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African American authors. --- Artists. --- Harlem Renaissance.
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En tournée promotionnelle, un écrivain noir américain croise un enfant de 10 ans qui ressemble à la récente victime d'une bavure policière. Il le voit à plusieurs reprises durant son parcours et, sans savoir s'il est réel, remet en question son rapport à sa propre histoire, à sa couleur de peau et à sa place aux Etats-Unis. National Book Awards 2021 (fiction)
American fiction --- African American children --- Racism --- African American authors
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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'
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The volume explores 1930s African American writing to examine Black life, culture, and politics to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed the Great Depression's economic impact on the creative and the social. Essays engage iconic figures such as Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, and Richard Wright as well as understudied writers such as Arna Bontemps and Marita Bonner, Henry Lee Moon, and Roi Ottley. This book demonstrates the significance of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and Black literary circles in the absence of white patronage. By featuring novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama alongside guidebooks, photographs, and print culture, African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 provides evidence of the literary culture created by Black writers and readers during a period of economic precarity, expanded activism for social justice, and urgent internationalism.
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One of the foremost Black writers and intellectuals of his era, Claude McKay (1889–1948) was a central figure in Caribbean literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black radical tradition. McKay’s life and writing were defined by his class consciousness and anticolonialism, shaped by his experiences growing up in colonial Jamaica as well as his early career as a writer in Harlem and then London. Dedicated to confronting both racism and capitalist exploitation, he was a critical observer of the Black condition throughout the African diaspora and became a committed Bolshevik. Winston James offers a revelatory account of McKay’s political and intellectual trajectory from his upbringing in Jamaica through the early years of his literary career and radical activism. In 1912, McKay left Jamaica to study in the United States, never to return. James follows McKay’s time at the Tuskegee Institute and Kansas State University, as he discovered the harshness of American racism, and his move to Harlem, where he encountered the ferment of Black cultural and political movements and figures such as Hubert Harrison and Marcus Garvey. McKay left New York for London, where his commitment to revolutionary socialism deepened, culminating in his transformation from Fabian socialist to Bolshevik. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, James offers a rich and detailed chronicle of McKay’s life, political evolution, and the historical, political, and intellectual contexts that shaped him.
African American authors --- Authors, Jamaican --- Black nationalism --- Jamaican Americans --- Socialism --- Jamaican authors --- Ethnology --- Jamaicans --- History --- Intellectual life --- McKay, Claude --- McKay, Festus Claudius,
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"King's Vibrato explores the sonic power of preaching and speech-making in the life and career of Martin Luther King Jr. It offers up a cultural and historical reading of what regularly passes uncritically as the unique preaching power of one who "spoke with the tongues of men and of angels," but which depends (in both predictable and surprising ways) on an acoustic calculus involving, but not reducible to, architecture, instrumentation, audience, and technology in oratorical performativity. Together, the acoustical considerations of ecclesial architecture in the US since 1900, the regular furnishing of aspirational African American church buildings with pipe organry, and African Americans' special relationship to speech and song created the conditions for that unique vibrato effect in King's voice with which he moved the world. In more general terms, King's Vibrato is a cultural history and critical theory of the black modernist soundscapes, North and South, that helped produce the vocal timbre and time signature of the preacher King."--
African American preaching --- Sermons, American --- Voice --- Elocution --- Vibrato --- History --- African American authors. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- King, Martin Luther, --- King, Martin Luther, --- Oratory.
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"This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. Building a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism, these and other Black writers levied their critique from "outside" venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee of Investigations, in the classroom at a Communist labor school under F.B.I. surveillance, and in a host of journals. From these vantages, Black writers not only called out the racist assumptions of the New Criticism; they also defined Black literary and interpretive practices to support Communist and other radical world-making efforts in the mid-twentieth century. Hines's book thus offers a number of timely contributions to literary studies: it spotlights a canon of Black literary texts that belong to an important era of anti-racist struggle, and it fills in the pre-history of the rise of Black studies and of ongoing Black dissent against the neoliberal university"--
African American critics --- American literature --- New Criticism --- Criticism --- African Americans --- African American authors --- History and criticism --- Political aspects --- History --- Study and teaching
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This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.
American literature --- Captivity in literature. --- Fugitive slaves in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Black American Literature, Fugitive Narration, Borders. --- African Americans in literature. --- American literature. --- African American authors. --- African American literature (English) --- Black literature (American) --- Negro literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-American authors --- Negro authors --- Black American Literature --- Fugitive Narration --- Borders
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"In Love and Abolition, Alison Rose Reed traces how the social life of Black queer performance from the 1960s to the present animates the unfinished work of abolition. She grounds social justice-oriented reading and activist practices specifically in the movement to abolish the prison industrial complex, with far-reaching implications for how we understand affective response as a mobilizing force for revolutionary change. Reed identifies abolition literature as an emergent field of inquiry that emphasizes social relationships in the ongoing struggle to dismantle systems of coercion, criminalization, and control. Focusing on love as an affective modality and organizing tool rooted in the Black radical tradition's insistence on collective sociality amidst unrelenting state violence, Reed provides fresh readings of visionaries such as James Baldwin, Ntozake Shange, Sharon Bridgforth, and vanessa german. Both abolitionist manifesto and examination of how Black queer performance offers affective modulations of tough and tender love, Love and Abolition ultimately calls for a critical reconsideration of the genre of prison literature--and the role of the humanities--during an age of mass incarceration." --
Alternatives to imprisonment. --- Prison abolition movements. --- Love. --- Queer theory. --- African American prisoners --- Performing arts --- Radicalism. --- American literature --- African American prisoners --- Alternatives to imprisonment. --- American literature --- Love. --- Performing arts --- Prison abolition movements. --- Queer theory. --- Radicalism. --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Social conditions. --- African American authors. --- Social aspects.
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This volume provides an illuminating exploration of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective-in Africa, England, and the Americas. It juxtaposes analyses of writings by familiar authors like Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano with those of lesser known or examined works by writers such as David Margrett and Isabel de Olvera to explore how issues including forced migration, enslavement, authorship, and racial identity influenced early Black literary production and how theoretical frameworks like Afrofuturism and intersectionality can enrich our understanding of texts produced in this period. Chapters grouped in four sections - Limits and Liberties of Early Black Print Culture, Black Writing and Revolution, Early African American Life in Literature, and Evolutions of Early Black Literature - examine how transitions coupled with conceptions of race, the impacts of revolution, and the effects of religion shaped the trajectory of authors' lives and the production of their literature.
American literature --- African Americans --- African Americans in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes
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