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Articles
1-258 out of 258 article(s)
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Author |
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Date |
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| The empire abroad and the empire at home; African American literature and the era of overseas expansion. |
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Book review |
Feb 1, 2013 |
160 |
| Ancient Kemet in African American literature and criticism, 1853 to the present. |
Temple, Christel N. |
Essay |
Jun 15, 2012 |
8621 |
| Tipping on a tight rope; divas in African American literature. |
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Brief article |
Jun 1, 2012 |
111 |
| African American Literary Counter-narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Era. |
Clyburn, Tifffani A. |
Author abstract |
Mar 1, 2012 |
296 |
| The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter. |
Chaney, Michael A. |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2011 |
8466 |
| The Lord Is a Man of War: John Jasper, Covenant, and Apocalypse. |
Hobson, Christopher Z. |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2011 |
10163 |
| Visions of Tribulation: White Gaze and Black Spectacle in Richard Wright's Native Son and The Outsider. |
Gercken, Becca |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2011 |
11792 |
| Assessing What Was African American Literature?; or, the state of the field in the new millennium. |
Daniels, Melissa Asher; Laski, Gregory |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2011 |
17580 |
| Integrating African American literature in the library and classroom. |
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Book review |
Dec 1, 2011 |
157 |
| Icons of African American literature; the Black literary world. |
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Book review |
Dec 1, 2011 |
166 |
| William Steward's John Blye. |
Gardner, Eric (American educator) |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
11192 |
| Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler's Kindred. |
Hua, Linh U. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
11868 |
| Gendered Narratives of Trauma and Revision in Gayl Jones's Corregidora. |
Freed, Joanne Lipson |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
8640 |
| Viewing Toni Morrison's Paradise as a Response to William Carlos Williams's Paterson. |
Barr, Jason |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
9290 |
| From Living to Eat to Writing to Live: Metaphors of Consumption and Production in Sapphire's Push. |
Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika A. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
13994 |
| William Wells Brown, Three Years in Europe, and Fugitive Tourism. |
Baraw, Charles |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2011 |
13763 |
| Freud upside down; African American literature and psychoanalytic culture. |
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Book review |
Feb 1, 2011 |
204 |
| The trope of the mulatta woman in the cottage in nineteenth-century African American literature. |
Barnes, Paula C. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2010 |
10205 |
| Black outlaws; race, law, and male subjectivity in African American literature and culture. |
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Brief article |
May 1, 2010 |
129 |
| Moses, Man of Oppression: A Twentieth-Century African American Critique of Western Theocracy. |
Lackey, Michael |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2009 |
8638 |
| Trumpets, Horns, and Typewriters: A Call and Response between Ralph Ellison and Frederick Douglass. |
Messmer, David |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2009 |
12003 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Marshall Circle: Racial Representation from Blackface to Black Naturalism. |
Daigle, Jonathan |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2009 |
17749 |
| A life in Proverbs: an interview with Anand Prahlad. |
Kuelker, Michael |
Interview |
Dec 22, 2009 |
4240 |
| African American Whiteness in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills. |
Engles, Tim |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2009 |
14563 |
| "I Could Always Feel Race Trouble ... Never More Than Two Feet Off": Chester Himes's Melancholic Perception. |
Simpson, Tyrone, II |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
9637 |
| Chester Himes, Boris Vian, and the Transatlantic Politics of Racial Representation. |
Pierrot, Gregory |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
11901 |
| On Chester Himes and Success. |
Fluet, Lisa |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
9650 |
| Everybody's Noir Humanism: Chester Himes, Lonely Crusade, and The Quality of Hurt. |
Nieland, Justus |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
12192 |
| Up Close and Personal: Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Identity and the Writer's Life. |
Adisa, Opal Palmer |
Interview |
Jun 22, 2009 |
7919 |
| Trey Ellis's Platitudes: synthesizing black voices. |
Ha, Quan Manh |
Report |
Jun 22, 2009 |
7440 |
| Lebert Joseph to the rescue: a positive trickster in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow. |
Lavender, Isiah, III |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
7506 |
| The case against Whiteness in William Wells Brown's Clotel. |
Frye, Katie |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2009 |
5464 |
| The Centennial Richard Wright Conference in Paris. |
Boyd, Melba Joyce |
Cover story |
Mar 22, 2009 |
5113 |
| Jena, Abu Ghraib, and Katrina: using popular culture to teach Wright's works. |
Madigan, Mark |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2009 |
3588 |
| A Voice Beyond the South: Resituating the Locus of Cultural Representation in the Later Writings of Anna Julia Cooper. |
Moody-Turner, Shirley |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2009 |
7652 |
| Voice in African American history. |
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Recommended readings |
Mar 1, 2009 |
5472 |
| African American historiography and community history preservation: a position paper. |
Fordham, Monroe |
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Jan 1, 2009 |
594 |
| African American literature as spiritual witness: the poetic example of Margaret Alexander Walker. |
Pierce, Yolanda |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2009 |
1582 |
| Portraits of piety: authenticating strategies in slave narratives and two antebellum African-American novels. |
Bailey, Ted |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2009 |
9117 |
| An interview with Chad Parmenter. |
Shepherd, Reginald |
Interview |
Sep 1, 2008 |
4401 |
| A negative Utopia: protest memory and the spatio-symbolism of civil rights literature and photography. |
Trodd, Zoe |
Critical essay |
Mar 22, 2008 |
8164 |
| Native Geography: Richard Wright's Work for the Federal Writers' Project in Chicago. |
Hathaway, Rosemary |
Essay |
Mar 22, 2008 |
4628 |
| A profeminist approach to African American male characters. |
Cools, Janice |
Essay |
Jan 1, 2008 |
4352 |
| Holt Releases New African American Literature Text Filled with Diverse Selections Ranging from Oral Epics to Contemporary Hip Hop. |
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Dec 18, 2007 |
406 |
| Urban lit goes legit: authors headline new ventures to bring street cred into the world of corporate publishing. |
Young, Earni |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
2250 |
| "The most dangerous organization in America": forty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party, new books amplify the story of courage, martyrdom and futility. |
Beauford, Fred |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1956 |
| Worlds of change: the latest scholarly works for fall and winter release. |
Jamison, Sandra L. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1457 |
| Hard labor: scholars chronicle the relationship of African Americans to unions and the industrialization of America. |
Crum, Dana |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1279 |
| Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy. |
Staples, Cynthia E. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
1581 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Sep 1, 2006 |
743 |
| Selected titles: here are brief takes on some recent novels and nonfiction books by independent authors. |
Grimes, Lisa |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
461 |
| Beloved beloved. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2006 |
576 |
| The new bestsellers: titles with ready-made audiences and mega-media support are delivering new challenges and rewards to publishers. |
Smikle, Ken |
Cover story |
Jul 1, 2006 |
1917 |
| Well, it can't hurt ... does the New York Times best-seller list matter for black books? |
Dawkins, Wayne |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
1527 |
| "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in Antebellum African American slave narratives. |
Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
8830 |
| The conspiracy of masculinity in Ishmael Reed. |
Strombeck, Andrew |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
7278 |
| The art of Tom Dent: notes on early evidence. |
Ward, Jerry W., Jr. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
3419 |
| Nellie McKay--a memorial. |
Moody, Joycelyn |
Editorial |
Mar 22, 2006 |
20931 |
| "The Nellie Tree," or, disbanding the Wheatley Court. |
Rutledge, Gregory |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
15882 |
| "A direction of one's own": alienation in Mrs. Dalloway and Sula. |
Fulton, Lorie Watkins |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
6967 |
| Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff's Abeng and Danzy Senna's Caucasia. |
Dagbovie, Sika Alaine |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
10732 |
| "In the glad flesh of my fear": Corporeal Inscriptions in Richard Bruce Nugent's Geisha Man. |
Schmidt, Tyler T. |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
6654 |
| Dual heritage: new resources offer clues to the hidden legacy of Afro-Native American kinships. |
Meeks, Nia Ngina |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
1377 |
| Just the facts: reference works on African Americans are foundations of a good home library. |
Carter, Zakia |
Bibliography |
Jan 1, 2006 |
1341 |
| Between mission and message: just how Christian is this "Christian fiction"? |
Sanders, Alvelyn J. |
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Jan 1, 2006 |
2108 |
| BIBR's best of 2005: a roundup of the year's best books from a bumper crop of new novels by seasoned African American talents, as well as noteworthy debuts. |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1497 |
| The city that reads together ... as "One Book" programs mushroom, so do sales for a select few African American authors. |
Young, Earni |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1405 |
| Retail report--2005: Florida bookseller comes full circle, as others take off in new directions. |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1245 |
| What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over in fiction. |
Southgate, Martha |
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Nov 1, 2005 |
1290 |
| University presses just keep on rollin': a roundup of fall and winter releases from the halls of academia. |
Jamison, Sandra L. |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
1254 |
| Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books. |
Meeks, Nia Ngina |
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May 1, 2005 |
880 |
| "We looked like salt and pepper": children's perception of race in short stories by southern women writers. |
Bulgozdi, Imola |
Essay |
Jan 1, 2005 |
5370 |
| William Faulkner reprised: isolation in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. |
Fulton, Lorie Watkins |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2004 |
6973 |
| BIBR best of 2004. |
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Nov 1, 2004 |
1536 |
| "Try to refrain from that desire": self-control and violent passion in Oscar Micheaux's African American Western. |
Johnson, Michael K. |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
11194 |
| National socialism and blood-sacrifice in Zora Neale Hurston's Moses, Man of the Mountain. |
Thompson, Mark Christian |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
13695 |
| Not entirely strange, but not entirely friendly either: images of Jews in African American passing novels through the Harlem renaissance. |
Meyer, Adam |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
6353 |
| "Like a violin for the wind to play": lyrical approaches to lynching by Hughes, Du Bois, and Toomer. |
Banks, Kimberly |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
9182 |
| Inverting history in Octavia Butler's postmodern slave narrative. |
Steinberg, Marc |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
6044 |
| Hard-boiled black easy: genre conventions in A Red Death. |
Gray, W. Russel |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
5728 |
| "Passing on" death: stealing life in Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Aguiar, Sarah Appleton |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2004 |
4294 |
| A short history of contemporary black erotic fiction: the best of black erotic literature since 1992 reveals as much about our souls and how they connect as it does about how we entangle and unite our bodies. |
Carroll, Denolyn |
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Sep 1, 2004 |
821 |
| It's urban, it's real, but is this literature? Controversy rages over a new genre whose sales are headed off the charts. |
Mingo, Yvette |
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Sep 1, 2004 |
1892 |
| Cultural rhythms of summer reading. |
Cox, William E. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2004 |
457 |
| To everything a season. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2004 |
612 |
| Hot summer reads: something hot, not too heavy: sizzling selections for summer: the books everybody will be reading and talking about this summer, or at least the ones the publishers hope will catch fire. |
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Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
3837 |
| High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events. |
Davis, Bernadette Adams |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
1075 |
| Documenting a black gay and lesbian literary canon: for four years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has been compiling an archive from underground, small press and self-published work--and the rest is history in the making. |
Wright, Kai |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
583 |
| How to market black gay and lesbian books: Southern California's Matais Books relies on the power of community and the appeal of a literary salon. |
Pouncil, Matais |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
923 |
| Ten years of sizzling chocolate kisses and lasting love: now under BET Books, Arabesque celebrates a decade as black romance publisher. |
Patrick, Diane |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
1365 |
| Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year. |
Houser, Pat |
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Jul 1, 2004 |
595 |
| Other titles of interest. |
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Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
169 |
| Blue-ribbon choices: a librarian-recommended, kid-approved summer reading list. |
Jeter, Chrystal Carr |
Bibliography |
Jul 1, 2004 |
1128 |
| Cutting out the middlemen. |
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Brief Article |
May 1, 2004 |
83 |
| The goings-on at the 2004 BookExpo: this year, all eyes and ears in the publishing industry will focus on Chicago, host city of BookExpo America. |
Green, Robin |
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May 1, 2004 |
1136 |
| "American Dream" classics for kids: the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Awards, now celebrating its 35th year, set a standard for African American literature for children. |
Atkins, Elizabeth |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
1241 |
| Hip-hop lit. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
274 |
| Return to romance. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
118 |
| Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too. |
Dawkins, Wayne |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
882 |
| Guess who's coming to a theater near you? Only a few movies adapted from books by black authors make their way to the silver screen. A handful of intriguing projects now in development are poised to beat new and diversified paths through Hollywood. |
Ross, Michael E. |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
1403 |
| Blair Underwood goes for the greenlight: a six-year journey to develop and star in a film based on Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep catches fire in a partnership with an enthusiastic studio. Here's the story so far in bringing one popular black novel to the screen. |
McHenry, Susan |
Cover Story |
Jan 1, 2004 |
1686 |
| To each, his or her own genre: five hot African American writers who are creating novels for every kind of popular taste. |
Davis, Bernadette Adams |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
1101 |
| Precocious kid authors: three youthful writers make their own successful way into print. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
654 |
| Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance. |
Houser, Pat |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
706 |
| Black history for the young: books recommended for every age that teach about our heritage. |
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Bibliography |
Jan 1, 2004 |
1030 |
| Just Us Books 15th anniversary. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2004 |
171 |
| The African American book fair. |
Rust, Suzanne |
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Jan 1, 2004 |
450 |
| Dead letter office: conspiracy, trauma, and Song of Solomon's posthumous communication. |
Rothberg, Michael |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
9819 |
| Rumors of Grace: white masculinity in Pauline Hopkins's contending forces. |
McCoy, Beth |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2003 |
7681 |
| Race, human empathy, and negative capability: the poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa (1). |
Salas, Angela M. |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2003 |
9087 |
| Banned somewhere in the U.S.A.: many African American classics are consigned to another insidious "black list". |
Reynolds, Clarence V. |
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Sep 1, 2003 |
808 |
| The trials and triumphs of American literature. |
Fleming, Robert |
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Sep 1, 2003 |
2385 |
| The brothers Karibu: from street sales to a five-store chain. (market buzz). |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
708 |
| Fiction for the faithful: Denise Stinson's imprint, Walk Worthy Press, stakes out a future for Christian fiction. (faith). |
Stanley, Kathryn V. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
594 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
712 |
| Erotica--his and hers. |
Bashir, Samiya A. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
1606 |
| Interactive marketing the old-fashioned way: publisher applies contest strategy to sell African American mystery. |
Townes, Glenn |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
435 |
| The first to know: Orlando, Florida, reader wins $10,000 when she figures out who killed Tiffany Jones. |
Townes, Glenn |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2003 |
412 |
| Home on my mind: novels about special places in our history. (Fiction). |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
2908 |
| A song with a story of its own: scholar Cecil Brown's search for the oft-sung exploits of Stagolee underscores the indelible power of our oral culture. (Bibliomane). |
Dodson, Angela P. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
1170 |
| Spoken words: storytelling festivals continue the griot tradition. |
Simmons, Judy D. |
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Jul 1, 2003 |
874 |
| Baraka's bohemian blues. |
Gennari, John |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
4284 |
| The space machine: Baraka and science fiction. |
Youngquist, Paul |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
6615 |
| Sometimes funny, but most times deadly serious: Amiri Baraka as political satirist. |
Davidson, Jiton Sharmayne |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2003 |
4137 |
| Other nature: resistance to ecological hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman. |
Myers, Jeffrey |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
10199 |
| "This strange communion": surveillance and spectatorship in Ann Petry's The Street. |
Hicks, Heather |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
11148 |
| Richard Wright's Lawd Today! And the political uses of modernism. |
Costello, Brannon |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
8623 |
| Transgressing race and community in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go. |
Itagaki, Lynn M. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
11141 |
| "1 + 1 = 3" and other dilemmas: reading vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon. |
Thomas, Valorie D. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
8132 |
| Truth in timbre: Morrison's extension of slave narrative song in Beloved. |
Capuano, Peter J. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5175 |
| Master-slave dialectics in Charles Johnson's "The Education of Mingo". |
Selzer, Linda |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
6126 |
| Langston Hughes's "Mississippi--1955": a note on revisions and an appeal for reconsideration. |
Metress, Christopher |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5350 |
| Awards. |
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Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2003 |
222 |
| The big book push: from the King holiday through Black History Month, publishers do their biggest business in African-American books. But is it the best way to promote black literary culture? |
Irish-Underwood, Lesleigh |
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Jan 1, 2003 |
1775 |
| "Illuminating the darkened corridors": an interview with Alexs Pate. |
Link, Katherine |
Interview |
Dec 22, 2002 |
8468 |
| Crossing Western space, or the HooDoo detective on the boundary in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. |
Swope, Richard |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
11100 |
| Golden gray and the talking book: identity as a site of artful construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz. |
Brown, Caroline |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
8261 |
| Re-imagining agency: Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Michael, Magali Cornier |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
11567 |
| An abiku-ogbanje Atlas: a pre-text for rereading Soyinka's Ake and Morrison's Beloved. |
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Dec 22, 2002 |
9532 |
| A book about book clubs. (Books N clubs). |
Houser, Pat |
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Nov 1, 2002 |
1085 |
| Tribute: a life devoted to books: Alfred Ligon 1906-2002. |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
Obituary |
Nov 1, 2002 |
791 |
| Hybrid embodiment and an ethics of masochism: Nella Larsen's Passing and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose. |
Basu, Biman |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
12130 |
| Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood, Africa, and the "Darwinist trap". |
Japtok, Martin |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
7834 |
| Constructing childhood: the Christian Recorder and literature for black children, 1854-1865. |
Haywood, Chanta M. |
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Sep 22, 2002 |
6891 |
| The feminism of Dorothy West's The Living Is Easy: a critique of the limitations of the female sphere through performative gender roles. |
Sanders, Pamela Peden |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
7412 |
| Bambara's feisty girls: resistance narratives in Gorilla, My Love. |
Muther, Elizabeth |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
8040 |
| Other works received. |
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Bibliography |
Sep 22, 2002 |
8499 |
| Aesthetic modes in Afro-American fiction: Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. (Literary Criticism). |
Nama, Charles |
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Sep 22, 2002 |
3021 |
| Writer on the Left: Class and Race in Ellison's Early Fiction. |
Mazurek, Raymond A. |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
12473 |
| BIBR talks with Connie Briscoe. |
Green-Cary, Robin |
Interview |
Sep 1, 2002 |
895 |
| Role reversal: Hollywood writers take their act from print to screen and vice versa. |
Kennedy, Lisa |
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Jul 1, 2002 |
2182 |
| The art of black writers collectives. |
Moore, Lenard D. |
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Jul 1, 2002 |
2014 |
| Art, literature, and the Harlem Renaissance: the messages of God's Trombones. |
Carroll, Anne |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2002 |
10541 |
| Spring cleaning, spiritual healing. (faith). |
Hunt, Sharita |
Editorial |
May 1, 2002 |
1956 |
| Jailhouse bards. (self publishing). |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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May 1, 2002 |
821 |
| Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris Rising: new wine in an old wine skin. |
Agho, Jude A. |
Critical Essay |
Apr 1, 2002 |
4925 |
| Events corner. |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2002 |
230 |
| The new literary blackface. |
Jordan, Jennifer |
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Mar 1, 2002 |
1350 |
| Deals. (between the lines). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
Nov 1, 2001 |
200 |
| Solid gold: the Black Writers Alliance, formerly the African American Online Writers Guild, presented their 2001 Gold Pen Awards at a banquet held during the 2001 Black Writers Reunion and Conference in Dallas, Texas. |
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Brief Article |
Nov 1, 2001 |
309 |
| Expatriate genius: a black man from America's heartland, Chester B. Himes (1909-1984) wandered from pre-med studies to prison to poverty and exile in Europe. Still, he became a writer's writer. (tribute). |
Lindsay, Tony |
Critical Essay |
Nov 1, 2001 |
1033 |
| Connoisseurs, cognoscenti & collectors: black book enthusiasts are transforming their personal libraries into meaningful collections--and a few are finding gold in their sentimental attachments. |
Bowman, Elizabeth Atkins |
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Nov 1, 2001 |
1422 |
| from the editor-in-chief. |
COX, WILLIAM E. |
Editorial |
Sep 1, 2001 |
384 |
| From the Streets to the Ivory Tower. |
McHENRY, SUSAN |
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Sep 1, 2001 |
1136 |
| Self-published authors are going mainstream. |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
82 |
| Roots: The Silver Anniversary. |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
165 |
| Romance writer extraordinaire Francis Ray celebrated the release of her latest book. |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
81 |
| After the success of their romance book imprint Arabesque, the first line of original African-American romance novels from a major publishing house, BET Books has launched Sepia, a bold new imprint featuring fiction from award-winning authors as well as new voices. |
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Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
89 |
| on the shelf. |
JONES, MONDELLA S. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
189 |
| A Brief History of African-American Mysteries. |
Lindsay, Tony |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
470 |
| The Legacy of GHETTO PULP FICTION. |
Osborne, Gwendolyn |
Critical Essay |
Sep 1, 2001 |
1377 |
| WHY HIP-HOP HEADS LOVE DONALD GOINES. |
Grant, Tracy |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
819 |
| OLD SCHOOL MASTERS OF BLAXPLOITATION LIT. |
G.O. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
807 |
| Ebony Accents in the Ivory Tower. |
Dodson, Angela |
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Sep 1, 2001 |
2421 |
| Recent and Forthcoming Black-Interest Titles from University Presses. |
|
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
833 |
| Package Makes Perfect. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2001 |
780 |
| Reading the Fine Print. |
McHENRY, SUSAN |
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Jul 1, 2001 |
693 |
| Toni Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and Postmodern Popular Audiences. |
Young, John |
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Jun 22, 2001 |
14007 |
| "A Gentleman of Superior Cultivation and Refinement": Recovering the Biography of Frank J. Webb. |
Gardner, Eric |
|
Jun 22, 2001 |
7461 |
| God's Reading Rainbow. |
Hunt, Sharita |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
815 |
| Things not seen. |
Hunt, Sharita |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
285 |
| Soul Food. |
|
Bibliography |
May 1, 2001 |
675 |
| Nonfiction Titles. |
|
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
118 |
| Stocking Bargain Bin. |
Dodson, Angela |
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May 1, 2001 |
2035 |
| OnLine Booksellers. |
Thomas, Michele D. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
170 |
| Web Wonders. |
Estrada, Sheryl |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
279 |
| Let's Hear It for the Boys. |
Houser, Pat |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
727 |
| CLIMBING THE CRYSTAL STAIR. |
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Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
346 |
| Alternative Choices. |
|
Brief Article |
May 1, 2001 |
254 |
| Tough Issues, Tender Minds. |
Bashir, Samiya A. |
Critical Essay |
May 1, 2001 |
1145 |
| Phenomenal Women, Everyday Poets. |
McHENRY, SUSAN |
Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2001 |
598 |
| Literary Motherland. |
Estrada, Sheryl |
Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2001 |
562 |
| Calculating African American Bestsellers. |
Dodson, Angela |
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Mar 1, 2001 |
1292 |
| The Author-Book Club Connection. |
Houser, Pat |
Brief Article |
Mar 1, 2001 |
938 |
| Black. |
Shavers, Rone |
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Jan 1, 2001 |
1346 |
| Online Booksellers. |
Thomas, Michele D. |
Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2001 |
81 |
| A Good Man is Hard to Find. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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Nov 1, 2000 |
2041 |
| African-American Authors. |
Nelson, Corinne |
|
Oct 1, 2000 |
1179 |
| Haiti and Black Transnationalism: Remapping the Migrant Geography of Home to Harlem. |
Lowney, John |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2000 |
10570 |
| W. E. B. Du Bois vs. "the Sons of the Fathers" [1]: A Reading of The Souls of Black Folk in the Context of American Nationalism. |
Velikova, Roumiana |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2000 |
7326 |
| Neither Fish, flesh, Nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt. |
Fleischmann, Anne |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2000 |
7819 |
| "The Kindergarten of New Consciousness": Gwendolyn Brooks and the Social Construction of Childhood. |
Flynn, Richard |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2000 |
10603 |
| The Map and the Territory: An Interview with Michael S. Harper. |
Antonucci, Michael |
Interview |
Sep 22, 2000 |
4825 |
| executive editor's view. |
MCHENRY, SUSAN |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2000 |
638 |
| From the Wild, Wild West to Harlem's Literary Salons. |
Samuels, Wilfred D. |
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Sep 1, 2000 |
1286 |
| The Whole World View. |
Woods, Regina L. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2000 |
288 |
| Reconnecting to the Wonder ... |
McHENRY, SUSAN |
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Jul 1, 2000 |
479 |
| Working the "Black Expo" Circuit. |
Dodson, Angela |
|
Jul 1, 2000 |
1554 |
| The Story Must Go On and On: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jazz. |
Cutter, Martha J. |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2000 |
9327 |
| Embodying Cultural Memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow. |
Rogers, Susan |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2000 |
10685 |
| Faith flight (from Salvation Song). |
Young, Reggie |
Excerpt |
Mar 22, 2000 |
8595 |
| The Worm Against the Word: The Hermeneutical Challenge in Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine. |
Ciuba, Gary |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2000 |
8910 |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism. |
Prahlad, Anand |
|
Dec 22, 1999 |
6204 |
| Teaching African-American literature in Turkey: the politics of pedagogy. |
Demirturk, E. Lale |
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Mar 22, 1999 |
4769 |
| Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and the fading subject. |
Sullivan, Neil |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
8985 |
| Zora Neale Hurston and the post-modern self in 'Dust Tracks on a Road.' |
Walker, Pierre A. |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
8593 |
| "The world in a jug and the stopper in (her) hand": 'Their Eyes' as blues performance. |
Johnson, Maria V. |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
8693 |
| Looking into the self that is no self: an examination of subjectivity in 'Beloved.' |
Holden-Kirwan, Jennifer L. |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
7452 |
| An interview with Brent Wade. |
Leak, Jeffrey B. |
Interview |
Sep 22, 1998 |
4800 |
| "Kin' o'rough jestice fer a parson": Pauline Hopkins's 'Winona' and the politics of reconstructing history. |
Patterson, Martha H. |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
9866 |
| The new "New Negro": recasting the Harlem Renaissance. |
Berg, Allison |
Bibliography |
Sep 22, 1998 |
4015 |
| To blot it all out: the politics of realism in Richard Wright's 'Native Son.'. |
DeCoste, Damon Marcel |
|
Mar 22, 1998 |
10865 |
| Kalamu ya Salaam: a primary bibliography (in progress). |
Ward, Jerry W., Jr. |
Bibliography |
Dec 22, 1997 |
9762 |
| III. Postbellum (1865-1920). |
|
Bibliography |
Aug 6, 1997 |
6223 |
| Samuel R. Delany: an introduction. |
Sallis, James |
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Sep 22, 1996 |
2729 |
| Black man/gay man/writer ... prodigy: the quest for identity in Delany's early work. |
Lunde, David |
|
Sep 22, 1996 |
4528 |
| "Strange, history. Complicated, too": Ishmael Reed's use of African-American history in 'Flight to Canada.' |
Davis, Matthew R. |
|
Sep 22, 1996 |
4633 |
| "So you want a history, do you?": epistemologies and 'The Chaneysville Incident.' |
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn |
|
Sep 22, 1996 |
8215 |
| Introduction: history and the African-American Voice. |
Winchell, Donna Haisty |
|
Sep 22, 1996 |
901 |
| Cries of outrage: three novelists' use of history. |
Winchell, Donna Haisty |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 1996 |
6724 |
| "Strange, history. Complicated, too": Ishmael Reed's use of African-American history in Flight to Canada. |
Davis, Matthew R. |
|
Sep 22, 1996 |
4639 |
| "So you want a history, do you?": epistemologies and The Chaneysville Incident. |
Kubitschek, Missy Dehn |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 1996 |
8227 |
| "The ring of singing metal on wood": Zora Neale Hurston's artistry in "The Gilded Six-Bits". |
Chinn, Nancy; Dunn, Elizabeth E. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 1996 |
7349 |
| Teaching to the contemporary crisis: notes on English 223 - prison, race and social justice. |
Carey-Webb, Allen |
|
Oct 1, 1995 |
7580 |
| Black Christ, red flag: Langston Hughes on Scottsboro. |
Thurston, Michael |
|
Oct 1, 1995 |
9472 |
| From the far side of the urban frontier: the detective fiction of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley. |
Crooks, Robert |
|
Oct 1, 1995 |
10883 |
| "Leavin' a mark on the wor(l)d": marksmen and marked men in 'Middle Passage.' |
Goudie, S.X. |
|
Mar 22, 1995 |
8499 |
| 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? |
Brown, Carolyn M, |
Industry Overview |
Feb 1, 1995 |
3183 |
| THe year of the Black author. |
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Feb 1, 1995 |
598 |
| Recovering the conjure woman: texts and contexts in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day.' (Black Women's Culture Issue) |
Tucker, Lindsey |
|
Jun 22, 1994 |
9353 |
| Giving blood to the scraps, haints, history, and Hosea in 'Beloved.' (Black Women's Culture Issue) |
Broad, Robert L. |
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Jun 22, 1994 |
4252 |
| Early black women playwrights and the dual liberation motif. |
Harris, Will |
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Jun 22, 1994 |
9650 |
| Listening to the lower frequencies: Ralph Ellison (1914-1994). |
McPherson, James Alan |
Obituary |
Jun 22, 1994 |
2229 |
| Our love/hate relationship with Zora Neale Hurston. |
Williams, Donna M. |
Biography |
Jan 1, 1994 |
1824 |
| Blues, history and the dramaturgy of August Wilson. |
Plum, Jay |
|
Dec 22, 1993 |
3624 |
| Reading Mammy: the subject of relation in Sherley Anne Williams' 'Dessa Rose.' (Women's Culture Issue) |
Rushdy, Ashraf H.A. |
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Sep 22, 1993 |
15309 |
| Speaking of the body's pain: Harriet Wilson's 'Our Nig.' (Women's Culture Issue) |
Davis, Cynthia J. |
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Sep 22, 1993 |
7881 |
| "The whole picture" in Gloria Naylor's 'Mama Day.' (Women's Culture Issue) |
Meisenhelder, Susan |
|
Sep 22, 1993 |
8991 |
| "'His feet on your neck'": the new religion in the works of Ernest J. Gaines. |
Papa, Lee |
|
Jun 22, 1993 |
3865 |
| Alice Walker's vision of the South in 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland.' (Black South Fiction, Art, Culture) |
Butler, Robert James |
|
Jun 22, 1993 |
5430 |
| The fusion of ideas: an interview with Margaret Walker Alexander. |
Graham, Maryemma |
Interview |
Jun 22, 1993 |
4338 |
| Albert Murray: literary reconstruction of the vernacular community. |
Carson, Warren |
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Jun 22, 1993 |
5053 |
| The necessity of blacks' writing fiction about the South. |
Andrews, Raymond |
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Jun 22, 1993 |
1276 |
| Fire-casting an eternal de-fascination with death: writing about the South, and the responsible necessity of reading and knowing black South writing in the quest for Afrikan world salvation and restitution. |
Cheatwood, Kiarri T.-H. |
|
Jun 22, 1993 |
7525 |
| "'... Ah said Ah'd save de text for you'": recontextualizing the sermon to tell (her)story in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' (Black South Fiction, Art, Culture) |
Hubbard, Dolan |
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Jun 22, 1993 |
6808 |
| Bontemps and the Old South. |
Jones, Kirkland C. |
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Jun 22, 1993 |
3745 |
| African-American critical discourse and the invention of cultural identities. |
Olaniyan, Tejumola |
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Dec 22, 1992 |
7204 |
| "Race" and hermeneutics: paradigm shift - from scientific to hermeneutic understanding of race. |
Esonwanne, Uzo |
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Dec 22, 1992 |
10304 |
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