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The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Av William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
560 kr
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This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, …
Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Av Trudier Harris, Frances Smith Foster m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
375 kr
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This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, …
Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
Av Trudier Harris, Frances Smith Foster m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
375 kr
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This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, …
Exorcising Blackness
Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals
Inbunden, 1984
528 kr
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By lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people, contends Trudier Harris, white Americans were perfomring a rite of exorcism designed to eradicate the "black beast" from their midst, or, at the very least, to render him powerless and emasculated. Black writers have graphically …
Bigger
A Literary Life
Inbunden, 2024
268 kr
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A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of …
New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
Inbunden, 1996
785 kr
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James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its …
New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
Häftad, 1996
504 kr
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James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its …
Scary Mason-Dixon Line
African American Writers and the South
Häftad, 2013
445 kr
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New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, renowned literary scholar Trudier Harris explores why black writers, whether born in …
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
Inbunden, 2014
582 kr
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African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a study by award-winning author Trudier Harris of King’s character and persona as captured and …
From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Inbunden, 2023
1484 kr
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Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the …
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American cultureAfrican American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to …
From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the …
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
E-bok, 2014
653 kr
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Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose …
From Mammies to Militants
Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
E-bok, 2023
639 kr
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Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris’s classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the position of the …
Power of the Porch
The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
Inbunden, 1997
679 kr
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Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told," rather than "written," qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African …
South of Tradition
Essays on African American Literature
E-bok, 2010
896 kr
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With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays. Collectively, the essays show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of …
Power of the Porch
The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
Häftad, 2019
584 kr
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Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told," rather than "written," qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African …
South of Tradition
Essays on African American Literature
E-bok, 2010
896 kr
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With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays. Collectively, the essays show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of …
Reading Contemporary African American Drama
Fragments of History, Fragments of Self
Av Trudier Harris, Jennifer Larson
Häftad, 2007
478 kr
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Contemporary African American dramatists such as Amiri Baraka, James Baldwin, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks as well as Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, and Pearl Cleage find their creative inspiration in historical events from slavery to the civil rights movement. From the Emmett …
Depictions of Home in African American Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1385 kr
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In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a …
Depictions of Home in African American Literature
Häftad, 2023
526 kr
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In Depictions of Home in African American Literature, Trudier Harris analyzes fictional homespaces in African American literature from those set in the time of slavery to modern urban configurations of the homespace. She argues that African American writers often inadvertently create and follow a …
South of Tradition
Essays on African American Literature
Inbunden, 2002
1073 kr
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With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays. Collectively, the essays show the vibrancy of African American literary creation across several decades of …
