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Inventing the new Negro Inventing the new Negro Daphne Mary Lamothe "It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur col… OL11869518W
Just us girls Just us girls Wendy Rountree vi, 124 p. ; 23 cm OL11913918W
Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
Theorizing black theatre Theorizing black theatre Henry Miller "This volume reveals a comprehensive view of the Art or Propaganda debate. Among others, this text addresses the works of Langston Hughes, W.E.B Dubois, Alain Locke, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka,… OL16470023W
Richard Wright, a collection of critical essays Richard Wright, a collection of critical essays Richard Macksey Commentary on his background and his most famous novel, "Native Son," and his short fiction and later works. OL17904873W
Charles Chesnutt reappraised Charles Chesnutt reappraised David Garrett Izzo "Though he was the first African-American writer of fiction to win major acclaim, recent history has largely ignored the writings of Charles Chesnutt. This collection of essays seeks to confirm and r… OL18167617W
Contemporary African American fiction Contemporary African American fiction Butler, Robert 163 p. ; 25 cm OL1846513W
Pimping fictions Pimping fictions Justin Gifford Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Chester Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others. He draws from an impressiv… OL19662495W
The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance Cheryl A. Wall "The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. It was the cultural phase of the "New Negro" movement, a social and political phenomenon that prom… OL20040722W
A Zora Neale Hurston companion A Zora Neale Hurston companion Robert W. Croft "Anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is one of the most significant African American writers of the 20th century. Born in Alabama, she grew up in a small town in Florida, where s… OL2709677W
Out there Out there Darryl Pinckney "Darryl Pinckney, the acclaimed author of the novel High Cotton and iconoclast known for his writings in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and elsewhere, affirms the literary power of the … OL3097960W
Critical memory Critical memory Houston A. Baker "From the lone outcry of Richard Wright's Black Boy to the chorusing voices of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, Critical Memory looks across the past half century to assess the current challenges… OL4315226W
Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban Coleman, James W. "Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of Jo… OL4647525W
Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Charles W. Chesnutt and the fictions of race Dean McWilliams "Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private … OL4789106W
Richard Wright Richard Wright Keneth Kinnamon "This volume presents a comprehensive annotated bibliography of those essays, books, and articles from 1983 through 2003. Arranged alphabetically by author within years are some 8,320 entries ranging… OL4979050W
Black face, maligned race Black face, maligned race Anthony Gerard Barthelemy The author considers the influence of English political, social, and theatrical history on the depiction of black characters on the English stage from 1589 to 1695. He shows that almost without excep… OL5274810W
Impossible witnesses Impossible witnesses Dwight A. McBride Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness t… OL5714029W
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, Second Edition Aberjhani,Sandra L. West,Clement Alexander Price In this, the world’s first *Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance*, readers do something more than witness the triumphs and tragedies of poets such as Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, novelists like… OL5968389W
Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction Spiritual, blues, and jazz people in African American fiction A. Yemisi Jimoh "In this book, A. Yemisi Jimoh demonstrates the critical influence of music on the fiction of various twentieth-century African American writers. Exploring novels and short stories by Toni Morrison, … OL6208711W
Voices from the quarters Voices from the quarters Doyle, Mary Ellen ""Who will write about the way my people talk, the way my people sing?" Mary Ellen Doyle gathers and makes audible the voices arising from all of Ernest J. Gaines's fiction to date - the indelible ch… OL6211374W
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