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| | African American literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Despite these views, some conservative academics and intellectuals argue that African American literature only exists as part of a so-called "balkanization" of literature over the last few decades or as an extension of the culture wars into the field of literature. | | | As with any type of literature, there are disagreements as to the genre's definitions and which authors and works should be included. | | | Among the first prominent African American authors was poet Phillis Wheatley (1753–84), who published her book Poems on Various Subjects in 1773, three years before American independence. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_literature
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| | African American Literature - Handout |
| | Africans in Arizona with the Spanish ("Death of the Negro Estervan") | | | William Welles Brown "injustice of miscegenation and the plight of the female mulatto" (1853) | | | George Moses Horton -first African southern (NC) man to publish poetry; wrote on mostly religious themes. |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/courses/eng150/aahis.htm
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| | African-American Literature |
| | Writing Black A good, if somewhat limited, selection of links to texts and other resources related to literature and history written by and on African Americans. | | | Volume 3 contains author and title indexes, or you can use the publisher's Literary Index on the Web, which can also be searched by author or title. | | | A part of the Digital Schomburg, this collection provides access to the thought, perspectives and creative abilities of black women as captured in books and pamphlets published prior to 1920. |
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http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/info_resources/subjects/literature/african_am_lit.htm
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| | African American Literature |
| | But for those interested in the study of literature and the writing of literature, it is something you have to confront and think about. | | | Instead we will examine a body of literature from the African diaspora that covers an expansive period of more than three centuries. | | | "Literature of the Reconstruction to the New Negro Renaissance, 1865-1919"; Ida B. Wells-Barnett's A Red Record (541-554; 675-686) |
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http://www.boisestate.edu/english/mnewman/english213.html
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| | Online NewsHour Forum: Nellie McKay -- The Norton Anthology of African American Literature -- March 18, 1997 |
| | Because this book will be distributed in almost every part of the world in which English is spoken or taught, no one in any of those places will ever again be able to say that they do not know that the literature exists, or they do not know what to read or teach. | | | I am really appreciative that a black woman as yourself took it upon yourself to compile a book of African American literature. | | | We are required to read Shakespeare and all of the other authors people consider "classics" and there is hardly a chance to read the African American "classics." |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/march97/mckay_3-18.html
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| | African American Literature |
| | This volume includes articles on "virtually every aspect of the history and development of the literature created by persons of African descent." In addition to short biographies of authors, plot summaries and sketches of major characters, it also provides essays on critical concepts and themes within African American literature. | | | The MLA indexes critical materials on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. | | | A bibliography of women publishing creative literature in books, anthologies and periodicals between 1976 and 1987. |
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http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/resguide/afrlit.htm
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| | African-American Literature |
| | Clearly, such literature provides many important threads in the rich tapestry that is American literature. | | | You are reading some of the best works in the history of American literature. | | | This ought to be an enjoyable and interesting course. |
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http://cs1.mcm.edu/~cetheridge/afam.htm
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| | 91.01.07: African American Literature: A Contrast Between North and South |
| | Not only would students read American literature, they would be able to relate the prose or poetry to a period in history. | | | They would be able to know what was happening in our country at the time a piece of literature was written or set. | | | At the high school where I teach we coordinate the teaching of history and English. |
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http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1991/1/91.01.07.x.html
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| | Other African American Literature Collections |
| | The collection includes books, periodicals, microfilm, and manuscripts; its focus is primarily on African American literature and history in Illinois. | | | The James Weldon Johnson Collection is one of the special collections of American Literature held at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. | | | This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920. |
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http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/speccoll/OtherCollections.html
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| | African-American Literature |
| | Therefore, his life becomes, in a sense, almost like a dream or fairy tale, questing for his lost identity. | | | For more on African-Americans and 1930s-1950s literature, visit these sites: | | | Some of his best known works include "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "A Dream Deferred." |
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http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/westspringfieldhs/projects/im98/im981/lit.htm
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| | suggs |
| | In so doing, we may also find ourselves able to formulate some questions about African American texts and the law in the twentieth century as well. | | | Beyond that, we may put down some questions about the relationships between law and literature in general. | | | The texts they make are collected and utilized by society in different ways. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/teaching/suggs.html
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| | African American Bibliography; Books for Children |
| | Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager to show off her powers, travels to the New World where disguised as a human, she lives among a band of free blacks. | | | Her Stories; African American Folktales, Fairy Tales and True Tales Illus. | | | 19 tales about African American women, including three real women. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/mulafro.htm
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| | African American Literature to 1925: A Selected Secondary Bibliography |
| | Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. | | | Through a Glass Darkly: Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature. | | | Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. |
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http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/afambib.htm
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| | WebQuest: African American Literature |
| | These are just two examples of many that illustrate the fact that the composition of a canon of literature is a big deal to many people--and for good reason! | | | Susie Shelton's Canon WebQuest website sets the stage for what may be the new pedagogy for teaching literature in the future. | | | According to Sven Birkerts in Literature: the Evolving Canon who recognizes a world on the threshhold of a new millenium and says: |
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http://www.stedwards.edu/facstaffsearchresults/claweb/culf1318/quest.html
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| | Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: African: African-American: Literature |
| | The Book of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson's 1922 anthology of poems from the start of the Harlem Renaissance. | | | You Never Know - Women in Motion, acting publicist for Roxann Latimer, introduces this book's author and includes a synopsis and excerpts from the book. | | | University of Virginia etext Center: African-American - Online texts of literature by or about African-Americans. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African/African-American/Literature
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| | African American Literature |
| | These stories are early explorations of his lifelong fascination with the complex fate and beautiful absurdity of American identity. | | | He is the author of Invisible Man (1952), which won the National Book Award and became one of the most important influential postwar American novels. | | | He Say, She Say is a funny, tender look at how African Americans relate to each other through romance, |
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http://members.aol.com/edunow/african.html
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| | African-American Literature |
| | The course will begin with a survey of African-American literature from the 18th to 21st centuries that will focus mainly on twentieth century writers including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, August Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, bell hooks, and Toni Morrison. | | | However, the second half of the semester will examine unique styles, forms, and themes of the African-American literature including slave narratives, folk tales (Big John the Conqueror, “The Signifying Monkey”), invisibility, migration, urban landscape, and social protest. | | | ENGL4392 Section 70 Selected Studies in Literature: African-American Literature |
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http://www.wtamu.edu/~dwerden/African-American
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| | Teacher's Guide: Afro-American Children's Literature and Resources |
| | Inspired by an African story published in 1895, Steptoe writes about Mufaro's two beautiful daughters-Nyasha, the happy and kindly one, and Manyara, the ill-tempered and selfish one. | | | A Teacher's Guide to Afro-American Children's Literature and History in the Classroom | | | The Best in Children's Books: African-Americans in Literature |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4967/afroamer.html
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| | African American Literature |
| | African American literature from early poetry and slave narratives to contemporary writing | | | MLA Bibliography (from the Modern Language Association) covers literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide. | | | Also see "Harlem Renaissance" in TCLC volume 26. |
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http://www.pcc.edu/library/classes/flippert/eng257.htm
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| | African-American Images: Part One: A-L |
| | One outstanding book that provides a beginning framework for understanding literature and history is Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature by Barbara Curry and James Michael Brodie, and illustrated by Jerry Butler. | | | The books on the following list represent a sampling of such picture books featuring African-American children. | | | Great Women in the Struggle: Book of Black Heroes, Vol. |
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http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/afro.html
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| | African American Literature Resources |
| | American Literature Links to most major authors on the web | | | Key Sites on American Literature General, colonial, contemporary | | | "Jazz and Literature" From Donald Kennington's book The Literature of Jazz (1971) |
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http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/afrolit.html
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| | Teaching African American Literature |
| | For example, making Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man a major requirement of the required 11th-grade American Writers curriculum was a significant achievement of the English department, but a departmental meeting with TJ suggested that teachers need help in working with that book and others. | | | Brenda had made similar observations about the10th-grade English unit on the Harlem Renaissance. | | | Teachers should help students see that African Americans do not constitute a politically, philosophically, economically, or socially homogeneous group, and that their works are not windows on African American life in general but expressions of the particular visions of particular persons. |
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| | AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE |
| | The following topics are the major divisions in this section dealing with African American literature in general. | | | Documenting the history of African American literature in books | | | You can also go to a specific genre of literature: |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/africanamerican/black_lit_main.html
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| | Post-1900 African American Literature |
| | This work contains writings by women of African decent from all over the world and spans the period from ancient Egypt to the present. | | | This book contains writing by African American men ranging from Du Bois, Douglas, Washington and Garvey to Arthur Ashe and Magic Johnson to Ice T and Louis Farrakhan. | | | (Encyclopedia of Literature Jean-Paul Satre, in his existentialist text, Being and Nothingness, points out that "we are not free to cease being free" (567) and that we are "fully conscious of the choice which we are" (597). |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/irt/courses/eng11020/post1900.htm
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| | African American Literature |
| | The civil rights movement of the 1960's brought forth a number of popular autobiographies, including The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965, edited by Alex Haley), Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land (1965), and Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice (1968). | | | Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952) both describe a black man's quest for identity in a hostile world. | | | LeRoi Jones's early poems express the personal agonies of living in a prejudiced world. |
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http://www2.worldbook.com/features/aawriters/html/civilrights.html
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| | African American Literature Pathfinder |
| | Links to over 4,000 critical and biographical websites on literary criticism dealing with American and British literature from pre-1500 to the twentieth century. | | | Each literary link displayed is annotated and can be accessed by author, work or literary period. | | | then Literature then Multicultural Literature then Voices from the Gap. |
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http://www.delta.edu/library/pathfinders/africanamericanliterature.html
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| | African American Writers : Online E-texts |
| | Digitized Library of Southern Literature; Beginnings to 1920. | | | Digitized Library of Southern Literature; Beginnings to 1920 | | | On teaching the works of Sterling A. Brown by John Edgar |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/afroonline.htm
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| | African-American Women's Lit Links |
| | As an independent resource, seeingblack.com updates its literature section on a monthly basis, often giving Black women authors equal coverage in their literature section. | | | Links to sites on African American Women's Literature | | | A treasure for researchers of 19th century African American women's literature and history. |
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http://www.suite101.com/links.cfm/aaw_literature
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| | San Antonio College LitWeb African American Literature Index |
| | Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. | | | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano..., Written by Himself. | | | Hayden, Robert, from Modern American Poetry A Ballad of Remembrance. |
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http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/aframlit.htm
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| | African-American Literature |
| | This site is intended to provide books and authors of note that reflect the black experience. | | | Home > Reading & Writing > African-American Literature |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/african_american_literature
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| | Teaching African-American Literature |
| | For students who are used to the routine of swallowing and spitting out compact pellets of knowledge, the understandings that literature offers can be rewarding, and even life-changing. | | | Even so, it is crucial to include literature with ideas and experiences relevant to their lives, whatever their cultural background. | | | The experience of teaching African-American literature has led me to refine my teaching philosophy, and develop new strategies for organizing a course and approaching literary texts in the classroom. |
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http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~merrill/TAA.html
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| | English 33011: African American Literature |
| | What other reasons can you think of for why he wrote these stories this way? | | | What story does Morrison tell (or perhaps not tell) through this pair? | | | How do these patterns help us understand the novel's characters and themes? |
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http://www.personal.kent.edu/~mcutter/AAL2002.html
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| | The Harris Collection - African-American Literature |
| | A collection of poetry written by the most important and influential African American poets of the twentieth century. | | | African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century | | | Literary full-text databases of English and American poetry and prose. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/University_Library/collections/harris/Harris.AALit.html
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| | VoS - Voice of the Shuttle |
| | A Compendium of Research on the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (Rouzie, Ohio U) Includes annotated bibliography and reception history | | | "Song for Billie Holiday" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) | | | "Be-Bop Boys" (Epistrophy: Jazz in 20th Century Literature) |
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=153
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| | African American Literature Collection |
| | Frontpiece illustration of the 1773 edition of Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, African American Poet, born in Africa and later of Boston. | | | Though dedicated to African American literature as a whole, the collection focuses primarily on the Black experience in New England. | | | The companion volume, Black Writers of New England: A Bibliography, with Biographical Notes, of Books by and About Afro-American Writers Associated with New England in the Collection of African American Literature, was written by Edward Clark in 1985. |
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http://www.suffolk.edu/sawlib/speccoll/SpeccollAfroam.htm
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| | Contemporary African-American Literature |
| | This is also a tale of a mute Italian orphan boy who teaches the American soldiers and Italian villagers that miracles are the results of faith and trust. | | | The period's exceptional outpouring of black literature came to be called the Harlem Renaissance. | | | African-American literature is written by black Americans of African descent. |
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http://www.mdlib.org/divisions/raig/aamerican
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| | Welcome to African American Literature Online |
| | The purpose of this web site is to provide the reader with a comprehensive guide to African American Literature during the Twentieth Century. | | | Also, we have provided you with some significant events of each decade and the literary themes that African American authors were writing about during that decade. | | | This web site can be used as research and educational tool for all those that have an interest in African American Literature. |
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http://www.geocities.com/afam_literature
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| | African-American Literature Syllabus |
| | We will study their use of literary conventions to see how their imaginations are portrayed. | | | This is a reading and writing class In the course of the semester we will read a variety of literature by African-American writers and try to understand how their perceptions of their worlds have influenced their literature. | | | We will also discuss American history, sociology, and politics, for example, to examine the role of African-Americans in the United States, see the forces that have influenced their works, and discover the particular role the African-American writer serves in the African-American community. |
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http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/AAS/afam393.htm
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| | African-American Literature |
| | · English 348 focuses on the post-slavery tradition of African-American literature. | | | Arranged chronologically, the course touches on the literature of slavery and reconstruction and then traces the journey of African-American writers from the early decades of the twentieth century to the Harlem Renaissance (1920s), the second flowering of Modernism (1940s to 1960s), the Black Arts Movement (1960s and 1970s), and African-American literature of the present day. | | | English 348 will train you as students in your ability to think and write critically, helping you achieve an oral and written mastery of discourse appropriate to the study of language and literature. |
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http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/s.henneberg/syllabuseng348f00.html
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| | Browse the Modern English Collection -- Electronic Text Center: African American |
| | A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African prince, written by himself. | | | Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself. | | | Cabell, William D. Letter from William D. Cabell to his brother Joseph 1856 Aug. 18 |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/African-American.html
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| | African American Literature |
| | Explain why you believe the song makes a contribution to the growing body of African-American literature. | | | Describe the social commentary or image created by the song. | | | óSelect four musical songs that make a commentary about or provide an image about the lives of African Americans today. |
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http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/longview/humanities/english/edwards/afamproj.html
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| | African American Poetry - African American Literature |
| | Dunbar was the most famous African American poet, and one of the most famous American poets, of his time. | | | This sizable collection—the first published work by Eloise A. Bibb—reveals a firm command of the genre of romantic poetry. | | | Although the poetry of George Moses Horton does not overtly critique slavery, some scholars sense elements of early African American protest poetry in his writing, particularly in his later work. |
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http://www.africanaonline.com/poetry.htm
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| | African American Literature |
| | This is most evident with his work, the famous, “Up from Slavery.” In this controversial work he tells the “true” story of a slave and his upbringing through the civil war and the lessons learned. | | | Washington was a contemporary of his and at first followed him and accepted his ideals as did the African American community at large. | | | Along the way, Washington parted ways with his predecessor and disagreed on some points as well as adding some of his own personal views in speeches, actions, and importantly, literature. |
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http://jrohner.blogspot.com
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| | African American Literature |
| | Reading Wideman's novel, I got the impression that once John started teaching literature, he began exposing others to the harsh reality that was his brothers existence. | | | Though, in a way, Ellison might be advocating a sort of elitism, I find his wisdom empowering. | | | Though I do understand that the particular prison population we dealt with is one with a drug history, I find their lack of access to literature a shame—though they did have more access than other prison populations. |
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http://english213.blogspot.com
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| | African American Review: Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice. - Review - book review |
| | Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice (Book) / Reviews | | | African American Review: Teaching African American Literature: Theory and Practice. | | | Lauter's work, culminating in the publication of The Heath Anthology of American Literature in 1990, showed white professors how to pair Black, white, American Indian, and women's literature into syllabi that would accurately reflect America's diversity. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_3_34/ai_67413416
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| | JSTOR: African American Review |
| | JSTOR Collections: Arts and Sciences I, Language and Literature | | | promotes a lively exchange among writers and scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences who hold diverse perspectives on African American literature and culture. | | | Currently, the journal prints essays on African American literature, theatre, film, the visual arts, and culture generally; interviews; poetry; fiction; and book reviews. |
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/10624783.html
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