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Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French

Book by Belinda Elizabeth Jack; Greenwood, 1996

Subjects:

African Literature (French)--20th Century--History And Criticism, African Literature--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History And Criticism, Blacks In Literature, Negritude (Literary Movement)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Negritude and literary criticism: the history...theory of Negro-African literature in French / Belinda...Contributions in Afro-American and African studies...History and criticism. 2. African...Negritude (Literary movement...
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Book by Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Oxford University Press, 1989

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Folklore, African Americans--Intellectual Life, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, American Literature--African Influences, Criticism--United States, Fiction, Mythology, African, In Literature, Oral Tradition--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...with contemporary criticism and its uses in analyzing black literature. Using that chapter...elements in a larger literary enterprise. In...revise contemporary literary theories, as well...precisely, a theory of literary history. Signifyin...interpret the Afro-American literary tradition...Europeans and Americans neither invented...
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The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946

Book by James Edward Smethurst; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, African Americans--Politics And Government, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Communism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Race Relations In Literature, Right And Left (Political Science) In Literature, United States--Race Relations

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...nationally oppressed" African American, thus allowing...collection Proletarian Literature of the United...perceived as standard literary diction was the...African-American literary criticism on American literature...colloquial, American literary language. Other...
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Crossroads Modernism : Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture

Book by Edward M. Pavlíc; University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...major movement in African-American literary criticism devoted to uncovering...American and American literature. Hazel Carby, Robert...little of this criticism devotes explicit...American literature and literary criticism has kept...
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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892

Book by Frances Smith Foster; Indiana University Press, 1993

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African American Women In Literature, African American Women--Intellectual Life, African Americans In Literature, American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--African American Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--History And Criticism, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

literature almost entirely by...holds true for most Americans, male and female...about white womens literature may be readily expanded...those who make up their literary sample. The literature...Anglo males dominated American literature. Women...created by and for American and British men. It...

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism

Journal article by Anand Prahlad; African American Review, Vol. 33, 1999

Subjects:

African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American literature--African American authors, Folklore--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...from African American poetics...describe an African-based philosophical...perspective on literatures written by...todays African American literary criticism. Anthologies...American literature reveal the...extent that African American literature...than does literature of the mainstream...field of criticism should be...revolutionary kind of literary criticism...taken to literatures of other...
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The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History

Journal article by Nicole A. Waligora-Davis; Biography, Vol. 26, 2003

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The African American Male, Writing, and Difference: A Polycentric Approach to African American Literature, Criticism, and History (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Hogues The African American Male...reevaluation of the African American literary...structural, African American cultural...and feminist criticism, Hogue retheorizes...and African American History...of African Americans; their complicity...of African American literature and history...within the very literary genealogy...
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Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison

Journal article by Glenda B. Weathers; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans--Religious aspects, Biblical Trees, Biblical Deliverance: Literary Landscapes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Hurston, Zora Neale--Works, Morrison, Toni--Works

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...Call and Response as Critical Method: African-American Oral Traditions and Beloved." African American Review 26 (1992): 41...The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Eds. William L. Andrews, Frances...
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Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son

Journal article by James Smethurst; African American Review, Vol. 35, 2001

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African American authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Books--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gothic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Native Son (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wright, Richard--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Gothic and African American Literary Ideology...of gothic literature and what...figures an American consciousness...of black Americans, which is...earlier black literature in both Wrights...hallmark of African American literature...the perfect literary analogue...and white Americans under what...heart of African American literature, see Baker...American Literary Criticism. New York...
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Albert Murray: Literary Reconstruction of the Vernacular Community

Journal article by Warren Carson; African American Review, Vol. 27, 1993

Subjects:

American literature--African American authors, Murray, Albert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Southern States--Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Murray: literary reconstruction...may well be African Americas...of African American culture that...The Omni-Americans (1970...the African Americans of Gasoline...that the Africans are racially superior to African Americans, to which...blooded Africans." Soldier...in their African American heritage...of Murrays literary reconstruction...

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Book Reviewing, African-American Style

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

Subjects:

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

...Reviewing, African-American Style...leading African-American bookstore in...day African-American writers, no...currents in American publishing...African-Americans are still denied...featured black literature, even in the...the leading literary publications...harsh and racist criticism that truncated...
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Don't Read Politics into American Literature

Magazine article by Peter Shaw; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, May 23, 1994

Subjects:

Literature--Study and teaching, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Recovering American Literature (Book)--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...into American literature by Peter Shaw...judgment from literary excellence to...who dismiss literary judgment in...principles of literary evidence and...responded to criticism of this state...at night over African deserts and South American mountains and...tendencies of Americans: their drive...
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Diary of a Mad Man

Magazine article by Peter Wood; American Conservative, Vol. 6, March 26, 2007

Subjects:

American literature, Caulfield, Holden, Literary criticism, Novels, Social life & customs, Writers

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...angry young man in American literature, but he arrived as...characters were found in American fiction, but they...His contempt for American life is a badge of...came on the scene, Americans almost universally...grievance. Prosperous African-Americans, high...
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The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology

Magazine article by Richard Tillinghast; New Criterion, Vol. 16, May 1998

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Books--Reviews, The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Literature of the American South: A Norton...this remarkable literature is addressed...Anthologies devoted to African-American and American Indian literatures were in the...traditions and literatures that, until...backward-looking literature--by turns...of American literary history and...tragedy does. Criticism may be a debating...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Exemplifies the Plight of the African Writer. by CHARLES...Larson is 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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Booksellers Lament Web Sales, Aliteracy; Stores Search for a Niche amid Reader Falloff

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 27, 2007

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

...specializes in African heritage. They...reading among Americans of all ages...percentage of Americans reading literature had dropped...vitality of literary life," he...to theory and criticism - sit and await...director with the American Booksellers...Chapters Literary Bookstore...
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A Moving Letter Wins

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 12, 2008

Subjects:

Taylor, Lawrence

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

...national Letters About Literature contest. Hastings 480...edits Cal Youngs student literary magazine. "Its just...Like you, I am a young African American male. I am the youngest...you learned to ignore criticism and rely on yourself...

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

ENGLISH LITERATURE literature written...elsewhere, see American literature...literature ; and South African literature...force in English literary and intellectual...fruitful eras in literary history. The...a variety of literary styles. The...works of literary criticism in the tradition...
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...JR. 1950 , American scholar and critic...an expert on African-American literature and culture...known novel by an African American, Harriet...many books of criticism include Figures...African-American Literary Criticism (1988), in...
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Periodical

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...English periodical literature. The Rambler...States Before the American Revolution only...eminence for literary reviews and superior...humor and high literary standards. The...critics joined literary innovators to...literary and art criticism. The Partisan...directed toward African-American readership...
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Spingarn, Joel Elias

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...1875 1939, American educator and literary critic, b...of comparative literature at Columbia...Company. His literary work includes A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance...achievement by an African American. See...

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