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Author | : Keith Cartwright |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813189942 |
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The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.
Author | : Zachary McLeod Hutchins |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1469665611 |
Download The Earliest African American Literatures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in North America before the Pilgrims. Yet the stories of these Africans and their first descendants remain ephemeral and inaccessible for both the general public and educators. This groundbreaking collection of thirty-eight biographical and autobiographical texts chronicles the lives of literary black Africans in British colonial America from 1643 to 1760 and offers new strategies for identifying and interpreting the presence of black Africans in this early period. Brief introductions preceding each text provide historical context and genre-specific interpretive prompts to foreground their significance. Included here are transcriptions from manuscript sources and colonial newspapers as well as forgotten texts. The Earliest African American Literatures will change the way that students and scholars conceive of early American literature and the role of black Africans in the formation of that literature.
Author | : Miriam B. Mandel |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1571134832 |
Download Hemingway and Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New scholarly essays providing a multifaceted approach to the role of Africa in Hemingway's life and work.
Author | : Keith Allen Cartwright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : African Americans in literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles Johnson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156008549 |
Download Africans in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War.
Author | : William L. Andrews |
Publisher | : Henry Holt |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Download African American Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : PH D April C E Langley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780814256602 |
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During the era of the slave trade, more than 12 million Africans were brought as slaves to the Americas. Their memories, ideas, beliefs, and practices would forever reshape its history and cultures. April C. E. Langley's The Black Aesthetic Unbound exposes the dilemma of the literal, metaphorical, and rhetorical question, "What is African in African American literature?" Confronting the undeniable imprints of West African culture and consciousness in early black writing such as Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative or Phillis Wheatley's poetry, the author conceives eighteenth-century Black Experience to be literally and figuratively encompassing and inextricably linked to Africa, Europe, and America. Consequently, this book has three aims: to locate the eighteenth century as the genesis of the cultural and historical movements which mark twentieth-century black aestheticism--known as the Black Aesthetic; to analyze problematic associations of African identity as manifested in an essentialized Afro-America; and to study the relationship between specific West African modes of thought and expression and the emergence of a black aesthetic in eighteenth-century North America. By exploring how Senegalese, Igbo, and other West African traditions provide striking new lenses for reading poetry and prose by six significant writers, Langley offers a fresh perspective on this important era in our literary history. Ultimately, the author confronts the difficult dilemma of how to use diasporic, syncretic, and vernacular theories of Black culture to think through the massive cultural transformations wrought by the Middle Passage.
Author | : Kenneth W. Warren |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674066294 |
Download What Was African American Literature? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literatureÑand to change the terms with which we discuss it. Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. In WarrenÕs view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole. Finally, WarrenÕs work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.
Author | : William W. Cook |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2011-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226789985 |
Download African American Writers & Classical Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.
Author | : Beauty Bragg |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739188798 |
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Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this body of work, and models a critical approach to such narratives that demonstrates the distinctive ways in which this literature captures the complexities of post-civil rights era black experiences. In making her arguments regarding the value of popular writing, Bragg argues that black women’s popular fiction foregrounds gender in ways that are frequently missing from other modes of narrative production. They exhibit a responsiveness and timeliness to the shifting social terrain which is reflected in the rapidly shifting styles and themes which characterize popular fiction. In doing so, they extend the historical function of African American literature by continuing to engage the black body as a symbol of political meaning in the social context of the United States. In popular literature Beauty Bragg locates a space from which black women engage a variety of public discourses.