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Stories by and about Black Women This superb collection of short stories features contributions from thirteen black women writers including Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and Toni Cade Bambara.
Author : Mary Helen Washington
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Stories by and about Black Women This superb collection of short stories features contributions from thirteen black women writers including Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange and Toni Cade Bambara.
Author : Mary Helen Washington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1990
Category :
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Author : Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 1999-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198029004
NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.
Author : Mary Helen Washington
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1980
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Mary Helen Washington
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Author : John Storey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820328492
Whether used on its own or in conjunction with Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, this reader is a theoretical, analytical, and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. The readings cover the culture and civilization tradition, culturalism, structuralism and poststructuralism, Marxism, feminism, and postmodernism, as well as current debates in the study of popular culture. New to this edition: Four new readings by Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, and Savoj Žižek Fully revised general and section introductions that contextualize and link the readings with key issues in Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction Fully updated bibliography Ideal for courses in: cultural studies media studies communication studies sociology of culture popular culture visual studies cultural criticism
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004483772
The proliferation of historical novels with more or less overt metafictional traits in the late seventies and eighties in Britain is a particularly arresting phenomenon at a time when historians are openly questioning the validity of the traditional concept of history understood as a scientific search for knowledge. This apparent contradiction justifies the attempt made by the contributors of this volume to analize the relationship between history and literature in English. The reader will find four preliminary essays on The End of the Classical Period establishing the characteristics of the appropriation of history since the appearance of Sir Walter Scott's historical romances with special emphasis on the Victorian novel (Dickens, Eliot, Mrs Humphry Ward), the Irish ballad and Post-Independence Indian historical fiction, as a necessary preface to the main group of essays on The Postmodernist Era devoted to establishing the common as well as the individually distinctive traits in the writings of some of the most accomplished contemporary writers in English: the more centered British novelists Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes and William Golding as well as the more ex-centric Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Jeanette Winterson plus the playwright Caryl Churchill, and the black American novelist David Bradley.
Author : Carol E. Henderson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826262899
Scarring and the act of scarring are recurrent images in African American literature. In Scarring the Black Body, Carol E. Henderson analyzes the cultural and historical implications of scarring in a number of African American texts that feature the trope of the scar, including works by Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. The first part of Scarring the Black Body, "The Call," traces the process by which African bodies were Americanized through the practice of branding. Henderson incorporates various materials -- from advertisements for the return of runaways to slave narratives -- to examine the cultural practice of "writing" the body. She also considers way in which writers and social activists, including Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth, developed a "call" centered on the body's scars to demand that people of African descent be given equal rights and protection under the law.
Author : Saadi A. Simawe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135579830
In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its power as a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music.
Author : Earl H. Brooks
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814346499
How Black musicians and composers used their craft to define and influence public discourse. This groundbreaking work examines how Black music functions as rhetoric, considering its subject not merely reflective of but central to African American public discourse. Author, musician, and scholar Earl H. Brooks argues that there would have been no Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Movement, or Black Arts Movement as we know these phenomena without Black music. Through rhetorical studies, archival research, and musical analysis, Brooks establishes the "sonic lexicon of Black music," defined by a distinct constellation of sonic and auditory features that bridge cultural, linguistic, and political spheres with music. Genres of Black music such as blues and jazz are discursive fields, where swinging, improvisation, call-and-response, blue notes, and other musical idioms serve as rhetorical tools to articulate the feelings, emotions, and states of mind that have shaped African American cultural and political development. Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public sphere.