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1-85 out of 85 article(s)
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Author |
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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 |
| Beloved beloved. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Editorial |
Jul 1, 2006 |
576 |
| Sizzling. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
2368 |
| Beyond funny: black voices in the world of comics and graphic novels. |
Fleming, Robert |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
2352 |
| Other noteworthy faith titles. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
92 |
| Hardcover. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
330 |
| Paperback. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
356 |
| Richard B. Moore, radical politics, and the Afro-American history movement: the formation of a revolutionary tradition in African American intellectual culture. |
McClendon, John M. |
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Jul 1, 2006 |
16070 |
| 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 |
| Tom Dent's role in the organizational mentoring of African American Southern writers: a memoir. |
Gex Breaux, Quo Vadis |
Biography |
Jun 22, 2006 |
2959 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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May 1, 2006 |
775 |
| The Black Collegian[R]: a retrospective; A sampling of the people and topics from these pages over the past 35 years. |
Ikeda, Stewart David |
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Apr 1, 2006 |
6025 |
| Nellie McKay--a memorial. |
Moody, Joycelyn |
Editorial |
Mar 22, 2006 |
20931 |
| 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 |
| "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 |
| Comic relief. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Brief article |
Mar 1, 2006 |
157 |
| Script for success: Michael Ajakwe's Pipedream press publishes works by him and other playwrights. |
Johnson, Pamela K. |
Interview |
Mar 1, 2006 |
1230 |
| Singular notes: self-published writers share the limelight. |
Lansana, Quraysh Ali |
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Mar 1, 2006 |
1189 |
| The short fiction of George Wylie Henderson. |
Nicholls, David G. |
Column |
Dec 22, 2005 |
5199 |
| Freak shows, spectacles, and carnivals: reading Jonathan Demme's beloved. |
Wardi, Anissa Janine |
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Dec 22, 2005 |
8643 |
| "The soul has bandaged moments": reading the African American gothic in Wright's "big boy leaves home," Morrison's beloved, and Gomez's Gilda. |
Bryant, Cedric Gael |
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Dec 22, 2005 |
7867 |
| The Loeb and Leopold Case: a neglected source for Richard Wright's native son. |
Butler, Robert |
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Dec 22, 2005 |
8204 |
| Farewell to Evelyn Waugh: and leave the 'happy darkie' to the multiculturalists. |
Brookhiser, Richard |
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Dec 19, 2005 |
1309 |
| J. Everett Prewitt's debut novel, Snake Walker (Northland Publishing Company, March 2005) placed first for fiction in the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Black Book Expo and was a semifinalist in the Independent Publisher Book Awards-2005 in New York City. |
Dodson, Angela P. |
Brief Article |
Sep 1, 2005 |
81 |
| Sacred ground: the Schomburg is the neighborhood library to students of black history and to great scholars who mine its vast collections for clues to the "lost" history of a people. |
Boyd, Herb |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
2661 |
| Classically black: African American presses and new imprints lead the trend in reissuing important works for a new day. |
Simon, Denise |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
2240 |
| Troubled minds: a best-selling author's latest novel peers into the pit of mental health care. |
Alexander, Amy |
Interview |
Sep 1, 2005 |
1244 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Sep 1, 2005 |
714 |
| Miscegenation and competing definitions of race in twentieth-century Louisiana. |
Brattain, Michelle |
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Aug 1, 2005 |
18447 |
| Noteworthy titles. |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
426 |
| Fresh breezes: spend the summer discovering new writers. |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
5165 |
| The art of brevity: collections from two masters raise the question: what ever happened to short stories? |
Young, Earni |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
1399 |
| Preparation meets opportunity lofty book events are golden for the independent author. |
Murray, Victoria Christopher |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
970 |
| Among friends: young readers give author Marie Bradby feedback on her book and their lives. |
Baye, Betty Winston |
Panel Discussion |
Jul 1, 2005 |
2881 |
| Flying off the shelves. |
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Jul 1, 2005 |
776 |
| Starting over: the retiring co-owner of Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem reflects on a life in bookselling. |
Villarosa, Clara C. |
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May 1, 2005 |
1200 |
| West Coast kinfolk: in Los Angeles, Chris Abani and Kamau Daaood stand out as strong limbs on the family tree of literature. |
Datcher, Michael |
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May 1, 2005 |
1515 |
| "Civil" War wounds: William Wells Brown, violence, and the domestic narrative. |
James, Jennifer |
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Mar 22, 2005 |
10158 |
| Romance at any age: a daughter's curiosity brings back a writer's long ago memories of sneaking Mama's romance novels from under the bed and urges her to write for every generation. |
Palfrey, Evelyn |
Editorial |
Jan 1, 2005 |
1470 |
| The ministry of fiction: Sharon Ewell Foster found an eager audience when she finally answered the call to write. |
Stanley, Kathryn V. |
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Jan 1, 2005 |
603 |
| Books to treasure: Kerrie Cotton Williams celebrates a literary history. |
Drakes, Sean |
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Nov 1, 2004 |
343 |
| Celebrating love, honor and achievement: gifts for bookloving moms and dads, newlyweds and grads. |
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. |
Buyers Guide |
May 1, 2004 |
558 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Adero also acquired A Wealth of Wisdom Legendary African American Elders Speak edited by Dr. Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint for publication in fall 2003. (Deals). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
150 |
| Victor McGlothin's second novel, What Every Sistah Wants, was picked up by St. Martin's Press. (Deals). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
24 |
| Crown editor Chris Jackson acquired Greg Morrison and Yanick Rice Lamb's Rise and Fly: Lies, Tall Tales True and Not So True Rules About Bid Whist for Crown's Three Rivers imprint. (Deals). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
59 |
| Carol Mackey, editor-in-chief of Black Expressions Book Club, acquired book-club rights. (Deals). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
67 |
| Film rights for Nichelle D. Tramble's debut novel, The Dying Ground (Villard), were optioned. (Deals). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
22 |
| Janet Hill of Doubleday/Broadway/Harlem Moon acquired award-winning author J. California Cooper's next short-story collection and novel for close to $500,000 for the Doubleday imprints. (Six-Figure Specials). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
82 |
| Camika Spencer's untitled third novel about a reading group that kidnaps a best-selling male author fetched six figures in a two-book deal with St. Martin's Press. (Six-Figure Specials). |
Jones, Mondella S. |
Brief Article |
May 1, 2003 |
77 |
| Hip-hop by the book: from scholarly titles to children's books, hip-hop takes on a new life in print. |
Venable, Malcolm |
Critical Essay |
May 1, 2003 |
1111 |
| The fire still burns: a new one-man show and television documentary remind us that the life and work of James Baldwin continue to resonate. |
Ehrenstein, David |
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Mar 4, 2003 |
622 |
| 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 |
| Call him Ishmael: the controversial (some say reckless) cultural critic Ishmael Reed returns a new collection of essays appropriately titled Another Day at the Front. |
Thompson, Clifford |
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Jan 1, 2003 |
2306 |
| "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 |
| The best of 2002. |
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Bibliography |
Nov 1, 2002 |
1223 |
| Zora Neale Hurston: with a half dozen new books, the literary world reexamines this enigmatic writer's life's work. (tribute). |
Porter, Evette |
Brief Article |
Jan 1, 2002 |
1000 |
| A Manuscript of Their Own. |
Houser, Pat |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2001 |
1003 |
| Road Trippin' With Books On Tape. |
Roby, Cynthia A. |
Brief Article |
Jul 1, 2001 |
639 |
| on the shelf. |
BASHIR, SAMIYA A. |
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Nov 1, 2000 |
609 |
| Faith flight (from Salvation Song). |
Young, Reggie |
Excerpt |
Mar 22, 2000 |
8595 |
| A chronicle of words and images. |
Padgett, Tania |
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Feb 1, 1996 |
1008 |
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