregation in the South, in places like Little Rock, Arkansas, but also more insidious and less visible legacies, such as re-segregation within schools through the mechanism of disability diagnosis. Novelizations of children’s experiences with school desegregation comment upon the politics of getting African-American children access to white schools; but more than this, as school stories, they also comment upon how structural racism operates in the classroom and mutates, over the course of decades, through the pedagogical practices depicted in literature for young readers. Lesley combines approaches from critical race theory, disability studies, and educational philosophy in order to investigate how the educational market simultaneously constrains how racism in schools can be presented to young readers and also provides channels for radical critiques of pedagogy and visions of alternative systems. The volume examines a range of titles, from novels that directly engage the Brown v. Board of Education decision, such as Sharon Draper’s Fire From the Rock and Dorothy Sterling’s Mary Jane, to novels that engage less obvious legacies of desegregation, such as Cynthia Voigt’s Dicey’s Song, Sharon Flake’s Pinned, Virginia Hamilton’s The Planet of Junior Brown, and Louis Sachar’s Holes. This book will be of interest to scholars of American studies, children’s literature, and educational philosophy and history.

     
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  3. Post-soul satire
    black identity after civil rights
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss.

    "From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new... more

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    "From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expression for a generation of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual/conceptual artists, satire enables collective questioning of many of the fundamental presumptions about black identity in the wake of the civil rights movement. Whether taking place in popular and controversial television shows, in a provocative series of short internet films, in prize-winning novels and plays, in comic strips, or in conceptual hip hop albums, this satirical impulse has found a receptive audience both within and outside the black community. Such works have been variously called "post-black," "post-soul," and examples of a "New Black Aesthetic." Whatever the label, this collection bears witness to a noteworthy shift regarding the ways in which African American satirists feel constrained by conventional obligations when treating issues of racial identity, historical memory, and material representation of blackness. Among the artists examined in this collection are Paul Beatty, Dave Chappelle, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino), Spike Lee, Aaron McGruder, Lynn Nottage, ZZ Packer, Suzan Lori-Parks, Mickalene Thomas, Touré, Kara Walker, and George C. Wolfe. The essays intentionally seek out interconnections among various forms of artistic expression. Contributors look at the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a broad ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd, or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviors both within and outside the African American community"..

     
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  4. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern Black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

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  5. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, mini-epics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic communal lyrics in the Florida "muck" following a deadly hurricane; and Derek Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers, along with Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Smith, Sterling Brown, Lloyd Lovindeer, Kamau Brathwaite, and others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation. Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms. This pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics"...

     
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  6. Challenges of diversity
    essays on America
    Author: Sollors, Werner
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick ; Newark ; Camden ; New Jersey ; London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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  7. Approaches to teaching Baraka's Dutchman
    Contributor: Calihman, Matthew (Publisher); Early, Gerald Lyn (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  The Modern Language Association of America, New York

    "First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality... more

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    "First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still has the power to shock. The play, steeped in the racial issues of its time, continues to speak to racial violence and inequality today. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this short but challenging text. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources for biographical information, critical and literary backgrounds, and the play's early production history. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," address viewing and staging Dutchman theatrically in class. They help instructors ground the play artistically in the black arts movement, the beat generation, the theater of the absurd, pop music, and the blues. Background on civil rights, black power movements, the history of slavery, and Jim Crow laws helps contextualize the play politically and historically. "... "Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the play Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) in college literature, drama, and film courses, including consideration of race, gender, black arts and other literary movements, the blues and popular music, and African American history. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses"...

     
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  8. Uncle Tom's cabins
    the transnational history of America's most mutable book
    Contributor: Davis, Tracy C. (Publisher); Mihaylova, Stefka G. (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "As Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author... more

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    "As Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey, explicating the novel's significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters' landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe's story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe's enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity"...

     
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  9. Neo-passing
    performing identity after Jim Crow
    Contributor: Godfrey, Mollie (Publisher); Young, Vershawn Ashanti (Publisher); Wald, Gayle Freda; Elam, Michele
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield

    "This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why...in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment...is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To... more

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    "This volume seeks to theorize and explore the concept of "neo-passing," or the proliferation of passing in the post-Jim Crow moment. Why...in our "color-blind" or "post-racial" moment...is passing still of such literary and cultural interest? To answer this question, chapters in this book focus on a range of passing practices, performances and texts that are part of the emerging genre of what we call neo-passing narratives. Neo-passing narratives are contemporary narratives that depict someone being taken for an identity other than what s/he is considered really to be. That these texts are written, constructed, or produced at a time when passing should have passed reveals that the questions passing raises...questions about how identity is performed and contested in relation to social norms...are just as relevant now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century"...

     
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  10. Fire on the water
    sailors, slaves, and insurrection in early American literature, 1789-1886
    Author: Warren, Lenora
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

    "Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature.... more

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    "Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinque, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence"... "This book tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. The book centers on four black sailors, whose experiences with slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction. Through these sailors and their fictional avatars, Warren argues that a lost history of the politics of insurrection resurfaces. This history has been either largely ignored or subsumed under the generic political anxieties of the abolitionist movement and widespread fears of a large-scale slave revolt. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. This book is a call to consider, or reconsider, how the confluence of politics, language, and narrative are complicit in shaping the ways in which we think about race and violence. Using the backdrop of the ocean to highlight both the expansive imaginary and the perilous reality of undoing oppressive hierarchies through mutiny, Fire On the Water challenges scholars to consider how violence gets categorized as "revolutionary" or "aberrant.""...

     
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  11. Jean Toomer
    race, repression, and revolution
    Author: Foley, Barbara
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield

    "The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching... more

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    "The 1923 publication of Cane established Jean Toomer as a modernist master and one of the key literary figures of the emerging Harlem Renaissance. Though critics and biographers alike have praised his artistic experimentation and unflinching eyewitness portraits of Jim Crow violence, few seem to recognize how much Toomer's interest in class struggle, catalyzed by the Russian Revolution and the post-World War One radical upsurge, situate his masterwork in its immediate historical context. In Jean Toomer: Race, Repression, and Revolution, Barbara Foley explores Toomer's political and intellectual connections with socialism, the New Negro movement, and the project of Young America. Examining his rarely scrutinized early creative and journalistic writings, as well as unpublished versions of his autobiography, she recreates the complex and contradictory consciousness that produced Cane. Foley's discussion of political repression runs parallel with a portrait of repression on a personal level. Examining family secrets heretofore unexplored in Toomer scholarship, she traces their sporadic surfacing in Cane. Toomer's text, she argues, exhibits a political unconscious that is at once public and private. "..

     
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  12. Alice Walker
    Author: Lauret, Maria
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of... more

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    When it was first published, Lauret's text was one of the first book-length studies of Alice Walker's prose to appear in Britain. This new edition has been revised in the light of the latest scholarship and brings coverage of the full range of Walker's work up-to-date with the author's literary production, activism and life-events since 2000

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137267559
    RVK Categories: HU 9081
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
    Other subjects: Walker, Alice / 1944- / Criticism and interpretation; Walker, Alice (1944-)
    Scope: 1 online resource (304 pages)
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  13. African American writing
    a literary approach
    Author: Sollors, Werner
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Temple University Press, Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781439913369; 9781439913376; 9781439913383
    RVK Categories: HR 1728
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; American literature; African Americans in literature; Race relations in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; Schwarze; Literatur
    Scope: viii, 281 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  14. Charles Johnson
    the novelist as philosopher
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781604735079; 1604735074; 1282940813; 9781282940819; 1578069734; 9781578069736
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: 1948-; Criticism and interpretation; Johnson, Charles Richard; Philosophy; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; African Americans in literature; Philosophy; Philosophy in literature; Literatur; Philosophie; Philosophy in literature; African Americans in literature
    Other subjects: Johnson, Charles / 1948-; Johnson, Charles (Schriftsteller); Johnson, Charles (1948-); Johnson, Charles (1948-); Johnson, Charles (1948-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvii, 199 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-190) and index

    Introduction - Charles Johnson and philosophical Black fiction - Marc C. Conner and William R. Nash -- - The genesis of Charles Johnson's philosophical fiction - Linda Selzer -- - "In-itself-for-me" : decomposition and art in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale - Gena Chandler -- - Bondage and discipline : the pedagogy of discomfort in The sorcerer's apprentice - Herman Beavers -- - To utter the holy : the metaphysical romance of Middle passage - Marc C. Conner -- - "Go there" : the critical pragmatism of Charles Johnson - William Gleason -- - Pragmatic ethics in Charles Johnson's fiction - Gary Storhoff -- - Invisible threads : Charles Johnson and feminine civility - John Whalen-Bridge -- - "At the numinous heart of being" : Dreamer and Christian theology - Marc C. Conner -- - The application of an ideal : Turning the wheel as ontological program - William R. Nash

    Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading scholars examine the African American author's literary corpus and major themes, ideas, and influences. The essays explore virtually all of Johnson's writings: each of his novels, his numerous short stories, the range of his nonfiction essays, his many book reviews, and even several unpublished works. These essays engage Johnson's work from a variety of critical perspectives, revealing the philoso
  15. Perspectives on Percival Everett
    Published: ©2013
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1621039188; 9781621039181; 9781617036835; 1617036838
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American
    Other subjects: Everett, Percival L.; Everett, Percival L.; Everett, Percival L.; Auster, Paul (1947-2024); Everett, Percival (1956-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 167 pages)
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    Introduction: changing the frame, framing the change: the art of Percival Everett / Keith B. Mitchell and Robin G. Vander -- "Knowledge2 + certainty2 = squat2": (re)thinking identity and meaning in Percival Everett's The water cure / Jonathan Dittman -- "This strange juggler's game": forclusion in Percival Everett's I am not Sidney Poitier / Sarah Mantilla Griffin -- Frenzy: framing text to set discourse in a cultural continuum / Ronald Dorris -- The preservationist impulse in Percival Everett's "True romance" / Frederic Dumas -- The mind-body split in American desert: synthesizing Everett's critique of race, religion, and science / Richard Schur -- A bird of a different feather: blues, jazz, and the difficult journey to the self in Percival Everett's Suder / Uzzie Cannon -- "Do you mind if we make Craig Suder white?": from stereotype to cosmopolitan to grotesque in Percival Everett's Suder / Anthony Stewart -- Charting the body: Percival Everett's corporeal landscapes in re: f (gesture) / Sarah Wyman -- When the text becomes the stage: Percival Everett's performance turn in For Her dark skin / Robin G. Vander

    Percival Everett writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. Although to date Everett has published eighteen novels, three collections of short fiction, three poetry collections, and one children's book, his work has not garnered the critical attention that it deserves. Perhaps one of the most vexing problems black and white scholars have had in trying to situate Everett's work is that they have found it difficult to ""place"" him and his work within a prescribed African American lit
  16. Burnin' down the house
    home in African American literature
    Author: Prince, Valerie Sweeney
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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  17. Finding a way home
    a critical assessment of Walter Mosley's fiction
    Published: ©2008
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781604733358; 1604733357
    RVK Categories: HU 9800
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; African Americans in literature; African Americans / Race identity; Home in literature; Heimatgefühl; Rassische Identität; Schwarze. USA; African Americans in literature; Home in literature; African Americans; Ethnische Identität; Schwarze <Motiv>; Heimatgefühl
    Other subjects: Mosley, Walter; Mosley, Walter; Mosley, Walter; Mosley, Walter; Mosley, Walter; Mosley, Walter (1952-)
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    Walter Mosley's RL's dream and the creation of a blutopian community / Daniel Stein -- Socrates Fortlow's odyssey: the quest for home and self / Owen E. Brady -- Walter Mosley, Socratic method, and the Black Atlantic / Keith Hughes -- Devil with the blue eyes: reclaiming the human against pure evil in Walter Mosley's The man in my basement / Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Easy women: black beauty in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mystery series / Lisa B. Thompson -- The visible man: moving beyond false visibility in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels / Kelly C. Connelly -- Fearless Ezekiel: alterity in the detective fiction of Walter Mosley / Jerrilyn McGregory -- American negroes revisited: the intellectual and the badman in Walter Mosley's Fearless Jones novels / Terrence Tucker -- At home on "these mean streets": collaboration and community in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mystery series / Albert U. Turner, Jr -- The mouse will play: the parodic in Walter Mosley's fiction / Laura Quinn -- Shadows of an imminent future: Walter Mosley's dystopia and science fiction / Juan F. Elices -- Cyberfunk: Walter Mosley takes black to the future / Derek C. Maus -- Epilogue: whither Walter? A brief overview of Mosley's recent work / Owen E. Brady, Derek C. Maus

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index

    In this book, thirteen chapters by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope from cultural and communal resources. The chapters examine his queries about the meaning of 'home' in various social and historical contexts
  18. Searching for the New Black Man
    Black Masculinity and Women's Bodies
    Author: Henry Anthony, Ronda C.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781617037351; 1617037354; 1621039250; 9781621039259
    RVK Categories: MS 3250 ; MS 3450
    Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; American literature; Masculinity in literature; Femininity in literature; Human body in literature; Männlichkeit; Feminismus; Schwarze; Literatur
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    Introduction: Searching for the "new black man": from masculine ideality to progressive black masculinities -- Dominant versus subordinate masculinities and the gendered oppositions between slavery and freedom -- Unsexing the black girl to get to the indian princess: the production of talented-tenth black masculine power and the cleansing and transcending of black (wo)manhood in W. E. B. Du Bois -- "What's love got to do with it?": James Baldwin, cross-racial/sexual bond(age)ing, and the cult of hegemonic black masculinity -- Breakin' the rules: Socrates, Fortlow, ethics, and Walter Mosley's constructions of progressive black masculinities -- Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, the economies of respectable black manhood and leadership, and the politics of collaboratively gendered black male feminist autobiography

    Using the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and Frederick Douglass, as well as the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Walter Mosley, and Barack Obama, Ronda C. Henry Anthony examines how women's bodies are used in African American literature to fund
  19. African American haiku
    cultural visions
    Contributor: Zheng, Jianqing (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    "African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry. Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace... more

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    "African American Haiku: Cultural Visions offers insights into African American poets' innovations in the haiku form, shedding light on a neglected aspect of black poetry. Notable scholars present new interpretations of well-known works. Essays trace the verse of five major African American haiku poets: Richard Wright, James Emanuel, Etheridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, and Lenard D. Moore. Sachi Nakachi investigates the influence of Japanese aesthetics and Eastern philosophy on Richard Wright's haiku showing Wright's interest in the blues as poetry. Yoshinobu Hakutani analyzes the vision and affinity of jazz and haiku throughout James Emanuel's Jazz from the Haiku King. And Claude Wilkinson digs into Etheridge Knight's improvisation and adherence to tradition of haiku and African American vernacular form. The collection also explores how Sanchez creates a new American hybrid form of the modern haiku in English by blending haiku with her own principles of a black aesthetic. Toru Kiuchi shows how Lenard D. Moore expresses his experiences through haiku with his African American aesthetics and connections to black southern culture. By discussing multiple writers from a variety of disciplines in a single volume, the essayists compare and contrast the work created by writers, poets, and musicians, and illuminate the variety of methods African American authors used when adapting this traditional Japanese form. The result is a volume that offers rich insight into African American aesthetics, the black arts movement, gender issues, blues and jazz, and trends in contemporary poetry"--

     
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    Contributor: Zheng, Jianqing (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781496803030
    Series: Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
    Subjects: American poetry / African American authors / History and criticism; Haiku, American / History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; POETRY / American / African American; American poetry / African American authors; Haiku, American; Haiku; Schwarze; Lyrik
    Scope: xxi, 197 Seiten, 24 cm
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  20. The empire abroad and the empire at home
    African American literature and the era of overseas expansion
    Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Georgia Press, Athens

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    ISBN: 0820334340; 0820344680; 1283733374; 9780820334349; 9780820344683; 9781283733373
    RVK Categories: HU 1728
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; Schwarze. USA; American literature; Imperialism in literature; Literature and globalization; African Americans; Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Imperialismus <Motiv>; Literatur; Schwarze
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    "In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history. Focusing on authors who explicitly connect the empire abroad and the empire at home (James Weldon Johnson, Sutton Griggs, Pauline E. Hopkins, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others), Gruesser examines U.S. black participation in, support for, and resistance to expansion. Race consistently trumped empire for African American writers, who adopted positions based on the effects they believed expansion would have on blacks at home. Given the complexity of the debates over empire and rapidity with which events in the Caribbean and the Pacific changed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it should come as no surprise that these authors often did not maintain fixed positions on imperialism. Their stances depended on several factors, including the foreign location, the presence or absence of African American soldiers within a particular text, the stage of the author's career, and a given text's relationship to specific generic and literary traditions. No matter what their disposition was toward imperialism, the fact of U.S. expansion allowed and in many cases compelled black writers to grapple with empire. They often used texts about expansion to address the situation facing blacks at home during a period in which their citizenship rights, and their very existence, were increasingly in jeopardy."--Project Muse

    Introduction: Empire at Home and Abroad; Part 1. African American Literature and the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 1. Cuban Generals, Black Sergeants, and White Colonels: The African American Poetic Response to the Spanish-Cuban-American War; Chapter 2. Wars Abroad and at Home in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and The Hindered Hand; Part 2. African American Literature, the Philippine-American War, and Expansion in the Pacific; Chapter 3. Black Burdens, Laguna Tales, and "Citizen Tom" Narratives: African American Writing and the Philippine-American WarChapter 4. Annexation in the Pacific and Asian Conspiracy in Central America in James Weldon Johnson's Unproduced Operettas; Coda: Pauline Hopkins, the Colored American Magazine, and the Critique of Empire Abroad and at Home in "Talma Gordon."
  21. Understanding Etheridge Knight
    Author: Collins, Michael S.
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  University of South Carolina Press, Columbia

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1283983427; 1611170664; 1611172632; 9781283983426; 9781611170665; 9781611172638
    Series: Understanding contemporary American literature
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; African American poets; Poets, American; Poets, American; African American poets
    Other subjects: Knight, Etheridge / 1931-1991; Knight, Etheridge / 1931-1991; Knight, Etheridge (1931-1991); Knight, Etheridge (1931-1991)
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    "Investigates the life and works of Etheridge Knight (1931-1991), one of the foremost American poets in the black oral tradition"--Provided by publisher

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  22. A joyous revolt
    Toni Cade Bambara, writer and activist
    Author: Holmes, Linda Janet
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Praeger, Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Denver, Colorado ; Oxford, England

    "At long last...a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black women writers to emerge in the l970s. ".. more

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    "At long last...a book-length biography celebrates Toni Cade Bambara, a seminal literary, cultural, and political figure who was among the most widely read and frequently reviewed of the well-regarded black women writers to emerge in the l970s. "..

     
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  23. Unbought and unbossed
    transgressive black women, sexuality, and representation
    Author: Melancon, Trimiko
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia, Pa.

    "Unbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries. Trimiko Melancon analyzes literary and cultural... more

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    "Unbought and Unbossed critically examines the ways black women writers in the 1970s and early 1980s deploy black female characters that transgress racial, gender, and especially sexual boundaries. Trimiko Melancon analyzes literary and cultural texts, including Toni Morrison's Sula and Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, in the socio-cultural and historical moments of their production. She shows how representations of black women in the American literary and cultural imagination diverge from stereotypes and constructions of "whiteness," as well as constructions of female identity imposed by black nationalism. Drawing from black feminist and critical race theories, historical discourses on gender and sexuality, and literary criticism, Melancon explores the variety and complexity of black female identity. She illuminates how authors including Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker, and Gayl Jones engage issues of desire, intimacy, and independence to shed light on a more complex black identity, one ungoverned by rigid politics over-determined by race, gender and sexuality. "..

     
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  24. Masculinity and the paradox of violence in American fiction, 1950 - 75
    Author: McKinley, Maggie
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury, New York [u.a.]

    "Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow,... more

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    "Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth. Maggie McKinley reconsiders the longstanding association between masculinity and violence, locating a problematic paradox within works by these writers: as each author figures violence as central to the establishment of a liberated masculine identity, the use of this violence often reaffirms many constricting and emasculating cultural myths and power structures that the authors and their protagonists are seeking to overturn"..

     
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  25. Post-soul satire
    black identity after civil rights
    Contributor: Maus, Derek C. (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Univ. Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Miss.

    "From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new... more

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    "From 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an interdisciplinary look at the flowering of satire and its influence in defining new roles in black identity. As a mode of expression for a generation of writers, comedians, cartoonists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual/conceptual artists, satire enables collective questioning of many of the fundamental presumptions about black identity in the wake of the civil rights movement. Whether taking place in popular and controversial television shows, in a provocative series of short internet films, in prize-winning novels and plays, in comic strips, or in conceptual hip hop albums, this satirical impulse has found a receptive audience both within and outside the black community. Such works have been variously called "post-black," "post-soul," and examples of a "New Black Aesthetic." Whatever the label, this collection bears witness to a noteworthy shift regarding the ways in which African American satirists feel constrained by conventional obligations when treating issues of racial identity, historical memory, and material representation of blackness. Among the artists examined in this collection are Paul Beatty, Dave Chappelle, Trey Ellis, Percival Everett, Donald Glover (a.k.a. Childish Gambino), Spike Lee, Aaron McGruder, Lynn Nottage, ZZ Packer, Suzan Lori-Parks, Mickalene Thomas, Touré, Kara Walker, and George C. Wolfe. The essays intentionally seek out interconnections among various forms of artistic expression. Contributors look at the ways in which contemporary African American satire engages in a broad ranging critique that exposes fraudulent, outdated, absurd, or otherwise damaging mindsets and behaviors both within and outside the African American community"..

     
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