Search Results for African American literature

... Press , 2009 . Levy-Hussen Aida . How to Read African American Literature: Post–Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation . New York : New York University Press , 2016 . Naimou Angela . Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood...

... in the book, in a much less conspicuous place, in the course of her discussion of eighteenth-century African American literature. This body o f w riting, she states, "yields up its secrets only to faithful, suspicious, and vigilant­ ly inductive readers" (117). Faithful, suspicious, vigilantly inductive...

... in the twentieth century. A d é lé kè A d é è k ó is a humanities distinguished professor at The Ohio State University. His teaching and research interests are, in no particular order of importance, Yoruba literature, lit­ erary theory, African American literature, and Anglophone literatures of Africa, south Asia...

...).” 16 See Morrison and Naylor, “Conversation.” 17 See Scarpa, “Narrative Possibilities” ; and Woolfork, Embodying American Slavery . 18 Levy-Hussen, How to Read African American Literature . 19 Hartnell, “When Cars Become Churches,” 216 . 20 Eveld, “Tension...

.... Indeed, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature includes no examples of early African Muslim writing in America. 3 Allan D. Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles (New York: Routledge, 1997); Sylviane A. Diouf, Servants ofAllah: African...

..., and African American Literature , 95–96 . 32 Hughes, “One More ‘S’ in the USA,” in Collected Poems , 176 . 33 Hughes, The Big Sea , 178 . 34 Hughes, The Ways of White Folks . 35 Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance , 9 . 36 Holcomb, Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha...

... rking to develop Finding the S truggle: Radical M ovem ents in the N eo lib e ra l U nited States, a prim ary source a nthology of US radicalism from 1970 to 2001 (under contract. U niversity o f Georgia Press). Gary Edward Holcomb is professor of African American literature in the Department of African...

... . Mathes Carter . Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . McKittrick Katherine . Dear Science and Other Stories . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2020 . McKittrick Katherine...

... and the Changing Nature of Urban Space .” Progress in Human Geography 24 , no. 2 ( 2000 ): 243 – 65 . Maxwell William J. F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 . McKay Claude . Banjo...

... as a response to the racialization, criminalization, and dehumanization of his novel’s lumpen characters. Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 Claude McKay African American literature transgressive pleasure necropower Achille Mbembe A reader of Claude McKay’s Romance...

... a considered response to other, more rational calls. In recent decades, too many scholars have w o r­ shiped the secular in the name of reason.They have rushed past seven churches, three schools, and a mosque as they searched fo r a bar or juke jo in t w ith in which to find authentic African American creative...

... connections between African and certain strands of Euro-American theory. In this essay I focus exclusively on Forna’s and Jarrett-Macauley’s uses of animist consciousness and the intervention they can make in trauma studies. In an animist framework, trauma cannot be conceptualized as the rupture...

...Emory Elliott Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 In t r o d u c t i o n E m o r y E l l io t t A merican Lazarus: Religion and the Rise o f African Am erican and Native A m er­ ican Literatures is a stunning resurrection o f buried chapters o f American lit­ erary...

..., and, im portantly, that influence flowed both ways. "Much less referenced [in the literature on Stein Ringgold's daughter, the art historian Michele Wallace, affirms, "is that [Stein] too was greatly influenced by African American culture, o f which she was a product."9 In Ringgold's quilt story, the ju...

... and the Rise o f African-American and Native A m eri­ can Literatures. My own research lies m ainly in nineteenth-century studies, and I m ust confess that I recognized myself from tim e to tim e in Brooks's critique of those professional readers whose intense focus on African American w riting emerging from...

... , 2011 . Müller Timo . The African American Sonnet: A Literary History . Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 2018 . Müller Timo . “ The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-modernism in the 1940s .” American Literature 87 , no. 2 ( 2015 ): 253 – 73...

..., evangelical Christianity of the eighteenth century becomes fo r Native and African American w riters a powerful source o f resistance. Daringly, though to an uncertain extent, A m erican Lazarus partakes o f this religious idiom , com paring literary scholars to "revivalists" (18) and naming "fa ith...

... as Fields of Knowledge," PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 176. John Frow, '"Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need': Genre Theory Today," PMLA 122.5 (October 2007): 1629. 5Wai Chee Dimock, "African, Caribbean, American: Black English as CreoleTongue," Shades o f the Planet: American Literature as World...

.... Maurophilia not only foregrounds Aslima’s associations with Spain and Morocco but also highlights McKay’s engagement with transhistorical Mediterranean diasporas, including the intra-African slave trade and Iberian Moriscos and conversos settling in North Africa following the Reconquista. This essay argues...

... double life, one authoritative version o f his 1789 text in late eighteenth- and early nineteenthcentury British literature and history, another authoritative version in African American and African Diasporic studies.5 (To emphasize this double life, I'll refer to the author as Equiano 4 0 E n g l is h l...