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In a Minor Chord
With the recent upsurge of interest in Afro-American culture, black authors of the earlier part of the century are being studied and reinterpreted in colleges and universities across the nation and in numerous periodicals, newspapers, anthologies, and books. In the midst of these new estimations of Afro-American writers, Darwin T. Turner's "In a Minor Chord" is a landmark. He traces the careers of Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston, all of whom provided some of the spark for the most exciting and important cultural movement which Afro-Americans had ever experienced up to that time -- the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. "In a Minor Chord" is an important contribution toward a fuller understanding of the achievements of black people in the United States. Turner has helped to rescue three interesting and important writers from semioblivion by providing a more complete and more objective study of their works than has as yet appeared. -- From publisher's description.
Dancing Fools and Weary Blues
Often, the decade of the 1920s has been stereotyped with such labels as "The Roaring Twenties," "The Jazz Age," or "The Lost Generation." Historical perspective has forced reevaluation of this decade. Articles in this collection are presented in the most definitive anthology dealing with 1920s America. The contributors have put aside stereotypes to offer a valuable critique of the American dream during a time of major crises. Dancing Fools and Weary Blues also presents its readers a picture of the continual redemption and revitalization of that dream, and reasserts its basic democratic values.
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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History
Jean Toomer's Cane was the first major text of the Harlem Renaissance and the first important modernist text by an African-American writer. It powerfully depicts the terror in the history of American race relations, a public world of lynchings, race riots, and Jim Crow, and a private world of internalized conflict over identity and race which mirrored struggles in the culture at large. Toomer's own life reflected that internal conflict, and he has been an ambiguous figure in literary history, an author who wrote a text that had a tremendous impact on African American authors but who eventually tried to distance himself from Cane and from his identification as a black writer. In Jean Toomer a...
Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature
From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn Ward, African American authors have drawn on African spiritual practices as literary inspiration, and as a way to maintain a connection to Africa. This volume has collected new essays about the multiple ways African American authors have incorporated Voodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in their work. Among the authors covered are Frederick Douglass, Shirley Graham, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Ntozake Shange, Rudolph Fisher, Jean Toomer, and Ishmael Reed.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works and ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
A major new history of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.
Discourse and the Other
The central thesis of Lawrence Hogue's book is that criticism of Afro-American literature has left out of account the way in which ideological pressures dictate the canon. This fresh approach to the study of the social, ideological, and political dynamics of the Afro-American literary text in the twentieth century, based on the Foucauldian concept of literature as social institution, examines the universalization that power effects, how literary texts are appropriated to meet ideological concerns and needs, and the continued oppression of dissenting voices. Hogue presents an illuminating discussion of the publication and review history of "major" and neglected texts. He illustrates the accep...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
John Jacobs' short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery", published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs' autobiography. This book is the enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative that completes the Jacobs family saga.
Constructing the Black Masculine
Explores how African-American males have been portrayed in literature and society from 1775 to 1995.
