Teaching Four African American Female Poets in Context: Lucy Terry, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, and Sonia Sanchez
On the basis of “Bars Fight, August 28, 1746,” a single poem written in the eighteenth century and published nearly one hundred years later in 1855, Lucy Terry (Prince) became a compelling presence… African American Women’s Writing
This chapter begins by tracing a historical and critical background to African American women’s writing and moves on to consider some of the main themes and key writers. In their work, African… The Urge to Adorn: Generational Wit and the Birth of The Signifying Monkey
What ever the Negro does of his own volition he embellishes. His religious service is for the greater part excellent prose poetry. Both prayers and sermons are true works of art. The supplication is… Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aime Cesaire
Following a brief discussion of the critical genealogy of "modernity" and "modernism" vis-a-vis African American and Caribbean literature, this essay explores how Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire use…
The Colors of Zion: Black, Jewish, and Irish Nationalisms At the Turn of the Century
George Bornstein is C. A. Patrides Professor of Literature at the University of Michigan. His numerous books on and editions of modernist literature include most recently Material Modernism: The…
Flickers of the Spirit: "Black Independent Film," Reflexive Reception, and a Blues Cinema Sublime
This essay considers the term black independent film along with critical rhetoric that relies on the blues to analyze and celebrate the authenticity or blackness of its aesthetics. Early…
James Matthews: From Cry Rage to the New South African Nation
ABSTRACT Legendary South African poet, fiction writer, and activist, James Matthews exemplifies the path from “dissident” writing to contemporary engagement with community issues in Cape Town. Author…
A PANORAMIC GLANCE AT AFRICAN – AMERICAN LITERATURE
This paper delves into the various strands of cultural production of African oral and written literature, significant landmark works in the canon, prominent male and female writers, influence of… RE-MEMBERING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN PAST
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was part of the New Negro Movement that swept the USA in the early twentieth century. Through fiction, poetry, essays, music, theatre, sculpture, painting and…
“Belch the pity! / Straddle the city!”: Helene Johnson’s Late Poetry and the Rhetoric of Empowerment
Complementing recent critical efforts to recuperate Helene Johnson as a seminal voice of the 1920s and ’30s, this essay considers her late poems, which have been critically understudied thus far.…
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