Language and Literature in the African American Imagination

Table of contents

• Recent Titles in Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies ii
• Title Page iii
• Copyright Acknowledgments v
• Contents ix
• Part 1 The Afrocentric Imagination: Theory and Analysis 1
• 1: Afrocentricity and Literary Theory: The Maturing Imagination 3
• 2: Locating a Text: Implications of Afrocentric Theory 9
• 3: Refusing to Be Boxed in: Sonia Sanchez's Transformation of the Haiku Form 21
• 4: Reassessing African American Literature through an Afrocentric Paradigm: Zora N. Hurston and James Baldwin 37
• Part II Language Realities: Studies in Modern Societies 53
• II Language Realities: Studies in Modern Societies 54
• 5: Cultural and Linguistic Transitions: The Comparative Case of African Americans and Ethnic Minorities in Germany 55
• 6: African Languages in the African American Experience 75
• 7: Kitchen Table Talk: J. California Cooper's Use of Nommo--Female Bonding and Transcendence 91
• Part III Literary Analysis: Style and Substance 103
• 8: Dilemma of the Dutiful Servant: The Poetry of Jupiter Hammon 105
• 9: The Blue/Black Poetics of Sonia Sanchez 119
• 10: Afrocentric Aesthetics in Selected Harlem Renaissance Poetry 133
• Part IV Reflective Designs in Literary Works 147
• 11: Folk Idiom in the Literary Expression of Two African American Authors: Rita Dove and Yuset Komunyakaa 149
• 12: From Nice Colored Girl to Womanist: An Exploration of Development in Ntozake Shange's Writings 167
• 13: De Jure Maurorum in Europa (On the Rights of Blacks in Europe): A Black Civil Rights Activist in Europe in the Eighteenth Century 181
• Part V Afterword 195
• 14: The African American Imagination in Language and Literature: An Afterword 197
• Index 203
• About the Contributors 209

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