The Liberation of American Literature
Author : Victor Francis Calverton
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Victor Francis Calverton
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Victor Francis Calverton
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807855218
As the story of the United States was recorded in pages written by white historians, early-nineteenth-century African American writers faced the task of piecing together a counterhistory: an approach to history that would present both the necessity of and
Author : Tinker, George E "Tink"
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 160833483X
Author : Jesse Hill Ford
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820315270
**** Reprint of the Little, Brown edition originally published in 1965--and cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Kimberly Fain
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781792406614
Author : John C. Shields
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"In this new volume, John C. Shields - one of the foremost scholars of Phillis Wheatley - demonstrates that much of the negative response to her writings has been based on false assumptions and myths about her and her work. Much of this criticism began more than a century ago and has been passed on without dissent by generations of readers. Here, Shields sets a course for Wheatley scholars that will redefine the direction of future writing about her." "Shields provides new and subtle readings for a great many of her poems. He show's that Wheatley's writing was deeply imbedded in several literary traditions, demonstrating that her work is the result of an African inheritance, a complex relationship with a Congregationalist religious heritage, and an intense involvement with classical literature. Read closely, Wheatley's works show she deserves credit for creating a liberationist aesthetic - the full implications of which are still to be worked out. This study is essential for all students and scholars of American literature, African American literature, women's literature, and multicultural literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Kidwell, Clara Sue
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608336042
This collaborative work represents a pathbreaking exercise in Native American theology. While observing traditional categories of Christian systematic theology (Creation, Deity, Christology, etc.), each of these is reimagined consistent with Native experience, values, and worldview. At the same time the authors introduce new categories from Native thought-worlds, such as the Trickster (eraser of boundaries, symbol of ambiguity), and Land. Finally, the authors address issues facing Native Americans today, including racism, poverty, stereotyping, cultural appropriation, and religious freedom--From publisher's description.
Author : Michael Datcher
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438473419
Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation. Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool—ankhing—enables Michael Datcher to examine the ways African American and Latinx literatures respond to and ultimately work to resist hegemonic forces of neoliberalism and state-sponsored oppression. Weaving together close readings and politically informed philosophical reflection, Datcher considers the work of writer-activists Toni Cade Bambara, Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, June Jordan, Salvador Plascencia, and Ishmael Reed, in light of theoretical interventions by Jane Bennett, Mel Y. Chen, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, and Erica R. Edwards. How, he asks, can cultural production positively influence Black and Brown material conditions and mobilize collective action “off the page”? How can art-based counterpublics provide a foundation for Black and Brown community organizing? What emerges from Datcher’s innovative analysis is a frank assessment of the links between embodied experiences of racialization, as well as a distinctive vision of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature as a repository of emancipatory strategies with real-world applications. Michael Datcher is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books, including Raising Fences.
Author : Zoe Trodd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674267834
“I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future.American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres—pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters—and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.