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Books on: african american novelists

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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

African American Novelists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

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...in which the Afro-American protagonist is depicted...universe. Afro-American Literature in the...x Certainly, as African American novelists reclaim their historical...past. For African Americans, it also requires...
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Fiction, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Greenwood, 1993 and Contemporary African American Novelists Greenwood, 1999 . JEFFREY PARTRIDGE...published several articles on Asian American literature. JAINA C. SANGA...Fellow at James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University...
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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by E. C. Applegate; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Fiction--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Dictionaries, Naturalism In Literature--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries, Realism In Literature--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Washington Eagle , another African-American newspaper, that appeared...She worked for the American Friends Interracial...Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the...Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers...
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Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920

Book by Carl Van Doren; Macmillan & Co., 1931

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American Fiction--History And Criticism, Fiction, Novelists, American

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...his blood. Bras-Coupe, the great, proud, rebellious slave in The Grandissimes , belongs to the ancient lineage of those African princes who in many tales have been sold to chain and lash and have escaped from them by dying. The postures and graces and...
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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Book by Hazel V. Carby; Oxford University Press, 1987

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African American Women In Literature, American Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--United States, Women And Literature--United States

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...dimensions: The critical projects that relate to the African-American community point to a crucial aspect of the entire...the various critical projects that intersect with African-American life and thought in the United States complement...

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Journal Articles on: african american novelists

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Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence, Black Spirit, and the Quest of the Silver Fleece

Journal article by Maurice Lee; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

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African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African Americans--Literature, Du Bois, W.E.B.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence...challenges major American texts; that...preface to The American: "It is as difficult...extravagant metaphor for African Americans at the turn of...viewed Du Bois the novelist as an expert subverter...immoral revels, African roots and a future...
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Black "Like Me": (Mis) Recognition, the Racial Gothic, and the Post-1967 Mixed-Race Movement in Danzy Senna's Symptomatic

Journal article by Hershini Bhana Young; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

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African Americans--History, African Americans--Portrayals, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Race relations--Portrayals, Senna, Danzy--Criticism and interpretation, Senna, Danzy--Works, Symptomatic (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation

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...deployment of African American gothic conventions...in the case of African Americans, is the hybridity of Africans themselves and...on the bodies of Africans and their New World...symbols; that the American gothic is "a literature...function for the African American writer...that female gothic novelists traditionally have...
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"Manumission and Marriage?": Freedom, Family, and Identity in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale

Journal article by Aida Ahmed Hussen; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008

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African American culture--Portrayals, Johnson, Charles (American novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Johnson, Charles (American novelist)--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Oxherding Tale (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Slavery--Portrayals

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...Novels: Writing the American Palimpsest. Bloomington...in Oxherding Tale." African American Review 29...Oxherding Tale." Black American Literature Forum 25...Johnsons Oxherding Tale." African American Review 33.3 (Fall...
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"Sublime Patriots": Black Masculinity in Three African-American Novels

Journal article by Robert Nowatzki; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 8, 1999

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African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Masculinity (Psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...was the first African-American novelist to reach a large...didactic of those novelists African Americans writing between the Spanish-American War and World...was the first American novelist of African descent to be...
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"A Direction of One's Own": Alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula

Journal article by Lorie Watkins Fulton; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Faulkner, William--Criticism and interpretation, Faulkner, William--Works, Morrison, Toni--Works, Mrs. Dalloway (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Novels--Criticism and interpretation, Sula (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Woolf, Virginia--Criticism and interpretation, Woolf, Virginia--Works

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...retells Woolfs narrative in an African American context; in fact, she does...Monkey when he suggests that African American writers often rewrite...becoming a foremother to an African American novelist, she alludes to such a possibility...

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Magazine Articles on: african american novelists

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The New Wave: Andrew Hussey on the North African Novelists at the Gates of "Fortress Europe"

Magazine article by Andrew Hussey; New Statesman, Vol. 136, October 8, 2007

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Cultural identity--Influence, European literature, North Africans--Social aspects, Northern Africa--Social aspects, Novelists--Influence, Novelists--Names, Novelists--Works

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...Andrew Hussey on the North African Novelists at the Gates of "Fortress...almost certainly due to American and EU money flowing into...cultural confidence among North Africans. This can be seen everywhere...being told that as North Africans we cannot write in European...distinguished figure of the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, who was elected...
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Fame and Poverty - the Career of Nigerian Novelist Cyprian Ekwensi Exemplifies the Plight of the African Writer

Magazine article by Charles R. Larson; World and I, Vol. 15, October 2000

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African literature--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Ekwensi, Cyprian--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...the Career of Nigerian Novelist Cyprian Ekwensi Exemplifies the Plight of the African Writer. by CHARLES...professor of literature at American University in Washington...include The Emergence of African Fiction (1972); he edited the anthology Under African Skies: Modern Stories...
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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

Magazine article by Wanda Coleman; The Nation, Vol. 275, September 16, 2002

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, Criticism--Analysis, Race relations--History, United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cultural constraints, African-American reviewer...Afro-American, African-American, now Africana...history, racism aside, Americans of color benefiting...cultural redress, as African-American readers demanded literature...new breed of women novelists. Then theres the popular...
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Writing a New Chapter in Book Publishing: African Americans Are Making Money Doing What Others Thought Impossible; Getting Blacks to Buy Hardcover Books. but Do We Have the Clout?

Magazine article by Carolyn M, Brown; Black Enterprise, Vol. 25, February 1995

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African American authors--Marketing, American literature--African American authors, Literary agents--Directories, Publishing industry--Officials and employees

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...publishing: African Americans are making money...Four African-American managers are...top-selling novelists were James Baldwin...African-American women developed...you had three African-American women...will appeal to African-Americans." BIG HOUSES...pursue African-American, Asian, Hispanic...
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Literary Cubs, Canceling out Each Other's Reticence: Letters between Federal Writers' Project Cohorts Richard Wright and Nelson Algren Depict a Mutual Admiration Rare among Young Novelists

Magazine article by David A. Taylor; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Spring 2009

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Algren, Nelson--Appreciation, Algren, Nelson--Records and correspondence, Authors--Appreciation, Authors--Records and correspondence, Wright, Richard (American writer)--Appreciation, Wright, Richard (American writer)--Records and correspondence, Writers--Appreciation, Writers--Records and correspondence

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...Admiration Rare among Young Novelists. by David A. Taylor...Nelson Algren, a fellow novelist who was exactly his...document a wide range of American life. Like other WPA...that would absorb the American scene with fresh eyes...Dunham, Terkel, and African-American poet and...ended the isolation of African-American artists...

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Newspaper Articles on: african american novelists

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I Can't Live Without. Jeffrey Archer Former MP and Novelist Chooses His Favourite Things

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 23, 2006

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Legislators, Novelists

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Without. Jeffrey Archer Former MP and Novelist Chooses His Favourite Things. .Former...I bought it at Sothebys and beat an American from Yale to get it. Im not telling...my auctioneers hammers for me, from African black wood. They cost pounds sterling14...
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Christianity Sucks? Vampire Novelist Drains Faith with Fairytale

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 5, 2010

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Christianity

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Christianity Sucks? Vampire Novelist Drains Faith with Fairytale...This famous vampire novelist and pop theologian announced...Ku Klux Klan or the American Nazi Party, Id absolutely...take into account the African-American and Hispanic evangelicals...
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A Dazzling Novelist of Ideas Tackles Racism

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 9, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A dazzling novelist of ideas tackles racism...sense of the term, a novelist of ideas. Back in...reputation as a major novelist? Certainly, his first...internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II...daughter of a successful African-American family from Philadelphia...
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Young Welsh Novelists Make Longlist for Prize Which Could Take Work to a Global Audience; Actor Honoured to Reveal Authors Bidding for Dylan Thomas Title

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 14, 2008

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Sheen, Michael, Thomas, Dylan

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Young Welsh Novelists Make Longlist for Prize...Williamson TWO of Wales youngest novelists were yesterday longlisted...Celtic legends and Latin-American history. Susan Fletcher...Ceridwen Dovey, a South African Harvard graduate, tells...
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FATHER OF KING KONG; Reckless Adventurer, Forger and Rogue, Edgar Wallace Made - and Lost - a Fortune as the Most Prolific Novelist of His Age. but He Died Never Knowing If His Greatest Work, Based on His Unrequited Love for a Young Actress, Would See the Light of Day

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 24, 2005

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King Kong (Motion picture), Wallace, Edgar

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fortune as the Most Prolific Novelist of His Age. but He Died Never...set around an unnamed West African river, he happened on the...breeches and boots which hed seen American directors wear in the days...became infatuated with a young American actress (King Kong is all...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african american novelists

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...professional American novelist, Charles Brockden...attention by presenting American folk stories...won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing...Post Vietnam War American literature has...prose styles, such novelists as Don DeLillo...in contemporary American society. The literature...encompasses the work of African-American (e...
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Morrison, Toni

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...MORRISON, TONI 1931 , American writer, b. Lorain...viewed from a variety of African-American perspectives. Her first...of Americas leading novelists. It concerns a middle...Literature, she is the first African American to win the...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elsewhere, see American literature ; Australian...literature ; and South African literature . The...Although the great novelist Jane Austen wrote...popular. Other novelists of the period were...Eliot was born an American, and Conrad was...watershed in both American and English literary...exquisite style. Novelists generally have...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...book published in the American colonies, taught the...for teenagers. Other novelists that write convincingly...Verna Aardema compiles African folktales and Yoko Kawashima...tales of the Japanese-American immigrant experience...the first time to an American, Maurice Sendak , in...

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