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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"African American literature"”.
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
… importance of representations of sound in the African American literary tradition. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural dimension of African American …
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
“Invisible Men: Space, Race, and Housing in African American Literature” uses an archive of novels written roughly between 1940 and 2000, American Sociology, the philosophy of phenomenology, and ethnography to argue that representations of housing in African American literature form part of a …
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The African Aesthetic, African-American Literature, and The Teaching of English
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511709.pdf: 14682228 bytes, checksum: 701a272b43fdf5c685df44572db9b4c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Breakable binaries : representations of twins in African and African American literature, film, television, and cultures
… twinship in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and African American literature, film, and television. Considering such texts as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Toni Morrison's Paradise, Jesmyn Ward's Where the Line Bleeds, and ABC's …
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What'S So Funny?: Satire And African American Literature And Culture In The Twenty-First Century
This dissertation analyzes the use of satire in African American literature and culture in forming a new understanding of racialization in the 1980s through the 2010s. This "post-soul" moment, defined by authors who came of age post-Civil Rights Movement, in particular necessitates humor and the …
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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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Creating New Suns: Early Examples of Afrofuturist Literature
… Afrofuturism is actually a cornerstone for both African American literature and the struggle for civil/human rights. I do this by exploring the following questions: How does the enslavement of African/ African Americans and its aftermath play out in early African American literature? How do …
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Between Fantasy & Reality: Ludonarrative Dissonance and Black Affect in the Present
This dissertation explores 21st Century African American Literature’s relationship to video games. Drawing upon literary texts, digital archives, video games, play studies and phenomenology, it asks: What are the fundamental ways around which black social life is structured in the early 21st …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… current portrayals of tragedy and tragic acts in African American literature. Using Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a foundational text, I argue that Morrison executes a literary aesthetic that disrupts traditional constructs of the tragedy that elevate Eurocentric ideologies at the expense of Black …
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A mother's guide to dying
… of a novel and a craft essay on the dialect of African Americans in literature. Craft is made by culture, and is reflected in creative writing. In the craft essay, I discuss the importance of employing dialect for writing believable characters with depth. Although the subject of dialogue and …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… examines depictions of black rebellion in American and African American literature spanning from the 1830s to the early 1900s. From enslaved uprisings and black armies to worker strikes and insurgent plots, black rebellion appeared as a recurring image across the antebellum and postbellum …
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Strangers from within, strangers from without: negotiations and uses of space in African American and immigrant literatures and cultures, 1900s-1950s
… of space and literary visions of ethnicity and Americanness in fiction. My parallel readings of African American and immigrant novels show that the disciplinary boundaries which are often drawn between African American literature and white ethnic literatures can be imaginatively negotiated by …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
African American literature is infused with travel. Experiences of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic …
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The Freedom to Choose: The Aesthetics of Choice in Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Cade Bambara
… has artistic and political resonance for African Americans. Freedom--as communal aesthetic and ideology--provides a useful starting point for better understanding major themes in black writing. A closer look at short stories, which have typically received less critical attention than …
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Passing: Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Class
African American Literature in the 20th century engaged many social and racial issues that mainstream white America marginalized during the pre-civil rights era through the use of rhetoric, setting, plot, narrative, and characterization. The use of passing fostered an outlet for many light-skinned …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… by rigid ideologies rather than the nuance of literature. This text argues the opposite through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery that engage with complex literary tropes. Specifically, this study …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
<p>Responding to African American literary criticism's recent engagements with contemporary U.S. imprisonment, <italic>From Slave Ship to Supermax</italic> traces the development of a heretofore un-theorized tradition in African American literature in which fiction writers bring to light the voice, …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… between racial identity and spatialization in American cultural production. I assert that this relationship is uniquely dialogic, complexly impacting individuals as well as collective cultural groups, reciprocally affecting both social and physical spaces. Additionally, I address how and why …
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The Literary Reception of the Spirituality of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784): an Afrosensitive Reading
… background and eventual role as mother of African-American literature. Wheatley manipulates neoclassical Greek mythological images to subversively critique British-American racial hierarchicalism. Chapter 2 explains the meaning of an Afrosensitive hermeneutic, exploring the epistemological …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… of resistance, gender, and respectability in African American literature from 1831 to 1903 through the figure of the "common woman." As a category of analysis, the common woman is an alternative to the bourgeois African American heroine, and is characterized by a number of qualities: the lack …
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