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Elizabeth McHenry locates a hidden chapter in the history of Black literature at the turn of the twentieth century, revising concepts of Black authorship and offering a fresh account of the development of "Negro literature" focused on the never published, the barely read, and the unconventional.
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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
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The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers-Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.
American literature --- Ghosts in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Literature --- African diaspora --- Caribbean --- Diaspora --- Middle Passage --- Slavery --- White people
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" 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
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This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965-1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, and Paule Marshall fictionalized the black community in critical ways that called for further examination of progressive activism after the much publicized 'end' of the Civil Rights Movement. Through their writings, the authors' confronted marked shifts
American fiction --- African American women authors --- Womanism in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Political and social views. --- Race identity. --- Social conditions. --- Negritude --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American women authors --- Women authors, African American --- Women authors, American --- Ethnic identity
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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
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The outpouring of creative expression known as the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s spawned a burgeoning number of black-owned cultural outlets, including publishing houses, performance spaces, and galleries. Central to the movement were its poets, who in concert with editors, visual artists, critics, and fellow writers published a wide range of black verse and advanced new theories and critical approaches for understanding African American literary art. The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which BAM's poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn Rodgers, and others) operated and of the small presses and literary anthologies that first published the movement's authors.
Poetry - Publishing - United States - History - 20th century. --- American poetry --- Black Arts movement. --- African Americans in literature. --- Poetry --- African Americans --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Publishing --- History --- Intellectual life --- Poems --- Verses (Poetry) --- Literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- African American arts --- Philosophy --- Amiri Baraka --- Anthology --- Black Arts Movement --- Dudley Randall --- John Coltrane --- Larry Neal --- Negro Digest --- Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
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