Black category: 406 books
Who Can Afford to Improvise?
James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlić offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James...
Deans and Truants
Race and Realism in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on black characters or political themes? Must it represent these within a specific stylistic range? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? In Deans and Truants, Gene Andrew Jarrett traces the...
Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature
From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several...
Forgotten Readers
Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations,...
by Christel N. Temple
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Literary Pan-Africanism: History, Contexts, and Criticism (2005) and Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature (2007),have been some of the most influential models of contemporary Africana Studies-based literary criticism, responds to the demand for a core disciplinary source that...
Afro-Atlantic Flight
Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary,...
Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes...
In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
The Later Writings of Eric Walrond
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Set in the Caribbean, Panama, the U.S., and England, [Walrond’s] fiction captures the experiences of working-class peoples, often migrants, as they confront the depredations of colonialism, racial prejudice, and economic exploitation. . . . A significant and fascinating collection."--African...
by Teresa C. Zackodnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which...
Conjuring Freedom
Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army”
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
*Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” *analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious, political,...
Laughing Fit to Kill
Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Reassessing the meanings of "black humor" and "dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic "conjuring"--the absurd, the grotesque, and the strategic expression of racial stereotypes--to redress not only the...
Critical Appropriations
African American Women and the Construction of Transnational Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black identity, as created by African American women, is more than a product of geographic mobility. Rather, as author Simone C. Drake shows, these constructions illuminate our understanding...
Black Print Unbound
The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans, Black Print Unbound is at once a massive recovery...
by Matt Brim
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim’s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate...