Criticism and interpretation subtopic
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Articles
1-87 out of 87 article(s)
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Author |
Type |
Date |
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| "What would be on the other side?": spectrality and spirit work in Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Anderson, Melanie R. |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2008 |
10311 |
| Audre Lorde's "Afterimages": history, scripture, myth, and nightmare. |
Kolin, Philip C. |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2008 |
1535 |
| An end of Southern history: the down-home quests of Toni Morrison and Colson Whitehead. |
Ramsey, William |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2007 |
10803 |
| Postmodernism, pop music, and blues practice in Nelson George's post-soul culture. |
Jones, David M. |
Critical essay |
Dec 22, 2007 |
17193 |
| Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices and World War II-era civic nationalism. |
Shiffman, Dan |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
8879 |
| "The uses and hazards of expatriation": Richard Wright's cosmopolitanism in process. |
Weik, Alexa |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
10399 |
| "Simply a menaced boy": analogizing color, undoing dominance in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. |
Abur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
6213 |
| Harlem is burning: urban rioting and the "black underclass" in Chester Himes's Blind Man with a Pistol. |
Heise, Thomas |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
12859 |
| William Wells Brown's Narrative & traveling subjectivity. |
Lucasi, Stephen |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
11641 |
| Object written, written object: slavery, scarring, and complications of authorship in Beloved. |
Durkin, Anita |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
10599 |
| Bourgeois blackness and autobiographical authenticity in Ellen Tarry's The Third Door. |
Brown, Stephanie |
Critical essay |
Sep 22, 2007 |
8873 |
| The south in Richard Wright's haiku. |
Zheng, Jianqing |
Critical essay |
Mar 1, 2007 |
859 |
| Immigration and labor patterns in Toni Morrison's Sula. |
Sathyaraj, V.; Neelakantan, G. |
Critical essay |
Mar 1, 2007 |
943 |
| Disrupting racial performances in Amiri Baraka's Police. |
Kolin, Philip C. |
Critical essay |
Jan 1, 2007 |
1181 |
| Que(e)rying the prison-house of Black male desire: homosociality in Ernest Gaines's "three men". |
Clark, Keith |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
9794 |
| Revising critical judgments of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. |
Andrade, Heather Russell |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
8221 |
| 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 |
| The need to speak: Tom Dent and the shaping of a black aesthetic. |
Thomas, Lorenzo |
Critical essay |
Jun 22, 2006 |
7801 |
| Traveling identities: mixed race quests and Fran Ross's Oreo. |
Leverette, Tru |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
7631 |
| 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 |
| Oratory, embodiment, and US citizenship in Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio. |
Karafilis, Maria |
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Mar 22, 2006 |
11255 |
| Among friends: young readers give author Marie Bradby feedback on her book and their lives. |
Baye, Betty Winston |
Panel Discussion |
Jul 1, 2005 |
2881 |
| "Civil" War wounds: William Wells Brown, violence, and the domestic narrative. |
James, Jennifer |
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Mar 22, 2005 |
10158 |
| Triple crown winner: in the hot category of urban fiction, ex-offender Victoria Stringer self-published her story and launched her successful, independent press. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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May 1, 2004 |
912 |
| Reading Hurston writing. |
Laudun, John |
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Mar 22, 2004 |
10614 |
| 35 years as a literary maverick: Clarence Major is revered and respected for his literary achievements. He's just not as widely known as he should be. |
Fleming, Robert |
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Mar 1, 2004 |
2644 |
| 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 |
| Truth in timbre: Morrison's extension of slave narrative song in Beloved. |
Capuano, Peter J. |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5175 |
| Langston Hughes's "Mississippi--1955": a note on revisions and an appeal for reconsideration. |
Metress, Christopher |
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Mar 22, 2003 |
5350 |
| 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 |
| Aesthetic modes in Afro-American fiction: Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. (Literary Criticism). |
Nama, Charles |
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Sep 22, 2002 |
3021 |
| Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian. |
Moos, Dan |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
15222 |
| Preachin' and singin' just to make it over: the gospel impulse as survival strategy in Leon Forrest's Bloodworth Trilogy. |
Williams, Dana |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2002 |
6886 |
| Who owns the whip?: Chesnutt, Tourgee, and Reconstruction justice. |
Hardwig, Bill |
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Mar 22, 2002 |
9344 |
| Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Case of Angelo Herndon. |
Griffiths, Frederick T. |
Critical Essay |
Dec 22, 2001 |
14000 |
| Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(bio)ethnography. |
Chaney, Michael A. |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2001 |
10185 |
| Slouching toward Beastliness: Richard Wright's Anatomy of Thomas Dixon. |
Eby, Clare |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2001 |
12585 |
| from the editor-in-chief. |
COX, WILLIAM E. |
Editorial |
Sep 1, 2001 |
384 |
| 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 |
| The One All-Black Town Worth the Pain: (African) American Exceptionalism, Historical Narration, and the Critique of Nationhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise. |
Dalsgard, Katrine |
Critical Essay |
Jun 22, 2001 |
9314 |
| Soul Food. |
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Bibliography |
May 1, 2001 |
675 |
| 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 |
| Invented by Horror: The Gothic and African American Literary Ideology in Native Son. |
Smethurst, James |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2001 |
7342 |
| Mule Bone: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's Dream Deferred of an African-American Theatre of the Black Word. |
Manuel, Carme |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2001 |
10209 |
| Power and Knowledge in Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress. |
Wesley, Marilyn C. |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2001 |
8560 |
| Suicide or Messianic Self-Sacrifice?: Exhuming Willa's Body in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills. |
Okonkwo, Christopher N. |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2001 |
8908 |
| "Looking at One's Self Through the Eyes of Others": W. E. B. Du Bois's Photographs for the 1900 Paris Exposition. |
Smith, Shown Michelle |
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Dec 22, 2000 |
9271 |
| Waste and Whiteness: Zora Neale Hurston and the Politics of Eugenics. |
Jackson, Chuck |
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Dec 22, 2000 |
14627 |
| African-American Authors. |
Nelson, Corinne |
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Oct 1, 2000 |
1179 |
| Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction. |
Ryan, Katy |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 2000 |
15337 |
| Embodying Cultural Memory in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow. |
Rogers, Susan |
Critical Essay |
Mar 22, 2000 |
10685 |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Folklore, Folkloristics, and African American Literary Criticism. |
Prahlad, Anand |
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Dec 22, 1999 |
6204 |
| Racial Violence and Representation: Performance Strategies in Lynching Dramas of the 1920s. |
Stephens, Judith L. |
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Dec 22, 1999 |
10290 |
| Du Bois the Novelist: White Influence, Black Spirit, and The Quest of the Silver Fleece. |
Lee, Maurice |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 1999 |
7388 |
| The Mirror and the Veil: The Passing Novel and the Quest for American Racial Identity. |
Sheehy, John |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 1999 |
9286 |
| From No Man's Land to Mother-land: Emasculation and Nationalism in Richard Wright's Depression Era Urban Novels. |
Dawahare, Anthony |
Critical Essay |
Sep 22, 1999 |
9602 |
| "Payin' one's dues": expatriation as personal experience and paradigm in the works of James Baldwin. |
Tomlinson, Robert |
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Mar 22, 1999 |
9089 |
| A preacher's son. |
Wycliff, Don |
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Oct 9, 1998 |
1202 |
| Ishmael Reed's inductive narratology of detection. |
Ludwig, Sami |
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Sep 22, 1998 |
6013 |
| Beneath the Black aesthetic: James Baldwin's primer of Black American masculinity. |
Hudson, Barbara |
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Jun 22, 1998 |
9145 |
| Call-and-response: parallel "slave narrative" in August Wilson's 'The Piano Lesson.' (African American author) |
Boan, Devon |
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Jun 22, 1998 |
5314 |
| "Keepin' it real": Walter Dean Myers and the promise of African-American children's literature. |
Lane, R.D. |
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Mar 22, 1998 |
8173 |
| The horror of Bigger Thomas: the perception of form without face in Richard Wright's 'Native Son.' |
George, Stephen K. |
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Sep 22, 1997 |
4666 |
| "Protection in My Mouf": self, voice, and community in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Dust Tracks on a Road' and 'Mules and Men.' (autobiography and ethnography by Zora Neale Hurston) |
Domina, Lynn |
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Jun 22, 1997 |
8193 |
| 'Sorcery is dialectical:' Plato and Jean Toomer in Charles Johnson's 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice.' (philosopher; authors) |
Griffiths, Frederick T. |
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Dec 22, 1996 |
7349 |
| The artist as universal mind: Berkeley's influence on Charles Johnson. |
Storhoff, Gary |
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Dec 22, 1996 |
5738 |
| 'Oxherding Tale' and 'Siddhartha:' philosophy, fiction, and the emergence of a hidden tradition. |
Byrd, Rudolph P. |
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Dec 22, 1996 |
5682 |
| Reading rigor mortis: offstage violence and excluded middles 'in' Johnson's 'Middle Passage' and Morrison's 'Beloved.' (authors Charles Johnson and Toni Morrison) |
O'Keefe, Vincent A. |
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Dec 22, 1996 |
7241 |
| Isadora at sea: misogyny as comic capital in Charles Johnson's 'Middle Passage.' (fictional character Isadora Bailey) |
Muther, Elizabeth |
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Dec 22, 1996 |
6142 |
| Syndetic redemption: above-underground emergence in David Bradley's 'The Chaneysville Incident.' |
Pavlic, Edward |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
11505 |
| Images of subversion: Ishmael Reed and the hoodoo trickster. |
Lindroth, James |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
7084 |
| Femininity, publicity, and the class division of cultural labor: Jessie Redmon Fauset's 'There Is Confusion.' |
Miller, Nina |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
9768 |
| "You Just Can't Keep a Good Woman Down": Alice Walker sings the blues. |
Johnson, Maria V. |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
9195 |
| Postmodern ethnography and the womanist mission: postcolonial sensibilities in 'Possessing the Secret of Joy.' |
Gourdine, Angeletta K.M. |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
4210 |
| Haunted by innocence: the debate with Dostoevsky in Wright's 'other novel,' "The Outsider." |
Lynch, Michael F. |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
6655 |
| Richard Wright's 'The Long Dream' as racial and sexual discourse. |
Hakutani, Yoshinobu |
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Jun 22, 1996 |
8482 |
| Charles Johnson's quest for black freedom in 'Oxherding Tale.' |
Coleman, James W. |
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Dec 22, 1995 |
8477 |
| The African sacrificial kingship ritual and Johnson's 'Middle Passage.' |
Walby, Celestin |
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Dec 22, 1995 |
7795 |
| Traces of Derrida in Toni Morrison's 'Jazz.' |
Page, Philip |
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Mar 22, 1995 |
7694 |
| "Leavin' a mark on the wor(l)d": marksmen and marked men in 'Middle Passage.' |
Goudie, S.X. |
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Mar 22, 1995 |
8499 |
| Black South literature: before day annotations (for Blyden Jackson). |
Ward, Jerry W., Jr. |
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Jun 22, 1993 |
6211 |
| The autobiography of an idea. |
Millican, Arthenia Bates |
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Mar 22, 1993 |
1915 |
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