Books written by Michael Awkward
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Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels
In the present chapter, I shall focus on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Morrison's narrative stands as her initial attempt at generic denigration, as her first effort to create what she has elsewhere called "A genuine Black . . . Book.
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Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality
In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating such "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing our cultural boundaries.
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Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality
In this book, Michael Awkward raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating such "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing our cultural boundaries.
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Burying Don Imus: Anatomy of a Scapegoat
School Daze (Lee), 100–102, 138, 143 Seinfeld, 55, 129 Seles, Monica, 85 Shakespeare, William, 106, 108 shange, ... 18 Soldier's Story, A (Jewison), 141 Solo, 98 “Song of Myself” (Whitman), 60 Song ofSolomon (Morrison), xiv, 60, 97–98, ...
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Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir
Negotiating Difference ( M. Awkward ) , 44-48 Spielberg , Steven , 87-89 Spillers , Hortense , 45 Sula ( Morrison ) ... A ( Kenan ) , 81– 84 Same River Twice , The ( Walker ) , 51 Sarah Phillips ( Lee ) , 194-97 Saturday Night Fever ...
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Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
DIVCultural and literary study of the construction of racial and artistic identity in soul cover albums of three popular artists--Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow./div "Michael Awkward's "Soul Covers" signals the beginning of a ...
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Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture after King
Michael Awkward’s Philadelphia Freedoms captures the energetic contestations over the meanings of racial politics and black identity during the post-King era in the City of Brotherly Love.
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Soul Covers: Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)
The only book-length examination of the role of remakes in American popular music, Soul Covers is itself a refreshing new take on the lives and work of three established soul artists.
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New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God
An analysis of the literary values of Hurston's novel, as well as its reception--from largely dismissive reviews in 1937, through a revival of interest in the 1960s and its recent establishment as a major American novel.