Listing 1 - 5 of 5 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise.
American poetry --- Poetry --- African Americans --- Black Arts movement --- African Americans in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Publishing --- History --- Intellectual life --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Philosophy --- African American arts --- African American intellectuals --- Literature --- American literature --- Black Arts movement. --- African Americans in literature. --- History and criticism.
Choose an application
" From the white editorial authentication of slave narratives, to the cultural hybridity of the Harlem Renaissance, to the overtly independent publications of the Black Arts movement, to the commercial power of Oprah's Book Club, African American textuality has been uniquely shaped by the contests for cultural power inherent in literary production and distribution. Always haunted by the commodification of blackness, African American literary production interfaces with the processes of publication and distribution in particularly charged ways. An energetic exploration of the struggles and complexities of African American print culture, this collection ranges across the history of African American literature, and the authors have much to contribute on such issues as editorial and archival preservation, canonization, and the "packaging" and repackaging of black-authored texts. Publishing Blackness aims to project African Americanist scholarship into the discourse of textual scholarship, provoking further work in a vital area of literary study"--
American literature --- Criticism, Textual. --- Literature publishing --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Publishing --- History. --- Political aspects --- Intellectual life. --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- English literature --- Textual criticism --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. --- Publishers and publishing --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Editing --- African American intellectuals --- Epic poetry, Greek Criticism, Textual --- Criticism, Textual
Choose an application
'Writing Black Scotland' examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of Blackness. The book reads Blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined by post-imperial adjustment. Critiquing a unifying Britishness at work in Black British criticism, Jackson argues for the importance of Black politics in Scottish writing, and for a literary registration of race and racism which signals a necessary negotiation for national Scotland both before and after 1997.
English literature --- Blacks in literature. --- Asians in literature. --- Blacks --- Asians --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Asian authors --- Scottish authors --- Social conditions. --- Orientals --- Ethnology --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Blacks in literature --- Negroes in literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Black people in literature. --- Black people
Choose an application
Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre's puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction's puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.
Detective and mystery stories, American --- African Americans in literature. --- Working class in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Work in literature. --- African Americans in literature --- Working class in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Work in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Slavery. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- literature --- cultural studies --- Edgar Allan Poe --- Jupiter --- Mark Twain --- Enslaved persons in literature
Choose an application
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies shines the spotlight on historically neglected plays and performances that challenged early twentieth-century notions of the stratification of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation. On Broadway stages, in Harlem nightclubs and dance halls, and within private homes sponsoring rent parties, African American performers of the 1920s and early 1930s teased the limits of white middle-class morality. Blues-singing lesbians, popularly known as "bulldaggers," performed bawdy songs; cross-dressing men vied for the top prizes in lavish drag balls; and black and white women flaunted their sexuality in scandalous melodramas and musical revues. Race leaders, preachers, and theater critics spoke out against these performances that threatened to undermine social and political progress, but to no avail: mainstream audiences could not get enough of the riotous entertainment. James F. Wilson has based his rich cultural history on a wide range of documents from the period, including eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, songs, and play scripts, combining archival research with an analysis grounded in a cultural studies framework that incorporates both queer theory and critical race theory. Throughout, he argues against the widely held belief that the stereotypical forms of black, lesbian, and gay show business of the 1920s prohibited the emergence of distinctive new voices. Figuring prominently in the book are African American performers including Gladys Bentley, Ethel Waters, and Florence Mills, among others, and prominent writers, artists, and leaders of the era, including Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, and W. E. B. Du Bois. The study also engages with contemporary literary critics, including Henry Louis Gates and Houston Baker.
American drama --- African Americans in the performing arts --- Theater --- African Americans --- Harlem Renaissance. --- African Americans in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Sex in the theater. --- Afro-Americans in the performing arts --- Negroes in the performing arts --- Performing arts --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- New Negro Movement --- Renaissance, Harlem --- African American arts --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Erotica --- Sex in the performing arts --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --- Intellectual life --- Stage sex --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- New York (State) --- New York (N.Y.) --- African Americans in literature --- Race in literature --- Sex in the theater --- Belasco, David --- Waters, Ethel --- Mills, Florence --- Bentley, Gladys --- Black people
Listing 1 - 5 of 5 |
Sort by
|