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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"African American authors."”.
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Female slave portrayals in child and young adult historical fiction by African American authors
… on slavery in the United States written by African-Americans for middle-level children. This exploration juxtaposed portrayals of female slaves developed by African-American female authors with portrayals created by African-American male authors. Historical fiction for children and young …
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The constitutive relationship between race and disability in African American literature: a Black critical disabilities studies approach
… and rarely does disability studies engage with African American literature. I formulate a theory of reading race and disability as it pertains to the fiction, authors, and the larger African American and disability communities and strive to reconcile the overlooked, yet imperative, relationship …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
… for a revision of long-standing theories about African American life in South Carolina during the 1930s. Through a deeper and more thorough investigation African American life in the South, we witness different mechanisms for coping with and challenging the system of oppression. </p> <p>A number …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
My dissertation desegregates nineteenth-century American literary history by reconstructing cross-ethnic dialogues between traditions too often seen as distinct. Drawing particularly on captivity narratives, slave narratives, and other forms of autobiography, I show that white, Native American, and …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… fiction and drama. Thurman was among those authors who abandoned the "tragic mulatto," a near-white hero or heroine, as a major motif of literature by black writers, and he moved toward a more realistic depiction of black life. That is, Thurman made concerted efforts to break away from the …
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Using author studies to incorporate multicultural literature across the New Jersey core curriculum
… study, Virginia Hamilton, and one culture, African American in its evaluation within the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards. The study showed that readability level of the selected works by Virginia Hamilton was excellent for students in grades four through six. Also, it was …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
The enslavement and persecution of African and Native peoples has been occurring in the U.S. since the 1600s. There have been justifications, explanations and excuses offered as to why one race feels superior over another. Slavery, according to the Abolition Project, refers to "a condition in which …
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An Analysis of the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
… tradition fiction. Rationale: Since black authors from 1853 to the 1890s basically reflected the themes of plantation tradition fiction and thus ignored social and political issues facing blacks in the 1890s, this analysis of Chesnutt's fiction is made to determine whether he did present a …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period charts discourses of folk culture, empire and modernity in the works of six African American and Caribbean writers. Each of the dissertation's three sections pairs a writer from the U.S. with a writer from the …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope …