Offers photographs of notable African American writers including Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, Jamaica Kincaid, Maya Angelou, Ernest J. Gaines, Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, and Samuel R. Delany.
“The Nation was the one organization that was trying to deal with the concepts of nationhood, morality, small businesses, schools,” Sanchez explained in Claudia Tate's Black Women Writers at Work (1983). However, the limitations placed ...
Etta, wearing a red dress, feels unmoved by the message but takes interest in the guest preacher, Reverend More- land T. Woods. He functions as a stereotype of the womanizing preacher. Naylor's vivid description of Woods's sermon ...
Samples of more recent fiction include tales by Jervey Tervalon, Alice Walker, and Edwidge Danticat. Ideal for browsing, this collection is also suitable for courses in African-American studies and American literature.
He contrasted the fashionable villas of actors Charles Boyer and Annabella or of French Communist party leader Maurice Thorez at the other end of the town with the simple ways of the oyster farmers and fishermen who walked barefoot and ...
... on Bellerophon's letters, 167; and command of languages ancient and modern, 101–5; Ronnick's work on, 94, 388n20, 388n21; memoirs of, 106–7; as teacher, 106–7 Scharffenberger, Elizabeth, 314, 412n6 Schiavone, Aldo, 380n19 Schiller, ...
Provides a three volume set that examines African Americans who wrote centuries ago, as well as modern storytellers whose work reflects the changing global landscape, providing an overview and more in-depth context to the stories of over ...
This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century.
Lynching. of. Jube. Benson. Gordon Fairfax's library held but three men, but the air was dense with clouds of smoke. The talk had drifted from one topic to another much as the smoke wreaths had purled, floated, and thinned away.
From slave narrative to abolitionist tracts, from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the Black Arts movement of the 1960's and 1970's, African American writers have always influenced literature...
... Pearson Custom Publishing, 2007. Horne, Gerald. Class Struggle in.